Week 31 Aug 2-8
Eternal decisions have eternal
consequences
Sunday: A pretty good day at church. We picked up our normal group and gave them a
ride home also. In High Priest two
members got in an argument so that livened up the lesson. Joyce had ten in her primary class (all of
the adult Acostas stayed to her class). She used the egg in salt water for an
object lesson. We came home and all of the
children called and we were able to face time with Joyce’s mother and dad thanks
to Allison and her cute family.
Monday p-day: It was supposed to be sunny, but lots of
clouds when we got up. Our plan was to
try Crystal Mountain again. The elder
sister had hair and doctor appointments until ten and by then it was clearing
off so we made the trip. First came a
stop at the mission office to pick up the zone packages and supplies for the
Zone Leaders. When we got to Crystal
Mountain it was still cloudy but they were high clouds so we went to the top in
the gondola and ate our lunch on top.
The sun would break through every once in a while and shine off of Mt.
Rainier. The view from the top was
great. We had a chipmunk that wouldn’t leave us alone. It was climbing up our legs and even got onto
the table while we were eating. After we
got home, we texted Karen to see if she wanted to go for a walk. She was having a bad day so she was ready to
go. We walked to Seward Park, then
around the lake. Our plan was to ride
the bus home until we missed it by a minute.
The next bus wasn’t until after 9:00 and Karen has to be in by 10:00 so
we ended up walking the mile and a half back home, making our evening walk
about six miles round trip total.
Another late night, but we made it by 10:00.
Tuesday: Tuesday are always our busiest day because
of district meeting and our evening classes and teaching during the day. District meeting was good with lots of role
playing. We worked on challenging investigators to read every day for 15
minutes so they could finish I Nephi in ten days. After the meeting we came home and ate lunch
and prepared our lessons for English.
Joyce went visiting teaching to the Acostas. Art came later for the English class, but Sister
Cabiao was late so Joyce did English first and V.T. last. Art got there in time
for the VT lesson. Joyce taught a great
lesson on preparing to go to the temple. The Elders showed up just as we were leaving
to teach Eleazar. They wanted us to go
with them later but we had our classes to teach. We had two to the English class and two at
the ARP class. Several more had called
about the English class because there was some confusion about the time when it
was announced in church. Seems like we always get the texts or voice messages
an hour too late. We hate to walk around checking our phone every few minutes
and it’s on vibrate when we are teaching.
Maybe by next week we will get it straightened out.
Wednesday: We did frozen peas at Northwest Harvest,
8,000 pounds. Art was taping the
finished boxes with some guy who thought it was a race. He never wants to work with him again. After the service project we stayed in our
work clothes and went and did some work for Tara Mudaliar at her clinic she is
trying to open. She needed some ceiling
tiles replaced. We only got a good start when we had to leave for the next
project which was serving dinner at the
Salvation Army, which is always an interesting night. It was supposed to be a light night, but
people kept coming in. We ran out of
refried beans and rice and went through three big pans of enchiladas. About 120
people. They only had to throw one guy
out. We didn’t have time to change
before we went to a teaching appointment with Skyway A at the Acostas (Ruth,
Rubi and Reymark) and then our meeting with the bishop. The teaching went well with Rubi and Reymark
committing to be baptized on the 29th of August!
Thursday: We had to face the scales first thing
in the morning at W.W. The teaching
appointment last night went a lot better than the scales. We ran from there to the museum to do our
indexing class, which still needs a boost.
A lot of people express interest, but nobody has showed up yet. That’s ok since we are still try to figure
out what we are doing. We ran from there
back to the clinic to work on the ceiling tiles some more. Skyway B needed us to help teach Eleazar at
4:00. He is just a block from where we
were at, so we took a break and went and taught in our work clothes again.
Eleazar committed to be baptized also on the 29th. He is Reymark’s
older brother, and Rubi’s cousin. We
planned on going back and finish the tiles, but Tara called and said she needed
us to come back on another day. She had
some kind of emergency. That gave us
time to go home and change for our 7:00 meeting with the Ward Mission Leader
and all the missionaries. There is a
good possibility that we may get another set of elders in our ward on the next
transfer. (We know it will be elders
since they won’t put young sisters in Skyway).
We have a hard time keeping up with
two sets, so it will be interesting to see how we do with three. We have other
commitments and members that we are working with besides the ones the elders
are working with and there are two sets of elders that we work with, maybe
three soon. We love teaching with them
so we hate missing a teach opportunity when we can’t go. The Kigins are moving
so the Bishop is in the process of calling a new Ward Mission Leader. We hope it happens soon as the Kigins are
leaving in two weeks and we want a smooth transition. There is a lot going on
and we don’t want the ball dropped. Since we rode the bus and walked to the
meeting, we had the elder sister give us a ride home.
Friday: Our morning started with a 7:30 call from Renee to see if we could take
her the E.R. at Harborview hospital. She has been having left shoulder/arm pain
and weakness for the past four days. Now
we know why she hasn’t returned our calls. We checked on her later in the day
and nothing serious was wrong, just some inflammation in her shoulder. After the
trip into Seattle, we came back home and did our study class for the Book of
Mormon. We had to cut our study a little short so we could get to our English
lesson with Sister Acosta. After the
lesson we went to the Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park with Reymark, Sunshine,
Princes Joy, Joshua, Ruth, Rubi Acosta and the Elder Sisters. We bought them all lunch then the kids went
and played in the water. The park is at
the southern end of Lake Washington. We
planned on a few more, but work gets in the way sometimes. While there we ran
into another missionary couple for the Seattle Mission. They are in the mission presidency so it was
okay for them to be out of the mission boundaries. The wife was from Arco and her husband said we
were the first people he had ever met who knew about the Lost River and where
it was at. We did buy a few more hamburgers to take to the Acosta’s that
couldn’t come with us.
Saturday: At 09:30 we picked up Karen and drove to
Crystal Mountain and rode the gondola to the top. Her friend didn’t show up and we had no way
to get a hold of her. It was cloudy over
Mt. Rainier so we couldn’t get a clear view of it, but the rest of the weather
was great. We ate lunch on top of the mountain before stating to hike. We hiked along the ridge trail about a mile or
two and then turned around and hiked back.
They were setting up for a wedding by the gondola, but by now the clouds
were starting to get a lot heavier. We
even had a few sprinkles of rain on the way home. We thought we needed to get
home for a 7:00 meeting, then found that it didn’t get set up. That was good because Joyce needed to clean
the apartment and work on her lesson for Primary, and Art was tired.
Here is our preaching: “The Spirt of the Lord usually communicates
with us in ways that are quiet, delicate and subtle… The standard is
clear. If something we think, see, hear
or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing, hearing
or doing that thing.” Elder David A.
Bednar
Hope you all have a great next week. Love Joyce and Art
We will have to come for another visit so we can do the gondola ride.
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