THE GREATEST WEEK EVER!!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIANNA!!! I SAW MATTHEW!!!!!!!‏

Yeah, it was that amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The greatest moment of my entire mission definitely occured this Tuesday. It was transfers and I had to go to Lima to bring everyone back to Barranca. So that's when the magic/miracles/mercy begins.

We were supposed to get out of there pretty fast, but some things set us back. Some missionaries had to do some quick things and I had an important assignment to fulfill (Hermana Hillary Young, my cousin, had sent me dulce de leche from Argentina so I had to go by the offices) We have to take a bus to Barranca that takes 4 hours so we had to buy the tickets and they told us that the bus would be leaving in like 40 minutes. We then went to go eat at Burger King (so amazing) and got kind of late. We were gonna be fine, but the hermanas went before us to buy some donuts (yeah, I didn't partake of the goodness) and as we were trying to leave the mall (Plaza Norte) to get to the bus station next door they weren't with us.

So I was calling them and looking around and then I saw some white people on the escalator. I immediately knew they were missionaries, and knew they were from the North Mission. I didn't see Elder Matthew Young (my cousin) at first so I was just gonna tell them real quick to tell him hi and then it happened. I just froze and everything went into super slow motion, alright maybe not so dramatic, but it was still amazing. My brain analyzed everything and I wanted to run, but I didn't want to just wait for him at the bottom of the escalator so I waited until he got off and then I bolted. My companion must have thought I was crazy, but I was already gone.

I ran so fast and before he even knew what was happening I was giving Matthew the biggest hug of my life. I almost knocked him over, but he's taller than the average Peruvian I'm used to hugging.

I only got to talk for a couple of minutes because we were already late, but it was just so amazing. It was so cool how I just felt like I had seen him last week or something and it hadn't been over a year. I think that's what heaven is going to be like. It was just like all the amazing memories came back and the time apart didn't even count.

Well, he speaks really great Spanish and it was just great to hug him and take a picture. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be to leave because I know that next time I see him all the amazing memories will flood back again and it will be like we were never apart.

That was by far the most amazing experience of my entire mission and reminded me of the time I saw Elder Tanner Christensen in the temple. There really was no window of time for either experience, but I learned something cool. Heavenly Father never misses His window of opportunity and we all need to be ready to be able to make that window too.

So another cool experience this week was talking to a guy from Belgium. I saw the flag on his backpack and I thought it was from Germany so I tried out my more than rusty German on him and then he just answered me in English that it's the Belgium not German flag. That was more than a little embarassing, but I just rolled with it. We got to talking and it turns out some missionaries are actually teaching them in another area in the mission. His name is Chris and he's traveled all over the world. It was cool to run into him and I hope he continues to listen to the missionaries.

Another loco was we were talking to a less active guy and he told us about how he went to the temple before he was baptized and somehow he got in the line and ended up doing baptisms for the dead without being baptized. Welcome to Perú! I mean, that's just nuts, but I'm so glad God is in charge of those things and not me. I know it will all work out. Loco though.

About the temple again. I gave a little girl a pass along card with the Salt Lake Temple on it and she said ''A castle. A castle. A castle where God lives.'' (Un castillo, un catillo, un castillo donde vive Diocito). That was more true than she could ever know. I'm so grateful that the temple is the House of God.

My spiritual experience of the week was finding an awesome family just knocking thier door. I saw that they had elephants in the window and my sister loves elephants so that attracted my attention and then I saw that they had a Buddah too. I didn't knock that day, but then when I passed another day I felt it was time so I just knocked the door. I had been praying before and told God that I was talking with everyone and studying Preach My Gospel like Elder Ballard had said would double baptisms and I just wasn't seeing it yet. I told him I was trying my best and would just wait for the miracle. So when the hermano opened the door he was really receptive and we taught one of the most efficient lessons of my entire mission. Then we went back Sunday to teach them again (the mom and son) and they weren't there, but the dad and daughter with her husband were so we got to teach them. The son-in-law's mom is a member of the church and when we invited him to be baptized he said yes so quickly. It was an amazing experience and I'm so grateful that Heavenly Father trusts in us enough to bless us with an entire family.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIANNA!!! ¡¡¡FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS!!! I love you so much Brianna and hope you have the best birthday ever. Thanks for being my little sister and loving me. I love you all so much. Have tons of fun Oma, Opa, Mom, and Mariah in St. George.

