Heating It Up in Tempe

We have a new boyband. Here is our album cover, look for it to drop in a few months in stores near YOU! Hello everyone!! You might have guessed because of the subject line,  but yes, it did hit 100 degrees this week. It has been in the 90's most of the time, so yeah things are heating up in more ways than one! We found  about 10 new people to teach this last week and were super busy, so  things are going awesome. So something that was super awesome this week: every Thursday night we hold a Book of Mormon class, where members and investigators alike  come and we read and discuss a chapter of the Book of Mormon. This  week Sisters Oka and Madriz brought a new investigator named Daniel,  who is a boss. It was his first time coming and had only met with  missionaries once before this class. Apparently he keeps asking the s ister missionaries if they are single....haha that is pretty funny. Anyways, that is not the point. We were going through 2 Nephi 2...

Tempe YSA Zone Wow. What a week. New area, new companion, new responsibilities, pretty much everything is new since the last time you heard from me. So, I was serving in Tempe on ASU campus, and now I am serving in South Phoenix in a family ward! My new companion is Elder Francis, and he is super awesome. He and I are very, very alike, and he and Elder Grigsby are dopplegangers, so it is pretty hilarious. And the area is super awesome. It is pretty big, and we have lots of interactions with weird people. The environment is a lot like Casa Grande but there are more crazy people...so that's fun. There were some pretty awesome experiences from this week too, so let me tell you! #HouseSwag Wednesday was crazy, I packed up and left and had just gotten to the area and was trying to figure out how to be a Zone Leader, the new responsibility I talked about, which means me and another missionary lead over about 16 other missionaries, so yeah that was a change. I was pretty stre...

Hello everyone!! I hope you all had the best week every, because I sure did. There were lots of cool experiences, lots of funny ones, and just good things happening. Let me tell you about it.  I will start with funny. So, we were visiting a members in our area who no one knew, and her roommate answered the door. He told us to go use the side door, because that was where she lived. So we knocked, it was pitch black both outside and in the house so we figured no one was there, but we knocked nonetheless. After the second knock we hear this noise behind us and turn around, and  the roommate  is standing on top of a cinder block wall, flapping his wings like a bird. We were pretty freaked out, then he asked us what we were doing. Rather confused, we said we were just knocking on the door. He asking if anyone answered, we said no, he said "Well I think you got your answer," and then told us to go away. It was so weird, but super funny at the same time.  Cool expe...

Temple Selfie...just had to do it!   Hey everyone! I don't have too much time today but there were two awesome  things that happened that I want to share with you. So, on Thursday, we got  to go to the temple in Mesa!! It was so awesome. The temple is so powerful  and a great place to feel the Spirit. For those who have never been to the  temple, I invite you to go take a walk around it, and think about the way  you feel as you do so. It is a great way to feel God's love in our lives. Also, general conference was really awesome. General conference is when  chosen servants of God speak to the whole world on topics they feel  inspired to share. This weekend there was such a strong focus on the Savior  Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for him and for all that he did to help us  feel peace and happiness in our lives. Without him, we would all be lost. There is a document the leaders of the church released in 2000 which  testi...

Hey everyone .  Depending on how well you know me, I am not the most creative person on the planet. So I chose not to put a meaningful subject title on this time. If you hate that, my apologies. Anyways, the week was great! Lots of fun experiences, many things happening, and the weather has been awesome. Here we go. So in order for someone to be baptized into the church, he must go through something called a baptismal interview, which is where a missionary or another church leader asks some questions to the individual being baptized. It is just to see what they have learned and how they came to know that the teaching of the gospel are true. So I got to do my second one this week, I don't know if i mentioned the first one. This one was with Riley, one of the investigators for the Assistants to the President. I love baptismal interviews. Getting to know the individual and hearing their testimony is so cool. It helps me to strengthen my testimony and think about the basic thing...

Hello everyone!!! This week was interesting and awesome. We had zone conference this week and it was great. We learned lots about commitments, lots about the importance of leaving behind our "golden calf" that we might have in our own lives. Those are things that might be holding us back from being exactly obedient to Gods commandments!! So, do you have any golden calves in your life? if you do, get rid of them and see the difference that it makes :)  We also learned that there have been lots of car accidents in the mission, namely turning left at intersections with traffic lights, so there is a new rule in the mission: no more left turns at traffic light intersections!!! Weird? Maybe. Frustrating? I can neither confirm nor deny that my road rage has slightly increased. But exact obedience brings miracles, so lets do it!!!  Cool experience, last night there was a New Convert Devotional where recently baptized members share their stories. I was asked to lead the mus...

Hello everybody!!! First Happy Birthday Grandma! Also, shout out to Elder Peterson in Ogden, Happy Birthday to you as well.  This week was pretty great. Spring Break was going on for ASU, so lots of people were gone, so it was slow, but it worked out great.  I know last week I told you about the crazy experience where the members got mad. We made up for it this week. There are about 120 members that no one knows, so we went to town this week to find them, and we ended up finding about 12, which is pretty impressive considering they have been in the ward for years and NO ONE has been able to find them. We were basically a SWAT team for the ward. It was great. This week is round 2, since there are still quite a few people going to school in Mesa who have spring break.  Anyways, we had some cool experiences this week too. We were walking in an apartment complex and this guy was in his car, and when he saw us he got out and waited for us to come talk to him. Once...