The field.. is amazing!
We flew down here Tuesday with about 10 other missionaries with their original call to Mesa! We met President Jenkins and his wife at the airport, they are pretty cool! Found out right away that this is a iPad and Facebook mission! So that should be fun! We did a lot of introductions and paperwork and then we were out to the field! We were temporarily put in a companionship for that day to experience the mission! It was crazy to be out. We walked everywhere. I found out that a lot of children here basically raise themselves because their parents aren't really in the picture, working or just not there. So we get to talk to a lot of kids! Its real fun! But its really nice here! I really enjoyed the warm weather when I walked out of the airport!
The next day we had our first transfer meeting and I found out my trainer, Elder Young! He is a really cool guy and a great trainer! Basically our first few days here, no one would answer their doors to their scheduled appointments. It was kind of depressing. But eventually we started seeing people! The members here are really cool and they feed us great food! They say no matter what you gain weight here! They said that they had a problem with missionaries gaining weight so the president made them run a 5k! That's fun! I'm sad I missed that!
Well we got to do some service at the Phoenix marathon. We handed out water, Gatorade, and energy pack things to the runners at about the 19 mile mark! It was a really cool experience. We also got to go on a hike this morning on the Hieroglyphics mountains. They call it that because there are hieroglyphics on the sides of the mountains as you go up the trail. Pretty cool!
One great thing I leaned this week was about the power of prayer and following the prompting of the Spirit. One of our investigators, or the investigators that the previous missionaries were teaching would never answer the door! We went literally 3 times a day for a few days just to introduce me as the new missionary! We really wanted to be able to teach them and it was really sad to see them not home. We didn't want to lost them. One time before we were about to head over I had a strong prompting to pray that they would be there. Part of me wanted to ignore that prompting and go anyways. But I listened to it and asked my companion if we should pray. We knelt down and I offered a prayer that they would be there so we could teach them. And what do you know, they were there and we were able to teach them! What a great experience! There was without a doubt that it was because of the prayer that we were able to teach them! We were celebrating afterwards! This work is great.
-Elder Nelson
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