Monday was great other than
the fact that I hurt my knee that morning and couldn't really play
anything that Zone P-day. We had a great dinner with a family in our
ward that is housing another set of missionaries. So they joined us...
So rude. :P We then road from there to the edge of our area to visit
another family who had us come over for Family Home Evening. It was
awesome to finally get to really sit down and get to know them. It was
interesting to me that I "know" a lot of the members at least by name,
but you can't really get to know them until you sit down with them for a
FHE. I love being a missionary!
Tuesday was fun. Elder
Castillo and I went over and helped a sister weed her garden. She then
proceeded to make us a full dinner for lunch. Chicken and potatoes. It
was awesome. I am seeing many different ways to cook potatoes. Maybe I
will actually learn a recipe and make it myself. We then were able to
stop by a sister who we hadn't seen in a while. She is a member, her
husband is not and has quite a few illnesses. So she has been his
full-time nurse helping him keep going. When we stopped by she said that
he was now in a nursing home and would not be returning home. She was
devastated. She let us pray for her and her husband as they were going
through this hard time. It was great to see the way the Lord prepares
people who are ready to come to him. We then had a great dinner from our
Elder's Quorum President. Fried Chicken and potatoes. Hmmm felt
familiar. :) The first time was just baked this time it was fried with a
light breaded coating. IT WAS AWESOME! Then we met with some new move
ins from Germany (not originally from there). He was called into active
duty to help with training. Now they are back and happy to be here. We
also, while we were talking, had a really good storm start to move in
with thunder and lightning. That just made my day.
Wednesday
we a little slow. We had a member take us out to lunch at this China
Palace place here in Eagle. It is good. I am still not a huge fan of
Chinese food. It makes my stomach yell at me. We were able to contact a
few more people but, it ran pretty slow the rest of the night.
Thursday
was FANTASTIC! ZONE CONFERENCE! I am not a huge fan of meetings, or at
least I wasn't when I came out on my mission, but now there are almost
this huge build up for me. It was a sad day in the mission as TIWI boxes
were installed in all the vehicles. TIWI are little black boxes that
track just about everything you do. How fast you are going, how hard you
break or step on the gas, hit a bump, if your seat belt is buckled, etc...
but, interestingly enough not if you run a red light. Well I really
don't have to worry about that as I don't have a car. The rest of the
meeting was great. We were able to ask questions on just about anything.
So it was fun to hear the answers that were given to just about every
question. "I don't know." Most of the questions were odd questions about
doctrine that is not yet understood or at least that our Mission
President didn't have the answer to off the top of his head. That ran us
till dinner at the Blaine's. They raise pheasants. Mostly ornamental
ones that are small and not really worth eating.
Friday was
wet. It rained all night and into the afternoon. But, we pressed on!. We
pulled more bamboo and poisoned it with as much weed killer as we had. We
will see if that will get it. The truth is you can't get rid of it.
There will always be a sprout showing up here or there and most poisons
just won't kill the roots. Walked around for a bit and got to talk to a
man with no arms or legs. His name is Kory. He is a member that has just
decided that it isn't for him. But that is okay, he still wants to talk
to us. We ended the day with some nonmembers who are not really
interested/"we're not the church going type." But they love talking to
us and getting to know what is going on and if there is anything they
can do to help.
Saturday was good and bad. We started by
doing some service for a family in the ward that is trying to keep their
house nice so they can sell it. So we had a lot of huge weeds with all
the rain we have gotten lately. The kids are awesome too. We played
museum (one person is moving around looking at everyone and seeing if
anyone moves, you move when they are not looking at you or can see you),
we raced on our bikes (it was a little unbalanced), soccer, and then
shared a lesson about Christ and the love that he has for each of us. We
then proceeded to wait 3 hours for our ward mission leader to pick us
up. He was at a flea market. He said "I just kept seeing twenty dollar
signs and it was hard to walk away." He sells antique clothing so that
is where he goes to find new things to sell at his store, mostly because
people don't know how much their stuff is worth and just want to get
rid of it. He made up for it by taking us to a Mongolian grill place. We
then had exchanges. So I need to back up to yesterday. We asked
everyone in the district to help with pulling bamboo, and only the Sisters
showed up. One of the other Elders called us and said "We will be there
right after we go to the hospital." So we think, oh they are going to
give a blessing and will be here soon. Well they didn't show. We then
get a call Friday night from our district leader asking what we are
doing Saturday. He then proceeded to tell us that his companion, Elder
Folau was in the ICU at the hospital because he was having trouble
breathing Thursday night. WHAT!!! Well, jumping forward (he is all good
now) we had the weirdest exchanges ever. So I went with Elder Kennington
and Peterson in their ward and Elder Castillo went with Elder Lee. Well
we, Elder Kennington, Peterson, and I, tired to visit two people in
their area and spent the rest of the time in our ward. As we had a
dinner (chicken and steak kabobs) and a lesson set up for that night.
Sunday
was depressing. We had two of our investigators drop us. Church was
great. We just had a missionary return from the San Diego Mission Farsi
speaking. It was so weird to hear it. It is not as guttural as Arabic
and very flowy. Had a good dinner with the other Jamison's in the ward.
No relation as far as I know. Burgers. Tried a few people, no answers
until about 8 that night when we were able to get into contact with a
sister who I guess is a snow bird. Also she said she is almost never
home on a Sunday night. So, can you say tender mercy from the Lord. Her
husband worked on the Cobra helicopters in Vietnam. He is not a member
but maybe he will be interested?. We will see.
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