Hola family!
I literally don't have a ton of time to write, we had to take this huge mission survey thing which pretty much ate all of the time up! LAME! But yeah, we totally had a baptism on Saturday!! Demetrio Alvarez (age 85) was baptized!! He´s so awesome haha. He was born in 1928! DANG! His baptismal interview took forever since he's blind and deaf haha. He has this hearing aid thing, but we weren't sure if it worked. We checked it out after he got confirmed on Sunday and it turns out that there are no batteries inside of it! Fail on us. haha. So were going to the store to find watch batteries later tonight. He´s really cool though. He rides his bike about a mile and a half every Sunday at 9.30 in the morning to come to church. This is AMAZING, especially if you know Argentines. For his baptism, we showed REALLY loud movies instead of having talks. It worked out pretty good. Afterwards he told us that he is starting a new life and that the people of our branch are like his huge new family now. Super amazing. We received him as a referral in the beginning from this guy that wanted nothing to do with us. And now look where he´s at! He was that old guy that couldn't hear anything, and now he´s someone that I love and will have a spot in my heart forever. Being a missionary is amazing! I love it so much!!
So recently its been really cold. Like I´ve been freezing at night! My hands go numb when we walk to church or when we work at night. What a change in the weather. I used to complain and complain for days about how hot and sweaty I get haha.
So with Hanna´s family this week. We watched the testaments movie...in spanish obviously haha. And i´ll say it now, its not the same! The voice of Corrihor isn't the same at all! It´s super disappointing! But at the end when Christ comes to the America´s, Hanna started crying. It was awesome! Afterwards we started talking about the movie and about when Christ came and she started crying again! And then she talked about when Christ is going to come again. This is all coming out of the mouth of a 9 year old! I still can't believe some of the things she says. We had a really spiritual lesson afterwards with them. The dad would be baptized instantly if he could get work off. he´s always reading church material in his spare time.  Currently he's studying the teachings of Lorenzo Snow. And he read the section about becoming like Gods eventually. At first he told us that he had a problem with it, and then he kept reading and it all made sense. And now he´s good. I'm pretty much not afraid of throwing any doctrine at him now haha. He can totally take it. I want to give him Jesus the Christ or The Apostasy so that he can learn more awesome things on those important topics. Before we left the appointment, Hanna asked us that next time we come if we could talk about Obedience, because her parents aren't keeping all the commandments. hahaha oh snap! She totally called her parents out haha. They have to be so proud of their daughter. I know its early, but in 10 years, I want her to serve a mission. She would be so awesome!
All of our other investigators right now are just in limbo right now. we really need to find some solid people ASAP. We have some potential, but its not all that great.
That´s cool that Tyson is going to Japan! Felicitaciones Cuz! haha. Someone tell him that for me. Por Favor!
Dad rockin' out that Dodge Charger? haha nice! Sounds super fancy if it doesn't use keys. What technology! That doesn't even exist down here at all. Were lucky to see a car with electric locks..
So transfers are coming up this upcoming Monday. I'm kinda nervous about who my next companion could be. He might not be American! haha. NOOO ENGLISH I LOVE YOU! 'Im pretty sure I'm going to be staying in the same area for about another transfer. Nothing is guaranteed, but according to patterns, I'll be staying.
There are 2 Elders going home in out district this week. One of them lives in our house and he lives in Utah. I´m so done with living with people that are going home haha. It´s literally impossible to stay focused and to not get trunky in the process. It hits me for like a few days, but I'm quick to get over it. yay! Thank goodness haha. Well I gotta run family! I love you guys!! Have an awesome weeeek!

Elder Wheelwright

Elder H. and our new member

Elder H. and I

Our new member and his bike

                          He looks like an angry guy, but he just doesn't smile in pictures haha.
                                        He's actually really funny and always smiles a ton!

Love you guys!

CHOU!