Have the best week ever and know you are all in my prayers. Thanks for all of your love and support. And never forget that miracles do happen.

Love your miraculously blessed friend in Perú,

Elder Aaron Micah Wheatley

The greatest moment of my entire mission! It was a complete miracle. I love you Matthew (Elder Young)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We're Gonna Win!

Good times,

This week I got to go on a work visit with Elder Johnson, he's from Reno, Nevada, and is a totally cool guy. Well, we talked about a bunch of stuff, but the coolest was about this the final dispensation. It was cool how he talked about how much hope we can all have knowing that the Gospel of Jesus Christ will never again be taken from the earth. He said it must have been way depressing before to know that no matter how hard the prophets or other believers worked, that everything...EVERYTHING would be lost once again. I took a lot of hope from that and am so grateful that we were all ''saved for these latter-days''. It's so amazing to be serving alongside such amazing people.

We went to the beach last week and it was so so awesome. I took my frisbee and my football and just enjoyed the sand (minimal Peruvian garbage was nice too). I did some diving catches with the frisbee and I'm so excited to get out and play some Ultimate again.

A couple days this week I got to just walk and walk, talk and talk, knock and knock. It was cool to just give of my all even when it seemed like no one really wanted to listen. There were a couple of miracles that came later, but I'm grateful for a couple days where I had no evidence of my work because it makes me appreciate the other days so much.

My spiritual experience for the week was talking with Hermano M. He's the father of a family of less actives and he served a mission like 30 years ago. As I was talking to him I just felt like the words I was saying were given to me. I even recognized it while I was talking that it just flowed so perfectly. I didn't want to interrupt it though so I just kept opening my mouth. I wasn't condemning, but I didn't give him an escape either, well I guess that God didn't give him an escape.

I'm not the missionary that I need to be yet, but feeling the Spirit speak through me was something special and I know I am improving each and every day. It was so amazing to see that family come back to church. I told the father that our branch needs men who know how to honor the priesthood. Maybe he's not doing it now, but he's done it before so I told him I knew that he could do it again. That really hit me that God needs all of us even if we've strayed from the path. We've shown that we could do it before and God needs us again, and now. I gave him a big hug at church and he said he'll be coming again next week.

I know there are so many other people waiting for us to call them back to the fold too.  I'm grateful to be a part of this work. I don't know if I've felt like that before on the mission, but it was special to recognize the Spirit working through me in the very act. I was caught red handed.

I was just standing in a line yesterday to buy the bus ticket for my companion and something that Brother Osguthorpe (General President of the Sunday School) once told me about challenging his students to meet new people at BYU came to my mind.  He told us how one of them talked to everyone in a line waiting to buy books. Then I remembered Opa and how he talks to everyone he sees.  I looked around and there were a lot of people. I was going to talk to someone, but then he left. Then I turned around and before I could think twice I talked to the guy behind me in line. It turns out he's been invited by his friend who's a returned missionary and gone to church before. That was a really cool experience.  I want to thank Opa for his great example to me of talking with everyone. I'm seeing miracles as I open my mouth.

A couple times this week I had to sleep at the apartment of Elder Ortiz and Elder Castillo because my companion finished his mission today. Sleeping on the blow up mattress wasn't too bad and way worth fun times getting to know them.

Elder Garcia finished his mission today and I'm grateful I got to know him and learn so much from him. I'm excited for new experiences too. I was just thinking about how grateful I am for change and that sometimes we are even forced to change. I probably wouldn't choose to change if I was just left to myself so I'm grateful that God sends us curveballs every once in a while to help us keep learning and growing and to keep us attentive too. I'm grateful Heavenly Father sends us new people to learn from and to love (even learn to love) too. The mission is amazing.

A cute little Peruvian girl just helped pick up some things I had dropped. I'm gonna miss these kids so much. I love Peru.

You are all in my prayers. Thanks for your amazing examples. Have the best week ever!

Con amor, su amigo fiel,

Elder Aaron Micah Wheatley

I Can't Believe It!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys,

I can hardly believe that Jacob Jespersen is already home. I remember chilling in his front room after he was set apart and just thinking about when I was going to be able to come on the mission. These 2 years have just flown on by and I love that man so much. I love all you brethren and sistren out serving the Lord too. Thank you all for being such great examples to me.

