Transfer 11 Week 5 April 11-17
Today we sailed on
Preaching: Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray, for power equal to your task, then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. T.S.Monson
Monday: Our plans were to go to the Rhododendron garden in Federal Way until we found out it was closed on Monday. Instead we picked up the Elder Sisters and went for a drive along Lake Washington Blvd and had a picnic. The cherry blossom trees were out in force and gorgeous! Spring is such a great remember of the time of renewal and beauty. Margaret Foster in is a rehab facility in Issaquah because she fell, so we drove there to visit her. She used to be in our ward. In the evening we attended FFE with a fair turnout.
Tuesday: Our District meeting was first on the schedule. More role playing and we did come up with a few ideas to challenge a few of those we are working with. After the meeting we made a stop at Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart for the supplies we need for Achievement Day tomorrow. (Joyce is in charge of the pictures.) In the afternoon we took Eldrex and Estrella, plus Raymark and Richel to the Children's Hospital in Seattle. We thought it was for a quick stop to get the results of the MRI and it ended up being three and a half hours. They did more blood-work and physical therapy. They are doing lots to help Eldrex so it is worth the time spent, plus we had a good visit with Richel. She doesn’t come to church very often. Joyce and Estrella signed some papers so the hospital will set things up with Joyce now instead of Estrella. This is what Estrella wants because of the language problem and we can work around our schedule. We drove home along Lake Washington so the Acostas could see all the trees and bushes that are in blossom. Seattle is beautiful this time of year, when it’s not raining. It was a long afternoon but a good time and productive.
Wednesday: We packaged pasta at Northwest Harvest all morning with the sister missionaries and a group of school kids. After lunch with the Elder sisters and some grocery shopping we started picking up girls for Achievement Day. They did scrap booking and the boys played basketball with the Bishopric and the YM’s leader. Maybe we will get a Young Mens program finally going. Even BishopWhite came to play with the boys and we had a good visit with Brother Munson, their YM leader, so maybe things will start. We had to miss the Self Reliance meeting because of Achievement Days. That meeting had somehow got put on the stake committee calendar. The Elder Sisters covered for us. We ran everybody home and then came back to the church for the meeting with the Bishop. This is the first one we have been able to attend in six weeks so we had a lot to cover.
Thursday: We used most of the morning in catching up a few things. We had several things we needed to get into the mail. In preparation for next Monday evening (taking 27 women to the Ensign Symphony), we rode the train to Benaroya Hall in Seattle. Benaroya Hall is famous in Seattle in the music field. As usual, we got lost. After going up and down the street we found that the Hall is in the building that we come out of at the train station. Since we were down town we walked over to where you board the ferry to check it out. Someday we are going to make a trip across the sound on the ferry. After lunch we taught Estrella an English lesson. Mostly we played “Go Fish”. The kids loved it. Joyce did have a short lesson with Estrella while Art entertained Princes Joy and Eldrex. We are making slow progress with Estrella’s English, but it is progress. Our plan was to go knock on doors until Karen called and wanted to go walking. Thank you Karen. Joyce and Karen walk together and visit while Art walks behind and listens to a book on his phone. We walked around Seward Park, getting back just in time to run to the missionary meeting at 7:45. Again, this was the first missionary meeting we have been to for a while because we’ve been taking our Young Single Adults to Institute. We are trying to get them interested in attending. It was good to be at missionary meeting.
Friday taxes due: We had a good institute class in the morning with Elder Holiday, our instructor. We had lunch afterwards, plus a stop at Beehive Books and More for more supplies and a quad for Princes Joy. We would like to get to know the Harrisons a little better. They replaced the Bensons and they attend the class but we never get a chance to visit with them. Joyce was teaching the Word of Wisdom at our 4:00pm lesson so we came home and she prepared for that. (Art took a nap.) Just as we were leaving to go, the Skyway B Elders sent a text. Appointment cancelled. The weather is not the best today so we decided to stay in and get things ready for knocking on doors tomorrow and feeding the missionaries. The Harrisons called to see if we could attend the temple with them, but since we can only go a limited amount we save those times for Margarita Sanchez. We did invite them to go to lunch after the institute classes each Friday morning, so maybe we will get to know them a little better if they will come with us. Joyce also needed to set up our list of those attending the concert on Monday and she sent it to President Eaton. There are over twenty ladies going from Hope Place. We will talk more about this next week after it happens. Pray for this to workout.
Saturday: For some unknown reason, we both had a bad night. Too many things to worry about we guess. Anyway we got a late start. After shopping for the dinner tonight we hit the streets. We found someone home at all three houses we stopped at. One was a lady, Fely, we have been trying to make contact with since last summer. Joyce and her are good friends. We last contacted with her when she went to the Philippines last summer. After our three visits, we come up with the bright idea to try out our bikes and ride to the Dangs. Seattle has lots of hills. It looked level on the map. Good thing the Dangs were home so it wasn’t a waisted trip. We took a different route home but some hills just can’t be avoided. We had a nice visit with them. They have quit attending church and we invited them over for a dinner sometime. They were very nice. All the Missionaries are coming for dinner so we had pedal fast to get it ready. We had a good time at dinner. Skyway B had a rough day with all of their appointments cancelling so we were glad we could lift their spirits a bit. It is so much fun to get all of us together, plus Karen (10 of us) and enjoy each others company. In the evening we went to the Renton Stake meeting for Ward Conference with the Elder Sisters. We were a bit late so we sat on the front row. It was a good meeting on family counsels! We were glad we were in the front so we could see the panel as discussion took place.
Sunday: It was Stake Conference and all who wanted rides earlier cancelled on us. We invited several others and they didn’t want to go. You would think the two hour meeting instead of three hours would be inviting. The conference was very good. They had a Stake Primary Choir sing that we wished we would have known about. Maybe we could have gotten some of the Acostas to sing and got their parents to go listen to them. We were a little disapointed because of everyone cancelling for conference and then when we arrived a Filipino lady, Mila, we have been trying hard to contact showed up and sat with us. Another tender mercy! We sat behind the Cabiaos. We invited Mila and the Cabiaos to come over for lunch afterwards. Mila was going to work, but the Cabiaos came. They are a cute Filipino family and we learned about Bro. Cabiao’s conversion and his kidney transplant. Lots of trials, but we enjoyed their company and laughed a lot as he talked about how Filipinos always say the are “sick” or “tired” when the missionaries come by for an appointment. They have two darling children who we adore! Jared and Emily face-timed us, then Jacob and Lara, and we had to leave to go pick up the Holly House Acostas, Eleazar, Michelle, Reymark and Princess Joy, then Ruth and Rubi from Green House and went to the devotional in Renton. Joshua and his family face-timed us as we were pulling into the parking lot, so they got to see all the kids as we entered the church. Eleazar was saying the closing prayer, which was huge for him! He was pretty nervous about it. Elder Jones had helped him write it on a paper so he read most of it. This a great learning experience for him since they are all so shy. He did so good! The devotional was excellent with all the music, videos, and sweet testimonies of new converts. We tried to get his parents to go and also his aunts from the Green House, but no luck there. Again, baby steps. It was fun to see the missionaries after the devotional and reconnect with the ones that have transferred from our Renton Stake. It surely has been a rewarding week as we look back on it! Love ya Sister and Elder Knowles
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