Cajita Feliz!

All I have to say is transfers are next week and if I have to leave there will be weeping/wailing/gnashing of teeth. I'll get over it eventually, but I will have to listen to "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go" on repeat for the first few weeks.

We did service splitting and stacking wood. Then we delivered it to a house north of Ketchum. 

Logs

Trust me, it was a lot more fun than it sounds. 

It has also been a really good week for teaching the Gospel. We managed to find almost 10 people who wanted to learn more in just the last two days of the week. So that turned this past week around quickly. Then we had 4 people come to church. The total number of new people we were able to have at church this transfer is now 4!!! (THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE HAD ANYBODY!)

We also got to talk to a recent convert from one of my previous areas! He is really busy right now, but in the next few weeks hopefully we will get to keep teaching him!

The other spiritual highlight from this week was zone conference. We are getting ready to start the Light the World initiative again. Which is essentially a "Be more Christ like" campaign for Christmas. It is a really great thing and everyone enjoyed it last year, even those that don't share our beliefs. 

Plus I got to see this consecrated servant of the Lord:

Anyway, here are the pictures I have from this week. Sorry they are so low quality. I'll work on my photography skills this next week (while doing missionary work of course)

Dark and Snowy

Snow Making 

 Shoshone

  Ketchum 

  

Love you all! Have a good week!

-Elder Hazeslip

Q & A

Hello Mom! This week was another really good week. Here are the answers to your questions!

1. Do you need anything? (Christmas wish list/ideas would be nice) 

Right now I think I'm good.

2. What are you studying?

Right now, Alma. But I also am reading Isaiah. Isaiah is still really good. 

3. What did you learn this week? 

I finished El Dia de la Defensa. It has a chart in there of when/where/how the apostles were killed. It wasn't good. It makes it pretty apparent that the Roman Empire was probably not given the authority after they died considering what they did to the Apostles. (Well, before Constantine made Christianity ok)

4. Best meal this week? 

We had these meatballs with the N family. But the lasagna we had with the T’s was also good. So a tie between those two.

5. Best day this week?

Yesterday we had a really good lesson and then we had dinner with the T. family. So yesterday was a really good day.

6. How’s the finding/teaching going? 

Pretty good, we only found 9 new people to teach this week and we had 4 at church. We are getting better though. (This actually has been the best week here yet (as far as numbers go)) The best part is the people we found are actually interested and really believe what we are teaching them, and therefore are actually willing to do things, like come to church and read the Book of Mormon.

7. How is the 2 hour block going to change missionary Sunday responsibilities - no longer teaching Sunday School? 

It is going to be a lot easier to convince people to come to church. Especially if they need a ride and don't want to commit to the full 3 hour block. We normally don't have to teach Sunday School anyway. We just get asked on rare occasions. In Hansen, they had us do it more often, but that was a year ago now. (btw: THAT WAS A YEAR AGO NOW?!?!)

8. What made you laugh this week? 

So many things. I got a happy meal. Elder Silva took a picture of me with the happy meal (I wanted the toy). Cajita Feliz in Spanish means Happy Little Box, that's what they call them in Spanish. McDonalds isn't my favorite still. 

Also, something that made me kinda chuckle was that we got a referral from some missionaries we didn't know. They set the address as "call Hailey Johnson". So it came to "Hailey Idaho" We called them to figure out who "Hailey Johnson" was and found out they were in Billings Montana. The sister missionary on the phone is from the same stake as Elders Snow, Jensen, Collins, Smith, and several other AZ boys in this mission. They also knew Elder Slade (from the Searcy stake), so that was cool.

9. Most challenging day this week? 

I don't remember what day it was. The challenge was that we didn't have appointments so we had to spend the morning and early afternoon knocking doors in the cold and nobody answered. (Idaho missionary problems) But hey! At least we didn't get eaten by a Jaguar!

10. Any questions for me? 

California is on fire again? Who are the new missionaries in the ward? 

Ok, I'll get on that weekly email now. Idk what to include so it may be abridged but I'll keep the good stuff in!

 LOVE YOU!