114 Degrees

Hey everyone this week was pretty crazy. We started off with a pretty normal week. We did a lot of contacting people we needed to get in touch with (less actives, referrals, etc.) it was super good. We are going to start slowly getting back some members to church that the ward has been trying to contact over a year now. Somethings are just falling into place. We are just meeting people that we haven't been able to contact and finding people that want to have us back over to their house. I'm not saying these people are golden or anything but they are fine with us coming back over and talking to us. We tried getting as much work as we could in during the week because we went down to the valley Friday. We drove down there Thursday and had MLC the next day. It was pretty fun. It was a special MLC so President invited people he thought would benefit from being there not just Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders. We had 91 missionaries in the meeting. We had assigned seats and all of the Mission Leadership Council sat on the front row while I was the only one sitting on the second row... I thought it was kind of weird but I got to sit by Elder Shaw so that was fun. It was good to see him again. He is training so we got a four generation picture. Elder Meza, Me, Elder Shaw and then Elder Gubler. That was pretty cool to see because most of the time at least one missionary goes home before they can get to the fourth generation. Anyways, the meeting went super well and now the hard part is just taking it back to our zone and training them on it. It's always super hard because I'm nowhere close to where President is as a teacher. But it should go pretty well if we plan well enough. So we got out of the meeting and went out side and it was so hot! I was dying and then figured out why. It was 114! You can literally get blisters touching the wrong things. We got back up to the mountains and it was still 90. Arizona is heating up real fast. We got back up at around 10 so we just went back to the house. The next day we had this triathlon in Show Low and all the missionaries in our zone helped do water stations. It was so crazy. Some people will literally just take like 5 cups and dump it on them and keep running with out even looking back. Then other will yell at you asking if you have Gatorade and bananas and things. They just run by and get everything they need and keeping on going. It was so intense. We stay and help with that for about 7 hours. They were all super grateful for our help. I just it at least plants a seed in them. They all you can really pray for in some people. Some people we meet are super rude and yell at you to get off their property and all you have to do is kindly wave and say "sounds good thanks, have a good day". With some people all you can really do is just hope with your good attitude and your kindness it rubs off on them and they might think to them selves, you know those guys aren't that bad after all. Just because they aren't ready today doesn't mean they won't be ready in the future. It's like a grape vineyard. As farmers go through, they only pick the ripe grapes and leave the other ones there to ripen. If they aren't ready today they sure will be sometime down the road. Just finding the ripe grapes is the trick. Well love you all! Sorry I don't have an interesting story this week. Love you all! Stay on the straight and narrow! 

Four generation picture which is me with my trainer and the elder I trained and the elder he is training. Right to left: Elder Gubler, Elder Shaw, Elder Lange and Elder Meza  

Arizona Cactus 

They added me to a bike area...just kidding haha