Elder & Sister Knowles

Week B20 Transfer 13 Week 6 July 17-23

             One mans junk is another mans treasure

Preaching: This is what we worked on in the SRS class.  Show Integrity:

Put a number in front of each item to show how often you act this way:  

1 = never, 2 = sometimes, 3 = often, 4 = almost always, 5 = always 

______  1.  I keep all my promises, commitments, and covenants.

______  2.  I am completely truthful in things I say and in the records I keep.

______  3.  I do not exaggerate to make things appear better than they are.  

______  4.  I return everything I borrow and do not take things that do not belong to me. 

______  5.  I am completely faithful to my spouse in my words and actions.  

______  6.  I never cheat, even when I know I won’t get caught.

______  7.  When I find something that is not mine, I return it to the owner.  

______  8.  I always pay back money I borrow, including any loans.     

Sunday:  We had a car load to start the morning with then by time for church, several cancelations.  Reymark made the assignments for the sacrament so that was good. Church and our lessons went well even though the twins weren’t at church and Joyce’s assistant teacher didn’t show up.  Brother. Acosta received the Aaronic Priesthood.  He had to leave early with Michelle and SunShine because Richel has come up missing again.   Her boy friend has made some threats to her so they are worried where she is at.  We took the rest of the family home after church so we did end up with a car load going home.  It all works

out. We stopped at Joyce Johnson’s to take her and Eric to Puyallup, but she wasn’t ready so we came home and had a quick lunch.  It was a good thing we got to eat then because we never got home again until 9:30 at night.  It’s too late to eat then.  After picking up Joyce and loading her luggage, lots of it, we drove her to Puyallup to spend the night there with a friend so that she can leave Eric there when she flies to Ghana on Monday.  We only got lost once.  It was too late to go all the way home to South Settle, so we went to the church to hang out until it was time to go to go to the devotional in Maple Valley.   Joyce practiced the piano and Art took a nap on the floor until Jacob and Lara face timed us and we got to have a good visit.   The Elder Sisters were meeting us at the church so we could go to the devotional together, plus give Jasmine a ride.  She’s an investigator that Skyway A is teaching.  The devotional was great and Jasmine enjoyed it.  We got to see Sister Heiner for the last time, she goes home next Monday.

Monday p-day:  We picked up Estrella and Eldrex and drove to the hospital for a 11:00 appointment.  It is a great drive along Lake Washington until you hit the traffic by the U. of W.  Eldrex did great and they are setting him up for more therapy in October.  These will be three hour sessions, five days a week for three weeks. We took them to lunch on our way

home.  We did some shopping and errands, plus the usual Monday things before time for FHE.  All those who wanted rides cancelled on us so it was just the two of us on the way there which was kind of different for us. We did give Debra Driggs a ride home.  FHE was good with a small turn out.  No origami so that cuts down those who attend. We did get a call to let us know that there will be somebody from Salt Lake attending the SRS class tomorrow, but they said not to worry.  Sure, no worries, but they know that Elder Knowles does a great job facilitating the Financial Management Class.  We did figure out that the criminal activity we were told about was a person that was shot and killed in the park next to the street where some of you parked when you came to see us.  Welcome to Skyway.  Another reason  why we don’t walk in the park after dark.

Tuesday:  Our district meeting was first thing in the morning.   It was the last one before transfers next week and usually things change, so we took lots of pictures after.  It was a good meeting. Afterward we went to the Acostas and Joyce taught English, worked on insurance forms and Art entertained Eldrex and Princes Joy.  We had just enough time to walk home, have a quick lunch and ride the bus to Renton for the SRS class. Only four more and we will be experts with money we hope.  We had to be the facilitators again.  It went well and the person from Salt Lake didn’t stay too long.  After class we caught the bus to Henderson and then walked home from there.  It is still not dark by the time we get home but close.  Most of our Tuesdays are the same routine with District meeting and the SRS class.

Wednesday:  We took the Elder Sister to Northwest Harvest with us. We did pasta again and it was very hot in the building.  The weather is getting hotter now. Karen was going to go, then backed out so she could get ready for her graduation tonight.   We ate lunch with the Sisters and then hurried home so we could walk with Karen along the lake.  Hope Place is giving her a bad time about her graduation and other things.  We are convinced it is because she is active in the church.  It seems like they want her to fail since she didn’t embrace their religion, then they can say it was because she is Mormon that she failed.  That is the only reason we can think of for the way they are treating her.  One of their directors is very anti.  We picked up Diane Nardi and then Art dropped Joyce and Diane off at Hope Place and he went to the meeting with the Bishop and the missionaries.  That meeting went long, with Art not getting home until almost 11:00.  Bishop Munson let everyone go then kept Art later to visit about talking on the 31st and just visiting.  Then, when we did leave, Bro Powers was waiting out on the street, (he has been banned from all church property) flashing a light, waiting for us. We had been warned that he was there, but thought he had got tired of waiting for us and left.  Not so. He is cleaning or moving, not sure which, but he had all this stuff lined up on the sidewalk and wanted the missionaries to have it. He had to go through each pile to show us what it was and explain how we could use it.    Lots of hand warmers for Sister Chamberlain. We will make sure you get them!  The bad part is that he has more that he wants the missionaries to have so we aren’t done with him yet. Somehow we became the go to missionaries. He is a nice man, just a little, no, a lot not quite all there. We think that is a kind way to say it. Anyway it made for a late night and now we have a lot of stuff to get rid off.  Art felt a bit guilty in leaving because Bro Powers had Bishop Munson trapped on the street as he was trying to leave. 