I forgot to write last week about my interview with President. My temple recommend expired at the end of April so I needed to get a new one. So when I was in Lima I asked him for an interview and it was so awesome. It was just so special to be able to answer those questions being a missionary and not even waver for half a second. I teach those things everyday and it was just so amazing to be able to say that I consider myself worthy to enter the temple, the House of God.

My spiritual experience of the week was definitely the baptism of Piero and his little brother Luiggi. Their dad, Roberto, was able to baptized them and then Sunday confirm them members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was so special to see a family united by the gospel. Both their parents are members, but were inactive for so many years. We have been helping them as a family come back and enter the path as a family. I love that family so much and it was just so amazing to see a dad who a couple weeks or months ago wasn't even thinking about going to church, who now could exercise his priesthood and bless his family forever. The branch is really helping them too and I'm so excited for them to be able to go to the temple and be sealed as a family. I gave them all big hugs and hope I'll be able to come back and give the mom a hug someday. I know those two boys can be great missionaries someday and it was just so amazing to be able to be a part of blessing an entire family. I'm so grateful Heavenly Father allowed me to be here at this time to come to know and love the family Aquino.

I have been really digging up all the good stuff in my studies of the scriptures. I had been reading some scriptures in Doctrine and Covenants 58 earlier, but then a footnote sent me there and I loved D&C 58:41. I know that Heavenly Father loves us so much, but He also wants us to be better and that scripture really hit me. These men were so great, but still had to repent and I'm so grateful that I can repent daily too.

I felt grateful more than ever for my pioneer heritage and for the amazing examples I have been blessed with my entire life. Thank you friends and family, because friends are family too, and family are the best friends we have.

I found an old Liahona and loved the talk ''I Love Noisy Boys''. I think that's what it's called in English. It's a good reminder to look at the eternal in each and every one of us. Thanks again for helping me grow up right, far from perfect, but I'm working on it.

I'm so ready for this week and I'm gonna keep giving it my all. It was so awesome to mow the church lawn, even if it was just for a couple of seconds. I'm so excited to do yard work at home. Love you all so much.

You're all in my prayers. And for those of you doing finals, I'll be praying a little extra for you too.

Love your best friend forever and always,

Elder Aaron Micah Wheatley

 

 

 

Mowing the lawn never felt so good, the grounds keeper guy at the church let me have a go.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a beautiful family.

 

GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!! SO READY!!!!!!!‏

The spiritual experience of the week was definitely General Conference. I forget really quickly the things I have heard so I need to study it a lot more, but the feelings I felt stay with me for a long time and I thought about how investigators probably feel the same and how I can relate to them better now. I shared that with an investigator last night and it just hit me how important it is to feel the Spirit. It doesn't matter so much what people (or I) say, but what everyone feels.  I'm so grateful we can enjoy such an amazing feeling during General Conference as the Spirit speaks to our spirit. It was amazing yesterday too because a joven who went on the mission but came back for medical reasons a year ago took his first steps inside the church in almost a year. I know he felt so much and we're not going to let him escape again.

A part from my letter to President.

My family,

 

General Conference was just about the coolest thing that has happened in this century. I mean, I was just soaking it all in and loving every minute of it. I got a little of it in English, but then I realized that this is my last time in Perú so I gloried in the Spanishness for Priesthood and the two sessions on Sunday. It was so amazing and I am so grateful that we can listen to a prophets voice in our day. I feel so extremely blessed.

 

We had an amazing leadership counsel last week. I don't know why, but usually I just don't feel it so much and hearing all of my friends write about their awesome experiences in leadership counsel made me wonder why I wasn't feeling the same. Well, I prayed extra hard that I would be humble and could learn this week and it was amazing. Presidente Archibald talked about how we need to focus on repentance because like it says in 3 Nephi 7:24 if these people repent, then they will be baptized. We talked a lot about what repentance really is and I'll try to send some awesome papers he gave us to you guys next week. I've been trying to apply it in my work and it's been helping a lot. The people here have so much faith, they have ''believing blood'', but we need to help them repent.

 

Our branch mission leader is super cool. He's kind of an older guy and is just so happy to help us with whatever we ask him. He has a habit of saying ''parece mentira'' (it seems like a lie) before a lot of his sentences so this week he said ''it seems like a lie, but God loves us''. Man, that was so hard not to just bust out laughing in the middle of the lesson. I love him so much though and am grateful for his help.

