Happy Easter!

With Zemir and Lorenzo

 

 

 

 

Dear Family!

This has been a very great week! The temperature has been pretty great, it really just feels like spring is on its way! It's amazing because the blossoms are starting to bloom so we are seeing all these beautiful trees everywhere! We are spending P-day in DC because we want to see the blossoms and we have tickets to go to the top of the Washington monument.

This last Tuesday was the day before transfers, we had a last great meeting with out districts and took photos. After the meeting commenced, we went home and changed so we could go work with the Horses. Working with horses and the kids really makes me want to own horses...but they are way too high maintenance. We get all the fun with them and don't have to do any of the gritty work.

Wednesday we went out with a priest who just recently got his mission call to Vancouver Washington, Spanish speaking. He is coming out with us pretty often which is a great experience for him. We visited a recent convert who is having some doctrinal related issues, she just needs our help to understand it more. We went out with Brother Lewis and Alex ( Betsy's son) that night. I got to take him and we visited a few of his home teaching families. We had a great discussion about missions and the importance of him finding out for himself if it's right for him. 

Thursday we had a pass off lesson with the Hermanas. We found this Brazilian named Zemir, he is super solid and we met him at a park. They had a great talk with him and invited him back to church. He came last week so we were hoping he would come this week. It wasn't easy to pass him off, but we needed to because we can't really communicate with him. That night we had a lesson with Betsy at the Matsen home. (Brother Matsen is the ward mission leader) The lesson went very well and she understands the gospel more than most people at her stage. 

Friday we spent a solid chunk of our day at a retirement home visiting with people there. Older people love to talk, especially when someone is listening to them. We visited a new move in in that area and visited with her about her life. It's a Jewish retirement community, but we have a few members who live there. That night we had dinner with The Palomos and spent a good chunk talking about how we can help Harold. Brother Palomo is his home teacher and is wanting to find a way to help him. 

Saturday Elder Fitzgerald and I went on exchanges because we had to go to a Leadership training meeting. It was great because I got to play the mission song and we learn some great ways to help our districts. The meeting finished and we just spent the rest of the night contacting a few of their less actives.

Sunday was Easter! Well it was a different Easter because we spent the whole day teaching people or going to church. We started off going out to home teach with Brother Scardena. When we had finished, we headed to church. Our investigator Eric came to church which was amazing! He is super solid. We got a new second counselor and a new Ward mission leader. Brother Matsen is now a counselor and Brother Bloem is now our Ward Mission leader. We had dinner with the Ballams and spent some time talking with them. 

All in all it was a pretty great week, it's been a while since an investigator came to church, so we hope to keep up the great work.

Love,