Week 16   April 19-25

        It is not easy to be a Latter-day Saint. It was not meant to be easy.

                                                                                Elder Q.L.Cook

 Here is our preaching: The standards established by revelation are contained in the scriptures through

 the doctrine of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  The principles of gospel life we follow

 are based on doctrine and the standards accord with the principles.  We are

 bound to the standards by the covenents as administered through the

 ordinances of the gospel by those who have received priesthood authority and

 keys of authority.  We do not set the standards, but we are commanded to teach

 them and maintain them.  Boyd K. Packer

Your assignment for the week is to memorize Jacob 6:12, even the little ones can do this one!

Sunday:  It was Stake Conference today and it was broadcast in the Skyway building so we didn’t have to go to the Stake Center.  Every time they moved the camera we would lose the feed so somebody called them and told them to stop moving the camera.  One of the notes from conference was to open up your home to single members of the church and let them feel of your love and activities, if you cannot open up your home, open up your pew in the chapel and have them sit by you. 50% of the people in our stake are single.  Several members asked where Joyce was last Sunday since she wasn’t in R.S. with Mary (she was teaching Primary).  They said Mary was very disruptive.  We asked the senior sister that was with Mary and she told us that Mary was no different than other times.  Some members just aren’t use to her yet.  The senior sisters had us over for dinner then we all went together to the Mission Devotional in Puyallup.

Monday P-Day:  The Skyway B elders needed us to meet them at the senior sister’s place so they could get their hair cut.  Sister Chamberlain cuts their hair but they have to have three elders present when they are around sister missionaries so they always invite Art along.  Since it was p-day and the weather was good, we drove to Mount Rainier and went on a small hike. 

Most of the park is still closed because of the snow so our choices were limited.  The 10 day forecast is rain every day so today might be are last good day for a while.  We were going to figure out the bus ride, to the church, in West Seattle, but we can do that in the rain.  The Mission President wants us to see if it is easier for members, who ride the bus, to go there instead of the Skyway building.  The hike we found to do at Mt. Rainier was called, “The Grove of the Patriarchs.  It is a hike where the Ohanapecosh River surrounds an island where some of the Douglas fir trees are more than a thousand years old and there are also Western Red Cedar Trees.  The trees were over 200 feet tall and so wide around that you could not get your arms even halfway around them.  Needless to say, we were in our heighth of glory when we discovered this forest!

Tuesday:  No two days are ever the same is Skyway.  We started with a district meeting in the morning with President Eaton and his wife showing up unexpected.  It is always nice to see them.  More role playing on using the Book of Mormon.  Our appointment at the Buddhist Temple was cancelled so we went out and knocked on doors.  One lady told us we had the wrong place then as we were walking away she came back out and invited us in to her home.  She said the person we were looking for did live there. We think they are cousins. We talked for a bit and Art tried out his Tagalog, magandong gabi.  She laughed and said it should be magandong  tanghali.  Good afternoon instead of good evening.  The member wasn’t too excited to have us there but the lady that invited us in said we could come back and she would take a Book of Mormon in Tagalog.  It was raining (Seattle Spit) most of the time we were walking.  A young Chinese girl answered a door and invited us in.  She was less active but very nice to us, not the way less actives treat us. When we were leaving she noticed Joyce’s coat was wet so she got a towel and wiped it off for her.  Our A.R.P. meeting was at 7:00 and it went very well.

  When you use the atonement as the source for addition recovery, the spirit is very strong.  Each week we have a few new people show up.  We had to hurry from that meeting to the Acostas for a lesson.  This is where we don’t understand much of what is said but they are such great lessons.  We even learned a few new words, adobo, obe, maraming salamath and mu sa rap .  They always feed us after the lessons and we feel such a warmth that radiates when Elder Palo teaches. 

Wednesday: On Wednesdays we always do service at Northwest Harvest.  The Elders and Sister now split up and each goes every other week, but we go every week.  We boxed up 6,000 pounds of dried beans.  The senior sisters (they like to be called the elder sisters) and Skyway B rode with us. Northwest is not far from WinCo so we made a quick stop there and then took the elders (sisters and Skyway B) out to lunch at Ivers, down along Lake Washington.  At 4:00 we met with Skyway A elders to teach Ruth and Rubi.  Ruth is getting baptized this Friday so it was mostly just a review.  In the evening we had our meeting with the Bishop.

