Mesa Week #25!

Hey Everyone!

 I am having a bunch of really awesome experiences in this area, I'm going to be sad when I leave it. And you cant beat the January weather! Man and there is so much snow back home! What the heck! Basin is probably amazing this year😭 And you are right about being out of the world when you are on a mission. Me and my roommates were actually talking about how sick the world is and how it is just going to get worse and worse. Yes I do miss things at home but holy cow I am in my own little spiritual bubble away from the world for two years! Its such a blessing! Its a time where I can find my relationship with Christ and bring others to Him! It just gets better and better!

Changes are always happening in the mission, and this time it's our mission schedule! And it's awesome! We no longer plan at night but in the morning instead. The reason is because the missionary health department is pushing for missionaries to get 9 hrs of sleep so we can go to bed at 9:30 if we want now! They gave us a lot more flexibility with when we can do our studies and all that good stuff, oh and they also cut lunch in half. No to stoked about that one but that's alright. Normally on P-day we would wake up, exercise, do 2 hrs of studies and then P-day would start at 10 a.m. Now we only do half an hour of personal study and P-day starts at 8 a.m.! Its pretty awesome! 

I went on exchanges with Elder Child in his area on Tuesday, it was cold! The nights have been really chilly but this next week is supposed to be 70's everyday! Anyway Elder Child is from Brigham City which is pretty cool! He lives like right by the temple! We talked for a while about that! But I love his apartment because it has a fireplace and so when we got back I just laid in the recliner and chilled. I was so relaxed haha! Now I know why Dad wants a recliner haha!

So we have this investigator that we have been teaching and she is 60 has read the BOM already 1 full time. She would get baptized in a heartbeat if she could, but she can't quit smoking! We have been working with her since we got here and have done everything that we know how to do. We have not been able to progress with her and so we had to stop teaching her this week.  That was really hard for us.  Hopefully she will be able to find the desire in her heart to fully commit to the gospel of Jesus Christ and be baptized someday. 

On Saturday we went to the visitors center with Gabriel and Israel and their family. We watched the old prodigal son video about forgiveness. Its an 80's movie that has terrible acting but puts out a good point. Afterwards I asked Israel what he learned from the video and he had some wise words, he said that "you can't change the past, you can only fix the future". Its so true though, the past is the past and it is nothing to dwell in. What's done is done and you should be changing  the future for the better! That's what the Gospel of Jesus Christ is! It is change. 

I love this gospel so much. I wish I would have focused more on it when I was home!! I had no idea what I was missing out on. I hope you guys are continuing to pray and read the scriptures! That is what will keep you close to God! I love you Momma so much! Your are the best and I miss you everyday! I'm always praying for you guys and hoping all is well! I hope you have a blessed week! I love you!!!😊

Elder Findlay

Oranges!!!

blessed

We were riding our bikes and starving so a nice member
invited us in for spaghetti.  The members of the
church really look out for us here in Mesa.

Exchanges

Rain Rain Rain- Week 24

Wow this week sounded like it was a blast in Florida! I love the pictures and videos that you sent me! The Fam looks great and I am so glad you all are happy and doing well. 

Lately I have really been thinking about how the Lord works wonders and teaches you personally when you serve a mission. I've been studying about repentance and the Atonement because when you get a testimony of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, you can use it in every aspect of your life. The mission really brings you closer to the Savior and makes you want to do the right thing every time. I never could have asked for a better experience on my mission!

 This week was full of busy days as usual...

Saturday was really awesome! We had the baptism of Gabriel and Israel T. and it was special. They are righteous kids and it was really good for them and their family that they were baptized. And we had the privilege to baptize and confirm them. I was able to baptize Israel and it is something that I will never forget. Baptizing for the dead is really awesome but baptizing someone that you've taught comes with a different spirit. They joy you feel can't be described. Bringing someone into the fold of the Savior is one of the most important things that we can do here. And then I got to confirm Gabriel and that was a first for me! What an awesome day! Missionary work is super important and we can all do it everyday! Anyways after lunch we went to the visitors center by the temple with one of our recent converts. We watched a couple of meet the Mormon stories with her and she absolutely loved them, and it made her super emotional! She's the best. We watched one of the old ones, The Candy Bomber, and then a newer one called The Horseman. We are really lucky to have that resource in our mission!

And let me tell ya it just rained and rained and rained here all week. I've found that I really really don't like biking in the rain haha but my rain coat is a life saver. It doesn't rain here very much but when it rains, it RAINS! I'm honestly looking forward to seeing the sun again! 