Hola familia!
So this week was pretty great.   One of our best weeks of this super transfer.   We found a lot of new investigators! And a couple families too! One of the families we found (the Luna Family), is this part member family that we received as a reference from Hanna, our recent convert. There are 2 daughters in this family that were baptized about 4 years ago. They are super inactive now! One of them has a baby (and shes 14 or 15 - by the way, having a kid at this age is pretty common, sad stuff). The mom of the family almost got baptized with them, but she was afraid of going under the water, thats all. So if we can get her over that, I think it will be pretty easy to get them committed to baptism. She also has 2 kids that are above the age of 8 too, so yep!
Yesterday while tracting in the middle of nowhere, we found this super humble family. They are 6 in total and live in this tiny tiny concrete house. The dad recently lost his job and they only have bread and mate to eat/drink. I feel really bad for them, they are in a tight spot. They were pretty open to what we had to say and accepted the challenge to read the BOM and everything. While walking away from that lesson, I was pretty humbled. I see all the things that I have, and then I look at them. Gahh spoiled...! haha. But really though, it was a good experience.
We are preparing a baptism this Saturday!!! YEAHHHH!!! BAPTISM!! Its an 86 year old man named Demetrio. He is practically deaf and cant really see worth anything. So for our lessons, we have to write it all down in big front. Its been a fun time teaching him. He´s a super funny guy too haha. He lives alone with 18 chickens. He tells us every time we go over there that he hates his chickens haha and that he´s tired of eating them. hahaha. It´s probably not as funny if you don't know him or the way he talks, but still. He has been to church 4 times already. He told us that he´s going to buy a brand new car so he can show up to his baptism in style. I doubt its going to happen. haha. But yeah, im super excited for it!
This week a bird pooped on E. Henry´s head. It was the funniest thing ever. We were waiting at a door of a less active member, and the bird just pooped on him. I didn't really want to tell him what happened, but I had to. He was really mad at that bird! When we got inside the members house, he went to the bathroom to wash his hair.
This past Tuesday I had exchanges with my district leader, Elder Galan.  He´s from Nicarauga and is about to go home in 2 weeks. TRUNKY!   Anyways, that was kinda hard speaking spanish all day. It was a lot easier this time though than the first time on exchanges with a latino.
Hmm... thats too bad that dad got in a car accident. What the crap. We have to J walk everywhere here...haha. Crosswalks don't exist.  It happened in the white car though? So 'Im pretty much never going to see my car again in working form, huh? haha crap.  Did Nathan ever get his license? Hopefully dad heals/recovers quickly! It´s no fun being in pain.
Hmmm....mission call guesses... For Terry´s son, Sao Paulo, Brazil Mission.    For Bennny Blackner, the Manchester Area New York Mission. BAM. Let´s hopè the streak continues!     Also Daylight savings time doesn't exist in Argentina.   I was told that its only a thing in the USA?   I'm not sure if thats right. But oh well. We have another Elder going home in 2 weeks in our house. Elder Howard from some town in Utah. The air is going to be getting trunky again. It´s hard being around people ¨dying¨. But what can you do? Well I think I covered the majority of this week. I'm sure I forgot some key things like always...ooops.
I love all of you guys! Have an awesome weeek!!

Elder Wheelwright.

Fotos: The picture of all the missionaries is my current zone of Olavarría. The pizza picture is what I had for lunch today from this restaurant. It had glazed pineapple, ham, and cherry's. It was pretty delicious. If you guys have any questions, shoot me an email! Chou Chou!

