Week 32 Aug. 9-15
Constant
use can never wear out the fabric of friendship!
Sunday:
Mostly a normal day for a Sunday. Joyce Johnson didn’t come to church because
Eric was sick, so we just picked up Karen and Tesloach. We did have three investigators at church,
but not Ruth of Rubi, so Joyce didn’t have a class to teach. They
have called a new Gospel Principles teachers who will be very good. She was the early morning seminary
teacher. Doug and Ann are driving here
so we waited for them to arrive while taking calls from the kids. It is always nice to hear from them. The Rockwoods got caught in traffic because
of a fire, so they were later getting here than planned. (They went a whole 4 miles in one hour, at
one point!) We were pretty excited when
they called to ask us where to park!
Monday:
Tuesday:
After the Rockwoods left we got ready and hit the
streets. We had two areas we needed to
finish to have our half of the ward covered.
(The elder sisters had theirs done months ago. They have more active
members than we do). The husband of a
lady in our area that attends the Tongan Ward, passed away so we stopped and
checked on her. We have taken her to the
doctor a few times and fixed her steps. The
R.S. President was there from her Tongan ward so we didn’t stay long. They were getting ready for a Tongan funeral
with lots of food and making decorations.
We didn’t have a lot of success with our other visits. We did find a few at home and only had one
door slammed on us and one home that we will send the elders back to. One of
the active members we visited, the Cabaios, told us about their car being
stolen Saturday, but they got it back that night. It was out of gas, so who
ever stole it went to another parking lot and stole another car and left
theirs. They are very humble because he
just had a kidney transplant, so they had prayed a lot and their prayers were
answered. In the evening we had our
classes. No one showed up to the English
class, but we had two at ARP. One was
for the first time so that was good.
Wednesday: We did Northwest Harvest in the morning. The Elder Sisters were busy so it was just us
and the elders. We did rolled oats. There wasn’t a big crew. We stopped on the way home and bought some
groceries, so we could go to Joyce Johnson’s and read with her and take her
some fruit. Eric has been sick, (he is
getting a new tooth) so we wanted to check on them. We needed to do some more shopping, when the
elders called and asked if we could pick up the Acostas for the 6:00 lesson at
the church. We needed to get both
families and a few extra came so we ended up with a large group for the
lesson. Both sets of elders taught,
Skyway A and B, since they are both teaching parts of each family. There are three committed to baptism, so that
is wonderful! Our meeting with the
Bishop was cancelled, so after taking the Acostas home we came home, made one
more trip to Safeway, and called it a day.
Walking to Safeway is always exciting in this neighborhood. This is where the Cabaio’s car was stolen
from. They need to change their name
because there is nothing safe about their store. While standing in line we saw two ladies
almost get into a fight.
Thursday: Joyce is still fighting her cold so it was a long night, or
short depending on how you look at it.
We skipped W.W. because we haven’t been very good this week, plus we got
up late. We did go to the museum for our
indexing class; we both did one batch.
The Freedman records are hard.
Most of the rest of the day was spent doing paper work. We needed to get all the information caught
up that we have gotten put together for when we get a new Ward Mission
Leader. We did have our last meeting
with Brother Kigin.
Friday:
Zone Conference was wonderful, and lasted most of the day. President and
Sister Eaton are so inspiring. It was a
good spiritual uplift for us. After zone
conference we took dinner to a Dianne Nardi, who just had surgery. We did get a letter from Allison and the kids
– THANKS, we loved the letters! They may be coming for a visit, thanks to Caden
making the traveling team that plays in Centralia, Washington! Jake drove safely to Pittsburg with the
furniture and with BostonJ Lara and Mariah flew safely on Wednesday and by then, Jacob
had talked to the Bishop of the ward.
They got the place that they wanted and got moved in, so that was all a
tender mercy for them. They even have nice neighbors that
have brought them stuff and welcomed them!
Jared and Emily are having mice for visitors, along with a thief, so
their life is exciting…, Joshua’s family is still working hard on the house
after their fun vacation to St. George (thanks for the pix), and AnJ’s family
is getting ready for school to start and Braeden is excited. Good luck, Lexxi, with your tryouts for
volley ball. Dad took Mom in for more X-rays on her back. She is still in a lot of pain and we pray for
them always. Well, that catches everyone
up on the family. One of the interesting things from
Zone Conference was how many times President Eaton referred to the Skyway ward
and the need to be careful there. We
don’t watch the news so we find out about the shootings and robberies after the
fact. We are not looking forward to the
day light getting shorter. It also rained all day which is needed here. We had a few appointments that we had to
cancel because Zone Conference went longer than we had planned.
Our
preaching for this week: President Eaton focused on writing the
mission purpose in our hearts. He asked
that we all fast on Sunday, write a 3 minute talk on one of the purposes of
missionaries, read Elder Christofferson talk on “Why we preach the Gospel” and
several pages from Preach My Gospel. It
all comes down to invite, invite and invite people to come unto Christ. Everyone has agency so all we can do is
invite. Being a good example is
important, but we still have to invite.
This is not just a good idea, it is a commandment. President Eaton gave the stats for the
mission, that 1 out of 19 investigators are baptized when contacted by
missionaries, but 2 out of 3 are baptized when invited by a member to hear the
message of the restored gospel. The
lesson the missionaries teach about keeping the commandments, before baptism,
includes sharing the gospel. Enough of
that, we hope you get the point. P.S. If
you don’t know the missionaries purpose or members invite the
missionaries over. They will be glad to teach you.
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| Pres. Eaton and Pres McKiney |
Saturday: This is our clean the church
day. At 10:00 there was a baptism in the
Tiffany Park ward for one of the young men that Tesloach goes to scouts with so
we attended there. We mostly went to
support the sister missionaries, but wish we wish we would have invited
Tesloach. Most of the rest of the day
was one cancelled appointment after another.
We were going to teach English, teach with the Elders, read the Book of
Mormon with the Elders and some members, and walk with a lady we are
fellowshipping. All of them
cancelled. We needed something to pick
us up so we tried a Vietnamese Restaurant down the street from us. Wasn’t bad but we don’t think we will eat
there again. There is a big push here to clean up the area, so they have put up
signs on the street saying “Hello Othello” in 40 different languages. Kind of interesting. There was another fire down the street from
us which is a pretty common sight, and while we were walking around we ran into
a Muslim lady we had met months ago that recognized us, so we visited with her
for a while. In this area you can’t have
too many friends. Also, our friend, the security guard at Safeway told us good
news yesterday, He is getting baptized on 9/11.
It will be a day he will always remember and we were happy for the good
news. He is always so friendly to greet
us and talk to us when we get groceries at Safeway, and our cashier ask us to
pray for her, her name is Yolinda and she needs a new job and a place to live. Requests are interesting in the big city…
Hope you all have a good week and remember to invite.
Love, Joyce and Art., Mom and Dad, Elder and Sister
Knowles
I love all the pictures. Glad you got more visitors.
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