Dear Family and Friends,
So this week was Crazy busy! Monday night we stayed at the Inlet View
sisters apartment (same apartment I was trained in); then made it to the mission
home to sneak downstairs by 8:45 so the trainees wouldn't see us. Their training
went longer so they didn't even get downstairs until 11/ 11:30 to meet us and
then we found out who would be our companions. My companion is Sister
Hart! Sister Hart is from Holladay, Utah. She is 19 and has been studying at
UVU.
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| Sister Hart and I |
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| We were able to attend the Temple together. |
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| Temple Windows |
It is SO hot in Fairbanks- Even Sister Hart says it is and she was just in
SLC and Provo. We figured out a little more about why this week. Someone told us
it's because the sun is closer up here and never really gets over head, just
that it keeps going around the sky (i can't remember the terms). We have seen a
ton of thermometers say 100 or over 100, and it's just in the 80s (it will be
90s or more this week i hear), but I really think it's because thermometers can't
handle the temperature range up here... -60 to 100 Fahrenheit is bound to break
some thermometers because we HAVEN'T seen 100 yet.
SUMMER SOLSTICE IS THIS WEEK! The Sun will be out for 24 hours!!! They have
solstice activities up here and we probably can't go to it, but I will try to
get a picture of how bright it is outside.
Now that I have talked about the weather for the last two paragraphs, this
week went well. A lot of cancelled appointments, but we are laying the ground
work in other ways in the branch, especially because now we only have 4th Branch
to focus on.
We went to the memorial service for (a sister who we had been teaching, her) Dad (who was killed by a bear) on Friday. The day before we left some white chocolate on her doorstep, so that
whenever she got there, there would be a note and her favorite chocolate-- we got
a text the night of the service late that she got it and that they were her
favorites. I just keep feeling her dad knows the improvement she is making and
is so proud of her- he keeps watching out for her and I feel like I know him
through all of the seeds he has planted of good. They will be together again one
day, and even though tragedy has struck their family again, the legacy they have
within their family is to be carried on, not mourned over. They are so
wonderful! I even felt that when we were in the temple on Tuesday. He is at
peace, and he is watching over his family. A lot was talked about in the service
about how he was a man who was happy to be in the back woods, how he flew over
the pipeline in his "jet pack" paragliding and how he never seemed to want to
bring much attention to himself, and the irony is that the room was packed, his
death was broadcast across the country and there were so many he helped. In his
life, he did so much, and we can if we decide to as well. We can love as deeply,
and show that love through serving those around us.
Since, it's Sister Hart's first week, we have been introducing her to a lot
of people. At a dinner, (a member) made sure EVERYTHING was GREEN! Since
we shouldn't be calling her a greenie, we didn't, but being a new missionary and
it is her first dinner! They made the alfredo sauce GREEN and she made sure we
didn't know until she served it! Then broccoli and mint ice cream. We were
laughing the whole dinner, and telling stories and got to close with a
message.
I found out an investigator I taught in Turnagain got
baptized two weeks ago!!! That was so exciting! I heard it from (a member), who we
used to bring to lessons with him and others- she is in the YSA ward down there
and I got to see her at the temple when we went!
I had a brilliant idea this week! If you have ever seen the Mormon Message
'Earthly Father, Heavenly Father', then you know the music is catchy, any it being
my favorite, it's stuck in my head a lot. I think that they need to make a
missionary version of that for fun, completely an inside joke, but when that
idea came into mind, I am determined to get it going with someone! Sister Hart
had a brilliant idea this week too. They need to make a Mosquito man. They
already have a spider man character. That would be funny. (Link to Mormon Messages: http://www.lds.org/pages/mormon-messages#earthly-father-heavenly-father)
We had a really great sacrament meeting yesterday, with another farewell--
(a sister)-- and the Elders Quorum spoke. Much of it was on Family History and
Perfecting the Saints. The Elders Quorum President got up and told a story of
someone who got up to give a talk and just sat there for a LONG awkward time,
and when that silence was finished he said that what they said is "You've been
waiting for me to speak for all this time. How long have your ancestors been
waiting for you to do your family history. in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."
If that doesn't put the point across, I don't know what else does!
HAPPY FATHERS DAY YESTERDAY DAD!!!!
DON'T MISS OUT ON THE LIVE BROADCAST ON JUNE 23!!!! (www.lds.org)
Love,
Sister Wuehler
scripture: Helaman 12:1, Ether 12:4,27, 2 Nephi 4
ism: "infants are just sucking vortexes of need. Yet we can't help but love
them even though they haven't done anything to deserve our love." -the stake
president while speaking at the memorial service (he seems to always make it
onto these quotes- he always says things in a way everyone can understand)
"Most of the time it's not a question of what is right and wrong. It is all
about what is better and what is best"
If we are obedient, we will see the blessings
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