Week
12 March 22-28
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
The
Lorax
Sunday: We picked
up Bro. Q. Baker for church and then stopped to pick up Mary but she wasn’t
feeling well so she didn’t go. Church
was good with lots of less active members there and a few investigators, also. We have a new lady in the ward now that we
take home after church now, so we end up with a car load. We usually have a walker or a wheelchair in
the back of the pick-up. In the evening we had dinner at the Meldrums with
Skyway B Elders and the Kolars. Just to
let everyone know how the Chinese Book of Mormon turned out, we had the correct
one, but found out that he can read English better than Chinese. His mother wants to read the Book of Mormon
and she does read Simplified Chinese so it worked out ok.
Monday: We walked to the Buddhist Temple to work on
Soveth’s computer assignment. They were
very friendly to us. They really make you feel special. Joyce and Soveth worked on the power point
while Art searched for the info on the iphone, then Art would pass the info to
Joyce and Soveth so they could put the power point together. It was a slow
process, but we got it done. While we
were working on the project Art thought he heard them talking in the next room
and he heard the word Mormons several times. We’re not sure if they were talking about us,
but they did come and close the door so we couldn’t hear them. It’s hard to
tell because when they speak Cambodian it all sounds the same. They also had us
look over the letters they are sending to the city council inviting them to the
New Year Celebration in April. We made a
few changes in the grammar and changed a few words. We are pretty excited to
help with it and it sounds very entertaining. They invited us to stay for lunch, but we know
they are on a limited budget so we thanked them for the invitation, but didn’t
stay.
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| Soveth Moun |
It rained all the way home, but we
had our umbrella this time. Since it was p-day we spent the rest of the day
cleaning. There is a big push in the
mission for the missionaries to spring clean their apartments. We needed to go
shopping, but ran out of time.
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| Easter package from Rachel |
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| FHE |
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| Meldrums |
In the
evening we went to F.H.E. We pick up a
couple of sisters from the ward and give them a ride.
Tuesday: We had
our district meeting in the morning, as we do every Tuesday. We were asked to
set two goals. 1. better companion study time
2. act on the promptings we get, are the ones we decided on, and we were
also asked to come with a question, so we asked how do you help members
rediscover the faith and desire they had when they joined the church. Any
thoughts or scriptures you have would be helpful and no Sunday School answers. Shonshata is struggling with that. Since we cleaned yesterday we ran to the store
and did some shopping. Mary H. asked us
to bring soup because she was supposed to have her teeth pulled yesterday so we
bought her some soup and dropped it by, but she was gone and she didn’t get her
teeth pulled. We had to hurry home and
prepare a lesson (Joyce did), and treats, so we could teach the Galbraith
family a F.H.E lesson. We are never sure
if they will let us in but they did and our Easter lesson went well. Our next appointment was with the Acosta
family just down the street from where we were at so we knocked on a few doors
on our way there.
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| its pop in the mugs |
The Acostas are fun to
teach even though we can’t understand much of what is going on. We have a few
appointments tomorrow so we got our assignments from the Elders so we can do
our companion study on that topic. Nothing like a little motivation to help
meet your goals. (Goal #1).
Wednesday: We did service at Northwest Harvest for 2
hrs. in the morning. The new policy for
the mission is no projects with elders and sister combined. Our zone sent
elders and the Kent zone sent sisters so we have to get it worked out for next
week. The Z.L.s want to make sure President Eaton doesn’t find out since they
are the ones in charge. Doesn’t matter
to us since we go both weeks. We did box
15,120 lbs. of oranges. We made a quick trip to Beehive Books in Puyallup
to pick up some teaching supplies, then hurried home for an appointment that
canceled. We had another appointment an
hour later with Skyway A to teach Ruth and Rubi Acosta. The cancelled appointment gave Joyce time to
prepare a lesson for them on the Word of Wisdom. The
Elders were very impressed with her lesson, now they ask whenever we teach
there for her help. Art just holds up
the pictures. We are trying to start the
A.R.P. in Skyway so we skipped the Wednesday meetings we had and went to Renton
to attend there and get familiar with the program. It was a good meeting. All we need now is to contact LDS Social
Service and we should be able to start the program in Skyway next week.
Thursday: We did our first real tour at the Museum
today. It was a group of 60, 6th
graders, plus teachers and some parents.
We divided them into two groups and Joyce took one and Art took
one. They got a 40 min. tour and then an
activity. It must have been ok because
they asked us to do two more in April, or maybe they are just short of
docents. All the kids went outside to
eat lunch since it was such a nice day.