 

Oh yeah, so we were just walking this week and I saw a guy with a football jersey on. Then I noticed that it was some nice colors (blue and gold) and then on the back it said FAULK and there was no way that we were going to pass him up. Yep, it was a genuine (genuine fake that is) Marshall Faulk #28 from the St. Louis Rams. That was amazing in and of itself, but then it turns out that he and his dad have actually gone to church before. They didn't make it to Conference, but you can rest assured that we'll be visiting them this week.

 

Sorry I don't have much more time. I just wanted to say that I loved Elder M. Russell Ballard's talk so much. I've been really trying my whole mission to stay low on the preaching and committing my family and friends, but I felt like his talk was just too special. He challenged us all to invite one person every 3 months to listen to the missionaries. A lot of excuses came to my mind, but then I realized he's a prophet of God. I know it's maybe not so easy in Utah, or anywhere else (there are always excuses), but I want to invite you all to follow a living prophet of God. We're gonna have to think outside of the box and try some new things out, but that's why we were born. ''A prophet of God has spoken and I must obey'' is what I wrote in my notes, I hope you can all take the time to say a prayer. I know that God will tell you who you should talk with.

 

I loved Conference so much and missed you all more than I can even say. Enjoy the last little bit of school and give it your all. I'm really feeling the urgency in my mission and am trying to give more than I've ever given before. We're going to have a baptism this week of the two kids of a less active couple and the dad is going to baptize them. I'm so excited and it's so amazing to help a whole family come back to Christ. They all went to Conference and are doing what they need to come closer to Christ. I feel so blessed to be a part of this great work.

 

Thanks for all of your amazing examples to me. I wouldn't be anything without my family (friends are family too). You are all constantly in my prayers. Have the best week ever!!!!!!!!!!!!! And go share the gospel, I'll be doing it with you all before we even know it.

 

And one more thing. I don't know if I've ever really asked for advice before, but the more I learn, the more I realize I have so much more to learn. Any advice on how to give it my all here in the mission would be greatly appreciated from any source. I'm doing great and loving it, but I want to be better. Please just let me know what I can do, any advice is appreciated.

 

I love you all more than I could ever say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Tupananchiscama (until we see each other in Quechua-a native language of Perú) LOVE YOU,

 

Elder Aaron Micah Wheatley

 

Giving Service

Good 'ol Guinea Pig!

 

Coolness

So good,

Well, I didn't write a single thing down this week to share with all of you so this is gonna be different.

A couple cool things that happened this week are that I finally started to write in my journal again. I've been really lacking because at night I always think about writing or whether I should try to be at least a little obedient and get to bed. This whole zone leader thing really does take time.  (We are off to Lima a little later today for the leaders meeting tomorrow.)  It's a crazy, but awesome life.  I'm so grateful for all I'm learning too. Well, I was talking with my companion and he asked why us (North Americans) usually write in journals. I explained that before the mission I wrote for like 3 years, but had stopped out here on the mission. So then I talked about how I always did it for my future wife and children. Then I was brushing my teeth and I just decided to do it. Now I'm even a little less going to bed on time, but I know my family will be grateful that I'm writing. I'm just going to try to do all that I need to faster so I can get some more sleep.

I love Sundays here in Barranca. I used to just feel really disappointed because so many people would tell us they would come and then wouldn't ever make it, but I feel really different here. I'm loving it and just feel there are so many people ready to hear our message. And even though it's a branch, it's just really fun. There are still kids running all over the place and screaming, but I'm learning to help instead of just complain. The members here are really cool too and I love them.

We had an awesome family night last night in the house of a member and a bunch of less actives came that we invited. There were like 36 people which is almost half of the people that go to church so that was pretty cool. It was really fun. I just feel really close to these people in such a short time. I'm learning how to be a better missionary and am loving this time more than ever.

Life is just really good. I'm enjoying the greenness and feel like I am becoming a much better person too. I am so grateful for the mission and for all of the changes that God is making in me.

An extract from my letter to President.

My spiritual experience of the week was when the hermanas from Jardines called us to please help them with their baptism. The girl (who is the daughter of the branch president) is terrified of the water and no one really knows why. We tried to help her, but she just wouldn't do it. We talked with the branch president and he said there was another girl that was baptized, but her record wasn't made and she didn't want to do it again. We talked with her to see if she would do it to show the other girl that baptism isn't scary and that got her. Before she just didn't want to be baptized again, but then she thought about helping someone else so she was willing. We had the interview right then and it was a really cool moment to know we were exactly where we needed to be exactly when we needed to be there. The next day she was baptized and even though the branch president's daughter entered the water, she still refused to do it. It was a special experience to know that we helped a daughter of God (who is more than active in the church and her mom too) be baptized.

