Heating It Up in Tempe

Exchanges with Elders Murphy & Wadsworth Hello everyone! Man, was it a week to remember or what. The awkward thing is I can’t remember a lot of what happened, but believe me, it was awesome. You can take my word for it.  The Baptism I was lucky enough to go back to Phoenix for a bit, we got to go see Ryan Shea’s baptism, he is the husband of Heather Shae who got baptized a few weeks ago. Elder Gardea and I found their family a few months ago, so we got permission to go to the baptism and it was awesome! Funny story time first: He asked Brother Thrasher to do the baptism, so Sister Thrasher was sitting on the row behind them when the service started. Sister Thrasher went up to give the opening prayer, leaving her young child alone on that row. Her son saw his opportunity. Without hesitating he made a mad dash for the hallway, with no one to slow him down. His dad saw it coming, and in a white jumpsuit, literally hurdled the row of chairs and literally SAT on the kid righ

Devotional with Elder Christofferson He y everyone!  Man, it has been a busy week for sure! Running to and fro, north to south, east to west, you name it we did it! We had transfers this week and I found myself in the Chandler/Gilbert part of Arizona, which is super cool! It is a lot different than any other part of the mission I have been in. Lots of members of the church, lots of really nice houses, and everybody already knows who we are! Haha.  I’m now covering a small place called Chandler-Gilbert Community College, so I’ve now covered all 3 colleges in the mission! That is pretty cool, haha. My companion, Elder Smith, is the man! We already know each other well! He is from near Provo, Utah and we are having a good time. I’ve definitely found a 4-leaf clover here! 😎🍀 The New Squad We had lots of lessons this week! I got to know everyone which was super cool! We have a girl named Codi preparing for baptism in April, so we met with her and it went really well. We a

Happy Monday everyone! Transfers are here, and they hit our zone pretty hard! We are having a pretty big turnover. Both Elder Morgan and I are leaving the area which we shared with some sister missionaries and they are taking over the ward since we are losing more missionaries than normal. So I will still be leading the Phoenix YSA zone but I will be headed to my third YSA ward with Elder Smith from Springviille, Utah! It will be a party! I am super excited!  We had Mission Leadership Council this week, and it was super good. We basically decided what we would be trained on in different parts of the next month, and it was a great discussion. Aiden Jensen, formerly known as Elder Jensen (he was my zone leader a while back) came to visit and it was a good time. I always learn a lot at those meetings!!  We had a new investigator named Devon this week. We met with him  on Saturday morning  and it was pretty rough. He is a pretty shy guy and didnt open up to us very much, so it wa

Hey all! Don’t let my subject title scare you, it was a pretty awesome week. We had some good times, some hard times, just like we always do, but at the end of the day, I’m a missionary! This is the best thing ever! We had some really cool things happen this week: First off, three of my mission buddies (formerly known as Elders Hedelund, Cleveland, and Grigsby) were down in AZ and took me to lunch! It was such a good time, us all being back together again. We went to Raising Canes, one of the best chicken tenders spots ever. It was fun! We went on exchanges twice this week, with Elder Smith, who used to be in my zone and is now one of the district leaders here, so it was fun to be with him again! We ate 3 dinners...long story, but I probably gained 5 pounds in the space of 2 hours. The other was with Elder Bullock in the McClintock ward! Hence the “Reverse”. We stopped by a few people that I had taught before who weren’t interested, and actually a few of them were interested