Doing service for people on the run..

This week was good again! I went on exchanges with Elder Weber and
Elder Hearne, we call ourselves  the dirty hearing kids, and I went on
an exchange with Elder Hearne the day after. Last week we also had a
branch activity with pulled pork sandwiches and then members signed up
to act out Book of Mormon stories. We were involved with the Parkes
family skit, they acted out Lehi's vision, elder Hearne and I were
laman and Lemuel. Then we were involved with a recent convert named
Samuel, we did Samuel the lamamite. He was Samuel and preached to all
of us wicked nephites. We shot at him with weapons, missed then he
said see ya later and jumped off the wall. It was a lot of fun. Then
on Saturday we had service at the Phoenix marathon. Each zone in our
mission had 10 people volunteer, we were lucky enough to help with
that. We were at mile 19 for the marathon and mile 6 for the Half
marathon. We were at the stations where they give out water, Gatorade,
and energy gel packets, elder Hearne and I were at the very beginning
of all the stations. We assigned ourselves to do that so we could be
the first people the runners saw and we would also be the loudest
cheerers. We gave out vanilla energy gels with no caffeine, so as
people ran by we would scream VANILLA NO CAFFEINE!!!!!! Our station
ran out first by a long shot. Many people ran by and said "hey elders"
or "hey it's the missionaries!" One man ran by and said "is that some
of your Mormon juice?!" We found that hilarious. We then helped with
water and ran back and forth handing people water spilling it
everywhere. It was a good service opportunity and lots of fun. Also on
Saturday we went down to globe and San Carlos and taught our
investigator who will be baptized this Saturday, I am very excited for
him. Then we picked up a new investigator referred to us by the elders
in San Carlos. I think she is very interested in learning more about
what we have to teach, her boyfriend is also taking the lessons but
from the English elders. Hope y'all have another good week! I'm happy
Courtney made it home safe!
Love you all!
Elder Stotts

Refreshemnt Crew

Keep running...

Miracles

So this past week was good! I went on exchanges with the Spanish
missionaries, that was a good experience, I understood very little.
But saw many miracles. I also went on exchanges with elder Weber.
Exchanges are always good and I always learn something and see some
kind of miracle every exchange I go on. Something I find very
interesting here is how legal guns are. The other day I saw a man
riding a motorcycle with a pistol strapped to his back. If you are 18
here you can open carry weapons and you need to be 21 to conceal
carry. Also we'll be sitting in our apartment at night and will hear
random gunshots, that are possibly fireworks. I love this area. Also
something that is not very normal for me is how cheap gas is here.
This morning at circle k we saw gas for $1.37 per gallon. Is it like
that at home? We went up to globe this past week and taught out
investigator, he has a baptismal date and will be baptized March 19th.
He has stage 4 cancer and should pass very soon so he hasn't been able
to go to Church at all so we have gotten permission to baptize him in
his local ward. He is a great man I am happy I got to meet and teach
and become friends with him. I am so very excited for Courtney to
arrive home and am sad I will miss her homecoming but I know she will
be well!
Also I got an opportunity to use my broken  Spanish, we went to
contact a possible deaf referral and a woman lived there who only
spoke Spanish, I started by saying muy poco and I tried to ask her if
sordo aqui? Meaning deaf here? Then she spoke in Spanish more and said
uno dos tres espanol  and pointed to other apartments, I said sordo?
No no espanol. Oh ok ok then said nada sordas? No no, then we left. We
think she is a member and will give her information to the Spanish
missionaries. Fun experience
Love y'all
Have an awesome week
With love,
Elder Stotts

San Carlos

Hello all!
This week was another great week! Full of miracles! I know that with
faith mighty miracles come to pass!! It is starting to heat up here!
Today it was 85 and my companions tell me that it only rises from
here! I'm so stoked!
Love y'all
Elder Stotts

The only church bld in San Carlos

San Carlos

Small World

Hello!! This week was great as always here In the desert! I'm grateful
for the opportunity I've had to serve for these past 4 months. So this
past week we went to Tucson Arizona for a deaf event. It was an
interesting event and we talked with many people. While I was there I
decided to ask the Tucson elders for their mission president's phone
number because I remembered that Nan is related to the president of
their mission but didn't remember how. Turns out he is mom's first
cousin. We talked a little bit on the phone and said he wished he
could meet with me in person, but he was on his way to interviews a
few hours away. But I think I will be able to see him in person within
the next few months I'm here. Thank you so much for all the love and
prayers please send my way! Thank you all for caring about me as I've
been here! Have an awesome week!
Love!
Elder Stotts
Arizona Mesa Mission

In Tucson with the team from Utah

Throwback to meeting my Mission President as I arrived in Arizona