Feb. 1-7 Week 5
There is no joy in Seattle, the Seahawks
have struck out.
We went to church on
Sunday. I don’t know if it was because
of the Super Bowl, but it wasn’t hard to find a place to sit. We stopped by to pick up Mary, but she had
spent the night in the E.R. with her leg and she was still in bed. After we came home we listened to the
fireworks go off every time the Seahawks scored. We knew they had lost because we didn’t hear
any the last 2 min. (I had been checking
the score once in a while). Our nice
weather is over for the next 10 days.
Rain is in the forecast and much cooler.
We met a new sister in ward Sunday, Fely Baluca. Her daughter was here a month ago and asked
the Elders to work with her mom to get her active again. (See what an influence you kids have on your
parents) Fely is a sweetheart, working two jobs to
survive, but we will have her and her brother and sister (who live with her) to
dinner this week and the Elders will teach them all. The sister and the brother are not members,
so say a little prayer for all of us…
Monday we fed the Elders in our area. We needed to get a few
things to feed them so while we were shopping Joyce gave out a pass along
card. We fed them the chilled strawberry
soup. It really is pretty good. It’s like a strawberry smoothie that you eat
with a spoon. They gave us a lot of
helpful ideas and asked us to visit a few people they have worked with. We were going to go to the temple tomorrow
with more missionaries, but the office said they didn’t need us to drive so we
are taking a sister to the doctor for the Elders. Elder Tan is still waiting for a visa so he
can go to Tiawan. Keep him in your
prayers. The ward is doing a 40 day fast
now for missionary work. Someone in the
ward will be fasting each day for the next 40 days. We fasted on Tuesday and, if you want to join
us, we are fasting again on the 12th.
We took the sister, Nola Faka’iloatonga, to the doc. today
and after they saw her they called an ambulance and took her to the E.R. Her daughter was with the kids so we didn’t
know if she could get to the hospital so we followed the ambulance there. Her daughter did show up later. She is from Tonga, so she goes to the Tongan
Branch. Her two daughters that live
with her are less active members that go to our ward, but they haven’t been to
church in a long time. They have a
broken front step so we are going to Lowes and get some nails and a hammer so
we can fix it. Finally, something that
Art feels comfortable doing. We left the
hospital and decided to go to the N.A.A.M. since it was close.
Wednesday was our
District training meeting. We spent a
couple of hours there with more role playing.
The mission is pushing hard for members to become more involved in
missionary work. Our ward is very
supportive but some wards in the stake are having a hard time getting members
involved, especially the priesthood.
After this meeting we rode to Kent with the Sr. sister missionaries in
our ward and went to a meeting with the all the Sr. missionaries in the
mission. There are 3 companionships not
counting the office staff. We are the
only couple. The other two companionships are sisters. The mission is concerned because some of the
Sr. are going home in April and they have no one to replace them. The office is already two couples short so
they had to pull in a couple that are doing a family history mission.
Thursday we spent the morning doing a service project with
the missionaries in our ward. We put
bags on doors (like scouting for food), for one of the food banks in the
area. We will go back next week and pick
them up. They have all kinds of rules on
where to deliver so we had to keep track of the addresses. We were in a nice neighborhood by Lake
Washington. It is one of the few
neighborhoods in our area that doesn’t get food from the food bank.
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| Senior Sisters Harrison and Chamberlen |
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| Elder Spilbury and Russell |
In the afternoon we
went to the N.A.A.M. for a training tour.
They are very excited to have us start an indexing program. Some of the volunteers do it now but they
want to expand it, so more can be done on records for black people. They are in need of more computers so if you
have any ideas on how to get some let us know.
The two they have now were donated by the church.
We stopped by on our way home to check on Mary. She is still having problems with her
leg. We are going by tomorrow evening to
teach her again. In the evening we met
with all the missionaries in the ward and the Ward Mission Leader. This is a good meeting to get assignments and
make sure we are not going over the same ground. All they assigned us to do is keep knocking
on doors. There are too many members in our area that nothing is known about
them to make specific assignments. We
are going around to the sisters who have birthdays and taking them some cookies
and hot pot pads, thanks to PhyllisJ.
The R. S. said this would be a big help.
Our ward is too big for them to attempt this.
The Sr. sisters will do their area and we will do ours. We have called
ahead when we have a phone # but have found that most are wrong or they can’t
speak English.
We went to our class Fri. morning and then shopping so we can feed the Elders on Monday. We invited the Spanish speaking Elders so we will have seven of them. While at Wal-Mart we ran into the young man who we met the first week we were here and he told us he is getting baptized the 1st part of March, so we were pretty excited. We will try to attend his baptism in Federal Way. His name is Jeremiah Foalima and he is so excited to become a member. We had an appointment to teach Mary after her dinner, but she had left when we got there.
Sat. morning we went to W.W.
We go to a different class each week so we will met different
people. After lunch we hit the
streets. We had a few birthday visits to
do close by our apartment so we walked to them and stopped at some of the
members we were looking for on our way to make the birthday visits. We had
several not home and 2 not interested but we had a good visit with them and
invited them to church. Diona Vergara
wasn’t home, but her daughter was very nice and friendly when she found out who
we were. Art asked if they would like Home Teachers and Visiting Teachers, she
surprised us by saying “Yes.” It has
rained most of the week and lots today so by the time we got back home we were
pretty wet.
In fact one family, the
Bacus’s let us in because we looked so wet.
The girl’s in the family just got baptized and they were so cute when
they found out we were missionaries and there for Sunshine’s birthday. Another lady, Sonia Swatack, won’t come to
church because she’s afraid she’ll be robbed while she is gone, but she did
give us a piece of cake and she invited us to come back and visit. She liked the hot pot pads. On the way home we found some real cool
churches and a couple of place we want to try to eat at. I won’t even take a guess at the names or
what is on the menu, we just know they are not McDonalds or Subway.
Here is your assignment for the week: One of our purposes in life is to help each
other understand and rely on the teaching and atonement of Jesus Christ,
qualify for the blessings of the temple, and prepare ourselves, our families
and others for eternal life with our
Father in Heaven. Who are the others
and how do we do this?
Love Elder
and Sister Knowles
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| Finally got some pic on the wall |
P.S. Don’t forget
the 12th!
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