Elder & Sister Knowles

Transfer 11 Week Six Week B32      April 25-30

The perfect date;  Not to cold, not to hot, you just need a light sweater

Preaching:                  “Don’t Give In”  

                                     by Sister Knowles

The Savior said, “My sheep hear my voice.”

That gives us comfort and we rejoice.

But, Satan, a body, he has not,

So, to bring us misery is his plot.  

We have our Savior and the gospel’s light,

To be sad and miserable is Satan’s plight.

Read scriptures daily, stay strong, don’t give in,

The second coming is close by, and Christ will win.

Bind the Adversary tightly, in your heart and home,

Into your thoughts, do not let Satan roam.  

Pray for the Holy Ghost to guide you in word and deed,

Heavenly Father sends blessings, you will succeed.

At the sacrament table think, “What lack I yet?”

A perfect example, Jesus Christ did set.

Don’t give into Satan’s lies and worldly care,

Choose the right and serve others, you must dare! 

Remember the feeling of being new and clean,

And of serving and happiness the gospel does bring.

Don’t you dare give up and don’t you quit!

Show the Devil you’ll live the gospel and he’ll throw a fit.

Selfishness versus service, A leader’s on higher ground,

Lift others up, so charity and love will abound.

Stand in holy places, home can be that place,

Keep towards the temple, the direction to always face!

Today and forever, do not let Satan win,  

Let the spirit of love of our Heavenly Father and our Savior enter in. 

Have hearts knit together in unity and in love,

We will get blessings of eternal life from above. 

We love you so very much! 

Elder and Sister Knowles

Monday  April 25th:  Most of the morning was spent doing the normal p-day things, laundry, and letter writing. It was raining but forecasted to clear by noon, which it did.  At noon we picked up the Elder Sisters and went for a drive.  Sister Chamberlain only has five p-days left so we are taking advantage of them. Sister Beck loves flowers and seeing the country.  She had never been to Flaming Geyser so we took her there and Sister Chamberlain wanted to know the way to Crystal Mountain in case she goes home that way.  Sister Beck didn’t think it was worth the money we paid to get in the park.  Everyone else enjoyed it.  The flame was higher and lasted longer than we have ever saw it.  The two ponds were also full of fish so they were fun to watch them jumping.  Plus, the park really was pretty.  Sometimes Sister Beck is just hard to please.  On the way home we stopped to eat as we always do with the Sisters.  We picked up three for FHE, Karen, Debra D. and Margarita S.  We had invited a few more but they said no.  There was a good turn out and we had a good lesson by Bro. Johansen.  

Tuesday:  We had our last district meeting before transfers.  Next week we could have different missionaries in the zone.  It is sad to see some transferred but we do get to meet new ones.  The meeting was more discussion and not much role playing.  We took a district picture afterwards since it is our last meeting before transfers.  Most of the afternoon we spent at the Acostas.  We went there to teach English for an hour and  Joyce ended up filling out school forms and open door forms for Estrella.  Art tried to help them apply for housing but he found out that it can’t be done online.  We had to hurry home to get ready for the lesson and dinner at our place.  We should have done more cleaning yesterday.  And then after all the preparation, the investigator didn’t show.   It was kind of weird because she is the one who requested the missionaries contact her.  We did have a good dinner with Skyway B and Karen.  We invited two friends to our upcoming ward party and they both called us back so we will see where it goes. One was Sara, who we used to teach English to.  She has been sick so we are going to try and take her some soup if we can figure out the diet restriction for her family.   The other one was Jane, from the Filipino Cultural Center.   

Wednesday: We did service in the morning with the sister missionaries packaging beans.  One man there has been giving the sister a bad time, so Art tried to keep an eye on him.  He did come and get in our picture at the end.  We aren’t sure if he was trying to be nice or wanted to mess up the picture.  He was rude to a couple of the sisters again, but nice to several others, so not sure what is going on.  We did have one young man that asked the sisters a lot of questions so we will see where that goes.  After the service we ate lunch with the Elder Sisters as always and then we had to pick up Joyce Johnson and take her to a lawyer in Seattle. She is trying to get her oldest child ,Gideon, back from Africa. It’s too long of a story to write about. It seems like our GPS doesn’t work well when we are downtown around all the tall buildings.  We did get there finally and had the same thing happen on the way home.  The plus side was it took us to a place where we knew we were at and we ended up avoiding most of the going home traffic.  Achievement days was cancelled which worked out good for us since we were running behind, but the kids were very disappointed. We did make one stop at Ruth and Rubi’s house and Joyce talked to their Aunt Rose about family history, plus, we gave them some cake. We hadn’t seen them for a few days since they didn’t come to church.  In the evening we had our Bishops meeting.  