Other than that I went on a bunch of exchanges which was pretty fun but nothing to crazy happened. Next week though we do have a world wide missionary broadcast that we will watch together as a mission. They are coming out with a whole new missionary schedule so it's a pretty big deal. We are excited to see what they come out with. I loved your email mom, it makes me smile every time I read it haha! I hope you have an amazing week in the freezing cold snow, enjoy it mom. When you move away from it you will miss it like me! Jk you probably wont😂 I love you!!!!❤

Love Elder Findlay

Me and Israel!

Gabriel and Israel on their baptism day

I love this family so much!
And yes, I am way taller than all of them..haha;)

And on exchanges we helped some people move
and they gave me like a whole box of sports
stuff, I thought this was cool!
 AZ pride 😂

Week 23 as a Mesa Missionary

Hey sorry this is last weeks email...we were out of town and I didnt get it posted to the blog...mom

That's so awesome that you are in Florida this week! I'm sure you'll soak as much sun up as you can! 

On Tuesday I was able to go with Elder Klaus in his area. We had a really good time and  went to a ton of houses. We also had zone training meeting that morning so that made things pretty crazy. But we did get to go to backyard Taco with Elder Campbell and Hanks. They are our zone leaders. We then went to like 30 people's houses and 1 person answered. Their area is really struggling. We found some potentials but that was about it. We had a really fun time haha plus elder Campbell and Hanks are their roommates so we partied that night. Me and Elder Campbell get along really well, he is from Louisiana and is thinking of going to LSU to play football. Haha we all slept in their room and talked til like 2 in the morning. I'm gonna remember those nights for a long time!!

On Wednesday I got to go to Elder Calio's area again. It was a blast and I love love having a car. Its so nice, you can do more things a lot faster than you can on bike. Brother Owens texted us and asked if we wanted to come over for lunch so we were pretty stoked about that. He made some bomb grilled cheese, it was sooooooo good. And he gave me a loaf of Grandma sycamore's bread which made me super happy. I can't find it at any stores in Mesa, mostly cause I can't go to Costco. Reminds me of home! You never go to Lanny's house without something special of course. He collects coins and has a huge collection of old coins from the 1800's and it's pretty sweet. He also showed us all of his deer skinned leather that he got from Canada. He makes pouches and cool things from it and then gives it to people. He is honestly the nicest most kind person that I have met it mesa. There are so many great people and I can say that I am loving them!! It makes the work very worth while!😎

Saturday was super cool, I went on exchanges with Elder Watmough for the last time because he goes home in a month. We went to do service that morning doing yard work and such. It was actually really sweet, the guy we did service for had a 1970 Ford Thunderbird and he couldn't get it started and so I worked on it for a while trying to get it going but had not so much luck. So then we just mowed their lawn and did some pretty good yard work for them. They were then kind enough to provide lunch for us and so the got Costco pizza! I hadn't had that stuff in forever. It was super good. Me and Elder Watmough biked back home and got ready and rushed to a lesson that was actually with one of my investigators. I think I might have mentioned her before but she is super awesome who really wants to build her faith in Jesus Christ. So we had an awesome restoration lesson with 4 missionaries which was bomb! We got her to commit to read and pray about the Book of Mormon! I know it will bless her and her kids sooooo much! I want people to know about it mucho mucho! Towards the end of the night Elder Watmough was just out of things that we could do. Their area is sooooo dry right now, they haven't had a single investigator for 2 transfers and no one is willing to listen. It stinks because Elder Quist and Watmough are probably the most hard working missionaries I've seen on my mission and yet the success isn't there. So Me and Elder Watmough decided to go to the church and offer a kneeling prayer. It was such a powerful prayer and especially for me. Hearing it from a missionary who has been out for 23 months was a real testimony builder for me. At the end of it we both pondered and both got the answer that its all in Gods time when the area will be bringing new investigators! It was awesome! Super cool experience! 

Sunday was so sweet!! We had some great meetings at church, had some investigators come which is always a joy! Church ended about 4:30 then we just went back to our apartment and had a pretty chill dinner. We were then privileged to have another baptism, this time for Tiana! It went super well and had a bunch of people come. After that we had a lesson with sister cook who is such a nice lady!! She is a recent convert and she made us apple cider with ice cream and brownies. Sooooo nice.

