Hola!

Okay, so this email is going to be very very short! I'm sorry blog readers... haha  not a lot happened this week.  The only real update is that my companion is on a full hate for me and he doesn't talk to me anymore and he won't walk with me, he won't contact people with me, he won't knock doors with me. Basically this is going to be the loneliest week of my mission, and it happens to be the last one too. Oh joy. Pray for me, I'll need all the patience I can get.  I'm going to try to make the best of this last week. it's going to be awesome! I'll probably cry every night, but...yeah. we´ll see what happens. tears just means your an hombre! jajaja.
Yesterday I went to an evangelical church! jaja   It was the worst thing ever. Our investigator said he would go to general conference if we came to his church first, sooo heck yeah!  We have someone coming to church finally!   At the church of the evangelicals all they do is sing and dance.. its a concert, not a worship service. The spirit can't be felt there..bleh.  It was super interesting to see what it was like though.
Oh yeah, so we went on exchanges with members, I went to the church with a youth in the ward. that was weird haha.
Okay, so my final words.. I loved being a missionary, its the best thing I've ever done in my life. period. I could write a whole book of this because it was the best, but I don't have time for that. I going to miss this experience forever. this last week is going to be great. im fully taking advantage! i love you guys, and I'll see you all next week. Thanks for all of the support that you've given me through these 2 years. you're all the reason why I'm still sane! haha  okay goooodbye!!

Elder wheelwright

Hola familia! 

This week the email will be super short because I don't have a lot of time...grrr... it always happens. But yeah, this week was cool. We worked super hard and even more harder, but...we only found some mediocre people...no one super cool. No one came to church this Sunday (in terms of investigators)...wahhh... :(    But I'm still going to keep going. It seems like that world just wants to stop me from working and yeah. I'm never going to give up.  I had more problems with my comp this week. But yeah, I'll be okay. Just gotta endure to the end. I think I'll miss him though when its all over. 

 Okay...so last minute things... anyone want stuff..?? haha. you have to tell me by next Monday when I'm on the computer...cuz thats my last time writing.. UGH!  I'm freaking out, but a friend gave me some advice to just enjoy the time I have left without thinking of the future and what is going to happen. Apparently you can enjoy life better with doing this...haha. I'm going to try it out. 

Okay I love you family! CHAU!!!

Elder Wheelwright

Hi mom! Oh...and family!! 

We´re doing better now, I'm  just trying to battle his lazy problems now, but that's okay. we're going to get rid of that super fast! So yeah, the giant family isn't great at all. They had huge potential, but we dropped them because the mom basically told us that she has her church and that she's scared to go to ours and yeah... wont commit and makes excuses. They were so great though!!! 

Okay so I don't have a ton if time to write, so I'll just make this super short! 

This week we did an extra reinforcement in our area. A Reinforcement is when lots of missionaries come to work in your area to help you out. I asked the zone leaders to do it.  But we found lots of people in our area! It was awesome, but when we passed by for a second time,.... it wasn't so great. No one wanted to listen to us. Sad day. This area has really gotten me down recently. 

But something interesting happened to me this Sunday. It was awesome and a miracle for me. So recently I've been super worried about not having success and results here. That I'm ending my mission and have nothing to show for it. On Saturday, I was talking to this lady in our branch, she's super awesome. We happened to cross her in the street. I was like yeah, we're going to go visit this lady, hopefully to find some results. On Sunday, she randomly came up to me after sacrament meeting. And she was like, Elder Wheelwright, I've really been thinking about what you said to me yesterday about having results. You're doing your job, planting seeds. Sometimes results aren't necessary to know that you're doing a good thing. She then shared her conversion experience with me. About how there weren't any results in 6 months with her. They didn't want anything to do with what the missionaries were saying. But the simple seed that was planted, grew in the end. Really... hearing that brought me so much peace. It strengthened my testimony that God loves me and that he is aware of everything that happens in my life, he knows my worries too. The Hermana Soria told me exactly what i needed to hear, when I needed to hear it. It was my awesome experience of the week. I'm super excited to still have 3 weeks left to work, I know its hard and it wont get any easier. But I will prevail! 

