Week B44 Feb. 1-7
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. M.L.K. Share what matters to you.
Preaching: The Lord has given no greater charge to His people than sharing the gospel with our Heavenly Father’s children. Missionaries take people out of the darkness of the world and lead them to the safety and light of the gospel of Jesus Christ. To find and teach and baptize and confirm someone who has never paid much attention to God or to Christ and His great atoning sacrifice is one of the greatest services a person can provide. We heard a story about a person who had a friend from high school that called her twenty years later. She said, “ Twenty years ago, you knew that God and Christ had appeared to a young man and called him to be a prophet. Didn’t you think that was important to tell me.”
Tuesday p-day: We did some laundry and prepared for our English class. Karen brought one of her friends over to meet us, Marcie Boyce. They stayed and visited for awhile. The English class went okay considering Joseph didn’t show up and Sara was sick. After class we walked to the Vietnamese Buddhist Temple (the weather was beautiful today) to see when the dragon dancers will be there for the New Year celebration. It was a bit hard to communicate, but we think we have it figured out. It’s across the street from the clinic that we helped clean up so we made a quick stop there to say hello. Our main reason for going this direction was to visit the Filipino Cultural Center and find out when the passport renewal is taking place. We will probably volunteer there again. On the way home we stopped at a Vietnamese restaurant to eat. Not sure what some of the food was, but we ate it. Pretty exciting when you think you have ordered one thing and something else comes out. Some of it looked like white worms, but it was just octopus. We did have to ask which parts to eat and which not to. The owner was very nice, so even though the meal wasn’t the best, we have had, we will go back there to visit with her and order something different. Her name was Canton and we told her we were missionaries. She, too, is a Christian, converted from being a Buddhist, so when we asked her about the Dragon Dance at the Buddhist temple, she said that they asked her to be in the dragon, but she could not, she is Christian now. She was interesting and told us about the Buddhist legend of birth with the angel and the dragon. The Chinese people get slanted eyes from the dragon, that went back to the sea, and our eyes are more round, from the angel that went to the mountain.She asked me my name and when I told her, Joyce, she said, “My name is Canton, which means happy, just like your name means happy!” She was very cute. The ARP meeting went very well. Seven of us counting the senior missionaries and we had a good discussion.
Wednesday district meetings: We had our meeting this morning and weren’t able to meet our new zone leader because of sickness. We heard it was bad food from a fast food place. We didn’t change districts until we arrived at the church and found out the the mix of Elders and Sisters didn’t work out so we did have to change. It worked out good for us because we got to stay with the young sisters that we really like and we are with the Elder Sisters, also. Joyce still has to play the piano in the meetings so that is also good. We did get to meet the new Elder in Skyway B, Elder Murphy from Reno, Nevada. He is brand new, two days out. Elder Jones will be his trainer which is very good for him. Elder Jones is another one of our many favorites. After the meeting we had to run a few errands and then went over to the Elder Sisters for lunch. Sister Larson wanted us to meet a friend of hers that works in our area. She drove us there and then we took the long way home so we could drive across the bridge on Lake Washington. The rain is back in full force so we did some much needed shopping and then spent the rest of the evening doing more work from home. Karen needed a little help so we took care of that and Josh called so we were glad that we stayed home for a bit.
Thursday: We thought it was going to be a slow day, but it quickly gets out of hand. Joyce spent most of the morning doing the taxes and Art was paying bills. Thinking we had plenty of time we didn’t hurry. Nobody showed up for English which wasn’t a big surprise because of sickness going around. We had planned to make a bunch of visits so that just gave us a little extra time. First we walked to the Acostas to get more info for Eldrex and make sure everything was ready for tomorrow. Good thing we checked since the hospital had called them and reschedule the appointment for next month, because they had all been sick. We did get the info we needed and were faxing it when the school district called to say they had enough info they needed, so we set up an appointment for Monday. We made a stop at the home of some recent converts who haven’t been to church in months. They weren’t home so we walked to another visit we needed to make hoping we may run into the kid, from the first visit, coming home from school. It was too late in the day and school had been out for awhile so no luck there and the lady we wanted to visit had moved this week so we struck out there also. We rode the light rail into West Seattle, the Sodo station, so we could find the district office for our appointment on Mon.
On the way home we stopped at the Acostas to let them know about the appointment on Monday morning and found out that the Holly Park clinic had called and scheduled an appointment for Eldrex on Monday afternoon for shots. Monday is going to be a busy day. The hospital and the clinic use an interrupter sometimes, or send letters, and the school uses us, (mostly Joyce) to communicate. That’s why we are dealing so much with the school. It was cloudy all day so we packed the umbrella everywhere, but never had to use it. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. In the evening, Joyce finished the taxes and Art worked on a list for the Skyway B Elders to visit until time for our meeting with all the missionaries and auxiliaries.
Friday: We attended the institute class this morning. All the ones we had invited to go with us slept in. It was a very good class. The Elder Sisters met us there because they needed to run a sister to Federal Way first thing in the morning. It was a good class about the spirt world so there was a lot of discussion and questions asked. After class we went to lunch, as usual, with the Bensons. They are down to weeks before they go home. On the way home we drove by the Renton Highlands building to make sure we can find it for the baptism tomorrow. Gas is down to $1.66. That’s a nice tender mercy for us. Today is cloudy and cold, but the rain didn’t start until after it got dark. We worked on taxes again and our maps of the area so we can start knocking on doors next week. Joyce did finish the taxes except for the info Allison has to mail us. We did have to make a quick trip to the church and a stop at Ruth and Rubi Acosta for a primary assignment.
Saturday: Joyce organized a get together lunch with all the senior couples. We have a few new ones and some that are going home soon. We have to get together on a Saturday so the office missionaries can come and do it early because of the size of the group. The Hunts, McKinney’s, Layman’s, Young’s, Benson’s, Sister Chamberlain, Larson, and Hanson were all able to come to lunch with us at the Black Angus. Good thing we had reservations! After the lunch Art dropped all the Sisters off at the Mall and he sat in the pick-up while they shopped. Joyce needed a new purse. On the way home we had to stop at the church and then make a visit for the Primary lesson tomorrow. Joyce practiced the piano until we had to leave for the baptism that she is playing for. It was in the Spanish Branch so we didn’t understand much of what went on. We did understand the font running over and flooding the room.
The Hermana’s that were watching the water said they were “role playing” when it ran over. That’s another reason that role playing should be banned according to Art. (Not really, we use it a lot for practicing when we teach…) The baptism service was very nice with lots of support from the branch. Even though we don’t understand much they are very spiritual and up lifting to attend.
Sunday: A lot of no rides again. The early meeting time is taking a toll on attendance. We did pick up Karen and Diane for church. Diane is going to work on her four generation sheet so we can set her up an account on family search and maybe take Karen and her to the discovery center someday. (We need to get the Acostas there first). Diane bore her testimony in church so that was special. Karen and Diane both have things to work on but they are headed in the right direction. Joyce’s primary class went well with our costumes for the plays. She just ran out of time. All of the Acostas were in class with her and that brings in the young mens presidency also, to be with Eleazar and Reymark. After church and lunch we walked around Seward Park with Karen. We had a nice day weather wise, no rain and lots of sunshine. When it is clear, like today, there is a great view of Mount Rainier at the park. It has been a busy week but lots done. We e-mailed several on the list of contacts we now have and had one respond positively, so we will make a visit with her this coming week. We need to get out and knock on some doors but can’t seem to get the time. Next week is already very busy with appointments. The new contacts need to be made, but he don’t want to drop the work we already have in place. Hope you are all doing well and sharing the gospel. Love Joyce and Art.
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