Thursday:  Thursday is our W.W. day.  We took care of that which was good for Joyce and not for Art.  He shouldn’t have had the fries at Ivers the day before.  The Bishop had given us a food order that we needed to fill and then deliver so we ran to the Bishop Store House and then met Skyway B elders so they could help us with the food and teach a lesson.  It went well and the member committed to go to church on Sunday if we pick him up. It rained all day so we went back home and worked on a few phone calls we needed to make and some e-mails we needed to send out.  Art has to speak on Sunday so he worked on his talk.  Joyce has to play the piano at the baptism so she practiced and we made Emily’s peanut butter rice crispy bars and Rachel’s “pretzel recipe” with Rollo’s and, M&Ms, between everything that we were doing. The pretzels and rice crispy bars are for the baptism.

Friday:  We hate to say it but we were kind of lazy today. We started off with the institute class and then went to breakfast with the Bensons. 

Ruth's baptism

It was pouring rain so we went back home and Joyce worked on practicing the piano (keyboard) and getting ready for the baptism and Art worked on his talk.  We needed to go to the baptism early so we could runoff the music and set up for the refreshments so that took up most of the afternoon and the evening.  The baptism went well with a good turnout.  The ward is very supporting of the new converts.

Saturday: We did another tour at the Museum today.  The tour was for Mount Zions Baptist church in Bremerton, WA.  We were told it would be around 15 people, then maybe 30, but when we arrived there were 47 plus they came early and were waiting for us.  Our plan was to tag team the tour but we had to divide the group and each take a tour.  Large groups are a challenge to keep their attention.  Mostly it went well.  Our appointment to teach with Skyway B Elders didn’t happen so we went and made a few visit that we needed to do.  In the evening, we attended the Stake Dance.  Our ward was in charge and they asked us to help out. 

We helped with setting up decorations and the refreshments.  Art thought his job was to sample everything before, during and after it was served.  With clean up and taking members home it made for a late night, around 12:30.  That is the latest we have been up for a long time.  Thank heaven for tomorrow being Sunday, except for Art having (getting) to talk in church. Love you Art and Joyce

                                    Week 15    Transfers  April 12-18

Remember: The road that leads to Babylon or Zion is the same.  What makes more of a difference than where you are on that road is the direction you are facing.

We will do our preaching at the first, that way if you get tired of reading this letter, at least you will have gotten the important part.  The topic for the speakers on Sunday was repentance.  One of them is a surgeon and he made the comparison of sin and cancer.  If they are both taken care of early, they are much easier to treat.  If left untreated both can be deadly, one temporally and one spiritually. It’s not only sin but also apathy about the Gospel that can grow until it is very hard to overcome.  The cure for apathy:  Read the Book of Mormon every day!  

Safeco Field and Space needle

 Sunday:  Mary went to church today.  She wasn’t ready when we stopped to pick her up so we had to wait.  That made us late so we had to sit on the back row, which turned out to be a good thing.  After the last speaker she raised her hand and started yelling that she had a question.  Joyce had to let her know that you don’t ask questions in sacrament meeting.  We always worry when she talks because she tells the same story over each time.  Joyce taught primary (she teaches Ruth and Rubi when they stay for Primary).  That meant Art had to take Mary to Sunday school.  She said the opening and closing prayer and only interrupted the class once, (if you don’t count her telling her story again), to ask for a pen.  Art was glad to go to Priesthood so one of the senior sisters could take care of her.   We were going to pick up Brother Baker for church also, but he cancelled at the last minute.  After taking Mary and Diane home after church, we hurried back to the senior sisters for dinner.  It is always fun to be with them, since we both do the same things and we can compare notes.  These two are just amazing and an inspiration to be around.  On the way home we got a call from the Skyway B elders to see if we could meet them at the Acosta’s for a lesson.  This worked well for us since we were planning on stopping there anyway.  We talk, then Elder Palo translates for Sister Acosta.  The daughters all can speak English, sort of.  One time he forgot and just started to repeat what we had said in English until Sister Acosta stopped him.  We all got a good chuckle.  Elder Palo is still trying to learn English so he always speaks it when he can. After the lesson all of them bore their testimonies.   Even though we couldn’t understand them, it was pretty special. 

