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Oh! So the chalk writing -  haha funny story!  We kind of got the idea from the people in New York, but not really.  We used the inspiration from them, but it was really our idea haha. When we went to do it that day, we forgot to buy chalk.. So we found some rocks on the side of the road and yeah. We scratched it into the pavement. That didn't last too long haha. It was kind of a fail.
Yeah the police thing was pretty nuts. We had to stay in all day on p-day, but we had to go out and work. Things were kind of nuts. When we first left the house and we hit the main road, this guy rode by on his bike yelling to this other person saying that someone just got killed. and then an ambulance zoomed by. Hmm.. that was scary. The buses also refused to run because a lot of them already got robbed. So we walked to our area, which is far. There was like this look of panic in the faces of the people here. It was very movie like. The other companionship in my ward almost got robbed too, but they got away. We took refuge in a house of a member. we tried calling a taxi to go back to the house, but the wait was an hour because everyone in the world wanted to use a taxi. So we decided to run home. To get to the house, we basically have to run through the ghetto haha. We didn't want to do that, but we started out anyways. Miracle! We found an open taxi after like 2 blocks of running..yaya! It only lasted one day, but everyone is saying now that its going to happen again. The government here is kind of corrupt.. but oh well.
You should try to do the skype thing, even if it costs a little bit of money. The google thing could work, but I'm not familiar with it at all. So I think it would be best to use skype. I think 6pm my time will be the time. But I'll double confirm it for next p-day and I can tell you for sure. but yeah I'm like 99% sure it will be at 6.
Our Christmas party was a little lame haha. Everyone had to bring a salad and something sweet. So we just ate a ton of salad and the Bishopic bought chicken, yumm.. Were trying to pick a family for Christmas this year. but we don't know of anyone super cool haha. Were planning on having the baptism for Diego on the 28th, but he still doesn't have his answer..ugh. So I'm not sure if its going to happen in the end. Well see. Pray for him!   We have a huge problem in the ward right now, no one knows how to fellowship people at all. Its awful. No one wants to talk to Diego or even say hi to him. I don't know what to do anymore. I can give it my 110% , but if the ward doesn't do their job, my work is in vain.
Oh, this Sunday we found this guy early in the morning before church. He is a historian and he has his genealogy back to Moses. Cool stuff.   We're going to start teaching him soon!

Well gotta run! Love you guys a ton! see you in a weeek!!

Elder Wheelwright

Hola!!

Hola!!
So this week has been better than the majority of the weeks haha. We've actually found a good number of new people to teach. I told my companion that to be honest I'm getting a little burnt out of the area. I mean its almost been 4 months already.. I was like enough. haha  We walk down the same streets and knock the same houses. I'm ready to go to a new area. So we've been looking for places that we've never been before. And in these places, we've been finding new people to teach. We found this lady with 27 dogs, 17 horses, 3 cats, 7 puppies, and a baby hawk.  She also lives alone too. She told us that the animals are her family. It was pretty great. So that's whats going on with our area right now. Looking for new places to look, and we're finding success with it too.
Our investigator Diego is having some problems right now. He's doing great with everything, reading, praying, he's even stopped smoking (we're on day 10 now! Whoooo!!). But his problem is that he can't find his answer. He's been praying and praying but he can't get an answer. We even knelt down with him in a lesson and he asked God. But still, nothing happened. Its kind of hard for me to see this. Diego appears to be willing and he said he really wants to know if its true. The other day though, we found out the reason why he's not getting it. He came out of nowhere with a bunch of doubts about Joseph Smith and about how it doesn't say his name in the bible. He was catholic before, and his catholic ways are coming out again.. He's letting his doubting get in the way of him knowing the truth. We're not sure what we can do with him.   Ideas?    It's like on the show who wants to be a millionaire. I'm phoning a friend haha.
Downtown is closed for the missionaries now, too much temptation from the beach, that's why its closed. Lame.
We're going to skype again. I'm thinking like at 6 or 7 my time. Whatever works best for you guys. If we can do a multi-chat again, that would be legit.   Find out a way mom?? hahaha. Well yeah, we'll make it happen somehow haha.
This Friday we already have our conference for Christmas! Its already here haha dang. Okay, well.. I think that's it! Oh! thanks for the package thing. I'll be waiting for it anxiously haha.    Sorry for the lack of photos too, the thing is that the computers we use are kind of ghetto and full of viruses, so I don't like to stick my card in anymore..sorry!! Today we're on a lock down in our house..haha. The police in Mar Del Plata are on strike and aren't working. So there are no police in the city...how comforting haha. So our mission president said we have to stay inside..lame! okay well gotta run! Chau!! Love you guys!!

Elder Wheelwright

Hola family!

Hola family! 

