Elder & Sister Knowles

Week 26      June 28- July 4

Till we meet again…. Elder Olsen, Ludlow and Sister Keele

Sunday:   We had a good day at church.  A new lady in the ward wanted a ride to church and she lives very close to us.  Mary is doing better so she also went to church so that made life interesting.  Raymark, Ruth and Rubi stayed for the 3 hours so Joyce was able to teach her class.  After church we went to the Elder Sisters for dinner with the Skyway A elders.   

Monday P-day: 

We picked up the Elder Sisters and drove to Federal Way to shop at Beehive Books and More, with a side trip to the mission office for the Zone Leaders.  On the way home we stopped and walked around the Kabota Garden. It is close to our apartment and so peaceful and beautiful.  In the evening we went with the Skyway B elders to teach at the Acostas for a wonderful evening.

Tuesday:   Our district meeting was first thing in the morning. We needed to help one of the sets of Elders pick up a bike that was being repaired.  Joyce had an appointment with Dr. Jex. and then we went and taught English at the Acostas.  Sister Acosta is so cute and excited when we teach her.  In the afternoon we took several of the Acostas and went to Seward Park for a picnic, to play, and for a lesson with the Skyway B elders. It was fun, but on the way home Raymark said that next time we were not going to invite the Elders.  When we asked why not, he explained that next time he wanted to play in lake Washington with Joshua, Sunshine, Michelle, Ruth, and Rubi, and that the Elders would feel bad because they cannot get in the water.  We laughed.  He is very cute.  In the evening was our ARP class. 

Wednesday: We packed frozen carrots at Northwest Harvest with the sister missionaries in the morning.   We had three appointments after the service project, one to help a member with a bus pass, one to teach English, and the last one was to take Joyce Johnson shopping.  She is getting frustrated with Thomas being gone to North Dakota and has changed her shift so now she is working on Sundays and Mondays double shifts so little Eric doesn’t have to go so much to the baby sitter.  We surely do hate to see her miss church every week.  In the evening we took Tesloach to scouts.  They combine our ward and the Tiffany Park ward for scouts because of lack of young men.  Tesloach had a great time learning about bikes and repair and was invited next Wednesday for the bike ride.  We had our meeting with the Bishop, but left early so we could take Tesloach home

Thursday:    We hit W.W. first thing and ran a few errands to get some flyers for the English class.   The Johnsons don’t have a fan so we stopped by Lowes and got one for them.  While we were at the Acostas, teaching English, their fan broke so we ran back to Lowes and picked up one for them and got us another.  It has been so hot here, like the rest of the west.  They say it’s the hottest June on record. All of the lawns are brown and some places are banning fireworks for the 4^th.  We had a lesson with Joyce when we took the fan over and she was very grateful. Our preaching: Missionary Meeting was that night and at the end, Elder Ludlow bore a powerful testimony. He is going home on Monday and bore testimony of the Holy Ghost and how with the Holy Ghost we can do and accomplish things that we never thought possible as he gives us inspiration and insight.  Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love us so much, and it is through the Holy Ghost that we feel love, peace, comfort, confidence, guidance, and joy in our lives. 

Friday:  We picked up Renee and took her to Costco early in the morning.  She needed ribs for the 4^th, so we got us some as well, as we are feeding the missionaries on the 4^th.  These errands always seem to take longer than planned so we were late getting to a service project we had.  We painted at the Women’s Clinic that they are still working on, so Joyce was right at home.  We had to leave before we were done to go to a teaching appointment with Skyway A elders.  We hurried there only to find that they had cancelled.  We came home and were waiting to go to our meeting with one of our sisters when Jake, Lara and Mariah showed up.  What a nice surprise!  We still had to leave them and go to our appointment with Karen Bargis.  She wanted to buy us some sandwiches and chips so we ended up having a picnic at Seward Park and a walk at beautiful Lake Washington, so we did a lot of talking.  Jacob and Lara were busy getting Jacob a haircut and running errands so it all worked out.  It was so hot Friday night in our apartment, so Jacob, Lara, Mariah and Joyce walked to the park across the street.  Mariah was so cute.  She loved the big slide and all the playground equipment.  She would just run with her arms outstretch, like an airplane.  I think she had been locked up in her car seat in the car for too long.

Saturday 4^th of July:  The ward in our building combined with our Skyway Ward to have a breakfast and flag ceremony in the morning.  Our building sets on top of a hill and really has a pretty view of the Lake Washington and the surrounding valleys.  We had to pick up four sisters, so Jacob, Lara, and Mariah came in their car.   It was very nice until it stated to get hot.  Since we had a pick-up full of people, we didn’t stay to clean up or clean the church building.  We were feeding all the missionaries, in our ward, (ten counting us) at five so we spent all afternoon getting ready and trying to cool off the apartment. It was so fun to have Jacob’s family here eat with us and to meet all of our friends, the missionaries. Jake made us a redneck air conditioner that worked pretty well until all the stores ran out of ice.  After dinner, Jake, Lara Mariah and Joyce went to Seward Park to let Mariah

play in the water and on all the playground toys there.  Art stayed home and took a nap.  At night we went up on the roof and watched the fireworks for a while. It was cooler up on the roof.   The ban on fireworks didn’t work too well.  When the fireworks were in the park across the street, our building would reflect the sound and make you think they were outside our window.  It was so fun being on the top of our building so you could see all the firework shows in all directions!  We had heard that our roof top would be packed with people, but it was not too bad.  We took our own folding chairs, since all the lounge chairs up there were being used, and watched all the shows.  Mariah had fun just walking around watching all the people and children.     Love Art and Joyce