I love you guys so much, thanks for always being a solid support for me in everything. <3 

p.s.... any last minute stuff you guys want.. let me know. haha don't be afraid to tell me! Chau!

Elder Wheelwright

Hola!

Yeah, so I'm basically freaking out. I dont have a ton of time, so I have to do this super quick! Okay...so. I'm not getting along with my comp at all.  I'm not going to throw in a whole lot of details, but you can read about it all in my journal..haha... yikes!

 I'll get a new temple reccomend at the end of my mission from Presidente Parreño, so its all good.   So I leave at night or in the morning on tuesday april 8th.. so I'll get home wednesday April 9th.. 

 

So yeah, here in Millamapu, were having a little bit of a rough patch. Besides the fact of not working in unity, no one wants to listen to us at all. We do have one investigator who promised that she will come to church next week. its a giant family too, so were going to teach her daughters and stuff if we can. She's a little wierd and protective, but yeah. And she talks a ton too.  Its almost impossible teaching. But she teaches her kids good values... like no swearing, no leaving to go to clubs at night, no smoking and drinking, etc. its awesome. She's practically already mormon. Also.. her boyfriend (who she won't let live in her house at all unless she has a ring) is mormon and inactive. Sooo yeah. That's basically is what we have going on for us right now. 

Something funny happend this week, we were walking and a big trunk passed by and he splashed us with mud and water and stuff. I just laughed my head off haha, but my comp was super mad! hahaha see the pictures. 

Okay so yeah, Ive got to run! Love you guys!!! CHAU!!

Elder Wheelwright

Hola!

Hola!
To answer your question, yeah I'm a medium now. Its a great time to come home, because all the snow stuff is on clearance! haha yesss! time for new snow pants and a new jacket! :D :D :D I want to look at stuff too. Do you think there will still be stuff when I'm at home?    I miss the rain, in Bahia it doesn't rain as much as Mar Del Plata....lame.    HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DAD ON FRIDAY!!! :D :D hahaha.
My area here in Millamapu is pretty hard, I'm not going to lie. I'm trying to keep a really great attitude, but its kind of hard. We're going to have success here no matter what! My companion is doing okay. We don't have the same goal and the same mindset. I'm working like mad and focusing on finding people, and he only wants to stop by less actives that he's made friends with. My ZLs and DL understand the situation though, so they just try to help me out. Its like a secret effort behind my companions back, but still.. its necessary.
Okay, I know I've asked this a million times..but is there anything else that you guys want me to buy from here?   I'm down to my last days of doing it, so let me know!
Ohh, so yesterday we had stake conference and I got to see all the converts from Villa Harding Green. They are all still super strong!   The mom Rosana has a calling teaching primary! :D   Its the best, its a super blessing being able to see that. That's why I'm not super bitter about being here anymore. I think of it like this... I get that blessing of seeing them, in trade for being in the area where I'm at now. haha. Just kidding, it's not that bad.
Okay, so this week our focus is find and find and find and find. We need investigators, we basically don't have any.   So this weeks email will be a little short, sorry.  Next week I hope to have lots of stories to tell about our success! It's going to happen, so be prepared for it!
 People keep asking me if I'm trunky...and the answer is nooooo. haha. I'm really not, I mean I'm super excited to go home and see you guys and all, but I'm super sad more than anything. I don't want to leave! They are going to have to drag me to the airport.. but yeah. This is part of the mission, the transition back into the real world...but hey, that's in 5 weeks... I've got plenty of time. I'm just going to go convert the world! haha   Okay I gotta run! I love you guys!! Chau!! :):) :) :)

Elder Wheelwright

Hola!!

