Staying in Chandler 9.22.14

Well dang, dang! Elder Rooki s going to be transferred, so I am staying in my area… just getting a new trainer. Ha! Well, we got along pretty well and I love that guy. But I love my ward so much!!!!!!! They are so awesome! I don’t remember what I have told you about Robert, but dang, dang!!!! They are so awesome! So one night about 8 we get a text from Robert and he asks us when the MESA visitors center closes. We say 9. Ha. (We live about a half hour away from it. So they reply and say, “Well ok, we will just go walk around the Gilbert Temple.” They do and text us back and say they loved it and is was so peaceful!!! We didn't invite them to do anything at all. They said that they just hopped on Roberts Harley and went for a ride and was prompted to make a few turns and ended up at the Temple. So then we text back and say, “Hey, we can give you a tour of the MESA temple visitor center. They text back and say, “Yes, we were hoping you would say that.” They also said that they felt the spirit and they recognize that they both need it in there lives. So on Saturday we were able to go give them a tour of it and watch the Restoration and a family video. The spirit was so strong!!! They both loved it and can’t wait to visit with us again!!!! They are both past golden.

Robert was a member, but fell away after he got his call and has never gone back to church. And his GF, Karie, is a non member. This has been a huge testimony builder to me that when the Lord wants his work done he will do it. We are not in control of anything. All we can do is be obedient and the rest will work out. I am so glad the Lord is letting me be part of his work here in TEMPE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I cant wait till Thursday! Love you HJ!! And also that is transfers. Ha! But the lord will do his work. Oh yeah… we also, on Saturday, had a conference with D Todd Christopherson with our mission. Ha! It was super sweet. The 2nd counselor in the Presiding Bishopric and a 1st quorum of the seventy were also there and the presiding authority. That was a solid good meeting! Saturday was the best. We went out to the Res and some natives made us some fry bread :) 

MEG WHAT... THE? -_-

But that is super cool about Nancy! That is sweet! I got the package. It will be sweet! Gas here is 3:13 a gallon. Haha.

The place is the best! It is amazing that the Lord has blessed me so much as to call me to be one of His Representatives. The Lord has blessed me so much out here. I have been challenged to look for the ways the Lord has had his hand in my day. It is so crazy how much I need to learn. This is His work. There is just no other way to put it. This is the only way to be happy. You are always following someone you can never just be idle... The only way to be happy is to follow the law and commandments that the Lord has put in front of us. If you want to be happy, find more ways to be more obedient. Me and Elder Rook did and we are just trying to be strictly obedient… even when it might seem pointless and dull or dumb. It is worth it. And it is the only way to be happy. The devil has done a very good job at making the ways of the world look good and accepted, but out here the Lord has shown me how happy the "world and it’s way" is. You will never be happy if you do what you want to and follow what you want to do all the time. The lord only wants us to have joy (complete happiness  and he has laid the blue print on how to do it; "The commandments," but the natural man will look at it and say they are too hard or restricting. I have so much to learn and I can only learn so much a day.

This gospel is true and is the only way to know complete joy. Of this I know. I see it everyday. I see it when I look back at people I use to know . I love being out here. I have so much to learn and not enough time to learn in. I love being a missionary!

Pic of us at the Temple.   Karie is right next to me and Robert is behind her.