Today is better sweet.. Today I said goodbye to one of my favorite areas I have served in. I wish I could have stayed just 1 more transfer, but I know my Heavenly Father needs me somewhere else in His vineyard. I'm just sad because this area is where The Gospel finally clicked. Where I finally realized that I'm just a tool in the Lord's hands. I'm grateful for the opportunity I had to serve here and serve along side the members of the Settler's Meadow, Ray, and Catalina Wards.
Here are some of my highlights from my week. 1. Elesha and Jamie. 2. The best Primary Teachers ever!! 3. When Elder Chadwick and I are tired it's best to not be around us.
1. Elesha and Jamie:
Elder Chadwick and I were able to see 2 of our Investigators enter into the waters of baptism on Saturday. Quick back story on Elesha and Jamie. Elesha just fell into our laps. One of the priests in Ray ward, Daniel Taylor, took a dinner message challenge we gave and just ran with it. He asked his friend Elesha if she had read The Book of Mormon, and crazy enough she had. TWICE!? And a couple days later he asked her if she would like to take the Missionary discussions and she agreed. A week later we met with her. Elesha came from an FLDS background. She was apart of the community in Colorado City, Arizona. Or, better know as the community that was ran by Warren Jeffs. Luckily before crap hit the fan Elesha and her family got out of that lifestyle and moved to Mesa. 3 weeks after we met Elesha she was baptized. She was so amazing to teach. She practically tought us haha.
Now for Jamie she was an interesting one. So Jamie is slightly autistic she is 23 with the mentality of a 13-14 year old. She was owned by the state from early in her life until about 17 when the Petit family began fostering Jamie. Well before she could be be adopted she turned 18, but the Petit's still took her under their wings along with the other 10 kids. (I'm not kidding). And let her decide on her own when she wanted to be baptized. We met Jamie and about 6 weeks later she was also baptized. Haha I guess it's okay to double dip when it comes to baptisms right?
2. The Best Primary Teachers Ever:
Yesteady in church during Catalina Ward we got asked if we could sit in on a class while the teachers ran in to watch their daughter be set apart in her calling. So we sat down in front of five little 4-5 year old kids. These big huge eyes just staring at us as if we were like big ugly monsters that just crawled out from under their bed. It didn't take long for them to warm up. We asked them a few questions then taught them how to play hang man, and oh boy it had me rolling laughing. We would tell them to guess a letter and they would scream out numbers or they would repeat the letter a million times. But needless to say it was cute, and entertained me for the time being. Well Sister and Brother Medina returned, and one of the little kids says as we were leaving, "You the bess teachas I eva had!" So that was fun!
3. When Chadwick and I Are Tired It's Best to Stay Away:
The past couple of days Elder Chadwick and I have been on one. We have been trying to find ways to just make people feel awkward or try to get one another to mess up in front of people. Now this may not seem funny to you, but we were dying laughing.
Bear with me cause this story is hard to follow along. So at Elesha's baptism the closing song was "Because I Have Been Given Much". We made it through the 1st verse fine but on the second line of the 2nd verse I started singing the second line of the 3rd verse to see if Chadwick would follow along. Sure enough he did, and I'm like 200% percent positive I've never heard a human being make the noise Chadwick made. He was trying to sing the second verse but with me singing the third verse he mumbled this noise that sounded like a beached whale! We were laughing so hard through the rest of the song we couldn't even sing. And the bishopric the whole time was just staring at us. But luckily we held it together through the prayer.
This next story was just yesterday. While we were at church it gets boring just shaking hands with people and saying good morning so we decided to shake it up a bit. I told Chadwick to start shaking hands with a dead fish (a limp hand). Right after I said that the former bishop walked in, a former mission president/stake president walked in, and a counselor in our mission presidency walked in. I told Chaddy I was going to do it, but I didn't. Haha he looked like a fool and we just couldn't stop laughing at the looks these men were giving him. President Lowder from our mission presidency stopped and said Chadwick you need to work on your hand shake. And Chaddy started crying he was laughing so hard. We grew tired of that one so we moved on to calling priests random names as we shook their hands. Like "mango cake", "lug nut", "honey bunch", stuff like that. We would say something like, "What is up mango cake!?" Or "How you doing lug nut?" And they would just say, "Oh uh hey haha?" OH man yesterday we just couldn't stop laughing yesterday...
And today has been hectic.. We went and played Ultimate Frisbee against another zone in the mission. We got demolished... We then went to Joe's Farm Grill for lunch and oh my gosh it was so good! I got a gouda garlic bacon burger. AMAZING!! If you ever come down to AZ you have to try Joe's Real BBQ, and Joe's Farm Grill! You won't be disappointed. After that we went to Sodalicious, and played some Jenga as we sipped back a dirty Dr. Pepper. After that we went and got haircuts. It was my first time going to an actual barber since being in AZ, and I forgot how much I missed getting a fresh cut. So, it has been an eventful day. I hope all of you are doing well. I love you and miss you all! Have a good week! And I will talk to you all next week!
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