Heating It Up in Tempe

Mesa Temple Trip Hey everyone! man, this was quite the week! Lots of cool things happened, I learned a lot, and there were lots of good memories made. Let me tell you about them! Jason's Baptism! First off, our awesome investigator Jason got BAPTIZED on Saturday, and it was amazing!! He had a bunch of his work friends come to support him, and we had multiple lessons with him this week to prepare him. After all of the events of this weekend, he has definitely changed a lot. Part of baptism is receiving the Holy Ghost, which is done by God’s authority, and he said that was his favorite part. When someone receives the Holy Ghost, they also receive a blessing from God. Someone holding the priesthood authority puts their hands on his head with a few others holding that authority, and speaks and blesses them with some awesome gifts. He said that was his favorite part for sure.  Something else that was fun this week, we did exchanges with our awesome zone leaders, and I w...

  I don't know about you, but I’m feeling 22. Pretty crazy stuff, I hit 22 months this week, I can’t believe it!!! Time is the weirdest thing. Anyways, this week was awesome, and I am very tired today but hopefully I can crank out some good stuff!!  This week was full of lots of explaining, helping Elder Jacobson to get the hang of the mission life, and he is doing a great job. He is willing to try new things and get out of his comfort zone, which is very important out here, haha! We have had a good time. Every time I ask him to try something new, he makes the kind of face when there are fingernails running down a chalkboard, and through gritted teeth says “sure”. It is hilarious, and he always does an awesome job! :) It has been really cool because he definitely reminds me of me when I first got to Arizona. We have this awesome investigator Jason, and he is getting BAPTIZED THIS SATURDAY!!! So exciting. He has some family members who are in the church, and just star...

The New Dynamic Duo! Sorry everyone, I didn’t have the creativity for a subject title this week, but life is good! My companion made it, so I am solo no more! His name is Elder Jacobson, and he is from Kaysville, Utah! He is awesome! He actually did fencing (the cool sword fighting thing) in high school, which is much cooler than anything I’ve ever done, except tennis because tennis rules all. But yeah, he made it here on Saturday and things have been awesome!  Cool experience from this week: We were having a cool conversation with our investigator Jason, who is on date for baptism next weekend! He has lots of really good questions, and we were able to answer every single one of them with Book of Mormon scriptures!!! That is pretty awesome. The Book of Mormon has so much power in it, and no matter what your questions are, you can find your answers in the Book of Mormon and the Bible. Try it out! For p-day today we had a good time at the Mesa College Institute, with th...

Transfer planning... Hey everybody!  It was quite the week this week. Found out that the Han Solo movie is coming out next month, I was surprised. Totally thought I was only missing two Star Wars movies...#ItsFine. HOWEVER, there is a better reason for that subject title. I told you last week that I was training a new missionary. Plot twist: He is not here yet! He got sick coming out of Utah, so he is still there until he gets better. SO, with that in mind, I have been by myself in the two new wards, going back and forth from other members of the church to the two other Elders that I live with. Crazy stuff. Not common at all, but I am making it work.  We had a baptism this week for a guy named Ricky, he is 10 and really energetic! We taught him a few lessons this week and he had an awesome experience being baptized on Saturday, so that was fun! I got thrown under the bus and asked to play the piano...two songs I had never played before. I would give myself a 76% on g...

What’s up everybody???  Hopefully things are great wherever you are, because things are heating up both literally and figuratively. We have started to hit 100 every now and then, and transfers have struck again. After only 6 weeks in San Marcos, I am headed out to Mesa to cover two wards and train a new missionary! Basically that means that a brand new mission will be my companion and I’ll show him the ropes. I am super excited. Should be a good time.  This week was legit. We found this new guy Brad (shout out to the best Brad ever, a.k.a. My dad), but this Brad is pretty awesome too. He came to the Mesa Temple Visitors Center on Friday, came to church with us on Sunday, and is preparing for baptism  on May 12th !! That will be super awesome. Very excited for that. He was a referral from the Towne Lake sisters, so that was pretty cool to get a referral from my old ward. But anyways, he is a baller, so I will hopefully get to come back for his baptism.  Ha...

  Alright everybody, I have learned some very important lessons this week that I would love to share with you. It was quite the week, so here we go: 1. Never Judge A Book By Its Cover. Pretty cliche, I know, but it is very important. We were eating lunch at a church class building near our community college campus, and we were eating some  Little Caesars Pizza  💰 and this guy walks in that I had never seen before. He honestly looked a little out there. Elder Smith and I went up to him and asked him if he wanted to play some pool, to see if we could invite him to one of the classes. He turned out to be the nicest guy ever. He is from New York and is here all by himself for school, no family or anything. We talked to him for quite some time, taught him about the church, and he wants to meet up this week!  2. Never Park a U-Haul Truck Close too the Garage. We were back in Phoenix helping a member of the church move down the street. Elder Bruce and I grab this...

Best food truck in Phoenix.   Hey everyone!! Sorry for the failure this last week, we were running  back and forth from our apartment to the church for a lesson, so I did  not have time to email!! But, here is the crash course from the last  two weeks!! General conference was so amazing! I learned so much from it and I  hope you all got the chance to listen or read some of it. If not I  forgive you, but you are missing out!! I got a huge awakening to how  important it is that we are all unified, in our families especially.  Hard times are coming for all of us, so having unity in our families is so important. Do  whatever you can to get a close relationship with your family members  and friends, because that is such a blessing! Contention is no bueno!! Biggest thing from this last week was exchanges and multiple  trainings, so we were very busy!! I love giving trainings though, it  is so much fun to interact with other miss...