Alrighty then, sounds like everyone is doing great. And all is well. I have been doing great since the last time we talked. I don´t know if I told you, but I am in a different area with the Elder in charge of the Finances. Elder Christensen from Brigham City. So we have to take a bus ride to the area everyday. Where before it was just walk out the door and you were there. So we have a half hour trip to and from the area. And when you get out of the offices at four it isn´t much time to be able to work. But it is always good to have a change. I mean I was sad to leave the other ward, but hey there is good in every place you are, you just have to find it. And I get along really well with this guy, we are really good friends, so that is always good, right?
So we had some fun yesterday. The bishop from my last ward called me and was asking if there was any time that we had free that we could come help him with some service. And the Mendoza stake is having a 40 year anniversary celebration. So we had to be there at around 8 to help Sister Avila with a Book of Mormon stand that she was asked to put up. So we didn´t really have all that much time to go to our area and the bishop needed some help. So we went and helped him for a little while. And he has a pool that has been giving him some problems. It is one of those that is just a big fiberglass one that goes in the ground. So not cement, but not just a kiddy pool either. So they had the hose on and some how it got under the lip of the pool and started filling up under the pool and since they didn´t have any water in it, it lifted it up off of the ground a ways. So we had to take the pool out and dig the extra dirt out and he is going to put in a drainage system underneath it. So we helped him get all that out and now I am extremely sore. I haven´t shoveled like that in a while. Probably since that last weekend I was home helping Dad with the stump. But that was really fun. Then we hurried to the church, and got there a little late. But it all worked out I think. We stood at the doors handing out little pamphlets to all the people about he Book of Mormon. Because the point of this program was to invite those that aren´t of our faith to come and see what it is all about. So there were supposedly going to be a lot of public leaders and people coming, but how many actually came I have no idea. We just greeted and talked a little to everyone coming in. So that was fun. It is hard to get over that part of getting out of your comfort zone and just going up to people. But that is the only way to find people to teach. It is something that I don´t know that I will ever get used to, but it is worth the uncomfortableness haha. But there is a second part of this celebration on sunday night where we are going to be singing. We are singing with the youth choir, because the guys needed a little bit of help, and the director is President´s daughter. So Sister Avila of course signed us all up. No but it will be fun.
So p-day´s are always pretty boring, but today we figured out how to use the boringness to the best of our ability. Elder and Sister Ence who are the senior couple that are serving in our mission right now, invited us over. Sister Ence is working in the finances with my comp., and Elder Ence is the nurse for the mission. So anyway we were talking to her about making food. And Elder Christensen wanted to learn how to make stir fry, and eventhough I know how we still went to learn. But it was fun, we just cooked with her and then after made some banana bread. And it was good for all of us. Because we are sick of eating crap food that is premade or something like that. And so we had something fun to do and somewhere good to spend our time. It was fun for us and she invited us to come over next week to do something else. She makes us really good pizza during the week, so we are going to go watch how she does it. And also the missionary couple that was here before, Sister Packer started making granola bars for the sack lunches that they send with the missionaries on transfer days and stuff. So she taught Sister Ence and she is going to teach us how to do it. She never lets us bring anything to help. So this time I got her to let us bring half of the ingredients so that we aren´t just using all of her stuff. But ya we are going to go do that next week. So that should be fun. And also mom, what was your recipe for the bread that you used to make in the juice cans from the cannery. Because she wanted to know if you did something different, and I couldn´t remember if you just used the same one or not. But anyway ya we had some really good food today. It wasn´t something I really would have considered fun before, but it was just relaxing and I think they enjoyed the company as well. So it was good for both sides.
So a quick explanation of the photos. I don´t know if I attached these ones already but here they are again if I did. There is one of us and the bishops family from my last ward, the one we were helping last night. And then there are two of the night before Elder Lounsbury the last historian left. We got to eat at President´s house. And all of the new missionaries were getting their pictures taken to get sent to their families to tell them they arrived safely. So president asked who hadn´t gotten their picture taken yet and I jokingly raised my hand and so we got some more pics with the Pres. And then the other one is with Leo who lived in the states for like ten years and married a girl from Utah. So we always used to go there and teach him on sundays because it is his only day off and he is a recent convert. But he is a really cool guy. And speaks perfect english so that is fun.
But ya I am just loving being here. I know that I am have an amazing amount of blessings from being here. I wouldn´t change it for anything in the world. Love you all and hope you have a great week.
Les Amo,
Elder Wheeler
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