Transfer 11 Week 5 B-33
April 18-24
“A heart is not judged by how much you love,
but by how much you are loved by others.” The great OZ.
Preaching: We had two really good talks in sacrament meeting on the apostasy and the restoration. Jared also gave us some good thoughts so we will try and pull this all together. The talk on the apostasy and restoration got us thinking about where we are at in our own personal restoration of the gospel in our lives. We are going to make a comparison to a bookshelf. On the top shelf are those truths that we are 100% sure of (prophets, prayer, Sabbath Day, atonement, B.of M. , etc.) On the next shelf are things we may have questions on, ( like why was that person called for that position). We’ll call this the 90% shelf. Below that is the 50% shelf. Things we just take on faith. As we study and gain more knowledge we may move things from one shelf to the other, but the movement is always up, never down. As our testimony become stronger we have our own restoration of the truths we knew in the pre-mortal world. Also, one of the most important books on the shelf is the Book of Mormon. Read it every day 100%.
Monday p-day?: We walked to MLK school to talk to a lady about housing for the Acostas. Sister Acosta had asked us to go and we were not sure what it was for. Sister Beck, from Canada, wanted help buying a phone so we shopped for phones most of our preparation day. Joyce helped her understand the different plans and she finally got one from T-Mobil, which is supposed to have great coverage for Canada. In the evening we had the concert at Benaroya Hall. It was the Ensign Symphony and Choir presenting the Testament of Paul. 26 ladies were invited and only 6 showed up. They have a 10:00 pm curfew and the shelter wouldn’t extend it for the concert so we think that is why a lot of them didn’t come. Those that did come enjoyed it but they had to leave early to make the curfew. One of the instructors at the shelter doesn’t like Mormons and that may also have accounted for the low turnout. We really enjoyed it and we were glad we got to go. There is another one next month with all patriotic music that we hope we can go to. We already have a list of people to invite. It was a late night getting home at 10:45. That’s why we needed the extended curfew.
Tuesday: Most of the day was spent in meetings. Our district meeting was first with lots of role playing. We did come up with some more good ideas to try. We had to hurry from our meeting, pick up the Elder Sisters and drive to Auburn for a Senior Missionary meeting with President and Sister Eaton. It was another great meeting. It was a chance to visit with all the Senior Missionaries and exchange ideas, plus get training from the Eatons. After the meeting we had to hurry and get to the Bishops store house in Kent before they closed. The Elder Sisters had a food order we picked up for a ward member. We delivered it to Creston Point which is always a fun place to go. The Elder Sisters took us to supper because of us driving them around and helping with the food order. We came home and were able to face time Braeden, Caden, Macey and Allison. Jake and Mariah had face timed us in the morning before we left for our meetings. Thank you!
Wednesday: We served at Northwest Harvest in the morning with the sister missionaries. We did elbow macaroni first and then finished with spaghetti. Spaghetti is a pain to do and very slow. They were trying to figure out the best way to measure and package it. After the service we did lunch with the Elder Sisters and some shopping plus a stop at See’s for the free sample. Karen wanted to walk around Seward Park so we did that with our usual routine. The weather has been great here so the park was crowded. At 7:30 we met the Skyway B Elders at Sister Fabon’s and taught a lesson on the Book of Mormon. We have been trying to get to see her for a long time, so it was good to re connect with her. After that we had to hurry to the Bishops meeting. Art took a wrong turn so we were late, but the Elders were doing exchanges so they were late, also. Lots of investigator are scheduled for baptism so pray that they all keep their commitments.
Thursday: We got a late start this morning so not much was done besides working on the ward roster. The beautiful Rhodendrum Gardens are free today so we took the Elder Sisters there. After a quick dinner we attended the stake self reliance meeting. They consider us trained. This is for the new program that the church is doing in ten stakes around the U.S.A. and we are a pilot stake. The stake had the meeting in our building so we could attend. After that meeting we stayed for the missionary meeting so it did end up being a long day. We had the Elder Sisters with us so we needed to take them home. Sister Chamberlain takes pain pills at night so she can’t drive and Sister Beck doesn’t like to drive at night so we try to help out when we can.
Friday: We attended the institute class in the morning and went to lunch afterwards with the Harrisons and the Elder Sisters. The class was really good, one of our favorites. It was about the temple, sacrifice, and covenants. We had to do some shopping in the afternoon for our preparedness bag we are supposed to have. We took dinner to the Neuss’ and it had to be fried chicken from Ezells because we ran out of time. Sister Neuss fell down her steps and broke her ankle. They are remodeling their basement, so she is discouraged. We got to see the progress on the basement remodel and Art is exited to get some wood and his saw when he gets home, so he can smell some saw dust again! Our appointment with Skyway B didn’t go well. The young girl they were teaching wasn’t there and the boyfriend of the older sister told us the mother has said for the missionaries not to come back. It is a strange situation. One of the sisters is a member and the mother has never been seen. A bunch of people are always there and we aren’t sure who actually lives there. Skyway B can work it out. Since the missionaries had some time now we visited another investigator (Bro. Kemp) and Teschloch Tut. The Elders were with us because they were in an accident earlier and can’t drive their car. Techloach was pretty cool towards us at first, but warmed up when Elder Jones told him to smile. Something is going on there. The next appointment was to teach Mary Ann Acosta and they didn’t need us because Bishop White was meeting them there. We stopped in so Joyce could talk to Estrella about filling out some forms and then left. To all our kids: You are supposed to keep us informed on what the grandkids are doing!!!!!!!!
Saturday: We were going to go knock on doors but were saved by Skyway B. They needed to come over and use our computer to fill out the accident report because they got rear ended and it totaled their car. It took longer than they thought so they will come back later. We rode the train into Seattle with Karen and spent most of the day with her. She had tickets to the glass museum. We walked around there and went to dinner at the Crab Pot. The B Elders came back over to finish the accident report and still didn’t get it finished. Joyce is very concerned about the elders being hurt in the accident. One has neck pain and the other has back pain so she called the mission nurse. Art got a call to see if he could teach Sunday School tomorrow if Bro. Lopez isn’t there. So, Joyce stayed up late getting her lesson ready and Art read his.
Sunday: We got a text from the mission nurse and they are going to have Skyway B checked out so Joyce is happy. Only two wanted a ride to church, Karen and Joanna. We did have three police cars in the church parking lot arresting somebody when we pulled in. None of the Acostas stayed after Sacrament meeting so Joyce didn’t have a primary class to teach. Art did teach the Gospel Principles class. The Elders are getting discouraged with the Filipinos in our ward and their church attendance or lack of it. We took The Skyway B elders home with us so they could finish the accident report, so we had them and Karen for lunch. We planned on knocking on some doors this week but it filled up and the weather changed (rain today). Next week is filling up already with district meeting, a baptism, a ward party, service and some visits that we have to make. We want to invite several to the ward party (it will be a good missionary tool) so we have to make the visits early. Then, we will knock on doors. Wish us luck and say a prayer for us. We really need some extra help this week. Love ya Joyce and Art
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