I'm so excited for General Conference this week. It's my favorite two weekends of the year and I am so ready to hear the words of living prophets. I am going to be thinking about all of you when I'm watching Conference and hope you can all feel of my love. I'm really looking forward to watching it with the family when I get home and of course the monkey bread. For real though, that stuff is heavenly.  Thanks for teaching me to love Conference and always making it such a special time.

We have met some really cool people here in Barranca and I'll tell you about them next week. Sorry I didn't write down more things. I feel super bad, but it's gonna be even better next week. Enjoy the pictures. Honest Abe just made me laugh and my companion thought I was weird for taking the picture, but I loved it.

I'm almost done with the Isaiah chapters in 2 Nephi.  They are so amazing. There's so much to learn and I'm enjoying everyday.

Have the best week ever and know you are all in my thoughts and prayers. I love you all more than I could ever say. Enjoy General Conference and just keep being amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love your happy as ever, life loving, best friend forever,

Elder Aaron Micah Wheatley

P.S. from Dayna -- 

Yep, I found Honest Abe just chilling in Barranca. He looks so peaceful, what a man!

And a view of my area, we're getting greener!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bucket Showers

Yep folks, I'm still taking my showers out of the bucket. The lady said she was going to send someone over today to get it all worked out, but let me just say...taking bucket showers was not on my bucket list. It sure is a fun experience from the mission though.

We went to The White Christ last week and it was super cool. I hope you like the photos and I'll definitely be taking a return trip before I leave Barranca.

I also walked right through a graveyard in the pitch black this week and that was just a tad bit scary. I was on a work visit though, so I acted like a man. It was really cool there though because there aren't any lights and the stars were so bright. I mean, in Lima you can't even see the stars sometimes so I was really happy. 

I also went on a cool work visit to a place called Pativilca this week and that was just beyond this world. The drive out there we cross a river and there aren't lights and I just stuck my head out the window and felt like I was driving down Provo Canyon. It was one of the most glorious moments of my entire mission and I'm looking forward to doing it again. Traveling at night is just so awesome!

I got to see Elder Poole this week (my MTC companion) and it was so cool to talk with him. We've both come so far as this mission just flies on by. I also saw Elder Brimley who was my companion for like 2 weeks at the beginning of my mission in Faucett and he just radiates happiness. They are both total studs.

I got to talk with another elder about one of my old areas (Los Rosales) and he told me that Josafat is going strong. He's an awesome kid I was blessed with the opportunity to teach and baptize a year ago and he's preparing to go on a mission now. He's the guy that read the whole Book of Mormon before his baptism.  I love him so much. I'm so excited for him.

I was thinking this week about how I used to say when people would ask me how Mariah was doing that she was happy on her mission and that there were hard times, but she knew they would come when she signed up to be a missionary. I know now a little better what those hard times are like, but then I thought a little more and it hit me. Living the gospel is the exact same. When we follow Christ we can't expect it will all be perfect, but it will be better and I'm gonna stay on the path. Thanks for all being great examples to me of doing the same.

We met a cool guy named Isaias this week and I'll tell you more about him next week.

I loved brother Elder Andrew Woodruff's letter last week about how he hasn't seen as many ''visual fruits'' as he would hope for on his mission, but how he is still so grateful. I feel the same and am so grateful for the support of all my brethren and sistren out on the missions.

Thanks for letting me know about Oma. She'll be in my prayers extra this week and I know it'll all work out fine.

Oh yeah, and let me know about Jamie and Joseph too. I would love to know what your plans are guys. The mission is the greatest ever so come on out here. That's for everyone else too. I love the mission!

That's crazy about Perry. I'll be praying for him extra this week and EmmaLee too. I hope he can recover quickly from his surgery. I can't believe that so many cousins are out on the mission at the same time.

In answer to your question, a typical day is walking a bunch and teaching a couple lessons, but lots of walking and talking still. My apartment is alright, it has tile floor so that's nice, but not enough water to shower so we're working on that this week with the owner. About our mamacitas -- Yep, in the whole mission someone cooks lunch for all the missionaries, but we do breakfast and dinner.

