January 8, 2017
Dear Family &
Friends,
Once again, I am
pressed for time and so because of that, this might be a little all over the
place. But lets try anyways because I have a lot of amazing miracles to share
with you all!
So this past week
was amazing in so many different ways! We started the week thinking that we
wouldn't have a lot of time to work in the area due to meetings at the mission
home and zone interviews with President Vidmar, but boy were we blessed! So all
day Tuesday was spent at the monthly MLC meeting with all of the other leaders
in the mission! We had our interviews with President on Thursday and to be
honest, I didn't really enjoy the topic of my interview. It started with
President asking me, "So Elder Wheeler, when do I loose you?" A.k.a.
When do you go home? I replied by saying "hopefully never"...but it
didn't work. Ha We then talked about my release date and how it has been
changing lately because of my visa and transfer dates. So as of now, my
official release date is June 15th...which is a whole month early! My visa will
let me stay till July 15th, but transfers don't match up! I asked him about
extending my visa so I can stay a little bit longer...sorry mum...but he said
that if we extend it, I would need to stay until October or November just
because of how expensive it is to extend a visa, the Church would want me to
get the most out of it. But he said that would interrupt my plans for school in
the fall, so he said no...haha But all goods!
Well, back to the
work, so we spent as much time as we could this week teaching our investigators
and trying to find new people to teach! Well we taught heaps and I mean HEAPS
of investigators this week! And on top of that, we found 10 new investigators
to teach just this week alone! It was amazing. So to share a huge miracle that
happened, Elder Lawler about two weeks ago, while on exchanges with another
missionary, found another investigator to teach. His name is Deo Kumar and he
is from Nepal! haha Yes, another Nepalese investigator! Well they found and
taught him at the home of one of our investigators and so they wrote down the
address of his house! Well a day later, two weeks ago, we put the address into
our GPS and didn't find the street! We were SPEWING!!!! We tried everything and
still couldn't find his house. Well we of course were super sad, but moved on.
Yesterday, as we were driving to an appointment with some investigators of
ours, Elder Levaci pointed out a street sign with the same name as the address
we wrote down! We were so happy and couldn't believe the small tender mercy of
the Lord to actually find the street! But the miracles didn't stop there, when
we visited his house later last night, we didn't find him home, but we did find
10 of his family members home, all Nepalese, and so we taught them! They are
all Christian and were very welcoming to let us in and teach them! Only 6 of
them were above the age of 8 so Heavenly Father blessed us with 6 new
investigators! ha It was so amazing and we were so beyond grateful!
We now have an
assignment from President Vidmar to learn Nepalese! haha So funny huh? Come to
Australia with the calling to speak English, but then just in this area alone,
receive two assignments to learn Samoan and Nepalese! I love Australia!
haha
Well I hope all
of you are enjoying 2017! I know I sure am! I love and miss you all! Stay safe
and happy!
Love,
Elder Wheeler
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| Just your monthly picture for the Weber High School Alum Missionary Model Calender! haha |
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| MLC with the MTC district crew!!! |
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| Went to the wedding reception of our Elders Quorum President this past week! Look who has a VIP seat! |
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| President Tassie Metusela and his new wife Sasha! |
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| Yeah...it was kind of a big wedding reception...Samoans do not hold back...over 500+ in attendance! |
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