April 11,2010

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The news from home has been very welcome through Easter week. We have
appreciated hearing from many of you and hearing about Conference.
Our district meeting was a review of the talks and what had made an
impact with each of us. It was so interesting to listen to what each
missionary had found a message just for him, or the people here in St.
Vincent, or his family. May we all cherish General Conference and
take the messages to heart and implement them so that we are prepared
for what will come. It is a blessing to know that we are being lead
by a prophet of God and that the warnings and blessings are there if
we are watchful and obedient.

Our focus this week has been interviewing those who may go to the
temple in the next few months. They must satisfy immigration, save
the money needed, as well as being worthy for a temple recommend. We
have had some wonderful experiences as we share a common goal. We
also have become acutely aware of the challenges involved for most of
them to make the trip to Santa Domingo. We realize how important it
is for us to prepare well and teach correct doctrine. We hope to
teach the doctrine more deeply this time as most of those who will be
attending the class have been through the temple prep class before.
We hope that there will be at least 11 ready to go in July. We have
heard some wonderful conversion stories as well as the great faith of
those facing hard challenges as we have visited them in their homes.
We know that the temple will bless all of their lives and help them
face their challenges with more faith and determination to be totally
obedient. We are excited about helping with this wonderful event. We
went to the Trumpet home this afternoon and blessed their baby. It
was a good experience. Sister Trumpet is the grandmother and a very
strong member of the Church. She lives in Canada part of the year and
has been here for the past several months. Her son is Seraph and has
not been active for many years. We have written about him in the past
and he has lived quite the life. His wife, Pat, is not a member and
has some interesting beliefs. They have Marvelous, who is their 3
year old son and now this new little baby boy who they named
Excellent. We have such tender feelings for Sister Trumpet who we can
see has faith in the promise, "When they are old they will not depart
from it."

That is it for another week. We have transfers this week and that is
always an interesting few days. Hope this week is a good one for all
of you.

Much love,
Elder and Sister Wheeler