I love you all so much and hope you have the best week ever!

Love your pal in Perú and buddy in Barranca,

Elder Aaron Micah Wheatley

Elder Garcia and I

My District

An awesome statue of Jesus out on the beach in Barranca.

My Zone

CORN, real corn. It's GREEN!!

A lovely hillside in front of the ocean.  (Wow, so pretty and I'm actually sitting on grass!!!!!!!!!)

A cool sheep I wanted to show you while we were doing service. 

Barranca!!!!!!

Hey guys,

Yep, that's right. I'm up here just chilling in my new area called Barranca. It's like a port city, kind of like Huacho where I used to serve, but a little smaller. It's super awesome though and I'm loving it so much. There's actually a fair amount of green and I almost fainted when we went down a road lined with trees and corn fields. I'M SO HAPPY!!!!!! Really it's just amazing to be doing the Lord's work, but it's even that much cooler here in Barranca. 

I'm in a branch for the first time in my mission, but there are more people that go to church than some of the wards I served in so that's cool. Not that there are so many people, but I was in some wards that shouldn't have really been wards...welcome to Perú.

The people here are really cool too. I just feel that they are so ready to hear the message. I feel so blessed to be here and am going to give it my all. The members here are pretty cool too and we had an awesome family night last night with like 20 people and had fun playing games and everything. I just feel so ready to go out and conquer the world. We're bringing back the elephants.

About Los Próceres in Los Olivos. I'm gonna miss that ward so much and all the amazing people that I got to meet there. We had a really special family night where two of the coolest families (the Santiagos and the Leons) and a couple of other people came and just said all sorts of nice things about me. I really haven't heard stuff like that in a really long time and it touched me a lot. When I thanked them all I started crying because I realized something. When I opened my mission call I couldn't say where I was going because I was crying and my mom just kept asking me where. I tried, but it wouldn't come out. I felt such a deep love for the Peruvian people even though I didn't know them. Well, when I was talking last week I realized that I was crying for those people for the family Santiago and the family Leon. They among lots of other people are the reason I cried. I didn't know them here in the earth, but my spirit definitely knew them and I'm so grateful that I came here to Perú where I have been so blessed to come to love so many people.

Things were kind of crazy this week and we're getting into the swing of things with my companion Elder Garcia. He's from Cuzco and is a really cool guy. We've got some great investigators and are helping a lot of less actives come back to the church. There was a really cool guy that went yesterday named Roberto and we're gonna help him. He has a great testimony, but needs to work on his conversion obviously because he's not going to church. He wants to do what's right though and just be expecting some miracle stories for next week.

My spiritual experience for the week was definitely yesterday. We had a noche de hogar and the family had assigned me to give the message. The branch president had told us that we were going to talk in sacrament meeting, but then said it was for the Relief Society so I had prepared something and felt like I could share that in the noche de hogar. There were quite a few investigators that went to the noche de hogar and it was special to feel the Spirit. I talked about how in this life there are trials for all of us and we can decide how we take them. We can ask God to take them out of our lives, or we can ask Him to give us strength, faith, and patience to be able to make it through. I've learned that so many times in my life, but last night was extra special and I know it's what God wanted me to talk about. It was cool because I was kind of bummed that I didn't get to give my talk, but then it turned out even better in the noche de hogar.

I was reading in the scriptures and somehow ended up in John 9 this morning and that chapter is so awesome. A gem if I say so myself. You should all go check it out. That blind man sure had faith and I want to be like him.

Thanks for all of your great examples. I love the mission so much and am praying for all of you everyday. Have the best week ever!!!!!!!

Love your friend in the land of green (as green as it gets),

Elder Aaron Micah Wheatley

ps. We don't have running water so I've been showering from a bucket this week. It's cool and cold at the same time. Gotta love it!!!!!!!!

Throwing the 'ol pig skin around -- what a nice break on P-day

Just chillin' in the park

Lovin' the BBQ sauce

Service Project -- moving bricks up the human chain

Carrying heavy buckets up the hill. SO COOL!!!!!!!That's something special in Perú.

Don't know what's up with my eyes but it was YUMMY Pizza

My family in Peru -- I'm going to miss them!

Here's Barranca -- Car ride with actual greenery outside

MORE GREEN!!!!!!!

Eating some crab -- good stuff.