Monday use the umbrella day: 

We walked to the Filipino Cultural Center in the morning to see if they taught classes in English or Tagalog. We want to volunteer to teach English and maybe pick up a little Tagalog. They don’t have classes right now so we will look someplace else.  There are several other places that have classes. We started to knock on doors, but the farther we got from the apartment the harder it rained.  Plus no one answered the doors, so we went shopping for stuff to make a Snickers Salad for tonight.  We had dinner with Diane Nardi and the Skyway A elders.  Several of the missionaries in our zone are being transferred tomorrow.  Two that we see a lot, Elder Bennett and Elder Russell,  Elder Bennett is one of the Skyway A elders (our zone leader) and Elder Russell is a Spanish speaking elder that lives in our complex.  We will miss them!  After dinner we went to teach Ruth and Rubi with the Skyway A elders.  It was the last time we will teach with Elder Bennett.  The girls were sad to hear he was leaving, but he will get to come back when they are baptized.  We had a bunch of leftovers that Sister Nardi sent with us for the Skyway B Elders so we called them when we got home and had them come over and take them.  Sisters Peterson and Henderson (another set of senior sisters) went home today so we will miss them.  Two other sisters are coming this week to work in the employment office, but we don’t know if we will see them at our meetings.  There is another new couple in the office, but they don’t come to our meetings either. 

Tuesday P-day: First things first…cleaning and laundry.  Second must...shopping.  We had to make a trip to the mission office to pick up some things that the sisters had left for us when they closed their apartment. We were close to a mall so we had to stop there for a while then on to Wal-Mart.  By now it is pouring rain and cold.  Skyway B elders stopped over so Art could go online and order a part for a camera that somebody gave Elder Palo.

Mount Baker Station

  Our Addiction Recovery Program is on Tuesday night so we ran to the church for that.  This was the first night that we had a regular meeting with several people attending and it went very well.  We were pretty excited to get it started in the Skyway building. We had one member show up just because they had read the notice in the bulletin and just wants to be better and figured it would help. 

Wednesday:  Our district meeting was this morning because of transfers.  We met Elder Olsen’s new companion, Elder Ludlow. We did lots of role playing which we love.  After the meeting we spent the next few hours at on urgent care.  Art hasn’t been doing well the last couple of days.  He said it is the first time he has filled out a medical history form that has a question after marital status asking if it’s a male or female companion. We ate a late lunch and then hit the streets walking. Joyce’s new favorite song is “Primary Children sang as they walked and walked…” Arts favorite is " I love to see Safeco Field. I'm going there someday."

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 It was a fairly productive day.  We found someone home at every house we stopped at and they were all nice. This is a first.   One man did tell us that his house wasn’t the address we were looking for and he wasn’t who we were looking for.  Pretty sure he just wanted to get rid of us because we were pretty sure it was the right address. On one of the streets we passed a man working on his lawnmower.  He had a big boat in the driveway so Joyce had to stop and ask if he pulled water skiers behind it.  He only uses it for fishing on the ocean, but he said he would take us out fishing if we wanted.   That gave us a chance to talk about missionaries and the church.  If we come back after our mission he will take us fishing.  The area we worked in was up on a hill so we had a great view of Mt. Rainier on the walk home.

Thursday:   Our day started with a trip to W.W.  This gets us up and going early in the morning.  On the way home we stopped at a library to check on the English class.  The lady we needed to talk with wasn’t there so we left a message and hope she will call us.  The weather here has been great so we hit the streets again walking.  Not much results today.  We did find one member that has moved and one house that looks deserted.  Walking back to the apartment, a man asked Art if he was good with colors.  We stopped and talked to these two men who were trying to decide what color to paint a house.  Art told them to use whatever color was on sale, so they took Joyce’s advice instead.  We are finding that most people on the street are nicer than the less active that we contact. We helped teach (Joyce does) Ruth and Rubi in the afternoon with the Skyway A Elders then stopped to check on a member on the way home. 

Seattle

He has a family living by him that he takes food to so we had brought some for him to give to them.  He told us to go do it ourselves, so we did.  He was rather cold to us.  He is a less active member that the ward has been working with that was showing some progress, but has started to fall back into his old habits.  In the evening we met with all the missionaries for our coordination meeting.

