How is everybody doing in this fine holiday season. Anybody else boiling hot...? Because I sure am, it got into triple digits of heat yesterday. I am dying. I can safely say I was not made to live in the heat, I am definitely supposed to be in the cold. Ok so before I forget, next week the call on the twenty fifth will be at like 6 here, so around 3 your time in the afternoon. It was the latest that I could get so that it wasn`t right in the middle of the day, but ya that is what we are planning for. And yes we are going to use skype if all goes as planned. I hope it all can work out. Get your questions ready Dad! I know you have been working on them haha. No but I am excited to get to talk with everyone.
Alright so I wanted to ask for a few things in a package when you can. Because it is super hot I was thinking of doing an activity with our ward with water balloons and the launchers. Because there is a huge field out behind the chapel, so I was wondering if you could try and send two of the launchers and balloons I don`t know if it is possible but with all of this heat I thought it would be a good activity to do. And then because everyone always wants us to make tacos some more taco seasoning packets... Then not to send but if you have it I would like the recipe for funeral potatoes because they are one of my favs and I would like to try and make them. So if you have time send the recipe on down for me. And any others that you have tried recently that have been good...
Well this week has been an eventful one. The other elders that live with us had a baptism. She is a little girl that has been coming to church with her grandma forever and no one knew that she wasn`t a member until she said she wanted to get baptized. So ya I got to do the interview for her. And I think that is one of the greatest experiences one can have as a missionary is getting to do baptismal interviews. You get to feel the spirit so strongly and feel how much heavenly father loves his children that are taking this wonderful decision in their lives. It is just amazing. So anyway the baptism was planned for saturday at 10:30. So the elders went up at 8:00 and got to the chapel around 8:30, I warned them that they were going to need more time to do everything, but they didn`t listen. And so they started filling it up and the water cut at the first step so maybe a foot of water not even. So the water system for the churches down here is that they have towers with two huge water tanks at the top and from those dropping the water gives them water pressure. But a slight problem both of the tanks were completely empty. So there is one at the bottom that slowly feeds those two and luckily it was full. But without pressure you can`t get the water into the chapel. So we took a hose and siphoned the water from that tank into garbage cans and we carried them in and dumped them into the font. It was quite the experience. Here is the
picture to illustrate the experience.
Ya it is always an experience to have a baptism. There is never a smooth one. I have never had a smooth baptism before it is like someone is trying to impede the progress here. But as always we were able to come up with a way to do it. It was stressful to get everything figured out, but it was fun because it makes things more interesting always.
I love being a missionary and getting to have all of these wonderful experiences. I hope that through my letters you too can enjoy some of my experiences. Because I feel so blessed to be a part of this work and everything that it entails. Tomorrow we have our christmas party with the mission so I will be sure to take a bunch of pictures to send to you guys.
I think that is all I have for the fun experiences this week. I love you all and am really happy that we will get to be talking in a week. So again just so you don`t forget or anything 6 my time which should be around 3 in the afternoon for you guys. If there is a problem or something with that just let me know. Because hopefully we will be able to write on monday. I don`t know for sure because most places will be closed but if we do it will be early on monday like before 11 your time. So if you write try and do it before that. And if there are any problems hopefully we can figure them out then.
I thank you and love you all for everything you do for me.
Love,
Elder Wheeler
P.S. Mom quick question there is a family that is trying to find a good price on little shoes. Because there little girl has flat feet so the doctor said she needed shoes with arches. But the problem is little shoes are really expensive and so I was just wondering if you could look in your many travels and see how much they are. Like little nike ones or just any with arch support. It is a little girl that is like a year and a little old. So they just don`t have tons of money because they are newly married and so just looking to see if there is a better deal else where. If you have time that would be wonderful, if not no big deal.
Also dad doctrine question for ya or for anyone that knows. Why doesn`t it mention Joseph the father of Jesus or husband of Mary in the bible after the birth. Something that I have been wondering about. I realize not that important but if you know of anything I would be happy to hear some input from anyone...Love ya
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