This week was one of the craziest and
most stressful of my mission, but the good news is that it's over.
That's what's so cool about the mission. I can leave that all behind me
now and just have the best week this week.
Sorry it's been a long time, but Happy Birthday
shout out to Matthew tomorrow (so cool to be so close to him) and
Katherine on Sunday. I hope you both have the best birthdays ever.
I was reading the letter from Hillary and I feel exactly the same.
We are working so hard on getting people here to do the little things
like family scripture and prayer and family home evening. I am just so
grateful for our family and that we did the little things. It means so
much to me now and I know I wasn't always so happy to participate, but
thanks Mom and Dad for helping us make that habit early on and for just
being consistent and constant. I always tell people that it doesn't
matter how much you read, just as long as you do it daily. I think
they're starting to catch the vision and like Hillary, I just feel so
blessed to come from such an amazing family that took time to do the
little things that really count.
I went on a cool work visit this week where this
lady decided to tell us her whole life story. Like ALL her life. Way too
many details to keep it brief. Well, we had a cool lesson about
repentance and her son decided to be baptized last Saturday. I told him
''who are we to say we're not ready or worthy? if God has said we are,
then we are.'' That thought came to my mind first and I just felt the
Spirit telling me it's the truth in my life too. I got to interview the
boy and it was so cool. He didn't know if President Thomas S. Monson was
a prophet so I invited him to kneel down right there during the
interview and to ask. He did it and just said he felt peaceful and now
had a testimony. That was such a cool experience and he's such a great
guy.
We also taught a family about the Sabbath day and the wife just looked at her husband and said ''you know what, we've been
missing something, we're not gonna work on Sundays anymore'' before we
even really explained it. That was so cool. Well, she went to church
yesterday but he didn't so half cool, but we're on our way. Welcome to
the mission.
I saw a guy walking down the street the other day
and he was wearing a Utah Jazz jersey. Then I saw that it was number 32
and I was like, that is too cool. He passed by and I wanted
to stop him and just buy his jersey or something, alright I was gonna
contact him, but my companion wasn't as tantalized or intrigued by the
fact a guy in Lima was wearing a Utah Jazz jersey so he just kept on
walking. Oh well, maybe he's a member anyway. Next time I'm just gonna
ditch my companion though. I guess we'll see.
Alright, now for the lowlight of my week. There's this investigator that says he wants
1000 friends, but doesn't really want to be friends with God. Okay,
maybe not so drastic, but he just wants us to pass by everyday and
doesn't really want anything else, I think he's just a super lonely old
guy. He called us on Saturday and told us to come by his house. We had
like 20 minutes and wanted to pass by to drop him once and for all.
Well, that totally backfired. It was his birthday and it was super
uncomfortable. We told him we only had 20 minutes, but he wanted us to
sit down and eat and he's just kind of creepy now.
So finally we accepted a piece of cake. I was
kind of scared but took one
bite and it was chocolate. Then I was suspicious and took another bite
and another and then didn't feel so good. I thought it was coffee, but
was in such a hurry to get out of there that I didn't want to ask. I
couldn't see another alternative so I downed it as fast as I could. I
felt really bad afterwards because, well, I should have asked.
It was so disgusting and now I'm never EVER going back to that house. It
was funny because for anyone else I would have said it didn't matter,
but I felt bad. I told President and he just said God understands the
circumstances, so now I'm fine. But for real, it was so disgusting. I
wanted to run, so next time I'm gonna pull a Joseph in Egypt, 100%. The
rest of the day my body
was all sorts of crazy. DON'T EAT OR DRINK OR ANYTHING WITH COFFEE. My
testimony of the Word of Wisdom was strengthened though, that's the good
news.
I was also thinking about Uncle Ray and Aunt Sharon
this week. Please tell them once again thanks for the fun time in
Washington and please tell the whole family how much I love them.
The work keeps moving along. A real quick story I wrote to President.
A
great spiritual experience happened yesterday as we went to meet with a
less active. She has been going to church for 4
weeks straight and we've tried to visit her several times now. She was
there and so was her husband, who is also super inactive, and her
grandson was there with his mom. We were talking and I just felt I
needed to share some scriptures, specifically Doctrine and Covenants
64:9-10 and also Matthew 7:1-5. I felt the Spirit as I testified and
explained the words that were said by our Savior. Then Hermana M.
said it was an answer from God. Earlier while she was washing dishes
that scripture had come to her mind and me sharing it with her was a
confirmation that it's what she needs to do. It's what we all need to do
and so we met 2 new investigators who are part of a more than less
active family and we all felt the Spirit. I felt so good, just like I
was in the perfect place at the perfect time and there was nothing more
important for me to be doing. I'm so grateful God can guide us all. We're going to reactivate the whole family and baptize those 2 people
(Elva and Alonzo). I know God will help us every step of the way.
Have the best week ever and know you are all
in my thoughts and prayers. I love you more than I could ever say.
Thanks for all of your love support and prayers.
Love your repentant sinner and best friend forever,
Elder Aaron Micah Wheatley
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