Week
18
Sunday: All of the members that
we give rides to church backed out. This
helped because we had a 10:30 meeting to help plan our part for the ward
activity for next Saturday. Art was
blessings Brother and Sister Johnson’s baby (Eric Asmoas Johnson) so we wanted
to be early. Church went well, with
several investigators there. The ward
started a Gospel Principles class in Tagalog, but the family it was started for
wasn’t there. Several others did
attend. We came home after church so
the kids could call us.
Monday P-Day: The elders were getting haircuts so we had to
go over to the senior sister’s place. It
was such a nice day and rain is forecasted for the week, so we went for a drive
with the sisters. Flaming Geyser State
Park is not too far away so decided to check it out. It is also on the way to the Mission office
and we needed to stop there. The park is very nice but
the geyser is kind of a dud we thought at first. Then, a guy came with a lighter. You have to light it yourself (it emits
methane gas) it burns for 10 seconds and is only 9 inches high. We are used to
Yellowstone geysers. There was a nice
short hike that we went on to bacteria mats, but the water was cold, so there
were none of the wonderful colors that we get at Yellowstone. We know, we’re spoiled! The Sisters had never been to Enumclaw so we
drove there to see the cool statue of the logger and oxen, and they took us out
to lunch!
Monday evening is the ward FHE
so we hurried home for that, but all the members that we give rides to backed
out so there was really was no reason to hurry home. We did have a good time there anyway.
Tuesday: Zone conference is this week so we didn’t
have our Tuesday district meetings. We needed to get the brakes fixed on the
pick-up so we dropped it off and rode the bus into Renton for Joyce’s Chiropractor
appointment. She is going to see if he can
make her knee and hip feel a little better.
It was cold and rainy most of the day so we worked on some more paper
work we needed to get caught up on. Area
books are so fun to keep up. In the
evening was our ARP meeting with a good turn out there as we talked about the
atonement and used some of President Uchtdorfs talk from conference. We are glad we were able to get it stared in
the Skyway building and hope it keeps growing.
Wednesday: We had our service project at Northwest Harvest first thing with
the elders. The regular volunteers are getting used
to us so they are friendlier with us. We
did pasta again, which is a pain, 3,600 pounds of it. It was a sunny day so we hit the streets
after lunch. We met one very rude
person, but the next two were very nice.
One of the addresses was wrong, but the nice lady there talked to us and
said we could bring her by a Book of Mormon (in Vietnamese) so we will do that
later this week. We met the Skyway B
elders at 7:00 to teach at the Acosta’s and on the way there we talked to a
very nice man who was working in his yard.
We learned to call the Rodadenrums, Rodies, if we want to sound like we
are from Seattle. Sister Acota was glad
to hear about the class in Tagalog. The
lesson went well and we think the girls will try to go to the temple next week
to do baptisms. Not sure though, since we don’t understand all that is
said. Went from there to our meeting
with the Bishop. We rode again with the
Elders, and Joyce said that this was the last time…scary!
Thursday: It was a beautiful day today. We needed to go into downtown Seattle so we
bought a train ticket. Lucky we bought
an all-day pass because when we arrived downtown to get off the train we found
we had left the address that we needed in the apartment. After a trip back home we finally found the
place we needed to go. Since we were downtown
we decided to walk around a bit. The
first Thursday of the month is free museum day so we went to the Seattle Art
Museum. We walked around China Town,
also.
People will see our name badges so we always get a chance to talk when we
are out around people. We even got a
package in the mail today. Thank you,
Nancy and Jerry! At 6:00 we taught Ruth,
Rubi and Joshua a lesson about the temple with the Skyway A elders. The ward has a youth temple trip planned and
we want Joshua to go with his cousins, the Ascotas. We had to hurry from that meeting to our
meeting with all the missionaries at the Ward Mission Leader home. We got a bunch of new members to visit that
have just moved in. This should keep us
out of trouble for a while.
Friday: Today was our Zone Conference with the Renton and Kent
Zones. It is always good to hear from
the Mission President, President Eaton, and his wife. An Elder from Salt Lake talked about a new
system that they installed in all the mission cars that will monitor how the
missionaries drive. I guess the church spent enough money on car repairs last
year to build two temples. These devices
will keep the missionaries more accountable for the privilege of driving. The conference was mostly about the atonement
and being more consistent with finding.
We love being with the young missionaries even though a lot of the
missionary training isn’t for what we do.
We still try to apply the teaching when we can since we are all
missionaries. On the way home we stopped
at the mall to shop for Joyce’s birthday.
We had the “elder” sisters with us.
We both bought some better walking shoes and Joyce bought some clothes. We used our new finding skills and gave away
a Book of Mormon and two pass along cards.
We didn’t have a book of Mormon with us so we will need to go back to
the Mall so we can give it to the clerk.
The Skyway B elders needed us to go teach with them so we went there
after dropping the sisters off. It was a
good lesson with a Filipino sister, Milagros Fabon. She had lots of questions and we talked a lot
about forgiveness. She wanted a
blessing, since she is going to the Philippines for a few weeks.
Saturday: Happy Birthday
Joyce: We had a service
project to day just down the street from us.
They are converting an old Mini-Mart into a free prenatal care clinic. We
were supposed to paint, but they needed other things done first. Joyce cleaned under the cupboards, (at least
a half inch of black yuck) and Art tore up the floor in two bathrooms and
grinded the cement on the floors. The
elders cleaned, (including the ceiling and lights,) painted, helped Art, moved
cabinets, hung insulation, cleaned windows, lined cupboards, and hung
sheetrock. The whole project is being
done with volunteers and donated material.
A sister in our ward, Tara Mudaliar, is in charge, so we are sure we
will be back there again.
One of the good things
is that Joyce found $10.66 while cleaning under the cabinets! Happy Birthday! We were going to spend 4 hours there but we
ended up staying longer. It’s going to
be an Advil night. Joyce wanted to go to
Borrachinis for her birthday so we rode the train there but it was closed so we
ended up at Taco Time. Our plan is to stop at Borrachinis on Monday and pick up
a cake for FHE so we can celebrate Joyce’s birthday there. They make really good cakes that are famous
all over Seattle. The elders have only had
the new car system for a day and they are complaining about it already. They say it takes away their agency. We say it will save the church money and keep
them safer! Thanks for all the birthday
wishes! The good thing about the day
being over is I won’t be as homesick tomorrow as I was today, but it was good
hearing from everyone. Thank you!
Here is a little preaching:
We wanted to talk a little be about the project we did. The place was very dirty and rundown. As everyone worked it is slowly become a nice
place that will serve many instead of a rundown dirty place. Just as the
building changed, the message of the restoration and the atonement of Christ
will also change people for the better.
It was interesting to see the elders in work cloths then change into
missionary cloths as many had to leave to go teach (Saturdays are prime time
for teaching). They were changing the
looks of a building, then going out to change people’s lives. We are all like the building, a work in
progress. As we apply the atonement in
our lives, we will become what Heavenly Fathers want us to be, like him. Romans 12:2…… We know that the gospel plan is true and this
is the true church of Jesus Christ.
Love Joyce and Art
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