Gary is doing so amazing he is absolutely loving his mission and I am so amazed how good he is at writing emails, it is so fun to here about all he is doing.
Such a great week even though we didn`t do a ton we went on blitzes wednesday which was awesome. Me and my companion elder teeples we saw a lemonade stand and he really wanted to stop by so we did and it was pretty hot that day im not gonna lie. Like i would lie anyways haha im a missionary. But the lemonade was glorious and only 25 cents too, made my whole day. We were talking to the girls running the stand they had just gotten out of school for the summer and their grandma was sitting on her porch. We ended up teaching the grandma and became very well acquainted with her we actually gave her the servey on families and it ties into the gospel and we taught her about the restoration but she was pretty content about her religion. Said she was happy and she wished us good luck and we said our goodbyes and were on our way. We met another guy from utah or he was familiar with utah anyways but it was so good to hear from someone that shared the same love for utah that i had he was way cool his name was mike. He said he loved utah the mountains and everything and then he said he hadn`t been down to moab or southern utah and i was like oh man you have not lived!!!!! I said something along the lines of. If you think your knowledge of what you have seen of utah is beautiful you need to travel to southern utah just stunning. Made me miss it alot and i mean aaaallllllooooootttttt!!!!!!
So a really funny story about friday so we were on companion exchanges i was with elder higgins just for the day well i guess he slept over but anyways. We were at this investigators house his name is brian and we were sharing scriptures because we had planned for a long lesson about the plan of salvation. But he said we could only come over for like 20 minutes it ended up being over an hour. So were sharing scriptures right about how the spirit speaks to you and holy hannah i could not believe it we were reading a scripture about jesus in revelations. And all of a sudden just BAM a bird slams into the window and i was thinking to myself what the??? Brian jumps up and starts shouting its jesus its jesus we start laughing our heads off it was so stinkin hilarious. Definitely could not have been timed more perfect. It was so funny the week before when we met with him his wife was there with us. I hope i didn`t tell this story already but, when we started teaching, this little girl pops up out of no where and were having our lesson outside to give you a little more perspective. She starts saying in her funny little voice, "SSSHHHH Be quiet there`s a witch that just moved in that house up stairs. She was referring to brians ex wife and i don`t know if the little girl realized but she was sitting right there with us. I honestly thought she was posessed or something, really weird though it scared the crap out of us because literally she came out of no where. Afterwards we were laughing though because the ex wife said that she knew the little girl was referring to her. She said it was her next door neighbors who told the little girl to say it but it was very rude i thought!
Family and friends im so thankful for all the letters and packages and emails you have sent they made me so happy i just love hearing of whats going on at home. And no it does not make me home sick when you talk about all of the cool stuff that is going on i just simply love it. I just have to say KEEP IT UP!!! I hope everyone is doing great cause i know i am. Sounds like a ton of work is going on at home i just wish i could be there to help makes me kind of jealous. I cant believe brandon got a truck that is so awesome and the fact that you let him dad that just tells us how great of a father you are to your children. Not fully though don`t be getting puffed up dad. Is brandon selling his touareg then i sure hope not i love that car. The yard is looking so great dad i truly have to say im proud of you and your hard work i hope its worth it to you. Sorry to hear that the deer ate your plants haha whats new right... Your going to have to install a 20 foot fence along that if you want some sure security maybe get a guard dog thats what i would do. good luck though with whatever it is you do. Keep working on that front yard though i did my best to help you out before i left i expect it to be done by the time im home. Just kidding but try your best to work on it don`t break your back though that would not be good. Im going to try to send you all hand written letters this week oh wow thats a lot of writing im gonna have this week pray extra hard for me alright so that i may be able cause i really want to! PS i only write you letters if you write me letters unless if your special just know that! :b Hope you all had an amazing fourth of july mine was rather interesting to say the least! good to hear your getting rid of some of those fish tanks because you have about ten to many good stuff though for sure. Great to hear the women of the house are working hard i cant believe it got up over 100 though that must have been brutal. I hope its been cooling off a bit in bountiful. Every thing you sent me this last week was awesome mom especially those bubbles they were weird but super cool looked like they were made of some type of plastic. Thanks for the candy that made me so happy you know me too well!!! :) I hope kaitlin and makenzie are doing well i miss them so much it was funny this week when we were on exchanges when i was with elder higgins he was asking me if he could write makenzie it made me chuckle because i realized she`s not a little girl anymore she can stinkin date now im wowed by all the life events that are taking place even just this short month that i`ve been out. oh and before i become an even more horrible brother and forget again happy birthday zach and kenzie i hope they are and were awesome and silly and amazing and much much more cause you deserve them. By the way how is jared and brandon doing not to mention josh and jessica geeze how is everyone doing i want to know hehehe i miss you all so much i feel like im so close yet so far away! I want you all to know i think about you every day and some even more than that. I have to say to those who are able prepare for a MISSION it is so awesome i don`t know that i ever want to come home the work is definitely addicting. So prepare now you will be so happy you did it will prepare you to be the best father or mother you can be i have already learned that being only one month in. Its funny i say that like its been a long time but i feel like its been a few short minutes since you dropped me at the curb and said your goodbyes. I am not even kidding you i just hope i dont blink because before i know it i`ll be greeting you at the airport. hahaha But i challenge each of you who aren`t already make the savior the center of your life he will help you for he knows you better than you do. You will be humbled and feel of that love he has for you especially as you pray to him as often as you can and read the Book Of Mormon i know this for a fact. And yes dad i have thought alot about what i will be doing when my mission is over you don`t need to worry about that. Just keep yourselves worthy to enter the temple always it will be a sanctuary for you where you know satan`s influences can not be. Please try to go at least once a week if not once a month you are very lucky to live near a temple its unreal how lucky you are i miss the temple so so much. So please just strive your best to be there!!!!!! :D I love you all to the stars and back and back and even more than that. WoW i guess im a poet and i didn`t know it. hahahahaha Love you all more than you know, keep smiling!!!! :D til next time :)
This is Gary's first companion when he got to Escanaba Michigan
This is Elder Gary Wheeler and Elder Wheeler, no relationship, but how fun.