All in all this week flew by and it was crazy! I had such a good time with the other Elders and stuff! And I'm still enjoying the sun here in Mesa and I'm super glad that you can enjoy some too in Florida!! I love you momma and hope you have the best week!!

Love Elder Findlay

Our Zone:)

Sunday nights in the 480

It's cold in the mornings sometimes! ;0

5 Months! Week 22

Momma! How are you feeling now that the wedding is over with? Relieved ha? Did you guys do anything fun for New Years? No big celebrations for us, we just kept the same missionary schedule. We had transfers on Tuesday but nothing changed for us so things were good. Oh and thanks for sending the package!! We are going to the mission office today so hopefully it will be there, if not I will grab it this week sometime! Man today was super awesome Mom! You know Brother Owens, the guy who gave me those special gifts, well he decided to take us on a hike to weavers needle. It was so awesome and I forgot how much I loved climbing on rocks and messing around! It was super quiet and you could hear nothing but nature. I brought my hammock but there were no trees, there were cacti but I didn't want to destroy my straps putting them on it😂 I easily could have though! It was like a 4 hour hike and was bomb, it reminded me a lot of us going on the hiking trips with the Heatons and Markers! And how I always complained about going on them, well times have changed and I thirst for it now😎 

On Tuesday it was transfers so it was super crazy, even though our area didn't change at all. One of our investigators named Torrey got baptized that night! He has been so excited and has been waiting for this for a long long time. He was super ready for the gospel and has such a strong testimony of the spirit. Me and Elder Eaton worked our tails off trying to get the baptism all set up that whole day and it turned out perfect! Elder Edwards was able to baptize him, Elder Edwards is from England and went home on Friday. It was really cool because his parents came to Mesa to pick him up and so they got to see him baptize someone while he was on his mission! Super cool experience for him and his family! Anyways it was really cool to see another investigator get baptized!😂. 

This week we had a baptism, next Sunday we have a baptism for Tiana, and the week after that we have a baptism for Gabriel and Israel! The work has been moving along really well here. And you can't beat the weather! Most of the time it's 60 degrees plus. I love it but summer is going to be hoooootttttt! We have been visiting a lot of former members and less actives lately which can get really slow. They days feel longer when you don't have 4 or 5 lessons set up, but it does teach you how to handle rejection haha. There are two types of people in Mesa. When we say "hey have you been to the Visitors center in downtown Mesa?", the first type doesn't even acknowledge that we are even there. The second type just tells us straight up that they don't want to talk with us because they have talked to us many times before. Its really interesting to see what people think about Mormons and kind of funny at the same time. I just feel bad for them because they don't know what they are missing out on. And then once in a blue moon there is someone who will listen to what we have to say😂 and that"s always nice!

Haha oh and and something super funny happened last night! So we were going to meet at Brother Owens house at 7:00 in the morning by just getting up and going. Well all I remember was Elder Eaton waking me up while shaving and then turning on the lights. Then he went into Elder Watmough and Quists room, turned on their lights and came back in our room. I sat up and in my head I was thinking there was no way that it was already morning, so I checked the clock and it was 1:00 in the morning😂 Elder Eaton totally thought it was time to go, he even checked his watch and saw the time anyways and kept going! By the time I had convinced him that it was  it 6:30 he had gotten dressed, brushed his teeth, shaved and was ready to go😂 it was the best thing ever haha! Good stuff✌️

Well I hope this email finds everyone healthy and happy! I love ya Momma and pray about you everyday! I miss you soooooo much but look forward to serving the Lord some more! Love you!!

Love your fav missionary son, Elder Findlay😎

Elder Calio is an interesting kid😂

And there is famous Brother Owens. He's the best!

Torrey's baptism, missionaries dream

The crew.
 Elder Higham on the far left came
out with me and now he's in my district. 

Pretty much the definition of AZ

Happy New Year! Week 21

Happy New Year!!

Holy cow this week sounded crazy for you with all of the wedding events but so much fun! I do wish I could have been part of it, It sounded so much fun! And that's so great that the whole family was there. Everyone looked so happy and that was awesome! Kaitlyn and Brett look really happy.  

This week was super awesome. We really had a good time. So transfers are on Tuesday and it blows my mind that it's already here. Luckily for us everything is staying the same. We were hoping for a car but that didn't happen, so ya I'm stuck on bike for the next 6 weeks again😂 P-day last week was da bomb! It was by far the best p-day I've had haha! We watched the Saratov approach which makes me appreciate that I'm in Mesa haha. President also gave us permission to watch ELF!! So we watched it in Brother Thompsons theater which is the best thing ever, its literally the size of an actual theater! It was soooooo stress free and I just enjoyed it a lot. It reminded me of home watching it with Jack haha!

