Serving the Lord in Arizona: August 2014

Aug. 12 2014

Didn't mean to catch him without his usual smile. But Joel just got back from Cabo with his family. We both know that prayer is able to overcome some of life's greatest challenges!

From Turlock CA, to Parker CO, to Phoenix AZ. — with Paige Morley Baker, Elder Boyd Haskell and Joel

I love these goons. Pat and Taylor are the coolest. Look out for your families, because the matter a ton!

From Turlock CA, to Parker CO, to Phoenix AZ. — with Elder Boyd Haskell, Paige Morley Baker and Patrick

I love these goons. Pat and Taylor are the coolest. Look out for your families, because the matter a ton!

From Turlock CA, to Parker CO, to Phoenix AZ. — with Elder Boyd Haskell, Paige Morley Baker and

I love these goons. Pat and Taylor are the coolest. Look out for your families, because the matter a ton!

From Turlock CA, to Parker CO, to Phoenix AZ. — with Elder Boyd Haskell, Paige Morley Baker and Patrick

From Turlock CA, to Parker CO, to Phoenix AZ. — with Paige Morley Baker, Elder Boyd Haskell and Nick

Alfredo Garcia at temple

Temple night. — with Elder Boyd Haskell, Alfredo Garcia and Damien Garcia at Gilbert Arizona Temple.

How can you not want to just love these guys?! Holden told us today that he wants his "mom, dad, sister, brothers, and dog" all to be with him in heaven! He then taught us all about the temple! I love them too much!

From Sherwood OR, to Phoenix AZ. — with Elder Boyd Haskell, Lisa , Golden Boy, Parky, Burke, B and Cal.

Aug.5,2014

Transfers are approaching on the 13th this month.

Elder Baker and I are responsible for our district, four of us elders and

four sisters. We do random iPad checks (for obedience purposes, we

don't own the iPads and therefore have to keep them free from personal

stuff, ie selfies, etc.)

Love,

Boyd

So good to catch up with Joel! It's easy to fall apart with friends so you've got to make sure to keep up those relationships.
Got to talking about prayer. Reminded me of this line from a hymn, "Prayer will change the night to day."

From Turlock CA, to Parker CO, to Phoenix AZ. — with Bailey Mae Baker, Elder Boyd Haskell and Joel Carlson.

Post by Bud Parker.

One of the more motivating videos I have seen in a while. This reminds me a lot of something we call the Warrior Ethos, which is "I will always place the mission first! I will never accept defeat! I will never quit! I will never leave a fallen comrade!" If we tell ourselves the only option is victory and we plan accurately to get ourselves there, we will not, we cannot fail. Also reminds me of motivation I got from my Drill Sergeants during my training with the U.S. Army, and from mentors since then. I love the part where he talks about turning pain into strength. Super powerful. Makes me want to re-up! Hooah!

7.29.14

Today marks the beginning of week four with bedbugs. I think I am just going to let them eat me. I am covered with bites from my ankles to my neck, and I have a single bite on each ear. I was scratching the other day and as soon as I was satisfied with one area, another would begin to itch, and I spent a good five minutes doing that before I just stopped caring. This sucks. But tonight the other elders and I are going to go throw my mattress into the Salt River and burn it, which sounds impossible, but it's not because there's no river in the Salt River. It's bone dry. It shows up blue on maps and stuff, but there's not actually water there. Back in the day I guess there were some prisoners in the federal prison up north of Tempe and they broke out. Their plan was to get to the river, where they would steal a boat and escape to Mexico. Not the worst plan, but when they got to the river and realized 1.) there were no boats because 2.) there's no water, they just gave up and walked all the way back to the prison and turned themselves in. It was also June, so they probably would have died outside. Makes me wonder how all the homeless people survive the summers. It's been about 115 every day and even at the coolest part of the night it's still 95 degrees. This is insane.

But yeah,
Elder Haskell the Younger

Me and my compa teaching skype lessons from out apartment this week.

Who needs slacks?

I also met brother and sister Wolfe in the Gilbert temple. Apparently

they live in Maricopa, Supercool.

Elder Morley Peebles Baker I love this kid. Once a Hilmar kid, always one. Got to talk about praying to God like we would to our Dad. "Spoke to God like he was talkin to a friend And I said, Son, now whered you learn to pray like that? He said, Ive been watching you, dad aint that cool?... See More — with Bob Baker, Elder Boyd Haskell and Manuel Michael Bettencourt. LikeLike · · Share · July 24 near Phoenix, AZ

Comment from Sis. Sorrell....Four of the most awesome gentlemen that I know. I sure love these guys. So honored to have had the opportunity to attend the temple with them, my hubby, my son Avery and be there for Brother Salisbury's day. — with Elder Morley Peebles Baker, Elder Boyd Haskell, Elder Kirk Rohrbacher and Elder Rustin Babcock at Gilbert Arizona Temple.

Love ya Morley's! From Sherwood OR to Phoenix AZ — with Elder Boyd Haskell, Lisa Draper Morley and Burke Morley.

7.22.14

I've endured a week of bedbugs with no solution that worked only to discover twenty minutes ago that we have a bedbug spray in our cleaning supplies. So dumb.
I really suck at soccer. One zone leader is from Argentina, and the other from Guatemala, and they're ridiculously good. They make the Mexicans look like white people. We get trounced.
My companion and I are the new iPad tech support missionaries, and we just rolled out a new software for the restrictive profiles that keep our iPads from being regular iPads, and so we've bother been on the phone for about four hours a day this last week, every day, trying to help two hundred and twenty three missionaries who don't know what they're doing (or think they DO know what they're doing and don't) update their iPads. It's been a trip.
We went to a Mexican wedding for a couple named Arnoldo and Rita. They're all Spanish, and we taught them for a few weeks, Rita is a member and Arnoldo got married to her and then baptized. It was super cool! We have another set of elders in the Spanish ward with us along win five sister missionaries. I'll add the pictures.
That's about it. It's about 115-119 degrees every day now...we're on bikes mostly. It's freaking hot. My Spanish is better. I prayed for the first time in Spanish early last week. Probably one of the most spiritual experiences of my mission. We teach every investigator how to pray, and it's easy right? Yeah now do it in a language you thought you knew but really don't. Talk about feeling inadequate. It was wonderful because I got to feel like my investigators do when we as them to pray. I got to switch places with them for a few moments, and I felt God's love, not the strongest I've ever felt it, but I'll never forget that moment...

That's the wrap. Still in Maryvale.

Arnoldo and Rita were married this last weekend! Arnoldo is going to be baptized in a week! Such a happy day. — with Elder Francisco Macalupú, Elder Jordan Norton, Elder Boyd Haskell, Hermana Claudia Guadalupe Acosta, Hermana Katie Bryant and Sister-Andraya Funke.
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Benjamin Moreno muchas felicidades Elderes y hermanas, por sus logros!!
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