March 28, 2016
Dear Family and Friends,
Dear Family and Friends,
Happy Easter everyone! I hope that you all had a great Easter and enjoyed the
time that we had to reflect, remember and honor the Atonement and Resurrection
of our Savior Jesus Christ! And if you did, enjoy the chocolate bunnies
and eggs too!:) I had a great Easter here in Australia and it was
filled with great spiritual experiences and just a tiny bit of chocolate! The
Savior’s final week on Earth was a week filled with miracles and a lot of
blessings and that is how this past week was for us. It was a week of many
miracles and couldn't have happened during a greater time of the year!
So I will begin with the news of my area. This past week, we were able to meet
with the Fulton family and teach them a lesson. We committed Sister Fulton and
her daughters Taneille and Sarah to baptism. Her other older daughter, Chloe,
wasn't home when we visited so we didn't commit her, yet! But we will when we
visit with them next! We were so happy with this miracle but it didn't stop
there. We met a couple of times with an investigator named Mark and continued
to help him with his addictions. He was scheduled to be baptized on the 9th of
April, but we rescheduled it for the 30th of April because we feel he
needs more time to prepare! He came to church on Sunday and had
a really spiritual and great experience! We met up with Jeremy finally
last night and talked with him. He told us that he has been busy working from
8-9 every single day and that his phone is being fixed, hence why
we couldn't get a hold of him! He is still very interested in
learning more about the church and being baptized, so we were very happy to
hear that!
Want to
hear about some more miracles? Well you're in luck cause I have some
more! Last Sunday, some former investigators, a German couple, showed up
to church out of the blue. We talked to them and introduced ourselves and they
told us straight up what they would like. They told us that they would like to
be taught again and married by our bishop so that they can be baptized! It was
so unexpected, but we told them that we would be more than happy to help them
accomplish that all! Well they came to church again on Sunday and we are going
to start to teach them this week! Heavenly Father has prepared them for this
throughout the years of investigating the church!!
Last one and probably my favorite! Last week, our zone had 3 investigators with
a baptismal date! For the whole zone...3. That isn't that good at all and so we
decided, the District Leaders and Zone Leaders, to set a goal to get 14
baptismal dates by the end of this month, so that we could accomplish our goal
of baptizing 7 investigators in the month of April. In less than one week, we
went from 3 investigators with a baptismal date to 15 investigators with a
baptismal date! It was so amazing to see all of the missionaries in our zone
work hard and be blessed with the investigators who are prepared to be
baptized! It was such a huge miracle and it happened during the week that we
celebrate the biggest miracle that has ever happened. I was so happy and proud
of my District because we got 8 out of the 15 baptismal dates in the zone!
Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers and I can bear my testimony of
that!
I hope that you all have a great week and enjoy the sunny weather that you are
having! We are just beginning to experience our colder temperatures and I am
honestly excited for winter weather! It will be a good reminder of home! I love
you all!
Sincerely,
Elder Wheeler
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| Found this little guy on the roof of our car this past week! haha Baby Hunstman spider! |
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| See, it is a "baby" one! Not even that big. haha |
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