"Let's Take Em Hi-i-i-i-i-i-igh"

The Mission (the mission), is like an enormous clock (is like an enormous clock), it only works (it only works), if all the little cogs mesh TOGETHER!!!


And boy does it work when we are in sync with the spirit. Yeah we gon' testify, came up in the mish feelin extra fly, till the day we die, we gon' touch the sky!


There have been some very spirit-filled lessons this week. The work is coming together and gadzooks! our friends are really starting to progress out here in Tempe. Just put one foot in front of the other...


In other news, we were weekly planning, and I had a can of Pringles (shoutout Pearsons). I reached in the can and could barely get the Pringles out without roughly pouring them risking getting crumbs all over or more than the desired number of Pringles. Can we please take a moment to think about those unfortunate souls whose hands are just too large to get their own Pringles. As you go about your week, please, think about the frustration and embarrassment it must cause them. There is a reason I've never seen a 7-footer eat Pringles. Just sayin. 


MIRACLE TIME!!!
It has been over 110 for more than a week straight now. Some may call that warm weather, and we are on bikes... However, when I focus and work hard, it just feels a tad warmer than normal. God has been blessing us with strength to push through our circumstances, instead of just changing it to cooler weather.
This reminds me of a story Elder Bednar told about someone who used the Enabling power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ to get through a hard time, "He did not pray that his circumstances would be changed. He prayed that he would be strengthened to deal with his circumstances."
(In the Strength of Our Lord, BYU Speech, 2001)


That's what we all need to do!


Mr. Clean,
Elder Sheppert


"Being right is part, and only part, of being righteous" -Jack Welch


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