Letter From Rhys - Week # 49 – T.G.I MONDAYS!


Feliz Lunes from the topical land of the Republica Dominicana!

This week was a week full of interesting events.  The one that sticks out the most is what happened this past Friday! So Last Sunday, we heard that the youth of the ward were going on a temple trip! One of our recent converts was a youth and we’ve been teaching the rest of his family. So, he comes to his mom and says they’re going to the temple on Friday! When we heard this, we jumped on board and said we could all go to the temple together and give them a tour of the temple grounds. All was good to go, until Friday!

Friday, I had some interviews for some baptismal candidates in the afternoon before the trip to the temple. In our effort to find a man to leave with us, the second counselor of the bishopric told us that the temple trip started a 4 not at 5 and that changed everything!!!

So, scrambling ourselves to get everything ready for this sudden change in schedule was hectic! We scrambled about looking for a man, we found one and he bailed at the last minute!  We went to the temple hoping that there was a man present and available to help us, with it being Friday night. We get there at what we thought was late, 5:30, to find that our ward with our investigators were not there!!!!

They hadn’t left our ward yet!!! After they had finally gotten there at 7:15, we couldn’t share with them because we had to go home to get into the house on time.  So, our Friday afternoon, we stayed at the temple grounds sadly doing nothing.  However, I have learned an important lesson. Unless you organize it yourself, don’t go to the temple with members … and bring your own investigators!

On another note, today we had the opportunity to go to TGI FRIDAYS for lunch! For the first time in a long time I could enjoy a Parmesan Crusted Chicken with Fettuccini Alfredo and a tomato mozzarella salad! It was super good and worth the price.  We almost got lost getting there because we took a different route then from the last time we went to Outback Steakhouse which was right next door.

I’m out of time, so here’s the answer I promised you all for the riddle in my last week’s email!

Throw rocks at the monkey! And he will start throwing mangos at you!!!

That’s all for today folks and I hope you enjoyed the riddle! Have a great week!

Going forth with the vision of Christ and an eye of Faith,

Elder Rhys Wheeler

P.S. Mom!!!!! Sync your email more often and then fix the typos please!!!!! I love you!!!! BYE!!!!!!

Rhys' Yummy Friday's meal


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