Week 32

Hiya!

How's the world outside of Arizona? Cuz this place is great!! I love
Prescott Valley, it's beautiful up here, the weather is perfect, and
the people are awesome! :) This week was still a little stressful and
weird... it takes a while to get used to new streets and names...but
I'm learning and it gets a little easier every day!

So a few big things happened this week:

1- our zone was asked to start biking more (I just got away from
that!) so we went and bought a really nice bike for Elder Phipps.
Biking here is a whole different story than the valley, there's less
light and no sidewalks and everything is either uphill or downhill.
Biking is nice because you get some fresh air, plus it's easier to
contact people along the way. But I love driving! You can get places
sooo much faster and fit so many more appointments into a day! But
president is inspired, and he says this will help our numbers, so
we'll do it :)

2- our zone set some pretty hefty goals for this month. We are doing
everything we can to find new investigators and get people to church,
and just the last few days the lord has put a few people in our path
that have a lot of potential! Setting goals with faith brings
miracles! :)

3- Danny. He was my first lesson in the area. He is super excited
about the church and keeps asking us for scriptures to read
(yessssss). He's been sick lately and hasn't been able to make it to
church, but hopefully this Sunday he will!

4- we put Aiden on date for baptism! We planned to teach his grandma
Debbie about baptism, but the spirit took control of the lesson, and
we ended up putting him on date for April 9th! I love when that kind
of stuff happens in a lesson, it just helps my testimony that Heavenly
Father is mindful of us.

5- service! Like every day this week! We raked leaves, moved rocks,
put up shelves, moved bigger rocks, dug ditches, painted a house, cut
down trees, and have just as many service projects planned for next
week. It keeps us busy and is fun :)

6- this morning on our way to the park for exercise, we almost got
sprayed by a skunk! I saw it just as it put its butt up in the air and
I've never seen Elder Phipps run so fast!! #closeencounters

I wanted to share a spiritual thought with you guys: so I was reading
in Jacob 7 about how Sherem tries to make Jacob doubt his testimony.
There were a lot of other people who were deceived, but Jacob wasn't.
He had a foundation in the scriptures and in the Holy Ghost, so when
temptation came up, his testimony was strong enough. Especially in
these last days, there are a lot of things that try to deceive us, and
there are many more to come. Satan is a smart guy, and if we don't
have a strong foundation in the scriptures, and a strong testimony of
the Holy Ghost, we will be deceived. It's sooo important for us to
study the scriptures, because that's how we receive revelation. That's
how we feel the Holy Ghost. We can't be deceived if we learn to
recognize God's voice :)

I love all of you guys! I hope you have a great week :)
-Elder Wheeler :)