Well Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!! How are you all?
I am doing just great!!! My first week in Arizona has been fantastic! So lets see...the first day we met the mission president, President and Sister Howes....they are so great. We also got to go OYMing which is where you just go walk around the street and talk to people (it stands for open your mouth), that was quiet the experience. Some people looked at us like we were crazy (oh wait, I am :) and some people felt bad for us out in the heat so they talked to us, and there were 2 or 3 that were interested in our message. It was a great experience with getting comfortable just talking to people about the gospel.
The next day we met our companions. My companion is Hermana Taylor, she has been on her mission for a year now and is from minnisota...yeah I have no idea how to spell that, haha. She is great and I am learning a lot from her so it is a good experience. And we have a car, cool huh? yeah for air conditioning. Because the spanish areas are really spread out, it looks like I will have a car for most of my mission. When we get to an area we will bike around though. Speaking of the bike.....so I was told that all I would have to do it pop the tire on the bike and everything else would be assembled.....yeah.... about that. The bike was here waiting for me in about 10 different parts. Thankfully one of the ward mission leaders is really good and bikes and he is putting it together for me. Nice huh?
The members here are great. We have had dinner every night and they are so nice! We are in an area called Queen Creek. In our area we have part of gilbert and some other places that I don't really know the names of yet (maybe chandler is one of them).... But anyway, mother dear you should send my Aunt Robbies address. I won't be going to visit her, but it would be cool to have. So we are the missionaries for 2 wards, one is them is english, and one of them is spanish:) If you thought that 3 hours of church was long....think again! haha. Our english ward starts at 10 and then out spanish ward starts at 12 and we go to all 3 hours of that.
This week we have been doing a lot of work in our spanish ward. We have 2 people being baptized soon, one is an 8 year old boy who's parents are not members, and another one is named Ana. I don't know too much about her, other than she lives in the middle of the desert! The catcus's out there are incredible! Another family that we are working with in the spanish ward, the wife's name is Mirse and she has 4 kids. They go to church every sunday and read and pray. The only think keeping them from baptism is the father. He had a batismal date and then someone anti-ed him.....so we are trying to work on that family a lot! The work in our english ward is a little slow right now. We are only teaching 1 person. We just got a new ward mission leader and he seems super excited to get the work started up again in the ward. We are really just trying to excite the members and help them get comfortable sharing the gospel with their friends so we can find more people to teach. Tracting definitely is not the way to go, people just get mad you have the nerve to knock on their door....but through members it is so much better!!!!
Anyway, thats been my life the past week :) I love Arizona. It is so beautiful in a desert sort of way. So far it has rained 2 days since I have been here, and I guess that is sort of a big deal. And it has been humid like you said it would mom. But it has been getting drier. And I was in my first dust storm. That was so crazy. you just see a cloud of dust in the air and all of a sudden you are just standing in it. We were told to try our hardest not to be out in one of them because you can catch valley fever...I don't really know what that is....but I am going to try my hardest not to find out:)
I love you all and hope everything is well. Just so you know, you can write the mission home address if you have a letter for me during a transfer week...or anytime for that matter. We get that mail about once a week when we see our zone leader. But I would prefer getting mail at our little house that we live in. I love you all and wish I had more time. But just know that I love you and miss you. I am so grateful to be a missionary in Arizona. I absolutley love it and I love sharing the gospel with these people!!!!!! love you all!
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