Yes, it is true. I am no longer in the great city of
Scottsdale. Last Tuesday the mission president called me with some exciting
news! No, I didn't get my visa. But I had to be emergency transferred to Pinetop, Arizona because an Elder up here got extremely sick.
Where is Pinetop you ask? That is a very, very good question. It is about 3
hours north east of Phoenix, in the middle of the mountains, in the middle of
nowhere. It is extremely different, an entirely different world. I feel like I
am camping. It is complete country here.
We have a truck to get us places because 50% of the roads are dirt
roads, sometimes we have to drive 30 minutes from house to house. The work is
different too, we do more service than anything. Saturday we spent the time in
between conference chopping and stacking fire wood. Fire wood in AZ? Yupp..
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| Missionary Truck |
Link to Google map of Pinetop: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=pinetop+az&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&hl=en
There are actually trees up here!!!! I forgot to tell you
this but our area has part of the Apache Reservation on it! The left side of
this picture is the reservation! The natives are so nice, but their
dogs are not. There are tons of dogs that run wild on the
reservation... some are super kind, but some are terribly mean beasts! They
chase us....
It’s cold up here. The temperature gets in the 70s and
60's here but is dropping fast. It is actually beautiful weather right now so I
can’t complain about that. I do miss talking to a 100 people a day. It’s
impossible here because we are driving on country roads all day. The work is A
LOT slower and we really have to rely on the members here to give us people to
teach/do service for because we hardly meet anyone. It also doesn't help that
this is a summer home destination for all the people to escape the heat from
the valley, so now that summer is over, most of the houses (which are all cabins,
some mansion cabins). My new companion is
awesome, he has been out for 18 months and is a stud.
There are some
interesting people up here. Last night we had dinner with an older couple who
are some of my favorite people I have met out here! His brother is literally
Mr.Clean, like legit the man on all the the products, and he looks like it too,
just super old. He is a big game hunter and has been all over the world to
hunt. He had a trophy room but they are remodeling so everything wasn't there.
But, he showed me pictures and he had an elephant multiple bears, a lion, zebras and 100's of
other animal. It was kind of disturbing but totally awesome at the same time.
Another family has like 1 billion goats and gives us goat milk all the time,
which is actually pretty good. This same family as 19 kids.... they adopted 15
Russian children! They are all grown up now but still, their family pictures are
nuts.
Conference was amazing! Loved every single session, but I
do have to agree with you mom, Elder Uchtdorf was my favorite, both on Saturday
and Priesthood. I learned so much, and a lot of it is exactly what I needed to
hear. This gospel is incredible!
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| Elder Dieter Uchtdorf, Apostle |
I love this work
and I love the Lord! Pray for me! I am living the mountain man life and it is getting
cold!
Love you all!
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