Week 49 Dec. 7-13
Get my coat and bumbershoot
Preaching:
We have been talking about going to a buffet and over eating there,
thinking we need to get our money’s worth.
Then, we compared it to going to church and asked ourselves if we are
getting our money’s worth there. Brigham
Young stated that we live below our privilege when it come to the spirt. We have set a goal to be better prepared when
we attend church and partake of the Sacrament, when we attend or teach a class,
and when we sing the hymns. We need to
make more of an effort to feel the spirt and get our money’s worth. We are
trying to find a way to show those we work with that they can be spiritually fed
on Sunday just like they were physically fed on Saturday at the ward party. Feeling
the spirt certainly won’t make you sick like over eating does. It also won’t hurt to be over fed with the
spirt when we do missionary work and try to be an instrument in the hands of
the Lord. One of the best ways to feel
the spirt is to do missionary work and share the light of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ during this Christmas season, which is about giving to others. Try it at
home. You may like it and it doesn’t
cost any money.
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| Companion study |
Monday
p-day: It rained and was windy all day. 2.2 inches of rain. Not too much going on today. Our first real p-day in a while. Because of the rain, we decided to shop for a
few things we needed. Sister Eaton
called in the evening to see if we could put together some material so the
missionaries can start teaching English.
That will be nice so we can stay inside during this rainy period. Rain is forecasted for all week. In the evening we picked up Ravyn and went to
FHE. There was a good group there
tonight and we had a good lesson on missionary work.
Tuesday
Zone Training: Joyce was asked by Joyce
Johnson to exercise each morning, Monday – Thursday, at 6 a.m. in our gym. It is early, but worth it, so we can discuss
scriptures that will help her in her troubles with Thomas. Renee has also started walking on the tread
mills with us, so we are having some good discussions, even though it makes for
an early morning and a long day. We had zone training all
morning. Transfers are next week, so it
is the last time we will see some of the Elders. Two of them are going home on Monday. Elder Johnson is in our ward and we have
worked with him a lot so we will miss him.
After the meeting we ran to Staples to start on the material for Sister
Eaton and then to a Dr. appointment.
Nothing serious. In the
afternoon we taught Kianna and her friend with Skyway B. In the even we went to ARP. It’s good for Art. John and SanDee sent us
some Glenwood Mini Sausage and Art thinks he is addicted to them. We
were going to pick up Keona, for ARP but she wasn’t home, so we only picked up
Karen. Keeping appointment with
missionaries is not a high priority with a lot of people. We had a new person there tonight. We don’t think he is a member, but he has a
strong testimony of the atonement. One
of the regulars had invited him and we hope he will keep coming. Another 1.8 inches of rain. We even got a call from our leaders to check
on us since the area is having flooding and power outages.
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| Sister Knowles, Skousen and Heiner |
Wednesday
service: We started with Northwest Harvest as always
after picking up the Elder Sisters. We did corn on the cob,
which is not very fun. Today is the last day we will see some of the
sister missionaries because of the transfers and going home missionaries. Sister Sonasee and Hill are going home, they
are another of our favorites and we know Sister Heiner, another really
favorite, is being transferred. We also
found out that another one of our favorites, another Sister Hill, is going home
tomorrow because of illness. After the
service project we went to lunch with the sisters, then drove to the mission
office. There were several of the roads
that were closed and traffic lights not working. The mission office staff said Maple Valley
was hit pretty hard with the storms. The sister missionaries were told they
could do more service if they can find a place to help with the storm
damage. Most days they are only allowed
to do two hours a service each day. All
the rivers were sure running high. After
dropping off the material at the office we drove back to Renton, again with
detours, so Joyce and the Sisters could visit a recent convert, Nancy Hales,
who just had a new baby and take her a present.
Art stayed in the pick-up. Nobody had any plans so we went to the Desert
Book store in Bellevue and spent lots of money.