As far as the work goes, one of our investigators Torrey is getting baptized on Tuesday! Its awesome! We are super excited for him and he is more ready than ever. This week I've really been able to see the fruits of our labor in the field. They aren't massive but small and noticeable. Some of our other investigators Gabriel and Israel are getting baptized in a couple of weeks. They are 9 and 10 years old and the funniest kids, I love them! They asked us to baptized them so I am really looking forward to that! I've done baptisms in the temple before but this is the first time I've done it for someone on my mission! Sorry there isn't much to say about this week other than we knocked a lot of doors and talked to a bunch of people.

Today has been really awesome too! I got a haircut this morning and now I look like a little kid haha! I will send a pic. We also hung out with my Grandpa Elder Knudsen, he goes home tomorrow which makes me sad. We get along really well. He lives in draper so he will be in Utah tomorrow! We had the silver bullet today(aka ford transit mission car) and so we could do whatever. We went disc golfing at a course over at Red Mountain which was sweet! I loved it a lot, turns out I have been playing it wrong all my life haha! Since we were out that way we went to Winco and got some groceries. It's way better shopping there because things are cheaper but it is further away. P-day is so much easier with a car, I took it for granted when I had one! We also went to The mall, I didn't buy anything but I helped Elder Eaton pick out some ball shoes. I forgot how much I love shoes😎 Now we are chillin in the church playing ball and emailing. Sorry it's taken me forever to get it out, today has been crazy!! Oh and we didn't do anything special for New Years, just a normal missionary day😇

I love ya momma! You are the best and always make me smile when I read your emails.  Tell everyone back home I love and miss them a lot! I pray about you guys everyday! Love you!!!

New baby boy haircut

It rained like crazy on Christmas Eve

Elder Eaton didn't like it one bit!

got soaked

Thanks mom for the Christmas gifts,
especially these Chargers socks!

Having some good biking/finding weather!

Christmas Night...singing at the
 Mesa Temple in the missionary choir

Elder Eaton and I

Got to see my Texas cousins Amelia and Jett
who were visiting Mesa.  So awesome!

...and my Uncle Josh and Aunt Melisa.
Thanks for finding me!

Funny face but cool picture!

Christmas in Paradise! Mesa Mission Week 19

What's up Mom! I can't believe I'm already writing to you again, I could have sworn I just wrote you like yesterday haha! Well Christmas is coming up! Got all the Christmas shopping done? Haha its such a crazy time of year, even as a missionary. 

1st day of Exchanges was sooooo much fun. Probably the best exchange I've been on. I went with Elder Calio in his area, and guess what? They have a car and so I got to drive. Man I miss driving, it was fun. Elder Calio is from Italy and so he has the funniest accent, love him ha! We get along really well, and we just laughed the whole time we were doing stuff. This morning we had an extra hour of study for Elder Calio because he is learning English, that was awesome for me because I had an extra hour of study! I wish we could do that everyday. Elder Calio and Bischoff actually live in my bishops house, bishop Allen, so I get to see him a lot! We then went to visit a member in their area who owns one of the biggest car washes in Mesa and went to his office. His office was sooooo sick, he had Jordan basketball shoes all around his office for sale. It was all I could do to resist drooling over them. That's my weakness right there, so unfair😂 anyways the guy had a massive fish tank in his office, he had hundreds of fish/starfish/eels and there was a short in one of the wires so it killed everything in the tank. He had spent over $10,000 dollars on the fish and he was soooo sad. I felt bad for the dude. But his office was super cool. That night we went and played basketball with a bunch of guys from their ward and then a TON of investigators. It was so sick, they were all tattoos dudes and we played hard! I had my game going for me and they all liked me so they want me and my companion to come back next week! That was the most fun I've had playing basketball here! Like I tell everyone, basketball is the best missionary tool. When you play the game having chemistry with one another, you really bond with the person and that's how you can begin to share with them what you know to be true. 

