Heating It Up in Tempe

Cheesecake is yummy! Hey everyone!!! So yes, this is the last email of the transfer. It is  so hard to believe it has already been over 7 months since I  left on my mission...time really just flies on by. We had a great week this week!  Let me tell you about it! The main thing I learned this week was that blessings come if  you work hard. That may sounds like a broken record but let me  explain. We only have a few investigators that we are able to work  with consistently, about 6 to be exact. This week we had to refer  two of them to other missionaries. That was hard because we had been  working with them for a few weeks. One of them, Keith, moved to  downtown Phoenix which isn't too far away but no longer lives in our mission boundaries, so  we had to say goodbye to him. And Yakob, our Indonesian friend, aged  out of YSA (Young Single Adults Ward) and so he will be attending a family ward. That was hard. But, I  was...

Hello everyone!! I hope you all had an awesome week! Mine was indeed  pretty fantastic, I won't share it all with you, I will focus more on  the main experiences that were great. But there were a lot of them.  Here it goes! So this week, Elder Youngblood got me sick. Good thing missionary work  brings blessings, because I decided to push through it and keep  working even though I wasn't feeling great. This lasted for about  three days, but it was amazing that the times I felt the worst were  when I stopped to rest, or back at the apartment at night after the  day was done. During the day as I focused on Christ and on the people  we are teaching, I pretty much forgot I was feeling terrible. That is  possible for all of us. Jesus Christ is there for all of you! All we  need to go is remember Him and do what he asks us, and we will see so  much strength and joy come into our lives. It is magical. But it is  true. Try...

Hey y'all! This has really been a pretty crazy week, I don't even know  where to start! Lots of weird stuff going on, but awesome nonetheless! H ere we go :) Monday - pretty busy p-day, just running errands and such. Played a  little Risk ,which we are continuing today, and pretty low-key for the  most part. Tuesday - DISTRICT MEETING!! This time I trained on revelation through  church attendance, and it went pretty well. The sisters had to leave  early, so I was yet again only training Elder Pope and the zone  leaders, but hey, it went great! Other than that it was a pretty  mediocre day, not much going on. We did go to Cafe Rio for taco T uesday though...great decision. So glad there is one in my area now.  We had a lesson with Kieth, a new investigators who out of the blue  called us wanting to meet with missionaries again! Miracles! It was  cool, he is a stud, we are starting to work with him more consistently  now. ...

Orange Picking! Hey all you studly folks! This week was pretty awesome. I cannot  believe it is already February, especially because it is 80 degrees here,  but hey, I am definitely not complaining ;) I do not have my journal  so it will be interesting what I remember. Here it goes: Monday: District p-day! I decided to play board games and ping pong at  the institute, which fell through because the sisters couldn't come,  so we went to the assistants apartment and played Curses, which was  tons of fun. In the evening we had a lesson with two new  investigators, Kayvon and Mason (shout out to my little bro), which  went pretty well, we haven't been able to talk to them since. They are M.I.A. But they are still super cool! Tuesday: Zone meeting was moved to Friday, so it was a pretty normal  day. We spent the whole day walking around campus and talking with  people, which didn't produce any immediate results, but we talked to...