Joyce is still buying Christmas for the Acosta’s. We did get to drive home in the rush hour traffic
so it was worth the trip to experience that…
The storm may be over as it barely rained today. In the evening we had
our meeting with the Bishop which was uneventful.
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| Presents from Ruth and Rubi Acosta |
Thursday:
The
good weather only lasted a day. The rain
is back. After W.W. we had to do a
little shopping. We need to explain a
little about W.W. and why we joined so you don’t thing we are being
slackers. In the MTC they told us about
getting involved in the community and a couple that had been on a mission told
how they had joined W.W. and made lots of friends there. Since we needed to lose weight (mostly Art)
we thought we would give it a try. It
has worked out well, except for losing weight, but we have made lots of
friends. We made visits to both Acosta
home and one visit to Mhina’s. Joyce
cleaned out her closets. They were very thankful for the clothes. There are four teenage girls living there, so
we hope Mhina will get some of the clothes. Our missionary meeting went very
well.
Friday institute: Our class was very good, but we found out
that the church is dropping the adult classes.
If the Auburn Stake President approves, Bro Holiday will teach is as a
volunteer. We will find out in a couple
of weeks. After class we did our usual
lunch run. The Holidays came with us.
The afternoon was spent working on some projects we are doing and we
made a trip to the Filipino Cultural Center, the Acosta’s to invite them to the
Ward party and shopping for the Ward party. And Joyce read the Book of Mormon with Joyce
Johnson. Still lots of wind and
rain.
Saturday Ward party:
We got an early start
since we were being the taxi service for the Ward party. We had four people to
pick up and one invited her non-member friend, which was a good thing, but that
gave us seven and we only have six seats.
The extra person made it a little tight plus two of them are on the XLLL
size. One of the sisters kept talking
about the extra person, until Joyce got the point, nicely across, for her to be
quiet since the nonmember was the extra person. There was a very good turnout for the
party. Food brings out a lot of out ward
members. It makes us more aware that
many people in the ward don’t know where their next meal is coming from. We thought we were going to have a quiet
evening, but we ended up going out with Skyway B to two different places. One lives in our building and we sat up an
appointment for next week and the other was to Sister Fabon. We walked to her place, in the dark, and were
just getting home when it started to rain, sideways. With the wind blowing we
think we are in Idaho. Missionaries are
watched over.
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| Ward Party |
Sunday: Church was
good. We are always happy when the
Acosta’s come and help bless and pass the sacrament. We had the best speakers, so humble and
teachable, that it makes sacrament meeting a delight. We made arrangements so we would have room
for everyone, then had three cancel for our taxi service. We came home and ran some soup to the lady
that lives in our building. She told us
yesterday that they were out of food until Tuesday. We also found out that all
of our Skyway A missionaries are leaving tomorrow. Elder Johnson is going home and Elder Tavo
and Odell are being transferred a day early.
Elder Jones is coming back for one transfer, since he knows the area
already. “Have we done any good in the
world today?” That has become our new
motto and we say it each night. If we
have done service to inspire, uplift, and edify as we visit, then, we can say
“yes” for the day. Today we did our
part, and were also blessed to be able to take Karen and the Elder Sister’s, to
attend the Kent Stake’s sing along concert of Handel’s Messiah, complete with a
wonderful orchestra. There were solo
singers doing some songs and then many songs were where the whole congregation
was singing. We checked out the music on
entry, and the music just washed over us!
It was so beautiful to sing about the Savior’s birth, life, death, and resurrection
and be accompanied by a whole orchestra!
It was truly a tender mercy to be able to attend and feel the words of
Isaiah as we all sang our different parts.
The harmony and the orchestra made us feel His love, especially, as we
stood and sang the Hallelujah Chorus!
The musicians that shared their talents were certainly the ones that did
the “good in the world” on Sunday evening as they encouraged us, uplifted us,
and edified us! We love you and wish you
all a Merry Christmas.
Elder and Sister
Knowles
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