Friday, a four Advil day: Spring time in Seattle is great.  The weather has been great since the rain stopped on Tuesday, and the weekend is supposed to be even better.  We started off with a trip to Auburn for our class and then out to breakfast with the Bensons.  It’s nice to visit with them every week.  We had an appointment to teach with Skyway B Elders up in the top of our area so we rode the train up and then walked and knocked on doors in that area.  We finished one section then went to our appointment.  The elders taught Bro. Baker a lesson on the Plan of Salvation.  He is one of those members that was baptized then stopped going to church and he has just drifted away. Now he is trying to get back that feeling he had when he joined the church.  We had a good discussion about the Good  Sheppard leaving the 99 and going after the 1.  It brings that message home when you see the 1 trying to be found.  After our appointment we took the elders out to dinner then worked on another section. It was later in the day so we found more at home this outing.   The section we were in is along Lake Washington so they are really nice homes with nice yards.  One lady told us she has not considered herself a member for over 30 years, but didn’t have her name removed.  She has been one of the first not active members that was nice and visited with us.  Most just slam the door.    We think that the Skyway Ward is where the church send records when they don’t know the correct address.  We seem to find a lot that are wrong.  After we finished, we wanted to get back to the lightrail station before it got dark, but we had to stop often to take picture of all the flowers and trees that are in blossom.  We did make the train before dark and a lady on the train saw our name badges and ask what we had been doing so we were able talk and give her a pass along card.

Cambodian New Year Celebration

Saturday an eight Advil day:  One of the housing missionaries told us we were not here to be entertained so we blew it today because were sure had fun.  We walked to the Buddhist Temple and just missed the dancers by a few minutes and lunch was ending.  They met us in the driveway as we walked in and insisted we come in to eat.  You would thing we are royalty and very important by the way they treat us.   Most get their food and sit on the floor on rugs when they eat, but they have us sit at a table and bring the food to us, bowls and bowls of it.  We weren’t sure what we were eating (except the rice) but it was good.  Different people kept bring us plates of dessert and by the time we finished we had six different plates.  One man that speaks English saw our name tags so he came and talked with us.  He wanted us to know that he was a Christian and he was there because of the culture.  We had a pretty good talk with him and found out he played basketball in the Skyway building when he was younger.  He said he may come to church just for the memories, but he would like to get with us and talk about Jesus.  He took a bunch of pictures and said he would give a copy to the Monks so they could give them to us.  We gave him a pass along card so he could watch the “Because He Lives” video and he gave us his business card so we can call him and order from his business. We will follow up next week.  It was a beautiful day so we were walking and the area we wanted to work in was father than we though.  We ended up on the west boundary of the mission next to I-5 where we had a great view of Seattle, the Space Needle and Safco Field.  We are so close to Safco Field, but it might as well be a 1000 miles away since it is just on the wrong side of I-5.

 We worked two different areas with fair success.  We did have to cross under I-5 just to say we did, since we were so close.  The walk home was pretty long.  If we would have had some cash we would have taken the bus.  It stops in front of our building, but the flowers are out and it was very sunny so it was a nice walk, we just have too many aches and pains.  In the evening was the adult meeting for Stake Conference in Renton.  We got back just in time to have a quick bowl of cereal and then head to Renton by 7 p.m.  We did have an 8:00 o’clock appointment but it cancelled so we were able to stay at conference.  It was a very good meeting.  We would say more about the meeting, but we have already gone on too long for today.   Love Art and Joyce

Pictures from the New Year celebration
  Joyce and her new friend. She wants Joyce to visit her daughters shop and have her nails done.

 Pictures from around the neighborhood

 We thought we were taking a short cut.  Seems like its always uphill both ways

                                                Week 13   March 28-April 4

     “Never answer an anonymous letter”

Sunday:  It was fast Sunday today.  Mary came to church so that is a worry with her.  She wanted to go up on the stand this time, so Joyce helped her up and she did ok.  Two different men talked about how they had turned missionaries away for 30 years, then finally let them in and came back into activity in the church.  Joyce had to elbow Art to make sure he heard them so his attitude will improve about knocking on doors.  Mary sang to us all the way home. We took a new member, Diane, home from church and we don’t know what she thought about Mary, but she’ll get used to her.   Everyone is usually so nice to her at church, even when she gets way off the topic of discussion.  In the evening, we took the senior sister to the Puyallup Stake Center to watch the “Lamb of God” production.  It uses a choir, orchestra and soloists to present the last week of the Saviors life and his resurrection.  If it is ever done in your area, go see it.  They use local talent so it takes months of planning and rehearsal to present it. This was a multi stake production and was “super” as Jace would say!