I'm going to have to make this one short, I don't have much time.   Well everything basically stayed the same.  I'm still in Mar Del Plata with my companion. I'm not going to lie, I was super sad.  Hmm.. I went downstairs by myself and I was just like why? Why is this happening?? And then a voice came into my mind and it said "dont you think I know whats best for you". Dang. I was like, you know what.. you're right. It was a cool little experience. Although it doesn't take away how I feel. I just know that I'm here for a reason. There is something I need to learn. I just better figure out what that is! 

Okay, so not much has happened this week. We've been having almost daily contact with our investigator Diego. He's doing super great , but only needs to stop smoking. We've been bringing members over and stuff too.    Our ward here in Caisamar is pretty lame, not going to lie. All of the members are afraid to get close and to fellowship the new people at church. We ask people to do stuff, like sit next to people in church and they give us excuses on why they can't. This is our goal right now. To try to train the members in the ward how to treat investigators.  Because I can bet that the investigators don't feel comfortable at all. 

So..thanksgiving was this week. I totally forgot haha. I remembered it on Friday for black friday haha. How was that? Anyone got up early?   I told this one family about black friday here and they just laughed and said we were crazy for what we do.  I told them about the prices and then they asked me if they could come next time haha...

Okay, well I ran out of time! I love you guys!! Chau!!

Elder Wheelwright

Hola!!

Hola!
 So yeah transfers are this weekend! Oh my gosh! haha aghhh. I only have 3 transfers left! I feel like I could leave or stay.  At least one of us is gone though, I'm positive of that.
I think I got everything in the package, thanks! I don't have time to list everything haha but the box was unopened, so it had everything still. My housemates love you guys for the candy haha. I have to share it or my diet wont have an effect! haha.
Oh, side note. Christmas is in 30 days, go figure. WOW!
Sounds like the missionary event didn't go so hot..hmm.   It's a good idea though. We should do something like that here. This Friday we're going to this huge park to have a stand. Also today we're going to go to this really popular place and write mormon.org/spa with chalk on the sidewalk. A couple of members are coming with us to help us out. It's going to be great.
The weather here is hot, hot and more hot.  Summer is coming early, that's for sure. Recently I've been dying of heat, we sleep with the window open now.  I wish I had your cold weather, I'm super jealous haha.
So yesterday I confirmed somebody a member for the first time in my life. It was pretty great. At first I was nervous, but that went away in the moment when I had to do it.  Umm, so we have this guy Diego who we are working with now, who is super awesome. He is going to get baptized on the 28th of Dec. He has to stop smoking and he is there. He told us yesterday after church that he has a problem with loneliness and that he wants to find a wife so that he can have a family. Hmm, we're going to start having FHEs every week with him and a different family each time. Also we're going to hook him up with going to institute, so he can find some lady friends......... and learn more about the gospel, duh haha.
The Peruvian has been hard to find recently.  I think she works a lot, but we always leave notes on her door. She didn;t show up at church yesterday either....   :(   That's okay though. maybe she had something to do?   
So last week I forgot to tell you guys, but I got rammed by a sheep. it was awful haha. I just wanted to pet it, but it attacked me with its head. Luckily it didn't have any horns! oh! I also went to Bahia Blanca this week to renew my visa.   I've been illegal for about a month now.   We had time to work, and I wanted to go to my old area in Villa Harding Green, but my president wouldn't let me go. oh man. That made me sad.
Okay, so that's about it. This week is transfers, so you'll be able to know next week what happened. Okay, well I gotta run! Love you guys!!

Elder Wheelwright

Hola family!

So the package is in my city, my friend actually has it haha. So they made it here safe!!!! Whoooo!! 

First of all, this weekend was nuts!! I had exchanges this week with an Elder that is brand new. His name is Elder Walker and he's from Utah, and doesn't speak spanish haha...so for 2 days I talked non stop. It was intense teaching the full lessons alone, but it was fun too. I like to talk... :D

 Saturday was the meeting with Elder Christofferson and two 70´s too. IT was amazing!! I learned a lot on how to be a better missionary. He opened it up for questions too, but I didn't know what to ask. I didn't want to say anything dumb haha. Only half the mission got to come, so thank goodness I was in the half that came!   

After the talk, we went to the church and started preparing for the baptism of Valeria!!!! YAAAAAYYYYY! :D    At 5pm she was baptized. I was so surprised that lots of people from the ward showed up. We did make fancy fliers and delivered them to the families in the ward though... so that's probably why.   Our ward mission leader said that it was one of the best most spiritual baptisms that he's ever seen. Legit! Now the clock ticks..until one year and then they can get sealed in the temple!! :) I will be confirming her next Sunday. My first confirmation in spanish! It should be cake. Usually members of the ward are supposed to do this, but she asked me to do it. I always love seeing people get baptized, knowing that they are leaving behind their old sinful life haha to start a brand new one..how awesome!

