Hey y'all, It's been another great week in Valdosta. I love serving here. I'm excited to be able to serve another transfer in this great area! So much is happening. It's going to be an awesome transfer. So I had Boiled Peanuts, cracked them, and put them in a bowl so I could do weekly planning. It was great! I made brownies this last week with almonds. They were amazing! Thanks Aubrey! We were knocking and we found the perfect pine cone so we took a pic of it and with it! This last week we had a trunk or treat with the ward. So we decorated our trunk after the story of Elisha! It's pretty cool! Check out the pic! We have skeletons hanging with cobwebs, spiders, skulls and a sparkly bat... not exactly scary but it works. With pirates of the Caribbean music playing in the background. It was awesome! We invited our investigators and they were all able to come. They had a great time and it was a great fellowship with the ward. This family came and normally they are uncomfortable with large crowds but it didn't bug them at all. His son is slowly liking the church more and more. They started reading the Book of Mormon together as a family. It's been so great to see their progress. I love being a missionary! Thanks for all your love and support!
Macon Miracles,
Sister Wheelwright

 

This is from the ward trunk or treat. Our car with cut glow sticks on it.

The families next to us was cool to. 

Hey y'all,

           This week has been great! I hope y'all enjoyed the movie "Meet the Mormons"! We were able to do so much. We went to stake and shake after district meeting it was a lot of fun! We had exchanges this past week and my trainer Sister Madsen came to Valdosta! It was a lot of fun to be companions with her again! My mission President and his wife surprised us with a visit Saturday. We went up to Hahira to visit some less active's so to save miles we parked and walked... and walked and walked! They weren't even home. That's okay we got to talk with some cool people along the way.

             Tina and her daughter received the holy ghost on Sunday! We're teaching this family Chris and his less active wife Melissa. He has a cool story! So he has been pretty negative about the church for a long time. He  received an email about one of the talks in General Conference that he thought was going to be negative. So he was going to watch it to prove to his wife how bad it is. Then he forgot which talk it was so... he watch all of it! He stayed up all night to do so. His wife was so surprised. They watched one together, she loved it! So now we're teaching them and he was able to come to church on Sunday.

              Plus we met this other couple they're expecting a baby so they said they need religion in their life. He is less active so they came to church yesterday too! It was a great day! I love being a missionary to be serving here in the Georgia Macon Mission.

 Thanks for all your love and support.

Macon Miracles,

Sister Wheelwright

Hey y'all!

This week has been Great! A few of our investigators were able to get baptized. Mary Boston was referred to us by a member in the ward. We taught her in their home, they were great fellowshippers.  We started teaching her Wednesday she was able to get baptized a week and a half later Saturday morning. Tina Burke and her daughter Albrianna Austin got baptized too. Albrianna was so excited to be "water baptized"! It was such an amazing experience to be there with them. Yesterday we contacted a referral, gave her a bible and it turns out that they just moved here and are looking for a new church. It was great to be able to meet and talk with her. Plus last Thursday at zone conference we got a call during the meeting that they were switching our car for a different one. We got a brand new right off the lot 2015 Toyota Corolla!! That's been great because our last car the a/c hasn't been working so that was a little rough. Our car had so many miles they sold it. I love being a missionary. To be able to share the gospel with others is such a great blessing. Make it a great week! Thanks for all your love and support. 

Macon Miracles,

Sister Wheelwright

Hey y'all,

This past week has been great! It was so much cooler and dry. I loved it! Some of the missionaries from California think it is soo cold! My companion Sister Price and I love it. It's not snowing so it could be worse. 

 I loved listening to conference and being able to feel the spirit of it. We were able to listen with one of our investigators, Mary. She truly loved conference and how real and sincere it is. She had many great insights and learned a lot. I feel like I did as well. She is on date for baptism this Saturday. A member in the ward referred her to us. We had a member present with them. It made such a difference in the lesson, it was great! I've been able to see how much of a difference it makes when they already have a friend in the church. As missionaries we've been taught to teach not so much to find. Members can really help the work move forward. It's such a great thing to be a part of. Some things about conference that I liked are:

Elder Oaks on Loving and living with Differences. It was awesome on standing our ground without being disagreeable. A lot of them talked about loving others. It was cool because I met him.

Elder Anderson on the Prophet Joseph Smith -- loved it.

Elder Klebingat on Obedience --- so straight forward and direct. He was impressive. 

Elder Holland on caring for the poor. I can do better. 

Elder Nelson on Sustaining the Prophets. A few of them in a row talked about prophets. Interesting I wonder why?

Elder Ballard on Stay in the boat and hold on with both hands!

Elder Bednar on Proclaiming the everlasting gospel. Of course, because that is what we are all about!!

President Monson was great as always!

I had questions that were answered from listening to conference. It was such an amazing experience to hear the meeting in the different languages. I though it was so cool one of them spoke in Portuguese! We've been able to share conference with our LA's, and investigators. It's made such a difference in the lesson. I love general conference, and being a missionary! Oh and y'all should go see Meet the Mormons when it comes out! no excuses! It looks soo good but it's not for proselyting though. It's so that people will have a better understanding of who we are as members of the church.  Soo... Go and see it if you can. Make it a great week! Thanks for all your love and support.

Macon Miracles,

Sister Wheelwright