Hola Family!
Okay I´ll guess I´ll dive right into this. So last Sunday we had our investigator José at church for the first time, he came in a suit and everything. We promised him the week before that heavenly father would help him out with his house situation and his jobless situation. Well that totally happened! First blessing seen from him going to church. While walking home from church, he saw his daughter from another marriage that he hasn't seen in like 4 years. Super legit and he was really happy for that. The next day, he got a call for a job offer!!
It was so awesome and such a miracle. It showed me 2 things. As missionaries and representatives of the lord and heavenly father, we have the ability to promise specific blessings and they will be backed up 100% by Heavenly Father. The second thing it shows me is that literally there are blessings waiting for you. God just wants you to follow the commandments and do what he requires first. It was a real testimony boooooster for me to see this. We found out later though that now José´s new work impedes him from being able to come to church on Sunday... It starts at 7am and ends at like 5pm. Our church starts at 9.30 hours. So yeah, now he cant come anymore. He´s so excited about this job that he´s not really willing to do anything to make it so he can go to church. It makes me think of the story of the 10 lepers, where only one comes back to thank Jesus. Unfortunately our investigator isn't one of the ones that came back. When we´re blessed from God, we need to continue in his ways, not turn the other way and not keep the commandments again. Perhaps we´ll share this story with him. We need to tell him whats up in the nicest way possible. Unfortunately, its probably going to be awkward any way we go about it haha.
 One of our most solid people were dropped this week. We had an intense lesson with them and asked a ton of questions and we found out that she doesn't want to join any church ever. She just wants to learn about all the churches in the world just to know about them. She has agnostic points of view, so she isn't even sure that she belives in God. Its a really sad situation. She had 2 church attendences and most of the lessons done already. Ugh. You can't give someone an interest in something, they have to have it for themselves.
With the family of Hannah, the recent convert, they are setting a marriage date this week and also the mom is changing her job. She doesn't know if she has it for sure, but she seems pretty confident! Transfers are on March 24th of this month! I could stay or I could go. I kind of want to leave Olavarria, but I'm not sure. There is potential here, but there will always be. I think I need a shakeup of an area haha. One of us or both of us could leave. One for sure.
My clothes are pretty much hanging in there minus my pants haha. But i´m making it work! I am using tape haha. One of these days when I have free time, I'm going to see if I cant learn how to sew by myself haha. But yeah, you don't need to send me anything. I'm pretty much gooood!
Well the missionary work is going good I guess. This week we´ve seen some hard trials with the people we´re working with, but we will continue! Well I love all of you guys! Sorry if I didn't answer any questions! We´re just so rushed on these dumb computers haha. Chou!

Elder Wheelwright

Hola!
Well This week has kind of been a slow work week. We have worked super hard running around everywhere trying to find people, but peoples hearts just seem so hard recently haha.
So today I hit 10 months in the mission. Woooo! Double Digits BABBBYY!! haha no big deal. FEDERAL WAY MISSSSSSION! that is sooooo awesome! You'll have to tell me where the mission office is when they choose a spot. That's super exciting. Federal Way is going to blow up and be the next Utah (mormon population wise, we don't want their SWAG) hahaha just kidding. What areas are included? Federal Way isn't big enough to host like 200 missionaries. I imagine that includes Kent and Auburn and places like that.
Our most solid people we have right now are kind of slowing down a bit. We were technically supposed to have had a baptism last Saturday, but obviously that didn't happen. I don't know whats going on, its super hard to contact this person now, but were going to try as hard as we can.
On Saturday we had a sweet talent show put on by the missionary team in our branch. The 4 missionaries in our branch included me and my comp. did a sweet sketch-dance haha.   I have a video of it, but its too big to send home. So I guess you just have to wait?
One family we're working with right now is progressing pretty good. Only the dad could come to church last Sunday, but still. We are getting him started on his divorce papers with his past wife, and then getting him and his current wife married. There are several road blocks to baptism, but I think they are willing to do it. We put their goal as the temple. The dad of the family downloaded all the pictures of the temple on his laptop and also downloaded a bunch of conference talks too. Its pretty awesome haha. Also when he came to church, he beat us to the chapel and he came out in a full suit! That never happens if you know Argentina. Everyone thought he was a member from a different branch haha. Super funny. These people are really solid, there are just a couple doubts here and there, but we can work those out for sure. I might not be here to see their baptisms because transfers are coming up soon. But everything is going to be all right with them.
Sounds like you guys as busy as ever over there haha. I guess that's a good thing though!                The weather is starting to change here for the better haha. THANK GOOOODNESS! I'm so tired of coming home sweaty! haha. But yeah, that's about it for now. I love you guys so much! It seems like forever since I've seen you now haha. All my life is now is the mission. I can't really remember what not being a missionary is like now haha. Well gotta run! CHOU! Con Amor,

