Missionary work!
This weekend was definitely very awesome and it was full of many opportunities to step up to the plate and serve my fellow men I really do believe that there is no greater joy than to serve others :)
First off Saturday started out with the Bartons move. I was most certainly sad to find out that they were moving, but I wanted to at least be of service in helping to move them out. I was able to help them for about two hours and then I had to return home to get ready for our other errands. I cut my hair, cleaned up and shaved and showered. I got dressed and then my wife and I worked on our fafsa financial aid. Then we headed out to worship at the temple. We thoroughly enjoyed our time there.
Having attended the temple we headed over to an apartment that we had been thinking about possibly moving into, we went and looked at it and found a few things out of the ordinary. First off we found out that the office manager was, for a lack of better words, chaotic. She was frantically running all over the place, she seemed extremely frazzled and obviously needed to get something to eat. All of this would have been understandable except for she did say that if anyone else came to see the apartments she would probably have to flip them off. Needles to say after learning that the apartments there gave us nothing to gain and in reality much to lose, it was clear that we would have to do all we could to ensure that we will stay in our current apartment. But I seem to be getting off on a tangent, let me get to the highlight of the day.
So the most important thing was that we had a meeting with the full time missionaries on ASU campus with my co-worker David Thomas. It was an awesome experience!
First off we drove out to pick him up from his apartment in Phoenix, he was deep asleep and didn't hear me knock on the door, so I went back to the car and called his cell phone but all I got was a message machine so I left a message and then went back and knocked on the door really hard...he answered the door and seemed to be in a daze. Apparently he wasn't feeling super well and had actually been sleeping and didn't hear the door the first time, but when I knocked the second time he thought that it was just his crazy neighbors playing really loud music. He finally answered the door and then quickly got ready for the day. We left and got to the ASU tempe institute and found the missionaries waiting for us. They were excited to see us and let us in to the building and we went up and met right outside of the stake offices. They shared the 1st lesson all about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, our potential as children of a Heavenly Father, Prophets, Joseph Smith and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. It went extremely well and at the end, one of the Missionaries committed David to be baptized on March 12. David thought about it for a moment and then he said...yeah you know what??? "that is something that I want to do". He said he had recently been thinking a lot about how he needed to get baptized and be washed clean! It was so cool to see him accept that commitment and I'm excited to help him progress to that point.
After that meeting with the Missionaries, I was really hungry! So I asked him where we could get something to eat...we basically went on a wild goose chase that took us all around town until we finally settled with the "Chinatown Buffet" in Tempe. It was pretty good and David seemed to enjoy himself, he especially loved getting the Pistachio ice cream! We all ate and got pretty stuffed! Then we drove him home and came home ourselves to hit the hay before it got too late! :)
All in all it was a wondrous day!
Oh and one more thing...we booked our anniversary vacation hotel in Puerto Peñasco(Rocky Point), México! :) and we are way excited!
This weekend was definitely very awesome and it was full of many opportunities to step up to the plate and serve my fellow men I really do believe that there is no greater joy than to serve others :)
First off Saturday started out with the Bartons move. I was most certainly sad to find out that they were moving, but I wanted to at least be of service in helping to move them out. I was able to help them for about two hours and then I had to return home to get ready for our other errands. I cut my hair, cleaned up and shaved and showered. I got dressed and then my wife and I worked on our fafsa financial aid. Then we headed out to worship at the temple. We thoroughly enjoyed our time there.
Having attended the temple we headed over to an apartment that we had been thinking about possibly moving into, we went and looked at it and found a few things out of the ordinary. First off we found out that the office manager was, for a lack of better words, chaotic. She was frantically running all over the place, she seemed extremely frazzled and obviously needed to get something to eat. All of this would have been understandable except for she did say that if anyone else came to see the apartments she would probably have to flip them off. Needles to say after learning that the apartments there gave us nothing to gain and in reality much to lose, it was clear that we would have to do all we could to ensure that we will stay in our current apartment. But I seem to be getting off on a tangent, let me get to the highlight of the day.
So the most important thing was that we had a meeting with the full time missionaries on ASU campus with my co-worker David Thomas. It was an awesome experience!
First off we drove out to pick him up from his apartment in Phoenix, he was deep asleep and didn't hear me knock on the door, so I went back to the car and called his cell phone but all I got was a message machine so I left a message and then went back and knocked on the door really hard...he answered the door and seemed to be in a daze. Apparently he wasn't feeling super well and had actually been sleeping and didn't hear the door the first time, but when I knocked the second time he thought that it was just his crazy neighbors playing really loud music. He finally answered the door and then quickly got ready for the day. We left and got to the ASU tempe institute and found the missionaries waiting for us. They were excited to see us and let us in to the building and we went up and met right outside of the stake offices. They shared the 1st lesson all about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, our potential as children of a Heavenly Father, Prophets, Joseph Smith and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. It went extremely well and at the end, one of the Missionaries committed David to be baptized on March 12. David thought about it for a moment and then he said...yeah you know what??? "that is something that I want to do". He said he had recently been thinking a lot about how he needed to get baptized and be washed clean! It was so cool to see him accept that commitment and I'm excited to help him progress to that point.
After that meeting with the Missionaries, I was really hungry! So I asked him where we could get something to eat...we basically went on a wild goose chase that took us all around town until we finally settled with the "Chinatown Buffet" in Tempe. It was pretty good and David seemed to enjoy himself, he especially loved getting the Pistachio ice cream! We all ate and got pretty stuffed! Then we drove him home and came home ourselves to hit the hay before it got too late! :)
All in all it was a wondrous day!
Oh and one more thing...we booked our anniversary vacation hotel in Puerto Peñasco(Rocky Point), México! :) and we are way excited!
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Steve,
Can't thank you enough for your help Saturday morning. You are a service all-star! It meant a lot to us.
Nick
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