Week 34 Aug 23-29
News from the ghetto
(A lady on the train told
Art this was where we lived)
Sunday: It was a good day but Karen was the only one that went to church
with us. None of the Acosta stayed for primary so Joyce didn't have her class. Allison
and Ryan drove to Seattle after Caden's last ball game, which they lost in
extra innings. They were at our apartment by the time we got home from church.
Webster's were also with them. We had dinner prepared and after eating and
walking around on our roof, they decided to ride the train into Seattle, so we
drove to Walmart and bought some air mattresses and sheets. Art was given a HT
assignment by the HP group leader. His new companion, Brother Cabiao, is a
Filipino member who just went to the temple with his family, and is a recent
convert. All of the families, five of
them, are Filipino, and are either new members or have been less active and are
working towards the temple. Time to get
out the Tagalog dictionary again. Art
was told that he needs to show Brother Cabiao how to H.T. and how it works,
since he is such a new member. He thinks
that is pretty funny that they would ask him to teach someone how to be a good
H.T.
Monday: We were glad it was our preparation day, so we rode the train into Seattle with the Christensen's and the Webster's. We decided to get off at the ball diamond and walk around. After debating for a while it was decided that the men would go on a tour of Safeco Field and the women would go into Seattle to go to the aquarium. After the tour of Safeco Field we all met at the Crab Pot and ate dinner. After dinner, those who wanted went and rode on the Ferris wheel, then we got to experience riding the train home during rush hour traffic. We only made it as far as Safeco Field and stopped to watch a ballgame. Ryan and Nick got us very good tickets that were six rows up down the left-field line. Of course the Mariners lost as usual. We did get free T-shirts, because the starting pitcher had thrown a no-hitter his previous start. He didn't do so well tonight, only lasting three innings. The Christiansen’s and Webster's had planned on leaving Monday to go home so they had packed all of their luggage. When we got home from the ball game we had to unpack and make the beds up again. It was worth it since we've had such a fun day.
Tuesday: This is always one of our busy days. The Christiansen’s and Webster's left early in the morning, and we got ready for our district meeting at 11. More role-playing. We did have a very good meeting. We had to hurry home and walked down to the Acosta’s, to teach sister Acosta an English lesson. We have also started to teach Princess Joy a little bit of English so she will be ready to start kindergarten. Art was tired, so we came home and he took a nap and Joyce prepared for our English class at the church. At 6 o'clock we started our class with only one person showing up and then followed with our ARP class with three people showing up. The Elder sisters are so good to give people rides to both classes and take them home afterwards. We had taken Karen with us.
Wednesday: We started off our day at Northwest Harvest like we do most Wednesdays. Today we were working with the sister missionaries and we packaged rice. Most of the afternoon was spent running errands, Sam’s Club for gas and groceries, Edward Jones to sign some papers, the Acosta's (Green house) to fill out some forms and to the church to make copies for the English class. Because of Rubi's interview tonight, Joshua couldn’t go to the activity, so the forms weren't needed. When we went to pick up the other Acosta family (Holley St. house) all of them had backed out of going to the activity. None of the Acostas wanted to go if Joshua wasn’t going to go to the YW/YM Activity. They are very shy. Too bad, they were doing a boating activity on Lake Washington and it would have been fun. . We were disappointed that none of the Acostas were going since we had worked so hard to invite them and fill out the forms, plus we wanted to go. Since we didn’t need to be the taxi service, we went home and Joyce worked on her talk for Sunday, until our meeting with the Bishop.
Thursday: We did make it to W.W. this morning with okay results. We ran to Sam’s for a few things for dinner
on Sunday (more people are coming over), then to the museum for our indexing
class. Again nobody showed, but we were
able to set up a few things that needed to be taken care of on their computers
and they want us to speak at a seminar they are having in Oct. Next on the schedule was a stop at home for
more work on Joyce’s talk and fixing dinner for a member who had surgery. Karen wanted to walk so we stopped and picked
her up, after the dinner run, and walked around Kabota Gardens until our
missionary meeting at 7:45. The meeting
was short since we are still waiting for a Ward Mission Leader to be called.
Friday: We walked to the Filipino Cultural Center and
spent all morning and afternoon there, working in the photo room and the copy
room. The Center becomes a mini
consulate/embassy every few months, so people can renew passports, take care of
any legal papers (like marriage, death and birth certificates), and apply for dual
citizenship. They would have to drive to San Francisco to do it. Lots of people think we are from the
consulate since we are dressed up. They
read are name badge and can’t put the church and consulate together. At 4:00: we picked-up Michel and Richel and
took them to lunch since they were working when we went with the rest of the
Acostas. They wanted to go to the Vietnamese place we said that we wouldn’t go
back to. A little direction on what to
order really helps and it was pretty good.
We can eat rice with chopsticks but haven’t figured out soup yet. At
7:30 we met the Skyway A elders and taught a lesson. They are teaching the granddaughter of
Brother and Sister Sale’ (Kenzie) plus helping them become more active. After the lesson they wanted us to go help
teach another investigator, but Joyce had a V.T. appointment. (She has 10 ladies to go visiting teaching
to.) We should have went with the Elders
because when we found where we needed to go, it was gated and we couldn’t get
in. Margarita had forgotten to give us
the code.
Saturday: We woke up to pouring rain. It has been so nice here and the day the ward
plans an outdoor activity, it rains.
They need it bad here so we can’t complain. Most of the morning was spent at the cultural
center again. The walk there was nice,
but the walk home was windy and rainy.
Good thing we took the umbrella, but the wind made it bad, kind of
sideways rain. At 2:00, after a stop at Safeway’s
for a cake, we headed to the church for the baptism and to help set up for the
ward party. The baptism was a little
miracle. When the Elders got to the
church there was no power because of the high winds. Kind of made us home sick for Idaho. There is a big tree across the street from us
that has blown over. Anyway, they said a
prayer and the power came back on. The
baptism was great. Having Eleazar,
Raymark and Rubi being baptized today was a huge miracle! We had a good turn out and lots of investigators,
also. Joyce played the piano and that
was another big miracle. Keep practicing.
You don’t know when you are going to be needed…Lots of less actives and investigators
were there, plus good food.
Some preaching: One reason to live the Word of Wisdom….
A Cup of Tea for Grandpa
One day when my Grandma
was gone for a while, my Grandpa was in charge of me. I was maybe 2 1/2 years
old. Someone had given me a little ‘tea
set’ as a gift and it was one of my favorite toys. Grandpa was in the living room engrossed in
the evening news when I brought him a little cup of ‘tea’ (which was just
water). After several cups of tea and
lots of praise for such yummy tea, my Grandma came home. Grandpa made her wait in the living room to
watch me bring him a cup of tea, because it was ‘just the cutest thing!’ Grandma waited, and sure enough, I came down
the hall with a cup of tea for Grandpa.
She watched him drink it up. Then
she said (as only a grandma would know), “Did it ever occur to you that the
only place she can reach to get water is the toilet?”
Love ya! Have a good
week….
Sister and Elder Knowles
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