Week 6

Hello everybody!! I forgot to tell yall, but today was P-day. We had transfers this week, and P-day got bumped back to today!

This week has been sooo awesome though. So much progress and so much work to do and so many people to visit and so much food to eat and I can't believe a transfer is already over! PS- a transfer is just the name for a 6 week period of time. Every 6 weeks they send out a mass text with the names of the few elders and sisters being transferred and it's all super exciting! Because I'm still training, I get to stay at least another 6 weeks with elder Flynn :)

Lots to talk about!

We have a new investigator on date! Kohonna, and her son Dante. Both super cool people! To make a long cool story short, we happened to knock on their door a week after she had attended our ward without us noticing. They are both pretty solid and should be baptized on October 10th :)

Jolene and Trayston and Shaneel also should be baptized that day! Super excited, they're progressing really well :)

Mckenzie and Josh kind of hit a wall. They are living together, but have only been dating for about 2 months. I don't mean to sound insensitive about this, but I'm gonna put it really simply.  In order to get baptized, they need to either get married or move out, and they are really having a hard time with that. Which surprises me, because they have both shown some serious faith. Mckenzie started paying tithing before we even told her about it. Josh completely didn't notice a burning building, because he was so into reading the Book of Mormon just a few buildings away. These guys are so close, they know it's true! But every time we ask about the law of chastity they just get, bleh about it. Aaagh, it's so frustrating! These guys are the very first lesson I ever taught on my mission, and they and I have come so far together! You really do start to care a lot about the people you teach.

Funny story: so we went to Carl's jr for lunch on Thursday, ya know, because we were feeling fancy. As we walked out, we decided to talk to this tall guy with dreadlocks standing by the drive through. We asked him if he believed in Jesus Christ and this was his exact response.

"Oh yeah man I believe in the lord the savior the lord son of the God Jesus Savior the lord almighty savior God of the Son of the Lord Jesus Christ the lord!" Umm ok. We got in a few more questions before he cut us off, "Hey man I been here forever, imma go get high on somethin" umm ok. Haha

It's cooling down a ton! I think it only got above 100 degrees like twice this week :P

Our ward mission leader, brother Gerhart, wears the ugliest old man ties I've ever seen. He's very proud of his ugly old man ties. AND I GOT HIM TO TRADE ME ONE. now I'll always have something to remember him by. (I'll send pictures later) :D

On a more spiritual note...

Lots of things happen after 6 weeks on a mission. 

-you realize how much you don't know

-you realize how much you do know already

-you start to realize your strengths

-you start to realize that maybe, just maybe, you CAN do this for another 22 1/2 months

-you have said so many prayers, your knees hurt

These last 6 weeks have been really hard. I don't know how I would have done it without the strength and power I get from from prayer.  I love my Heavenly Father and my Savior Jesus Christ so much. Sooo much. The Atonement is so real. It's a topic that I feel like I could study every day for the rest of my life. It's so amazing, and it's so relevant to everything I do in life. I'm so grateful that I get to help others come to understand this for themselves. This church is incredible, and every day that I study and teach about it, my testimony gets that much stronger.

I hope you are all doing fantastic! The church is true!

-Elder Wheeler :)