Okay! So this week was super awesome with the baptism and all!  It was an awesome service and everything.  Cristina invited her friends and family and everything and lots of people came. She has no shame at all, she's proud to be una mormona hahaha. I love her so much, I wish you could meet her. We´re going to skype with her when I get home!!  I got to baptize her, in the freezing cold water. Even though its hot outside, it still sucked. The water heater decided to stop working...
Okay.. so I have some really sad news.  I got freaking transfered! noooooooooooooooooo!   :( :( :( :( :( :(   I left the beautiful city of Mar Del Plata and now I'm here in Bahia Blanca again, right next to my old area of Villa Harding Green. Bleh,  I don't want to be here at all.  I had the greatest ward and the best converts ever in Mar Del Plata... I had a giant family!  Now I'm going to end my mission in this area called ¨Millamapu¨ where I'm in a branch and there are only 20 members...gah.  No one knows me and yeah, it's going to be lame. I'm going to make the best out of it and baptize the world here, but still.  Also its a semi rich area.. My companion is from Peru and he's 25 years old, umm his name is hard. I'm going to look at his name tag... Elder Huacachi.  Wow, yeah I still don't know how to pronounce that, but still. He's pretty cool.  He studied kung fu and he has a tattoo. haha   So yeah, its going to be interesting though. I'm still so sad, I had to leave all of my converts. You don't even know how hard I cried with them. haha  it was embarrassing. I couldn't even talk at all..lame. But it eventually came out though. I´ve come to love these people so much, its not fair that they are taking me away! I want to stay...ugh. Sometimes I can't understand the reasons for transfers, but God does. I just have to trust in the revelation. I guess my mission in Mar Del Plata was completed.  
Oh also, one of my really good friends Elder Schroeder is going home to his house right now.  Nooo! Also yeah, last transfer! :(   It's soo crazy that its almost all over. I'm not happy about it. I told this to Nikki, that your whole mission you think about going home, and then in the end you want nothing to do with it. You just want to stay forever. The plus side of this transfer is that I can see all of my converts in my old area. I'm going to love that! 
Okay, well that's pretty much whats up with my life right now.  Any questions?
I'll send in the temple thing to get it done, it looks pretty great!  I love you guys a lot!  Until next week!!

Elder Wheelwright

Alright so this week was pretty lame, my email is going to be really short too..wahh wahh wahh. You´ll never guess who got sick this week! :(   Yupp..thats me. I basically couldn't eat anything at all or it left immediately. I leave it at that. haha. I was on a diet of rice and water and nothing else. My stomach always killed me, even now I'm not 100%.   Its a good thing that my investigator and recent convert are nurses/doctors!   I was blessed in that sense (trying to see the positive in the dark hole I was in haha). They helped me out and even brought me pills and medication to the house. I'm super grateful for them. Now I'm doing pretty good. I'm still watching what I eat, nothing too intense, but yeah. I was basically out for this week.
Our baptism is so on for this Saturday.  Cristina is super solid and there is nothing in the world that could happen that could change her mind. She just got back from vacations, so we couldn't teach her all this week. But she brought her BOM with her and all of her family gave her crap for it and they were talking bad, etc. But she didn't let that bother her at all. She told us that she just cried and took it haha.  I think that trial strengthened her testimony a lot. We were worried that something bad was going to happen, and it did. but she came back better than ever!
Also... this weekend we planned out a missionary activity. It was a tarta making contest, yummm! hahaha. The ward didn't super support us, only 20 people came and the majority were less actives and investigators..but still. It was awesome. We played a few games and then we all tried the tartas and then voted. My companion and I wore chef uniforms... = awesome! Sooo out of everyone Cristina won the competition.. yay! she was stoked. The prize for first place was something we just found in the house, since were a little broke. It was a package of cookies, a salami stick, and a game of ninja turtles tops. haha it was the best. Everyone had a great time.
That was my week. we already have transfers this weekend ugh. I hate this. This will determine where I'm going to ¨die¨. I hope I stay! Also my pal Elder Schroeder is going home this weekend... noooo! So that's going to be sad. Okay well, I better run! I'll be praying for snow in the mountains in April haha. legit! Love you all!!

Elder Wheelwright


ps:  I just received something called trunky papers.. I have to fill it out so they know where to buy my airplane ticket...they will be in contact with you guys in a couple weeks. Shoot, I dont like this....haha. Chau!!