 Remember that one family with that one convert of mine in Olavarria a long time ago in my first area?  They got mad at us or something and told us to stop coming by?  They emailed me last week and it was amazing!  Everything is great with them and I think they are going to church! It made me so happy to hear from them. 

Umm..Sunday we had stake conference with Elder Christofferson too. It was a full weekend of apostle! haha. his wife spoke too, although her spanish wasn't super amazing, she still did a really great job and everyone understood her. 

So 2 weeks until transfers..wow.   How the time fly's!   I feel like we were just at this point yesterday. Agh!! 

One of our investigators went to the stake conference this Sunday without us knowing, she also went up and shook the apostles hand and talked with him. She told us that he blessed her baby haha. How awesome. She's this little lady from Peru. She felt the spirit a lot in the meeting and can't wait for us to come back and teach her more stuff!   She could be the next baptism :)

 I think that's all that happened this week. I'm sure there is more, but time calls haha. We only have one hour. Maybe  even less now...eeeek. Okay well I love you guys! Sorry for not sending pics of the baptism! I forgot my memory card in the casa! 

Love you all! chau!!!

Elder Wheelwright

Hola family!!

Hola family!!!

Hows it going! So this week was semi exciting but semi not haha. We had the wedding though!!! yyyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaayyy!! It was awesome! We made them a legit cake, okay..well a member helped us make them a cake. We had to go pick it up from this member, and it was pretty far away.. while taking it back to the house, I stained my new tie with strawberry juice..ugh haha. I was so mad. Also yeah, we took the bus, and since the roads suck here, it was super bumpy and the cake almost fell in the bus haha. ooopps. but yeah, the wedding was in Santa Clara.  We took the 30 min bus ride over there and yeah, good stuff.  The ceremony was really short. The tradition here is to throw rice afterwards. Its awesome haha. I attached some pictures of the rice throwing. afterwards we had the party at the church. We had the church keys, so we were obligated to stay haha. There was a TON of food and drinks and our cake. Also there was a lot of raggae music. Like Bob Marley haha. There was a weird mood and vibe of raggae in the air, but I was diggin it haha. Swaying to the music while eating empanadas. Doesn't get any better than that!!
Okay so this week we visited an old investigator from a couple of transfers ago. He was way nice and accepted us and we taught him and he's amazing. But, he's having a hard time going to church. He told us that he would go Saturday night, but then he called us a couple hours later and said that he was going to a club at night and that he couldn't come anymore..ugh. He doesn't understand keep the sabbath day holy haha. Dummy. But he's still awesome and we're going to baptize him.
This Saturday is our baptism!! whoooo! Also this Saturday we have a special meeting with an apostle, D. Todd Christofferson. YAYA!   He's also coming to our stake conference too!! :)
Well okay family, I gottta run! I love you guys so much!      The package hasn't arrived yet...I'm getting kind of scared haha. I'll let you guys know!! Chau Chau!!!

Elder Wheelwright

Hola!

Hola!
So this week was pretty lame. haha. Sorry to start if off like that. It was full of lots of distractions. Tuesday, we spent the whole day with the sister missionaries. They were all pretty sick and we took them around to hospitals because they didn't know where they were. All day with them was nuts haha.
Our baptism on the 16th is for sure for sure going down! yay!   The wedding is this week on Wednesday and we get to be a part of it. Aka throwing rice and being the witnesses haha. They have a weird way of doing things here.  After the wedding, we're having a reception like thing at the church for lunch. Good stuff. Then the next week, she`ll get dunked. Boom! She is doing really good with everything, commandments, reading, etc. She`ll make a good member.
We got a reference this Sunday of a lady that wants to get baptized in our church. A member brought her to church yesterday and we didn't even know haha.  So now we are going to start teaching her, yay!
So halloween here was super lame. I was feeling like celebrating, so I bought a pumpkin for 15 pesos. Well okay, it wasn't a pumpkin, it was a Japanese squash, but it still worked.  Pumpkins aren't really common here. But I carved it alone haha. Oh yeah! It was really fun and it made me miss halloweeeeen! :(   What did you guys do?
Gah! already out of time, how lame! I need to learn how to juggle my time between emails. Enjoy all of the photos that I got from my comps!
Umm... ice cream down here is lame. Well, it depends from where. It has to be ice cream artesenal. The frozen premade stuff is lame haha. Everything is so cheap here too. You usually but ice cream by the kilo...and it cheap. But I don't eat a lot anyways, soo yeah. Umm no package yet. Maybe tomorrow? The mission office always holds everything up...grr..haha. Well I love you guys! Chau!!

Elder Wheelwright