Arizona is a beautiful Wasteland

Hey everyone! I got 7 letters this week, so keep up the good work!

Monday I bought a cheap camera at walmart so that I could document my time here. It's not great, but I'm going to include photos so you guys know what's going on!

Tuesday there was a huge storm in the morning and we were luckily in training in a chapel, but it was insane and so loud and so dirty. The rain cleaned everything up though :D Then for dinner that night I ate fish tacos. Let me tell you, fish tacos are 100 times worse than normal tacos. I do not like fish, but thankfully I was able to choke it down and the member was none the wiser! Tuesdaynight we took some photos of the crazy lightning that was happening around our house, then we went in about 30 minutes early because we just both felt like we shouldn't be outside anymore. It felt weird to be in so early and to be "breaking a rule" but then a massive storm hit and trees were uprooted and we actually lost our power for a couple hours. We both felt so blessed that we were prompted to go home early and be safe from the storm. God is amazing. We went to bed before it turned back on, let me tell you, going to sleep in AZ without the AC is insanity.

Wednesday I got the best package in the mail! I got a pillowcase from Stephen that says Go and Do. It's perfect and I love it.

On Thursday morning we got to go to the Gilbert temple! It was so amazing. I went through the open house back in 2014, so it was fun to be there doing work. I could definitely see myself getting married in the Gilbert temple. 

We also had 3 dinner apts on Thursday. I've heard stories of this happening, but I never thought it would happen to me. We had dinner at 5 at a members house, then there is this wonderful girl that we've been meetin with that just had a baby. Her husband is a member, but works abroad, so she's alone a lot so we go over and do service for her. SHe wanted to feed us to "give back:" and that was the only night that worked for her. In between apts we went to visit this hispanic family that I love. Like I want to be friends with them for eternity, anyway, they had just bought a bunch of chinese food and invited us to eat with them. I tried to say no, but mexicans and peruvians are very pushy with food and want to make you fat. So we ate. By the time we got to the non-members house we were sooo full! She ran outside to check the mail, and while she was doing that we shoved some of our food into a plastic bag and hid it in our purses. I felt so bad, but she wanted to sdo something nice for us and we literally couldn't stomache another bite. I'm glad it happened because it's a funny story, but I hope it doesn't happen again.

Friday no one was home. Literally every door we knocked on and every person that we had planned to visit. But we had a ward fiesta, so that was fun.

Saturday I went on exchanges! I went with the Sister Training LEader and she's spanish speaking, so I got to sit through several lessons where I had no idea what was happening. It was still fun though and I got out of my comfort zone A LOT.

This morning we went on a hike with a recent convert. She's awesome and I wanted to keep hiking and go to the top, apparently I like hiking a lot more than they do. THe recent convert is mexican, and my companion is filipino, so they just said it's a white person thing. It really might be, but whatever, it was fun!

Anyway, I hope everything is going well for everyone!

Again, my address is
3378 w. South Butte Rd

Queen Creek, AZ 85142

Send me things, I would love to hear from all of you!

All the best, 

Sister Holbrook

Oh, one last thing, I saw a roadrunner pounce on a lizard and then swing it back and forth and smash it into the rocks with it's beak. It was extremely violent, but extremely entertaining.