Thursday:  Karen needed to go to the Bishops store house so that was our first stop. We needed to run to Beehive Books and More for two Book of Mormons in Ilocano and Taglog for Ric and MaryAnn.  It’s Ric’s birthday on Saturday, and he is finally interested in the church.  Pray for him, please, and also MaryAnn and Fransisco.  They wrapped the Book of Mormon’s so nicely at Beehive Books.  Since we were now in Federal Way, Karen wanted to go walk around Salt Water State Park.  It had been raining but cleared off while we were there and it was a beautiful day to be on the Sound.  When we got home we walked to the Acostas to fill out the forms for the meeting tomorrow we are taking Estrella to in Kent.  In the evening we had our missionary meeting which is always interesting.

Friday:  We did the institute class with the Elder Sisters, but no lunch afterwards.  We needed to get back and pick up Estrella and Michele.  We were late getting to the Acostas because they had all the missionaries wait after class so we could pick up CO2 detectors for our apartments.  All the missionary apartments have to have one.  We drove the Acostas back to Kent for a meeting about housing and more help for Eldrex.  That took awhile since we were late and it was a long meeting.  After the meeting we did find a good Chinese place to eat. Just a question we have, with orange peel chicken do you eat the orange peel?  It's not bad, just chewy. Skyway B came over to use the computer, but the sight was down so they will try tomorrow.  Elder Jones has to fill out his life after a mission plan for Salt Lake.  Joyce played the piano for a baptism in the Spanish Branch.  That is always fun.  We have gotten to know some of the members there pretty well because Joyce plays at most of the baptisms that they have.  The young lady being baptized was the one we took to watch General Conference at the Stake center, so we had already met her.  Nancy and her cute family were there.  Nancy and her husband were baptized not long ago at our Skyway Building and we were all there.  They are the ones that we taught English to and helped when they moved.  Now Nancy is in the Relief Society Presidency in the Spanish Branch.  We are so happy they are loving the gospel!  We received a text from President Eaton saying that the rules have been relaxed and senior missionaries may go out of the mission (within reason) on p-days and we could now go to the Tulip Festival with the Senior Sisters.  Too bad it is over.  We will definitely take advantage of this news.

Saturday:  We are going to go back to starting our weekly letter on Sunday since we seem to have more time in the afternoon to write, plus Sunday is the 1st.  Rex and Louise are coming tomorrow so we spent some of the morning getting ready for them while we waited for Joyce Johnson to call.  We went to the passport office with her to renew some passports for her.  That took up the morning and we took her to lunch after getting the passports ordered.  Our plan was to go to a birthday party with the Acostas, Ric is turning 54 but we ran out of time.  The ward had a cultural night and we needed to make a Snickers salad.  The ward activity was good even with the low attendance.  Lots of investigators were there and a few less actives.  Karen invited Linda, from Hope Place, to go with us and

we picked up everyone early so Art could help set up and Joyce could take Karen to check on a place to stay.  Plus, Joyce and Karen needed to give Darlene Jones a ride to the party.  Karen might move in with Darlene.   After the activity we took everyone home and then walked to the Acostas to deliver some presents and a Snickers salad we had made them.  The presents were the Book of Mormons that we had bought on Thursday, plus we had one in Spanish for MaryAnn’s boyfriend. It’s always fun to go visit with the Acosta’s.  We also found out tonight that two of our favorite missionaries (they seem to all become favorites) may go home for medical reasons.  One has a pretty serious condition.  We also found out that the Bishop is moving.  He is just waiting for the Stake to call a new bishop and then he will be gone.  That has been our week. Love Joyce and Art