Week 25
June 21-27
Well Begun is Half Done
(or ¼ of the way)
Sunday: Another exciting day at the
Skyway ward. Mary hasn’t been coming to
church lately because of the teeth giving her problems. Ruth and Rubi stayed for all three hours, along with Tesloach
and Lexy, (a new member) so Sister Knowles had a full class for Primary! Joyce
Johnson and little Eric went with us, as well.
We do have a member who thinks he is more enlightened than everyone else
and he tends to argue and bring up some pretty weird things in class. Most ignore him, but not Art. He worries what the investigators and less
active may think if something isn’t said.
We’ll just say it makes for an interesting class. All of the missionaries are making an effort
to keep the classes on a simpler level, with not much success. After church we had Joyce and Eric Johnson and
the Elder Sisters over for supper. All
of the kids called for Father’s Day which helped after a trying day at church. Thanks to all of you who phone, write, put
posts on Face Book, send cards and send packages. It really does make our day. Here is our preaching:
Our family and friends are our world and what matters most! We pray for your safety and for you to stay
close to our Savior. We need the power
of discernment in our lives now more than ever…
Monday: Happy Birthday to Art! The only thing he wanted for his birthday
was not having to pick what we were going to do today. Joyce and the Elder Sisters decided to go to
Northwest Trek. It is an animal park
between Graham and Eatonville. We spent
most of the day there walking around and riding a bus through the park. We had to hurry home so we could go to
FHE. It was an interesting night. One of
the members warned us to be prepared for a major earthquake tomorrow. We won’t
tell you his source of information, but it was out there on the fringe. We had Renee with us, so now she is worried
about what will happen tomorrow. This is the kind of thing Art has been worried
about. On the way home we had to stop
and fix a few things at one of the member’s home that we give rides to.
Tuesday: Our district meeting was
first thing on the list. It was on the
Sabbath Day, again, and so spiritual. We
had lots of things planned but plans change.
A set of Elders needed a ride to LDS Social Services so we took care of
that. We like to help keep their spirts
up so we took them to lunch before their meeting. Their meeting went longer than we had planned
so we were late to the Acostas to teach our first English class. It was a “get to know where they were at” in
terms of their English needs for the classes.
Sister Acosta’s husband even sat in until he had to leave for work. In all the times we have been there, this is
the first time we have met him, so we were pretty excited. We had to hurry home to get ready for dinner
and a lesson with Renee and Skyway B elders.
The lesson went well, except she has lots of questions so we were
running late for the ARP class. She
wanted to know about authority, the blacks, and the priesthood. Art did a great job and the lesson was so
good that we hated to see it get over, though we needed to get to our ARP
class. We called the elder sister and
they covered for us. No one showed up so
it didn’t matter that we were late and the sisters called and said not to
come. We needed some things for another
dinner appointment tomorrow so we went to Wal-Mart instead of the ARP class.
Wednesday: We considered skipping the
service project at Northwest Harvest, so we could catch up a bit, but they
needed us there. After the service
project, we picked up Ezeikel and took him to the employment office. That took longer than planned so we had to
cancel the English lesson with the Acostas.
Art missed the turn to take Ezekiel home so Joyce had to get out at the
stop light and weave through traffic so she could start getting dinner
ready. We only had a half an hour to
cook the rice. We were late getting
dinner ready but it didn’t matter since the Elders were late and Renee
cancelled at the last minute. After
dinner we should have went and made some visits, but it was nice to have a
little time to relax and rest before our meeting with the Bishop. That meeting went well with a big push for
the English class and the ARP class.
Even though the attendances has dropped off at ARP, there are still lots
who express an interest, so we will keep having it. If you have any thought on the class (Dr.
Schmutz or anyone) let us know.
Thursday: We attended W. W. first
thing in the morning. Art explained to
the teacher some of the problems we have with eating at so many different
places and feeding others, so she opened it up for the whole group. It worked pretty well, since she introduced
us and then explained what we do, and then there was a discussion. Now the whole group knows who we are and what
we do. One lady came up and talked to us
after the meeting to tell us about her experience with the missionaries and how
much she loved them. She is still in
contact with them even though they have been home for a while. We came back home and worked on the English
class and then went and taught English with the Acostas for an hour. At 5:00 we were on our way to the Salvation
Army to feed the homeless with a stop at the Buddhist Temple on the way. Soveth is still out of town. After the
Salvation Army we went to our meeting with the
Ward Mission Leader then back to the Acostas with Skyway B elders for a short
lesson with Sunshine and Raymark. By the way, if any one
has any Monopoly money or old Primary picture we sure could use them. We are looking for pictures that have lots of
different things in them, so people can learn the names of those items.
Friday: Since our institute class is
finished we decided to spend Friday mornings doing companion study, which we
are not very good at doing most days of the week. We needed a few things that the mission
office didn’t have and wanted a student manual to study with, and Art wanted
some new ties, so we ran to Beehive Books and More in Federal way and to the
D.I. We found an old Monopoly game so
forget about the Monopoly money. On the
way home we stopped at Joyce Johnsons and taught a lesson. Joyce had to go V.T.
in the afternoon. It was another adventure finding the address and we finally
had the sister stand in front of her house so we could find it. The Garmin
would take us to the house next door. We
met Skyway A elders and taught an object lesson to Ruth and Rubi about the iron
rod. Jennifer (their mom) came home at
the end of the lesson so we were able to visit with her a bit. Joyce asked if we could
pick up Ruth and Rubi and take them to Achievement Day on Wednesday and she
said it would be okay. She works nights
and sleeps during the day so we offered to take Ruth and Rudi to the park so
the house would be a little quieter for her.
She loved that idea. The other Acostas showed up as
we were leaving so we had some ice cream cake with them. Masarap (yummy) in Tagolog, so you see why we
eat all the time at our appointments and can’t lose weight… We needed to run to Staples to print off some
posters for the English class and that finished our day. Skyway B elders wanted us to meet them at the
Acostas but we declined since we knew the Acostas were at Ruth and Rubi’s
house.
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