Heating It Up in Tempe

Someone wanted me to sit on his bike for a picture. I didn't mind. Hello everyone!!! I hope you know that there is so much good in this  world. Yes, there are definitely many bad things that are happening,  but just know that the good will always outweigh the bad. And that is  still the case today. We had a great week this week! I had a cool exchange with Elder Wright from Provo, Utah, and we were in his area, which is in a city  known as Laveen, AZ. We had this really cool  lesson there with a lady named Jessica. She recently lost two of  her children through tragic accidents, and she has been feeling lots of pain  in her life. We decided to teach her more about Jesus Christ, and the  sacrifice that he made for all of us.  It was really cool to see  that the better she understood the things that Christ experienced, the  more positive she was, and the more peace she felt. She is now  progressing towards baptism at the end of October. The life of Christ  has the power to change

Thanks to Sister Benjamin for surprising Trevor with his favorite cake...Gold Medal Ribbon Ice Cream & Chocolate Cake Hello everyone! Thank you  all for the birthday wishes, it feels  pretty good to say that I am no longer a teenager. But it's also not  the best because I don't have any excuses to be immature. ;) Anyway,  we had a great week. Let me tell you about it. We had a great meeting this week with two leaders of the church, Elder  L. Whitney Clayton and Elder Gregory Schwitzer. They came on Saturday  and shared some great thoughts with us on the importance of the c ommandments and the scriptures. It was really cool to see such wise  leaders who have such amazing understanding of the gospel open up the  scriptures and teach from them. I loved that. My attention was really  drawn to Matthew 18 in the Bible, where Christ talks about the lost  sheep. I love how he says that those who are lost, when they return,  his joy is greater than all the 99 that stayed with hi

Squad singing a hymn at our ward talent show. Hey everyone!! I hope you all had an awesome week. This week has been  great for this fella right here. I love being a missionary, if I do  say so myself. It's quite the experience. The good, the bad, the ugly,  and everything in between, you definitely get a little bit of  everything out here, and it's the greatest, because every single  experience teaches you something different. I had a few of those this  week I wanted to share. When your mom has a conference in Scottsdale and drops off a little snack. On Friday we went on exchanges with the Assistants to the President,  and I went into the Northwest Mesa area for the day and it was awesome. I went with Elder Bonilha, who is actually from Sau Paulo, Brazil. He is the funniest man on the planet. We had a blast, we found a few new people to teach and were so busy we nearly didn't have time  to eat at all! It was cool. Don't worry, we didn't starve.  We had thi

When you tryna hold a pet pig but dogs love you... Hope you like the line from a classic oldies song, and trust me, just  because the subject title doesn't say inferno doesn't mean it isn't  hot anymore. We are still in triple digits. We are out of the worst of  it though. Summer #2 is taken down!! I guess I'm a pro now. Anyways, I  hope you all had a great week! This week was pretty crazy. It always  is. So, we were supposed to have a baptism this weekend for our  investigator Lucia, but she had a baby on Tuesday, so that made that a  little difficult! It was cool though, because she still had such a  strong desire to be baptized as soon as possible!! She is the coolest  person and has a very strong testimony. So, sooner rather than later , we will be having a fantastic baptism!! Love it! We had a lot of opportunities this week to spontaneously serve others.  We had a cool opportunity on Saturday, there was a new family that  moved in that needed some help, so