Day 2 of exchanges: Today I was with Elder Bodily in my area. It was a crazy busy day. He was waiting for a visa to go to Brazil where he was originally called. So he leaves to Brazil on the 2nd of January. We had 4 hours of study because he had to do 12 week and language study. It was awesome for me because again I had an extra hour of study! Love it! Because of the crazy morning with exchanges and everything that took us to dinner with the Iurato's which was awesome. Their daughter Jamie returned from her mission from Australia a little while ago and now she is playing college soccer for ASU and she leads the nation in scoring, she's pretty funny haha! Then to end off our night we met a bunch of crazy people and so yeah haha!

Day 3 of exchanges: Well today I was with Elder Klaus in his area. We had a pretty awesome day! We were able to go to the temple with our zone and President and Sister Townsend. It was really awesome, probably the last time we will be able to go with them for a while. It was super spiritual! We had a really good time there. Then afterwards we had a short zone conference which was great. We talked about the Savior being the bread of life and how we need to realize that he is the bread of life and that we will never thirst or hunger spiritually or physically if we follow his teachings. That night we visited this family and gave the dad a blessing. He then showed me his old Camaro in his garage so we talked for like an hour about it haha! I can really talk cars for days, love them ha! They gave us some eggnog and Elder Klaus is from Brazil so he hasn't had any before so he got his first glass full. He drank the whole thing politely and then as we were biking away he said how terrible it was haha! Just the way he said it in his Brazilian accent was hilarious! Eggnog has really worn on me here, you know how back home I never really liked it? Well now I think I'm beginning to like it haha! Your mission really changes how you eat. Your going to think I'm crazy for saying this but before my mission I was a super picky eater. Everything had to be super plain but now I don't care anymore. I just eat whatever I get and its alright! I know it's hard to believe! The only thing that still gets me is onions though, my tastebuds haven't changed for those things. Anyways after that we went to an investigators house that Elder Klaus had never met because the guy was a referral. We went to the door and he was busy working on his car and so I asked him if I could see it. He opened his garage and he had I think it was an Austin Healy. I think that's what it was called but I don't remember. He was making a fiberglass dash for it and it was pretty cool so we went on again talking about cars for a while and he opened up to us! It was awesome, we then scheduled an appointment with him. Crazy crazy day.

Sunday was super good! At church the Tapias came and then some less active people! Oh and we gave talks in 60th ward, that was great. Not really... I still don't like giving talks haha but it was on D&C 19:23. Glad to have that out of the way ;) We were able to have dinner with the Booths again, if you don't remember they were the family that we had dinner with on Thanksgiving! Such and awesome family and sister Booth is a really good cook. And guess what? She made me orange rolls because on thanksgiving we talked about our family traditions and that's what I said mine was! They were soooooooooo good but not the same as yours Mom. I can taste the love in yours ha! We found 3 new investigators and met some really awesome people! We hardly had to bike on Sunday so we were super happy about that! 

Well Christmas is next week whoa, it sneaks up pretty quick! I can't believe its that time of year again. I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!!!  I am so excited to talk to you all.  I love you sooooo much and can't wait until Sunday! I'm super hyped for it! I hope you have an amazing week! 

Love Elder Findlay

Met this little guy on exchanges, he's rocking my glasses

This is all of us on our first day and now we've been out 4 months! Time is flyin by

sweet old Camero

I sent you guys a package today so it should come sometime this week! I hope you all like it! Don't worry I didn't spend a million dollars on it either haha! Don't mind my face also, I was super tired that night😂

Mesa December - Week 18

Hi! 
How’s the Christmas season? Good I hope! All has been awesome here in Arizona. It was super nice here, I think it was like 60-70 degrees all week and ☀😎 I went on three exchanges this week and it was tiring, I'm so glad it's p-day.

( I asked him if he cooks anything) I think the only thing that I love to cook here is my homemade breakfast sandwiches. I just buy English muffins, sausage, cheese, and eggs. It’s super simple and it is delicious! Love it! I did get your packages also! Thanks so much! Man holy cow the mission office is going bezerk with all of the Christmas packages coming in. Like seriously there was a whole room just full of packages. But I got mine just before the chaos:) 

What's with wards doing Christmas parties in the mornings now? It’s way better at night😂 With the 30th ward we had it at night and ate Jalepeno bucks:) sooooo good. Then the 60th ward was in the morning,  and they did like a story book theme which was cool and then had cinnamon rolls after. And you want to hear something funny? I honestly feel like the 30th ward is bigger than our ward back home, it is HUGE! And I shared my testimony last week to all of those people and it was scary😝

This week we had an awesome zone conference. President Gavarett of the seventy came and shared his thoughts and experiences on missionary work. He is such a spiritual person and a phenomenal teacher! He is from Spain and had an awesome accent. We talked a lot about our mission statement and our purpose as representatives of Jesus Christ. I don't remember if I told you our mission statement but here it is:

Behold I am a disciple of Jesus Christ

I have been called of Him to declare His word among

His people that they might have everlasting life.