It would have been nice to join them but we had to hurry to the Buddhist
Temple to help Soveth with his computer assignment. We hope we did it right. He will find out tonight. They are getting ready for the New Year
celebration and want up to come back and help later this week if it doesn’t
rain. We hurried from there to an appointment
with Skyway B and Nola, but she forgot and wasn’t home. That gave us time to hurry back home so Joyce
could make dinner for the Johnsons.
Joyce Johnson had her baby on Monday and was coming home from the
hospital today. The trip to the Jonhsons
made for an eventful end to the day. We
parked and were getting out of the pick-up when this lady started yelling for
Art to come and talk to her. She thought
he was with the apartment complex and wanted to complain about somebody. He told her who we were and that we were here
to see the Johnsons and their new baby and bring then supper. As we were talking to her the security guard
came up and ordered us off the property yelling at us “right now.” He thought we were going tracting. We
explained that we were here to visit somebody, then the lady started yelling at
him for bothering us. We left them
yelling at each other and went and visited the Johnsons. Their new baby is so cute, but we think that
because Brother Johnson has stayed home to help his wife (she had a C-section)
he may have lost his job. He said he wanted to find a new job anyway. Sister Johnson wanted a blessing so Art took
care of that and we talked about them coming to church so they can have the
baby blessed. Brother Johnson walked out
to the parking lot with us. He wanted us to know about the rest of his family
and the problems he has with them. He has a daughter in Ghana that he raised,
but he is not the physical father so they wouldn’t let her come to the U.S.
with him. He is trying to find some way to get her to America. The security guard was also out there, but he
just wanted to apologize this time.
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| The Johnson's new baby boy |
Friday: It has been a long week or we are getting
old. Lots of errands first thing this
morning. We needed to check with Family
Services so we can start the ARP next week.
After wandering around a bit we found it only to find the director not
there. He did call us later so we got
the info we needed. From there we made a
trip the Employment Office to see what help they could offer.
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| Debra Driggs |
At noon we had an appointment to help a lady
weed her flower bed. After we finished we had to hurry home and change
then hurry to the far end of the ward.
Our plan was to take Brother Johnson to the employment office, but he
was stuck in traffic on the freeway. He
went to get a prescription for his wife.
Last week, because of an accident on the freeway, some people were 6
hrs. getting home. He was very sorry,
but we did get to check on his wife while we were there and take more food. We
wanted to take him to the Employment office because his English is fair when he
speaks, but he has a hard time with reading and writing. Plus we really like them
and wanted to help them out. Another quick trip across Skyway for our
appointment with Ruth and Rubi. Joyce
taught most of the lesson and it went very well. The pick-up was very dirty so we stopped on
the way home and washed it, then came home to relax a bit. Tomorrow looks like more of the same.
Saturday: We ran to W.W. first thing in the morning. We had a few minutes before the meeting
started so Art went and bought a new hat.
He needed something to keep the sun off his bald head. The afternoon was
empty so we took to the streets. Joyce
doesn’t mind it and Art hates it. He
thinks it a waste of time and that we should be doing service instead. The ward asked us to do it so it has got to
be done. We didn’t have a lot of luck,
but we did talk to a nice group of young adults that were moving somebody into
a house so we left cookies with them.
Joyce was going to go to the Womens Broadcast, but Art messed up on the schedule
and booked us to volunteer at the museum.
Since Joyce couldn’t go there we went with Skyway B elders to visit a
lady Joyce wanted to meet. She wasn’t
home (we did have an appointment), so we visited another lady that lives in the
same complex and showed her the new church video, “Because He Lives.” It is very good so take time to watch
it. We next went to the museum to do our
volunteering job there. The program was
about black cartoon artists. We directed
people on where to go. Some important
lady from Hollywood that was on the panel read Joyce’s name tag and wanted to know
why she volunteered at the museum (we were about the only white people at the
program.) Joyce explained to her that our church had put in the genealogy
library there at the museum and that she and Elder Knowles had come to
volunteer there, but while at the museum they were asked to train as docents
and take tours through the museum. She
read her name tag again out loud and walked off. That has been our week. We thought it was going to be a slow week but
it seems to fill-up in a hurry. Here is our preaching: Watch the clip of President Monson’s “Dare to
Stand Alone”. It is on Mormon
Momments. Watch it and think about if
you are willing to stand alone, then watch the new clip “Because He Lives” and
see what you think then.
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| FHE |
Love you all Elder and Sister Knowles
P.S We loved the pictures you have sent us!!!
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| Sunday dinner |
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| The light rail |
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| Northwest Harvest |
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| Packing oranges |
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| new hat |
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| museum |
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| museum |
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