3/6/17

Mother and Family,

I was finally transferred! But I was transferred to the other YSA Ward
in the mission: Paradise Foothills YSA. It covers all of Phoenix in
our mission, some of south Scottsdale, and all of Paradise Valley.
There are well over a million people in the area we cover.

What a truly splendid last couple of weeks. We had some powerful
experiences. Please forgive me for not writing for such an extensive
amount of time. These last couple of weeks we have found so many of
God's children that really are prepared to receive the gospel. The
week before this last week or two we spent substantial time transfer
Planning, which is basically when Elder B, President Robinson, and
I sit down for endless hours and pray and plan and think about who and
how and when and why missionaries will be moved from one area to the
next. It is a spiritual process. I have learned so much about
revelation and how it actually works with our best efforts. We sang in
church with one of our recent converts, from one of his R-LDS Hymn
Books. It was great! After almost a year in the Scottsdale YSA, it was
over! It is so good, but sad. But the Lord has called me elsewhere! So
elsewhere I will go. We also had an incredible opportunity this last
week to have two brothers from the missionary department come out
proselyting with us and also had a lot of powerful meetings with them.
We had Brother Cates who is the first contact for all MTCs in the
Western Hemisphere come with us. He was PHENOMENAL. He taught us so
much.

We went hiking again this week. This is the Paradise Valley Zone!