Week 33 Aug 16-22 transfers
The first shall be last and the last shall be
first
Sunday: A good day at church.
Several of the members we give rides to were sick or gone, but we seem
to always have plenty to take home. All
of the Acostas, that were there, went to Joyce’s primary class after Sunday
School, which is good. She likes to do a
science experiment with them and then relate it to a gospel message. They all love it so they have been staying
more. The adults usually leave and take
the younger ones with them after Sunday School because of the language problem,
so it is nice when they all stay. They
all love Joyce and her lessons. Also,
several of the less actives that we work with were in Sacrament meeting. We fed
all the missionaries after church and Sister Harrison brought her cousin who is
visiting. It was a quick meal since we
had to leave to drive to Federal Way for the mission devotional. The Spanish Elders came late so we sent them
home with leftovers. Eleazar was going
with us to the devotional, but after waiting twenty minutes for him, he decided
not to go. So much for hurrying. Because he didn’t go, the Skyway B elders
couldn’t go. They have to have an investigator
there to be able to go. It was very good
as usual. The mission choir is so fun to
watch since we know so many of them. It
is like watching your own kids perform.
President Eaton made the comment that since they have started a choir
that they are being sent more talented singers.
We always see the Bensons there
and the employment sisters came and visited for a minute. They never get to see other couples, so they
asked if they could do something with us on a Saturday when the employment office
is closed. We have gotten to know them
pretty well since we are there a lot. It will be a big sacrifice, (JK) but we
need to do all we can to keep all the missionaries happy.
Monday: We talked to Skyway B elders this
morning and found that Elder Synder is being transferred. We try not to get too attached, but it still
happens. So glad now that we had the
elders over for dinner last night, even thought we had to hurry to make the
devotional. We took the elder sisters and drove to Puyallup and met the senior
couple (the Hunts from American Falls.) They are serving in that area. They came out in June and it is there second
mission. They are also MLS missionaries
like us. The Bensons met us there,
also. We usually get together the first
Wednesday of each month with President McKinney but we haven’t done that all
summer, so we did it on our own. There
is not a lot of older missionaries so it is nice to get together once in a
while. We got back just in time to go to FHE, after a
quick stop at the Mall. Karen went to FHE with us and then after she wanted to
walk around Seward Park. We did that
until it got dark. It’s not the best
place to be after dark unless you are trying to get robbed. One of the very active members, Thelma, who
is African American and she is our Compassionate Service Leader, announced at
FHE that she is moving to Utah. This
ward just can’t hold onto active members.
Tuesday:
Another early morning so we could take Joyce Johnson to Kent. She was getting her hair done. We didn’t know until she got out of the
pick-up that she was leaving the baby with us.
We are not supposed to baby sit, but what do you do? Her two hour appointment ended up being five
hours. We had a few errands to run so we
did that while waiting and babysitting.
As usual we needed to stop at Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart. Mary had all her teeth pulled, so we stopped
by to check on her, but she was at the doctors.
Karen had left her phone in the pick-up the night before, so we returned
it. The shelter where she lives has very tight security, so they wouldn’t admit
that she lived there. They kept telling
us to call her and let her know we had her phone and we kept telling them we
couldn’t call her because we had her phone and we were trying to return it. Finally one lady caught on and told us that
they couldn’t tell us if she lived there for sure as she is shaking her head
yes the whole time. They took the phone and had us leave our number just in
case she didn’t live there. In the end
Karen got her phone back. We’ve never
had so much fun returning something; We are easily entertainedJ
Wednesday: Josh left at 5:30 for his meeting
in Yakima. We had a zone meeting in the morning because
on all the transfers yesterday, instead of district meetings. It was a good meeting and lasted all
morning. We discussed what physical
tools we have to work with, like members, activities (like ARP, English class,
family history and ward activities), videos, the Bible and most important, the
Book of Mormon. We even took time for a
zone picture, which we like because we have a lot of new Elders and Sisters. Josh stopped by, after his meeting in Yakima,
on his way to the airport so we met him at our apartment. The elder sister had invited us for lunch so
we all went over there and ate. As we
were leaving we noticed a helicopter in the sky, which usually means they are
making an arrest somewhere and several police cars came down our street with
their lights flashing, so we figured it was close by us. It’s something we see all too often. We ate
lunch, Josh left for the airport, and we drove home to find five police cars parked
on our street. This confirmed that something was going on until we saw them all
coming out of the restaurant that is in our building. We were relived and had a good laugh.
Thursday: W.W. first thing in the morning,
but Art wouldn’t weigh in since he was sure he had gained weight. We went to the museum, indexed a couple of
batches of African American records from the Freedmen Bureau that have been
released, and then home. The Bishop had
asked us to help Karen, so Art took care of that while Joyce worked on supper
for a member whose husband was having surgery. We walked over to Sonia to check
on her since we haven’t seen her at church for a couple of weeks and we wanted
to see how the garden was doing. The
beans and the peas were good, but that’s all that made it. Sonia was pretty excited that she had gotten
the peas and beans so it was worth planting it.
Friday: We bent the rules a bit today and drove to Centralia and
watched Caden play a couple of games.
They did well except for a couple of innings and ended up losing both
games. We think we are bad luck since we
were out of the mission, even though just by a little. It was fun to see the family and that was the
main reason for going. Tyson wanted Gram
Gram to stay and watch him jump off the diving board, but we needed to get back
for a lesson. It was a good thing we
left when we did because we ran into bad traffic because of a fire on the side
of the road. It was kind of a Rockwood experience… We did make it home in time, barely, for the
lesson. We had a FHE with the Acostas
where we all shared our favorite scripture and then they brought out the food,
as they always do. They fed the new
Elder, Elder Bohne, balo’t. He just ate
it with no trouble, so not too exciting.
It was a very fun night.
Saturday: It was clean the church day to start our morning. Art worked on trying to get the Apple TV to
work so we can watch a video when teaching a lesson at the church. All the TV’s have locks on them so he
couldn’t add any new devices and he couldn’t get the pass word to make the
change. He will try again this Sunday. It would make it so much better when teaching
to be able to watch a video on the TV instead of all crowding around Joyce’s I pad. We found out that Caden pitched and they won
the first game. Then, they lost the next one.
We spent most of the day working on the ward list to see who needed to
be visited. Skyway B elders came over and we traded the info we have so we
aren’t visiting the same members. At
7:00 we walked over to Sister Fabons and taught a lesson with the elders. The lesson went longer than we thought it
would and it is getting dark earlier than we remembered, so we ended up walking
home in the dark. Not the best thing to
do from the part of town she lives in, but we made it. We appreciated all the street lights!
Here
is the preaching for this week: Brothers and sisters, as surely as the Lord
has inspired more missionaries to serve, he is also awakening the minds and
opening the hearts of more good and honest people to receive his
missionaries. You already know them or
will know them. They are in your family
and live in your neighborhood. They walk
past you on the street, sit by you in school and connect with you online. You too are an important part of this
unfolding miracle. If you’re not a
full-time missionary with a missionary badge pinned on your coat, now is the
time to paint one on your heart. The
Lord needs you now more than ever to be an instrument in his hands. All of us have a contribution to make to this
miracle….. Elder Neil A. Anderson
April 2013. This is from an
Apostle and we know it is true. Love ya, Sister and Elder Knowles
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