Hello Everyone!!!
Hey, so this week was super cool! We started talking to this guy on the
street who called us over nd found out he had met with missionaries 2 years earlier. We were able to go over on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday nights and have lessons with him and teach him more about the church. He told us some super cool things that happened to him since he had been
talking to us. He has a very strong testimony on the power of prayer. He told us about one
experience he had this week. He had been
having chest pain and hadn't been taking his medicine for it. He told us the
next lesson the next day that he had taken his pills and then began to pray and
he has not had any problems with it all week now! It was awesome!
We also got together as a whole mission on Sunday night and had a
mission president devotional. There were 2 recent converts who spoke to us. One of them had actually just been baptized earlier that day. The other one spoke about being called to a position in the High Priest Quorum just a few short months after his baptism. He said it helped him become stronger and feel needed in the church! It was awesome.
On Monday we
went to the mission home early in the morning and had an all day thing at the
church building right there next to it. There were speakers and lots of
musical numbers followed by Santa coming and a testimony meeting. To end it we had a big FHE together which was super cool to be able to get to know
everyone a little bit better! Oh, and Kaleb May, the Elder I met in the MTC who became such a great friend--I hadn't seen him in the full 5 months I have been out until
this week so I was super happy to be reunited with my good buddy this week! It
was awesome!
Then, today we went to the Mesa Temple as a mission and did a
session and then took a big picture as a mission! It is so cool there because
there are orange and grapefruit trees all over the grounds and the gardeners
said for us to go and pick some of them since they are ripe around Christmas
here! It was awesome and I really enjoyed it!
There is also something that is super cool going on in January that we were
told about yesterday as well. Elder Holland is going to be down here in AZ to
meet with the college kids and then we were told that he wants to come to all of
the AZ missions and speak to all of us in person! I am so excited, and everybody
else is as well, because who doesn't love Elder Holland!
I live in a safe
area now, and it is really nice. It is a little bit weird because in my last
area, Maryvale, we always heard sirens and gunshots and then the helicopter going
overhead, and now that I am in Ahwatukee there is none of that. CULTURE SHOCK!!!
But, if we do hear sirens then we know that someone's cat got stuck in a tree or
something! :) Ahwatukee isn't quite on the Reservation but if we go south
of our apartment at all then we are on the reservation! I just found that out
this week! But yeah! Super excited to give you guys a call soon!
Love you all tons and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Elder Wallentine
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