Week 53

We met the new mission president this week. Well, officially we had our "meet the mission president" meeting. President Robinson is AMAZING. I feel so blessed to be in this mission and get to learn from him. He gave a training and his wife gave a little one too. They know the gospel so well and they are very good teachers. They know the right combination of how much to involve the group and how much to teach on their own. We have interviews at the beginning of August, which will be really cool.

I went on exchanges in Mesa this week. It was so...different. Being a missionary in Mesa is hard because everyone is either a member or has been talked to about the church 10000 times and is 100% not interested. It's a lot of less-active work, which has never been my strong suit, but it was a great experience. We also got to go on one of the Indian reservations for a YSA lesson, which was sweet. I have now been on an exchange (spent 24 hours) in every zone in the valley. I like them all, but let's just say I am very happy I have spent my whole mission in downtown Phoenix. There is nothing else like it. Which probably means I am jinxing myself and I will be leaving soon.

We got to go to the park on the Fourth of July and just talk to people for about two hours about the gospel. It was way fun. We also got to see some of the fireworks as we walked home. Other than that it was a normal p-day so we didn't do too much. We went and bought a TON of otter pops to give out as we talked to people and only like 100 of them froze on time (not to move the blame, but some people forgot to change the temperature on the freezer and it was on low...) so we have two church freezers just FULL of otter pops. Oops.

Miracle of the week. We try to talk to everyone we see, and probably 3% say we can come back. So we had one lady say we could come back before girl’s camp, but the day we went she wasn't home. So it was about a week and a half until we actually got to contact her again. She let us in and we had a great lesson about the restoration and she was super awesome. One of the youth from our ward gave a very sweet testimony and it was just so cool.

Last week we cleared our investigator pool, so we had no one to teach. We were just praying for miracles. This week we have an investigator with a baptismal date, a progressing investigator, and three other new investigators. The work is starting to move and I love it. Prayer and fasting works. God is always listening to us, we just have to ask for help.

I don't have any pictures from this week, but I sent the hike pictures from girl’s camp. My back was even more impressively sweaty in person. Love those girls who went with us!

Thanks for the emails, prayers, and encouragement! I love you all - have a great week!

Sister Doxey