Hey Everybody!

So, I only have about 10 minutes to write this so I will apologize beforehand if this is a bit short. However, we have a Family Home Evening we need to get to with one of our AWESOME investigators! :D

This week seemed like a bit of a slow work week. We had Zone Meeting on Tuesday which was extremely good and a bit shorter than usual. We had a great discussion on planning and on setting effective goals. The Zone Leaders gave us council to make sure that we can say "SMAC" for each one of our goals. S is for Smart, M for Measurable, A for Achievable, and C for Compatible. All in all it was a great training and really made us think a little bit more when we do our weekly planning. I guess we will see how we did come this Sunday!

Because we lost a bit of work time on Tuesday for the meeting, we had to work a little bit harder to try and make up time. We made plans for lots of member presents, tracting, other appointments, etc. As the week went on we saw some lower numbers than usual which kind of put us into a type of "Holy Cow! We need to work harder!" mode. We were pretty low until Friday rolled around until we were blessed with some INCREDIBLE tracting time and lessons. As a side note, we weren't able to get the door to open but one of the houses we tracted on Friday had MONKEYS inside!! You make think I'm kidding but monkeys make a very distinct noise and there were monkey noises coming out of the house. We were shocked and had to take a couple of minutes to bring us back to our senses but when it was all said and done, we had the best tracting story of the day! :)

Saturday seemed to be a bit of a slower one than usual but we were still able to get quite a bit of stuff done. We have been toutering some Spanish kids for our weekly community service we do. But Saturday we actually went over and had an English class for the parents! It was a lot of fun and a great learning experience for the two of us.

Yesterday was an incredible day. EXTREMELY busy but very productive. We had a couple of investigators at church and had a baptismal interview for a girl named Perla (she passed!) PLUS we finished our 20-10-2, finished our 7 member presents for the week and found 3 REALLY good new investigators. I have high hopes for each and every one of them.

Other than that things have been going really well. It's been colder than usual but we are grateful for that. It sure beats the 120 degree weather we will have come June and July. However, I am looking forward to frying an egg on the sidewalk! :) But, I hope that you all are fine and well and I deeply appreciate the prayers that you offer in behalf of all of the missionaries in the world. Believe me, they really are felt! Know that you all are loved and are in my prayers. Have a GREAT WEEK!!









 




"GOTCHA!": To put it simply, we caught a mouse. It was quite a scene. :)

 













"Somewhere over the Arizona Rainbow": We were riding to an appointment but had to stop and grab a snapshot of this sunset. This is just one of the few blessings we are blessed to see while serving in good ol' Arizona!