The holiday season is officially the craziest time of year for missionary work that I’ve experienced here in Arizona. Not only is working with our friends’ schedules and getting members to join lessons difficult, but we also had yet another day and a half cut out of our schedule due to the new year so we’ve been working hard to make up for it. Speaking of which (abrupt topic change),

Happy Holidays everyone! What a wonderful time of year! As you can tell by the title of this week’s entry, there are but 10 short days until we spend a day celebrating our Saviors birth. Along with plenty of Christmas anticipation, we’ve had a lot to do this week. We started the week by helping the Vehicle Coordinator to check and do some small maintainance on about 100 mission cars

Happy (kind of late) Thanksgiving everyone! Most of this week was pretty normal, but there were a few cool memories I wanted to share! Not much out of the ordinary happened on Tuesday and Wednesday, but Thursday was a really fun day! Being Thanksgiving, it was a full day P-Day and we spent most of the day hanging out with the rest of the Phoenix Zone. We played some basketball,

What a great week! So much has happened that I almost don’t know where to start, so I’ll just share the highlights I liked the most!  I had my first “mini zone conference” on Tuesday which is essentially a zone conference lead by the APs (Assistants to the President) with a smaller group of missionaires. It was a really cool meeting and we learned a lot about repentance and the

What a crazy roller coaster of a week!  As the scriptures say, there is “opposition in all things” (2 Nephi 2:11) and this week has been evidence of that. To keep things short I’ll just share some of the blessings from this week, but know that there were trials and lots of hard work that contributed to them happening! The week started with us going to the Gilbert Temple as

What a week full of service! This area usually has an average of 1-2 service opportunities a week, but this week we had twice that and it was awesome!  This week started with my first district council or “disco” as they call it here. It was cool to work with other missionaries in our district and hear their thoughts. Afterwards we went to our first service of the week with

Another week has come and gone! Isn’t it amazing how quickly time goes by when there’s so much to do and just barely enough time to do it? That’s how this whole week has felt so far, but it was a great feeling to realize on Sunday evening that the day after is P-Day. The new week started off with a fun reminder of home on Tuesday morning. Due to

What a place! I didn’t realize how much of Arizona is just straight desert and yet it’s still beautiful in it’s own way. It’s nice to finally be here! To start from the beginning, things began with our travel group meeting the mission president and his wife, President and Sister Law, at the airport. They’re both fantastic,  and I look forward to serving with them as our leaders.  As a quick rundown