Hola Familia!
Well everything is good now people. Thanks for all
the emails haha. I really do appreciate all the emails and all
the support! I love you guys! Okay..where to start. So yeah, everything
with me is pretty back to normal. It´s still weird being in the same
house with like all different people. Not a fan, but what can you do?
haha So my companion is Elder Hoth from Logan Utah. He has about
19 months in the mission. We get along fairly well.
So yeah, I´m teaching so much more now. As in the actual talking
part. With Elder Henry, he did a lot of the talking. But now it´s my
turn to step up to the plate. It was scary at first, and still is scary
but I´m handling it better than I thought I was going to. I´m the main
one talking in lessons (not by choice though!). It´s best to split up
the teaching opportunities, but yeah.
I´ve been in the same branch for
almost 6 months now. Pretty intense huh? I´m sure I´ll be out of here
next transfer though. This week was a little slow with the work. I have
to plan now every night! It´s not fun. I always helped Elder Henry, but
my companion is new to the area, so he doesn't even know where to start. I
guess he could look in the area book.
But yeah, this week we had
someone new at the church! Whooo! It was an investigator that we found a
long time ago, but they didn't really progress or anything. But when we
were in the area last time (because they live super far out, like 40
minutes walking from the house) we stopped by. We had a good lesson
where we promised blessings if they went to church and we made a super
big push about how they were going to get to church. They are super
poor, so they can´t really afford a bus ticket or cant take a taxi, so
we offered them a ride from a member and they accepted! And they totally
went to! It was awesome! The only bad thing though, was at church....
we had a sub teacher in our gospel principals class who is a convert. He
taught a terrible lesson and basically said everything that he knows
about the restoration. Talking about the Melchizedek priesthood and other
things like that. Those are awesome things to talk about, but with a
brand new investigator at church? I don't think so. Oh did I forget to
mention that he taught false doctrine too? Yeah...that was great. I
hated just sitting there hearing all of this stuff with no control whatsoever. Elder Tapía and I tried distracting our investigator via
playing with her baby so that she couldn't hear or pay attention to the
lesson haha. Never have I wanted someone to not pay attention. The whole
time Elder Tapia and I were just making faces about each other and
talking in English about how big of a fail the class was. GAH! It was so
bad! Luckily when it was all done and over with, she said that she had a
good time at church. Hmm...how? but sweeet!! haha.
Also we hooked
Demetrio up with a white shirt and tie. He looks freaking legit now! He
was supposed to receive the priesthood this week, but our branch
president forgot to interview him. haha cool.
Another good note of this week, was that we found an investigator via
the area book who loves the Book of Mormon and who apparently has still
been reading it. We have an appointment with her later this week, so I'll
let you know whats going on with that.
Easter was pretty cool. It´s
called pascua here. We ate with the Galli´s, this awesome family who
always feeds us and supports us a million percent. I love them! But at
the end we had a cake in the shape of a bunny head and then we got
chocolate easter eggs filled with stuff. you´re supposed to crack them
on the table and eat them afterwards (tradition), but we were SO full,
so we just took them home and ate them after planning haha.
Thanks for
the news on the packages! I´m so excited!! I have one coming from the
Bullock Family too! (who need to email me back by the way!) haha wink
wink. I'm so excited! Like a little boy in footy pajamas on christmas
eve. Yup.
You'll have to send me a picture of the living room now! Of the
semi finished entertainment center too! It´s about time that you
started using it!
It´s currently raining a ton. I don't really want to go back outside
haha. I forgot my coat too! CRAP! But we need to go back to the house
anyways to drop off my ipod. Luckily its like 3 blocks away. We´ll for
sure be running though.
Well I gotta run! I love you guys!
Thanks for the support and love and stuff! I hope I answered everything!
Chou!
Elder Wheelwright
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