Elder Wheelwright

Hola familia!
Yeah the beard beanie hat thing is from another Elder in our house. Its pretty coooool. Its call like beard hat or something haha. Yeah the whole dead investigator thing was kinda weird. You don't really know how to deal with it. Because you just have to keep working. So yeah, it was more awkward and strange than anything else. His wife isn't a member or even an investigator really. But she has been really nice to us. We haven't gone back over there yet, we´ll probably do that this week. Maybe this event in her life has shaken her up to want to listen to us! haha. Hopefully!
Yeah so this is really awkward and funny at the same time hahaha. IT was for sure a typo when I said ¨my elder Henry¨... haha. Somehow companion didn't make it in there. awkward...haha. My companion Elder Henry is what it was supposed to say. But we are pretty good friends though haha. That's a funny story about Dallin. That would be weird if he actually got to go home. That would make him a trucho missionary hahaha. Trucho...try to google it?         Dang that sucks about the teriyaki sauce...haha. Its all good though. I guess I can survive a little bit more longer. That's the food that I probably miss the most. That and mexican food.         Luckily I brought a ton of memory cards with me. I have a ton of space left still. And I don't think I'll ever run out of space until the end of my mission. Mediafire takes too long unfortunately, so it eats up a lot of my computer time which is not good haha.
So this week we had 3 people at church today! Now 3 of our investigators have 2 attendances! YEAH! The one that was supposed to get baptized this weekend didn't show up for some reason. We're kind of worried about her. She seemed really solid, but she might have gotten scared...hmm. We'll find out tomorrow at our appointment! We taught the family of our recent convert, Hanna, and we talked about temples and eternal families. We set this as their goal. Of course the parents still have to get baptized. And we talked about how they can get to that point too. Hanna has been asking them when they are going to get baptized haha. Shes so awesome! She is the most mature 9 year old I've ever met. Seriously!
OH....so at church with one of our investigators, we had a member sitting next to one of the investigators. And during the sacrament, the investigator went to grab the bread, and the member slapped his hand and said that he's not allowed to do that... WHAT! I was so mad when I found out that this happened. Luckily the investigator is super old and he probably didn't understand what was happening haha.
Well this week was kind of slow. But it was filled with a lot of good stuff. I love all you guys! Have an awesome week!!

Elder Wheelwright

Hola family!
I'm dying down here from the heat!   I finally got my haircut!!!! haha.   That helped a little bit, but now the sweat just runs down into my face. Grosssss.
Okay well something sad happened 2 weeks ago that I forgot to mention. One of our investigators died from Pancreas cancer.  He was really awesome and would have for sure gotten baptized.  The last time we talked to him, he told us that he wants to get better so he can go to church. I guess this form of cancer is really deadly and fast moving... Talking to his wife is really hard too. 'Im just this missionary kid from the states. She's crying and my spanish sucks so I don't really know what to do. I just feel really bad and super sad. Although, as we know death is not the end. Roberto will not change in the spirit world. If he was going to accept the gospel here from us, he will for sure accept it there as well.
SOOO...another death related experience that happened yesterday.   I almost died, for real for real haha.  Holy crap, you would have gotten a really crappy phone call if my Elder Henry didn't save me. So we were walking along the side of the road yesterday and this car was apparently coming up on us really fast. He was driving pretty much on the side of the road, where he shouldn't have been. I think he was drunk, I'm not sure.  But yeah, so I was walking, and Elder Henry looked back like 3 seconds before this car almost hit me head on. He grabbed my side instantly and pulled me over away from the car. I looked right when the car was passing me and he was exactly right where I was walking. Everything was all slow motion and stuff.  WIERD! haha.  So yeah, I'm here right now because my companion saved me!  Its crazy how close you can be to death. You can be taken at any second. So live life to the fullest!  It shook me up a little bit after, but I'm totally okay now haha.  Anyways. Enough of the crazyness.
The girl we are teaching went to church again! This time, we didn't even have to call and remind her. Actually she specifically asked us not too haha. But yeah, she showed up again and she is preparing for her baptism on February 23rd!!! I'm super stoked!!   We pretty much just need to teach her the commandments and then boom! In the water! Some guy that we found last Sunday totally came to church too! He is this 86 year old guy and he rode his bike to the church haha. He committed himself within the first 5 minutes of talking to him to come to the church. Legit. Those are the super easy ones haha. He cant hear very well, so when he talks, its super loud. So in the middle of one of the talks, he was practically screaming something to me haha. I tried to everything I could to get him to stop talking haha. But yeah, I think that's all!
I'm sure there was a ton more stuff that happened, but I cant remember...sorry! Well I gotta run!
Chou Family!!

