April 9, 2017
Dear Family and
Friends,
So this past week
was a great one for my companions and me and we were able to get a lot of
finding in! We are just trying our best to find people to teach in our area and
we have had little success, but are keeping our spirits high and our work
effort even higher! We did a lot of cool stuff this past week and so I will
inform you about all of it! On Monday, last week, after we emailed home, our
Ward Mission Leader, Brother Scanlan, decided to take us to COSTCO to do our
shopping! They have 3 Costco’s here in Melbourne and the surrounding areas and
it is such a great blessing to have one in our area! Well, long story short, we
spent a lot of money on a lot of things. Both the ones that we needed and the
ones that we wanted! Elder Watanabe told
us as we were leaving the store with our piled high shopping trolley, that he
was learning a lot about "American Culture", cause we just bought a
lot of stuff! Haha. He is such a crack up!
We were called
this past week to go help clean the Melbourne Temple because we are so close to
it! It has been closed for the past two weeks for the yearly cleaning time and
we were so lucky and privileged to be able to help out! Well, it doesn't end there...we
were talking with the cleaning coordinator for the temple and Elder Wiser
decided to ask him if they ever cleaned the Angel Moroni on the top of the
temple. The guy said that they do and asked us if we wanted to do it...so of
course we said yes! They only clean Angel Moroni once a year and we were the
lucky few to be able to do it! Basically we had to climb up the stair well to
the roof of the temple, then free climb our way up to the bottom of the spire,
while dragging a power washer up with us, and then attach a 30-foot long brush
to the machine! It was so cool and so much fun, and also a little scary! But
overall, it was such a cool experience being able to clean the spire of the
temple and the Angel Moroni up on top!
We had a really
fun zone p-day today and spent the morning going on a hike to Olinda Falls in
the pouring rain...haha Melbourne winter...and then went to a roller skating
rink! Overall it was a lot of fun and my legs are really tired!
I don't have a
lot of time, but I just wanted to put in a little message of my thoughts from
General Conference this past week! I LOVED IT SO MUCH AND IT WAS SO GOOD! I
love hearing from the Prophet and the Apostles! I learnt so much great things
from their words and from the Spirit! I can't pick a favorite, but I loved how
the whole conference was so basic with the messages that were shared! There was
not a lot of deep doctrine, but there were a lot of the foundation principles
that we believe in and I thought that was so good! I love how we can hear what our
Father in Heaven wants us to do and how we can improve our lives through His
gospel! Overall, I have a lot, and I mean A LOT to work on and A LOT more
things to focus my studies on! I love the scriptures, I love this gospel, and I
love my Father in Heaven and His son and my Savior, Jesus Christ! I love and
miss you all and hope that you have a great week!
Love always,
Elder Wheeler
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| Beautiful Costco! |
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Exchanges with the Assistants! All of us came into
the mission together! The time has gone by so fast! |
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| On the top of the Melbourne Temple!!! |
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| Just doing some cleaning on the spire!! |
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| Up and up we go!!! |
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| Giving Angel Moroni a good clean!!! |
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| The zone after our wet and fun hike! |
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| Just some roller blading on our P-day! |
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| You already know that Elder Wiser and I went hard! haha |
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| Okay, one last one before we go! |
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