We teach repentance and baptized converts.

📕We are a preach my gospel mission📕

We live by consecration, we sow exact obedience🌰,

we grow mighty faith🌱, we harvest precious souls

🙏We expect and facilitate daily miracles 🙏

We talk with everyone, we find with faith,

we teach with power💪💥, we baptized monthly

We are happy, dignified and hard working

❤We love God and show charity for all his children ❤

We are Arizona Mesa Missionaries🌅

Me and Elder Parra and Elder Gull put in all the emojis but it is what we live by in the Mesa Mission. One thing that I learned and thought was cool from Elder Gavarett was that he told us to express our testimony in our prayers. I never thought to do that before so I am definitely trying to implement that idea into my daily prayers. We got out of the meeting at 4 so it was really long. Since Elder Eaton is district leader he has to go on exchanges with everyone in our district which means that I get to go on 7 exchanges this transfer! Whooo! I'm not a very big fan of them yet but I'm sure I will be. So anyways I was on exchanges with Elder Bischoff and we then had dinner with the walkers, they are missionary couple and we had a good time. They are from West Haven and they came out about the same time as I did. After that we went straight to our ward Christmas party and ate more food! I'm pretty sure we had 5 or 6 meals on Friday because during the meeting they fed us a bunch. But the ward party was great. I kid you not though, the 30th ward here is bigger than our ward back home and we live in Utah! I'm serious when I say that it is HUGE! We visited one of our investigators named Torrey. He is a super nice person and his wife too, she is a member. They are struggling a little and if they can't pay rent then they will have to move. That would be a bummer because we just got him on date for baptism and it would have to be postponed. So we are praying for him and hope everything works out!

I had the chance to go to the Visitors Center twice on Saturday! I was still with Elder Bischoff at the time and we had an investigator coming named Billy. We were going to be watching the Joseph Smith movie. She called us like 10-15 min before saying that she was on her way so we were super excited! We got to the VC and she never showed up:( super sad, it would have been so good for her but I guess next time! Later we exchanged back so I was with Elder Eaton again and we got to go to the VC again! Man I love that place, we watched the Joseph Smith movie with the Tapia family. They loved it! After it was over and we were all leaving a Brother pulled us aside and asked us for a blessing. He has been having some struggles in his life. He broke down emotionally while we were talking to him and just felt lost and didn't know what to do. Right then and there I just felt the spirit really strong and when I say that I mean my love for him and his family went up like crazy. I felt like I was talking to myself when I was talking to him because there have been times in my life when I have felt lost, helpless, and didn't know what to do. I just felt a connection with him and then I was able to give him a blessing. It was a tender mercy that I will never forget. That's why it is so important to be a ready worthy priesthood holder of God. You never know when someone is going to reach out their hand asking for help.

Sunday Sunday Sunday. The most tiring day of the week. We had two investigators come to church! It’s the best feeling when you see your investigators keeping commitments! It makes you hyped😂we had the awesome opportunity to teach Gospel Principles class on eternal families. I love teaching because you are able to help someone learn and grow and by doing that you learn from yourself and grow as well. I learned so much by teaching about families! It just reminded me how much I love you guys! You are more than everything to me, I always tell people there is no way I would be on my mission if it wasn't for my family. Everything I do out here is for my Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and my family. The three most important things in my life! Since Elder Eaton is district leader every Sunday night he gets the numbers from our district members for the week and sees how they are doing. I just chill with elder Quist and Watmough, they are funny guys haha! 

Well this next coming week I get to do four more exchanges! They are good but I'm glad to be almost done with them so we can focus on our area more:) I hope everyone has the best week back at home! Remember the true meaning of Christmas! Without our Savior we would have nothing! I can't tell you how excited I am to talk to you guys on Christmas! LOVE YOU!

Arizona Mesa missionaries at the twinkie fun run on Thanksgiving

Eating dinner with a great family! They had us wear aprons so we wouldn't mess up our shirts...haha!

A member had some snow from Utah so I got a taste of it!

First time on my mission to chill in my hammock for a minute :)

Our tree...Merry Christmas!