Elder Wheelwright

Hola Family!
This week has been really awesome! We worked really hard, as usual duh, and we found a ton of people! The most we´ve ever found in the area so far! We found this one huge family of like 6 or 7 people, so that's really coool! They aren't 1000% solid, but if they keep up with their commitments, they will be!
I had exchanges this week for a day with this elder from Arizona. That was pretty interesting. I had to guide the area for the first time ever. I was kinda scared haha, but everything worked out good! We had some pretty good lessons!
Right now is the hottest part of the year for sure. You instantly get sweaty when you go outside. GAHHHH. Its so annoying. You just have to get used to smelling bad. Its terrible. But I guess were not out here to smell good and get girls haha. So It doesn't really matter.
During exchanges, we street contacted someone who was busy at the time, so we got her address. Then a couple days later, Saturday, we went and stopped by. The lady we found on the street let us in. Turns out she wasn't really interested, but her daughter sat in with us and in the end had interest in listening to us! It was awesome. The best part? She can speak English!! Not 100% fluent, but still. We taught her the 1st lesson and she accepted a baptismal date. I tried to do the baptismal date in English, but I literally couldn't haha.  I tried and the words didn't come. I forgot how to speak my native language for a second! So yeah, we just did it in spanish instead haha.
The next day Sunday.... we had 2 investigators at church! Whoooooo! One was the girl we found Saturday! It was awesome! And another was from the big family we found. They had a good time at church! It was so great. Although it was fast and testimony meeting...aka bad news. You never know what some crazy member is going to babble about. Thankfully, the only odd thing that got brought up was the word of wisdom. So we were safe! We had full member support during church too. People would say hi to them and sit next to them. This is the ideal ward and how all members should be like haha. So if anyone reading this isn't like that, change! haha.    Its so stressful having investigators at church though. Like its soooo draining!! The whole time, I'm just worrying about how they are feeling and what they are thinking. So when church was over, I was just like exhausted and super relieved. But yeah! AWESOME!
So about the spanish..haha. Yeah familia, I can teach in spanish. I'm probably not as bad as I think I am haha.  I can pretty much say what I want to say for most of the time. Oh, also Natalei is this awesome member in Colorado! She is super great and awesome so you should talk to her haha. She is the ward mission leaders wife.
 Man! Langleys call is soooo awesome! And sooo inspired. Also I don't want to be that prideful guy, but I totally called it! That's 2 for 2!  Langleys and Dallins! Hahaha! But yeah, there is a divine reason as to why he´s going to Cambodia. Maybe something with his ancestors or something. But he was called to his native land for a reason. Its so exciting and I'm super proud of him for making the decision to go on a mission. He is going to kill it in Cambodia! Agghhh!! So exciting!!
The sickness that is going around sounds pretty intense haha. Hopefully it doesn't make its way over here! Well I think that's it! Do you guys have any questions for me about the area or the country or anything like that? If so, shoot me an email!!  Well I love you guys!! You guys rock!

Elder Wheelwright

ps...this foto is of this fake pizza hut place in downtown Olavarria haha. Super funny!