Monday:  It was supposed to be p-day but we spent most of it with Brother Johnson at the employment office.  They are very good with helping him to fill out applications. ^st hour was spent working before any classes would start.  They had to clean and maintain the school.  He has had a rough life, working hard growing up, his first wife died in childbirth, he had to leave a daughter he had raised in Ghana because he is not the physical father (the government wouldn’t let him take her out of the country) and his grandmother took one of his sons to raise (we think it was a cultural thing). We really have gotten to love his family.  He also told us that when he joined the church several years ago, his brother made fun of him, telling him he had joined a cult.  Six months ago his brother and his family joined the church in Ghana. He and his wife are the kind of people that you can’t help being happy when you are around them.  They are so thankful for anything you do for them.   Art stayed with Thomas and Joyce took the pick-up and went to the senior sisters to get her hair cut.  We had to go to the store then hurry home and fix dinner for six missionaries.  The ward has signups for dinner on Sunday and Monday nights, but they know to call us if no one signs up, which nobody did. We had a teaching appointment with Skyway A at 6pm, but it cancelled.  Probably a good thing because Elder Bennett was hurt play basketball today and he is not doing well.  He may have broken his nose.  He has torn a big chunk of skin off of it. The other elders didn’t have much sympathy for him.  They were worried that the President would ban basketball if he found out. We have noticed that basketball and backing up the cars are two of the hazards the missionaries have.  One has to stand behind the car when they back up.  We think that missionaries are easier to replace than the cars.  JK  It sure has a domino effect when they wreck one. Isn’t that right Elder Schwieder?

He has a hard time because of his English.  He is a truck driver and is very qualified in that job, but he needs a job where he can be home at night.  Because of the new baby he needs steady hours.  He told us when he was growing up in Ghana that he would get up in the morning at 4am so he could fill the water barrel for his home.  He would carry buckets of water 2 miles and make several trips to fill the barrel.  School stated at 8am and the 1

Tuesday: District meeting in the morning from 10:00 till 12:00. They have put us in a new district since they don’t know what to do with us.   We had to meet Soveth at 1:00 to help him with his computer class.  They are working hard trying to get ready for the New Year Celebration. 

We should go help them but can’t seem to find a good time.  At 4:00 we helped the Skyway A elders teach Ruth and Rubi about making promises.  From 5:00 to 6:30 we served supper at the Salvation Army kitchen.  We had a 7:00 appointment at the Acostas so we hurried home and walked to their house.  We thought we were late but the Skyway B elders weren’t there yet so Art pulled out his phone to call them and saw that they had sent a text at 6:30 telling us the appointment was cancelled.  He puts his phone on vibrate during lessons and forgets to take it off after the lesson so we sometimes get the messages late.  We seem to learn the hard way sometimes.  Oh well, it was a nice evening for a walk. 

Wednesday: Our service project at Northwest Harvest was cancelled, which was a good thing for us. We had to spend most of the day getting ready for a dinner at 4pm that we were having with the senior sisters and Shanchata, (a less active member) and Ravyn, her daughter.  Her husband and nephew were going to come but didn’t show.  Since we had spent Monday doing other things we needed to clean and do some shopping. The dinner went well and Art gave a short lesson, then we watched the new church video “Because He Lives”. Somewhere we had not communicated with the Skyway A elders because they we expecting us to teach with them at 7:00 and we didn’t know about it.  We made a quick trip across town to get there on time and we made it.  They are teaching a new investigator named Patti Delaney.  She has a big dog that loves attention so the lesson was distracted a lot by the dog. Patti is very spiritual and very interested in the gospel.  After the lesson we had another quick trip to our meeting with the Bishop and all the missionaries.  The Zone Leaders said in our meeting that many of the elders had received packages, so a big Thank You to those who helped us out with this project. Several missionaries had a good day because of you.   The Zone Leaders told us how surprised they were because some who got packages never get them. It seemed like we hadn’t done much during the day but we sure were tired when we got home. 

