Last week of June

Us at Lulu's

The Sock Game

Dear Family!

Well this week has been quite the different week for Elder Bailey and I, the week flew by time wise, but we weren't able to really have too many lessons so the days felt like they were dragging on. 

Tuesday was a pretty interesting day. We had our typical district meetings, but I got another district that sat in because their DL was at a training meeting. There were like 7 companionships in the meeting so that was pretty enjoyable because we had participation from tons of people. It started to pour down water through out the meeting but farm was still on. As we were at the farm we were weeding between rain storms and helping with the Riding. Cool thing that happened, McKenna Erasmus is in this mission. She used to live in our ward like 10 years ago.

Wednesday we got to go help a member mow her lawn. She is getting old so she had a riding lawn mower. Of course I offered to use that because it was just an enjoyable two hours of service. She is the member that orders us pizza every other Saturday. We got to go visit Harold today, hurrah.... He got mad at us last week and we had no idea why. But we called him to see if we could visit this week and he got mad at me for making eye contact with him and looking away last week or something. Just causing contention and what not. We got to go visit the Cabanban family that night and set up an appointment to go play basketball with Brother Cabanban and some of his friends, but that fell through. 

Thursday was my birthday! We had our last interview with President and Sister Cooke. They made everyone sing to me so that was exciting. He forgot until we were about to leave and I thought it would have been funny if we had left because he was running through the church looking for me. We went to Betsy's afterwards and they fed us lunch and her kids were excited because we were having our birthdays. Other than that not much happened. We did a lot of contacting and planning for the rest of the day.

Saturday we spent the entire day doing service. We helped out Lulu mow her lawn and take care of the sticks and branches in her yard. We put all the wood in a pile and she gave us this sweet saw to cut the branches into small pieces and so we had a great time with that. While Bailey mowed, I power washed the deck and the Patio for her. We took care of the Matsen's chicken because they were both out town for the weekend. That was quite enjoyable. To finish the night we helped a new family move into the ward. They have a few kids so that meant tons of stuff to move. Luckily tons of helped showed up so we got it done surprisingly very quick.

Sunday we had our first and only appointment with any investigator for the week. Jacklyn was a referral from the sisters who was interested in the church and the joy our message brings. Our visit was short but sweet and to the point. 

Spiritual thought, when we take the sacrament we are taking the name of Christ upon ourselves. Think about having a little Christ statue pinned to our shirts, would we act the same way we would without it? Would we treat others differently? When we take the sacrament we take his name upon us. We are all representatives of him, we need to live his example.

Love,