Well it has been a crazy awesome past few days, so I think
I'll focus on that... Mainly because the first few days of the week
(Monday-Thursday) kinda stunk. We didn't have a ton of success missionary wise
the first few day. But whatever, just a rough patch, IT CAN'T GET ME
DOWN.
So Friday we had weekly planning, which was super fun this
time. We really didn't do anything crazy fun or awesome or anything, but it was
just a good time. Everyone in our zone gets along with everyone else so well, I
love it.
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| Never pass up taking a picture with a goat named night train |
Then on Saturday we had the chivo. It was super good. We went
to a members house and roasted a goat, and the meat was pretty good.
Then later that night we had a Spanish stake activity, it was like this music
thing, and our zone (the Spanish speakers) sang a medley of Christmas
songs. It was super cool, and President Toone was there, and he liked it so
much that he asked us to perform it in front of the whole mission on Monday! It
was awesome.
Then on Sunday we had a super awesome day too. We went to
Church, which is always good, and then went with some people and went to the
Frietz's house for dinner. They made really good Enchiladas and
beans. Mexican food is so yummy... Anyway, then that night we went to the Mesa
Community College Institute Building and had a Mission President's Fireside
there.... WITH THE WHOLE MISSION. It was so awesome! All 205 missionaries in
the mission were there. Talk about a powerful spirit right? It was so amazing.
Then we went over to the transfer building and chit chatted and stuff. It was
so amazing, like words can't describe. So there at the transfer building, we
found out we would be housing the Zone leaders and another companionship from
Maricopa Zone. We thought that meant that we would have 8 people staying in our
house for the next 2 days (Sunday night and Monday night). But we were wrong.
It was actually a tri-panionship too. So we had 9 people, and 2 showers. Ugh it
was so bad.
So on Monday we had a Mission Christmas Party! It was an all
day thing at a stake center in Tempe. It was super duper sweet. The bad part is
we had to get there at 7 in the morning... Which means we had to leave at
6:30... Which means we had to get up at 5:10 so everyone could shower and get
ready.... That part really stunk. Especially because Sunday night we didn't get
home till around 10:30, so we didn't get to bed till 11ish. The
missionary schedule stinks sometimes. But then we got to the place at 7am and
we had breakfast as a mission! It was so much fun. Then we went into the Chapel
and had a talk to us by Stake President Robert Laney. His talk was amazing.
Simply great. He talked about the difference between being healed and being
cured through Christ.
He told this amazing story, and I'll paraphrase: "A man with a relatively young
family (one kid on a mission, the rest younger) had cancer and was given
blessings saying he would be healed. He was able to see his son come home from
his mission but later died. For a long time, the person who gave the blessing
(who ended up being the stake president speaking to us, he just didn't say at
first) was confused as to why he felt prompted to say he would be healed, when
the cancer killed the man. Later, the stake president realized the difference
between being Healed, and Cured. He was healed because his Christlike
attributes have grown. His marriage and family got stronger. He was healed, but
not cured of the cancer." Pretty cool story! I really liked his talk. It
reminded me of Spencer Hardy. My prayers go out to the family.
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| Christmas Lights at the Mesa Temple |
So then after that we had the Mesa Temple President come and
talk to us about ordinances in the temple, and things like that. It was good,
but it was basically the same thing we heard at stake conference.... Then we
had lunch, and then we did this survey thing to get to know the missionaries in
the mission more. Then we had a testimony meeting for all of
the missionaries and that was really good, but it went really long
(2 hours) and got really personal at times.... Too personal. And then we had
dinner and then we finished off the night with a talent show of sorts. It was
an assortment of musical numbers, and it was really good. We read the story of
the Saviors birth in Luke as a mission. Well actually there is this missionary
who has a really great voice-- like movie preview voice guy good-- and so he
read it to us. It was super great. So then we had this skit where Santa came up
and called out some of the missionaries from the Naughty and Nice list. It was
kinda like a spotlight for the ones on the Nice list, and a way to poke fun at
the missionaries on the Naughty list. It was really fun! We finished off the
night with a slide show of the baptisms we have had since President Toone came
in in a slide show form.It was really cool, and we are at 850 baptisms as a
mission on the year. Then we had the big announcement ... we are
going to... MEET ELDER JEFFREY R HOLLAND!!!!!!! He is coming to
Arizona January 11th (Shout out to Elder Hayden Neal's birthday!!!) He will
meet with us, the Phoenix and the Mesa mission and have a conference with
him. I am BEYOND excited. fsjadfgasgdkfga Words cannot even begin.....
THEN on Tuesday we went to the temple! It was super awesome.
We went as a mission! Sorta, and then we took a Mission Picture. And that was
the weekend! It was the best weekend ever.
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| Never pass up taking a picture with a turtle |
Final thoughts:
I want to go to Yuma in my mission at some point.
I want to serve with Elder Sylvester or Mabey
I Love you all so much!!! Have a merry Christmas :)
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