02.17.2014 - Fourth Time's A Charm

This has been a great week! The Gilbert Temple Open House has come to an end. Fastest month of my knife! It's definitely a very bittersweet ending. I was supposed to have the closing shift, but we had to switch so I was there Saturday morning. It worked out perfectly because I met the mom of one of my good friends at BYU and I met Ben's roommate! So cool! I loved making connections at the temple. So if your friend from Texas was there on Saturday morning I might have seen her! I didn't meet her though. There were so many people there on Saturday. The lines were crazy! I don't know the exact count on how many people went through, but I know it was over 1/2 a million. You should google it and let me know what you find out :) I did get the Valentine package. Thank you so much! I loved it :) We are going to make the cupcakes today! Can't wait! In church last week we sang Joseph Smiths first prayer to the tune of Come Thou Fount. We've sang it before, but obispo liked it so we sang it again!

02.10.2014 - Winter Wonderland

Things have been great this week! Lots of changes, but I think they’ve all been good ones. Sunny Arizona has been exactly that. It’s supposed to get up in the 80s this week! Can you believe that?! Beginning of February and 80. Pretty beautiful. :) But I mean…your winter storm sounds pretty nice too!

It's All My Fault

You might have guessed from the title that this is a catching up post. Since Michelle writes and sends pics every week and there hasn't been an update since the beginning for February, you are in for multiple posts today.

Sorry for the delay! Life decided to get really busy - Jennifer

The Super Bowl Was Super (02.03.2014)

Dear Mom,

                This week has been a great one! I’m happy to hear that the Seahawks won. Go team!!! The family we ate with had a bunch of the families in our ward over and it was a ton of fun! They were cheering for the Broncos but I told them I was for the Seahawks. Then they told me the score and I was pretty sure we were going to win. That wasn’t even half-time though so it’s good to hear that they pulled it out. Other than the Game Day excitement it was a pretty great dinner. It was delicious and it was after a day of fasting so I pretty much stuffed my face. Whoops!! Then we had Tres Leches and homemade cheesecake for dessert. Heaven :) I love the members in our ward. They are soooo hilarious and great to be around.

Monday, Monday (01.27.2014)

What a week this has been. It's been so crazy that I forgot to plan out what I was going to write to you and I forgot to bring my journal to have something to base it off of...sooo, I have my planner and I will try my best with that :) I wrote you on Tuesday last week so I'll start from that evening. We were planning on meeting up with our investigators Vanessa and Francisco to have dinner and then go to the temple. But when we showed up at their house, no one was there and they wouldn't answer their phone. We called their fellowship in their old Mesa ward who was going to come with us, but they hadn't heard from them either. And we still haven't. They disappeared. We think literally. Can't get a hold of them no matter what we try. So maybe some prayers for their safety would be good. They recently quit a major drug addiction so we are a little worried about them. It's just crazy because they came to church last Sunday and they seemed fine!