I think this is Paradise.. or Kamas

Well Fam,

I can safely say that this has been the most fun week and one of the most successful weeks I have had in a long time. I was with Elder Maughan who is just already a good buddy so we were able to skip that awkward getting to know you stage and we just went to work.

The  new area is nothing like what I came from. It is out in the country and we have the mountains all around. It is cool and not boiling hot all of the time. I can sleep all night because it isn`t an oven outside. Seriously I think it is paradise. It reminds me a lot of kamas. Not much going on, and everybody knows everyone.

I have taken lots of pictures this week only the only thing is is that there is no adapter to send them. So I am going to have to go buy an adapter to send pics next week. Sorry for the inconvenience. I took them all week thinking that I was going to be able to send them, but then I got here and realized that that was not going to work out as planned. But anyway I love this area. We have already seen so much success. They have had a ton of people to work with and we found even more this week that are just great people. It is amazing how easy the work is when you don`t have to worry about what the other is doing because you know he is going to do everything he can to help the work along. It is just like walking on the dirt road in Kamas all of the time. We have a couple of places that are a ways out there, so we have to do a little walking to get there, but nothing that I am not already used to. So that is fun. I am definitely a lot happier because I have a companion that wants to work it it makes everything a lot easier. 

We have been talking all week about how we can`t believe that we are actually together. We said we wanted to in the mtc but never really thinking that it would happen. Just a far off hope. And then when we got transfers we both flipped out because it is what we were hoping for. And now we are just showing President why he needed to put us together.

There was a kid getting set apart this week to leave for his mission and because we are part of the district President came to set him apart. And just so happened that we were teaching some people in back of the house of these members. So we saw President`s car and decided to go in and say hi. The first thing he says was what are you two doing together...haha I love that man, and we were able to talk to him a bit and tell him about the success, so he was super happy. This is going to be a great transfer and I don`t want it to go by too fast because I am enjoying it too much.

Just happy as can be and loving the work as always. Just a great branch that is really strong and everyone likes the missionaries. You can tell when you get somewhere if there were missionaries that worked before you or not. Because it shows in your relationship with the members. It is great. Just a fun place. I had to give a talk again as always to present myself and then give a short message. So ya I have given quite a few talks in the last few weeks. But that is what happens as a missionary...so you just gotta be ready when they ask. 

Well fam that is all for this week I am hoping to find an adapter for this camera this week so I can send pics because I have taken a lot of good ones. So hopefully by next week I will have that ready for you.  I love my area, I love my comp, I just love being a missionary and this will just be a great transfer that I am so excited for. Thank you all as always for the support and I hope you all have a great week this week. I love you all and we will be in touch next week.

I´m outtie,

Elder Wheeler

Transfers are in.. Valle de Uco! (wherever that is:)

Hey Fam,

Well this has been a good week...well kind of. It has been a lot of work. We had an activity this week, and we put a lot of work into it, but the ward didn`t really show up. They all complain about that there are no activities, but when we have one, they are too busy to come and support it. So that was fun.. we enjoyed it anyway.

I would send some pics, but this computer doesn`t allow me to. So next week. Transfers are in.....And the verdict is....I am headed with Elder Maughan to a place called Valle de Uco. Elder Maughan is my buddy from the MTC, we slept in the same room and have been planning to be comps since then. So we are both really excited to be able to be together and get some work done. I am looking forward to the new changes. I will be there as zone leader and just super happy to be with Elder Maughan, because I already know him and know that we are going to be able to work well together.That is the great news for this week. So I will still be in the province of Mendoza...I haven`t left to the other as an area. But I did get to visit them all when I went with president so I am not too worried about it. But this is the transfer that I really wanted, so I am really excited and I hope everything works out good to be able to get some people helped.

I am looking forward to all of that, but really that is the only excited thing that has happened this week. Well the other Elder that lived in our apartment decided that he didn`t want to be here, so he left this week. He was being trained so he didn`t even have a transfer yet and decided that he was done and that he didn`t like the rules...So he took off this week and we have been in a trio for a week now. It is interesting because we are having to work both areas with the three of us. But they had 4 girls ready in their area for baptismal interviews. I had the chance to do the interviews, which was pretty cool because that is just one of the best experiences ever. I love being able to do interviews, because it is a time where you can feel the spirit so strongly. Something that you can`t feel in many places...

For sure I will send some pics this next week when I can get a good computer. Elder Boyd is heading home this week. It has been fun to be able to hang out with him one last time before the end. Because tomorrow he will be on the plane home. Crazy how time flies by. I met him when he had much less time than I do now, and it doesn`t feel like it has already been so long. So I am trying to just enjoy the time I have left because I know it is going to fly by. He wants you to know he is a clippers fan. But he is still cool. He is from cali so I guess we can forgive him haha but no it will be sad to see him go because we have become really good friends!!

Anyway that is all I have and I hope you all have a great week. Thanks for the prayers always. Love you all.

Love, 

Elder Wheeler

Zone leader prediction!

Hey fam,

How is everybody? Sounds like you were doing lots of celebrating this week. And lots of good eatings. Feel free to send some of that down when you get a chance. First off I don`t have any idea of where I am going this next transfer...But hopefully I will by next monday. Transfers are next week, so I have a week and a half more in the area...I will miss these people a ton, because after six months it is like you become part of the family. It is a great ward and we have just found people now that want to get baptized, so I am a little sad that I won`t be here for those, but it´s all good because the most important is that they get baptized and that they can have the blessings that we all so freely have in our lives. 

So ya I am pretty excited. This past week I was invited to zone leader council which means that most likely I will leave this area as a zone leader. So that should be fun. I am ready for a change. We got to go to Presidents house after and we ate tacos for all of the zl´s. The rastelli´s always do the food and so I was talking with them for a good while. They always ask about the fam to see how you guys are doing. Such a cool family. It was fun to catch up on things and be able to chat for a while. I also saw a bunch of my buds there. It is amazing how fast time goes by. I have only six months left. I know it is good chunk of time, but with how fast the rest has gone so far, I feel like I am not even going to see it go by. So ya but I am excited to see something new. 1 year in the same city gets kind of boring because you already know everybody and you see people thinking that you know them, but really you just have walked by them like thirty times so you think you know them from somewhere. I hate that.

No but it has been great and I have loved every second of it. I saw Elder Maughan there, he was in my same room in the mtc and we were planning how we could be comps this next tranfer, but I don`t know how it will work. I would love it, but I am not sure if it will happen...but we are hoping.

So fun to be able to have such good friends in such a short amount of time. The people you are with you will either love or not, there aren´t really any in betweens so I try to love them all and it has worked out so far. haha

Well thank you all for the letters this week I look forward to hearing from you next week. I thank you all for the prayers and the support it is much needed and appreciated. I am doing wonderful and just loving the work as always. Something that I can`t explain you just have to experience it. 

Until next week,

Elder Wheeler