Thursday: First thing in the morning we went to Green house Acostas and Joyce taught her Primary lesson to Ruth, Rubi and Jenefer.  Kind of a big miracle to have Jenefer sit in on the lesson.  The twins had told us she was too busy.  Joyce did a great job and they all enjoyed the lesson.  After the lesson we went to the church, and Joyce and the twins worked on their primary scrap books, then off to the Fun Center to eat. While they work on the scrape books, Art went around the church and put up all the chairs so we can clean faster on Saturday.  The investigator that we wanted to see wasn’t working so we left the Fun Center and went to the food court at the mall to eat. The food court has more choices.  Since we were at the mall, we called to see what size Ric Acosta wears and went and bought a couple of white shirts and some ties for him.  We hope he will start passing the sacrament now.  At home, Art went through the stuff Bro. Powers had given us. We had already given the twins some of it. In the evening we rode the bus back to the Acostas (Green house) to drop off a Family History pamphlet for Jenefer  and then walked to our missionary meeting. 

A man we talked to on the bus pointed at Arts belly and said he (Art) was putting too much butter on his potatoes when he found out we were from Idaho.  The Elders have lots going on so lots of discussion at the meeting.  Skyway B gave us a ride home so we could talk to them about the Daly Dose program.  We received several calls from Bro. Powers while at the meeting.  Art did talk to him after we got home.  We kind of feel sorry for him. He is cleaning out his storage unit, that’s where all the stuff is coming from.  We hope he doesn’t become a problem.  We think Bishop Munson should handle this not us.

Friday:  Our 10:00 service project with the Spanish Sisters cancelled.  We drove there, knocked, nobody answered and then we found we had missed the call telling us not to come over.  Those things happen.  We came home and walked down to the Acostas with the shirts and ties.  Ric tried on one of the shirts and it fit fine.  Since it was kind of a cloudy day, and since we work through most of our preparation days, we decided to ride the train/bus to the Ballard Locks in the afternoon.  The salmon are coming up the fish ladder.  It was very busy with people.  You can tell it’s summer vacation time.  The locks were very busy also. Lots of boat traffic going both directions, so we were able to see a lot of the locks, filling up with boats, and also the water emptying, so boats could get out into the Sound.  We ate at the best sandwich place we have found so far in Seattle. We got the idea to walk

to Discovery Park and catch a bus into Seattle from there.  It was a much longer than we thought it would be.  The park is huge and goes on for miles!   You have to walk all the way across it to catch a bus.  We missed the bus by a few minutes and the next bus didn’t come for an hour so we back tracked a different way to the locks.  We only went down three dead ends trying to find the right trail.  We finally made it back to the locks, caught a bus to the light rail and made it home by 9:30.  It was a long day and lots of walking, but we had a great time.  We called it our Friday night date.  We did get another call from Bro. Powers. It’s a good thing we were away so we had a good excuse to put him off until we can talk to the Bishop.

Saturday: We were a bit slow getting up after our walk yesterday but we had to clean the church so no choice about sleeping in.  There wasn’t a big turnout for cleaning the church.  The Meldrums had gone up early so they could get to the Renton parade by 9:30.  We did have some extra vacuum cleaners and Joyce took ours,  so that went faster and we were able to be done by

10:00.  We went and picked up Karen and then headed to Sister Jones to help clean and move Karen.  The Spanish speaking Sisters also helped us.  We took them to lunch at a place by our apartment.  The plan was to park in our parking garage, then walk to the restaurant.  The police had the driveway blocked so we had to wait while they arrested somebody. It was a dinner and a show for the sisters.  They know all about Skyway and aren’t allowed to contact in our area or be in our area after 6:00.  After dinner we went back to Sister Jones for more work.  We got Karen’s room cleaned finally and Art fixed the

shower but we were all too tired to finish moving, so we will take a few things over tomorrow.  There is still lots of work to do.  The Elder Sisters even helped in the afternoon and we still couldn’t get everything done.  There’s still lots of stuff to go through.  Bro. Powers ran into Skyway A at McDonalds and gave them all the stuff he has so it was one less thing we had to deal with today. We will get all the stuff later unless somebody breaks into the Elder’s car and steals it. We can only hope.  It was another busy week with lots being accomplished but still more to do.  Elder Call, an area seventy, is going to be at church tomorrow and he will teach SS and Priesthood/RS so we aren’t sure about lesson prep so we got our lesson’s ready just in case we end up teaching.  We are sure Joyce will have Primary.  Hope your week was a good one. Love Joyce and Art