Thursday:  One of the Skyway elders wasn’t feeling well so they came over to get some hot packs we had.  It was early so we fed them breakfast.  We met Thomas Johnson at the Employment Office to help him fill out more job applications.  He had one place to go at 3:00 to see about a job, so we left and went to pick up a few more groceries.  It takes a lot of food when you feed missionaries.  Joyce told them she was going to start feeding them healthier meals and they begged her not to.  They said that the only good meal they get is when members feed them. We dropped off some fried chicken and a book about temples at Mary’s.  She likes to look at pictures.   We had to hurry home so Joyce could prepare a lesson for Ruth and Rubi at 6:00.  We tried something new.  Since they are 9 years old, (identical twins) we thought it would be fun to face time Elayna (who is also 9) in Heber City and let her tell them about the blessings she has received by being baptized.  It went very well thanks to Elayna and her sweet testimony of baptism, the Holy Ghost and being a member of the church.  The elders that are teaching Ruth and Rubi were in awe of Elayna because of how well she spoke and the experiences she shared!  Then, Joyce hid some Easter Eggs and had Ruth and Rubi look for them.  The last one was hard to find, and she compared that to finding the gospel.  It was a fun lesson for them, but we had to cut it short so we all could get to our 7:00 meeting with the Ward Mission Leader. A long meeting and another late night.  It takes a lot of time to coordinate 4 sets of missionaries and all of us are busy, so there is lots of info to discuss.

Friday:  We were heading out the door to go to the new institute class that started this week when Skyway B elders called because they needed some help in finding an ER they could go to that would take the mission insurance.  The elder that was sick had a very bad night and President Eaton’s wife told him to go to an ER.  We heard that several other missionaries have had the same problem.  Joyce took care of them while Art drove to Auburn for the class.  Our plans were to go knock on doors but after class it was pouring rain so we went to lunch with the Bensons and shopping for some things we needed. We are planning on making lunch for the missionaries between conference sessions.  It’s too far to drive back to our apartments for lunch.  We got to experience shopping at IKEAs. By the time we got home it had cleared up so we were going to go out when the Skyway B elders called to make sure we had gotten the message about the cancelled appointment we had that night.  We wanted to check on the one that was sick so we invited them to come over for supper.  We went all out, grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup, but we did send them home with chocolate chip cookies.  By now it was too late to go out so we did some paper work that we have put off for too long.  The boiler in the complex broke, so we get cold showers for the next few days. 

Saturday: Thank heaven for General Conference.  It got us up early so we still had hot water to shower with.  We went to the stake center to watch conference with all the missionaries in our zone.  There were a few members there but most stay at home and watch over the internet.  In between sessions we went out in the parking lot and made sandwiches. .  Big thanks again to those who helped (Nancy and Jerry, and Fritz and Amy).  There were some happy missionaries, us included!  Thank you!   After the last session we took the Elders in our area (Skyway A, Skyway B, and the Spanish speaking Elders) to Arby’s for supper then back to the stake center.  Joyce and Art went home and Art watched the Priesthood session on the internet.  We did have to make a stop at Wal-Mart to restock for lunch between sessions tomorrow.  The senior sisters want to help so they are bringing food tomorrow, also.  We very much enjoy being with the missionaries no matter what we are doing.  At 8:00 we walked down to meet the Skyway B elders at the Acostas.  They weren’t home so we walked to McDonalds for a drink and then home.  The airport is south of us so we can see the planes lining up to land. It reminds us of Grandpa Phil.  He would have loved watching them.  At night they really show up plus it was a full moon so it was a nice walk home.

We had brought the stuff and let the missionaries make their own.  We didn’t know how many would stay so we ran out of bread, but we had plenty of other stuff.   The Zone leaders handed out the packages to those that got one.  That was pretty fun for us since they didn’t know who they were from and several there were lots of surprised comments from those who had received a package that never get one

Now for some preaching: “It isn’t as bad as you sometimes think it is.  It all works out.  I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end.  Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future.  The Lord will never forsake us.  He will not forsake us, if we will live worthy of this blessing.  He will hear our prayers:”       President Hinckley

  We hung this on our door to remind us that we are not alone in this work.  This week had a few challenges at the first.  Our sick elder had to have some minor surgery and is now doing well, Soveth finished his computer class, good news about our taxes and many more tender mercies so it does all work out.

                   Love Elder and Sister Knowles

Skyway D.I. dropoff