This week was awesome!! On Monday after p day was over we decided to go out and visit less actives and the Hillman's grandson, Devon, was and he wanted to come with us so he did! We knocked a few people but after knocking on a certain door that wasn't home Devon felt like we should go to the house right next door that was an active member. Elder Anderson and I hadn't met them so we said OK and they were home and apparently had been out of town for months up until just a few days prior and he was heading out of town again in about a week later and he really needed help splitting wood and stacking it. He said we were truly an answer to his prayers because he didn't know how he was going to do it all alone. It's such a blessing to be able have Heavenly Father answer someone's prayers through me. We said we would come by the next morning and help out.
We got there to brother and sister horne's house and there was SO MUCH WOOD like an unreal amount. So we got to work! After a couple hours I was like yeesh this is the worst! But then the holy ghost was like shut up idiot this is great. your life isn't yours right now. and I was like oh yes you are right holy ghost I'm dumb you are smart. And then I was happy because I realized that being able to serve the lord is the happiest anyone can be.
After that we went and had a doctors appointment so that took up a lot of the day but on our way back we decided to stop by a few people and see how they were doing and we got to talk to Shelby! I don't remember if I've talked about Shelby but anyway she's so freakin elect she is super interested in the book of Mormon and she asked a lot of good questions. It was funny when we first started talking she was like yea I did some research and we were like oh no the internet sucks!! And she was like yea apparently that guy came from Israel to America and we were like oh yes that type of research yes you're right *phew* but she is so awesome!!!
On Wednesday our wifi in the car turned off and it was the saddest thing in the entire world. I'm basically going to be crying the entire week.
On Friday we went back to the Horne's and split and stacked more wood for
Saturday was Maple Falls Day!! And we had exchanges!! It was great because elder graham served in the area like a year ago so he had a bunch of pointers and he knew some members that weren't in the records. Towards the end of the night we helped the Ray's stack wood on their trailer and it was just super awesome. That led to us having dinner with them and the black meal that they made was because elder Graham is dying this next week. The Ray's are the best. Also something you need to know is that up in maple falls there is ZERO reception so on our way back down from there we got a bunch of texts from Blaine and a text from bishop CALL US we were like what the heck! And so we got some reception and apparently elder Miller, Elder Grahams usual companion, had eaten something with tomato in it and he was in the ER. It was crazy! He almost died. So we extended the exchange for another night because they didn't get back to the apartment until midnight. So elder Graham came to church with me and got to see all the members again and it was super awesome. Bishop morris made him go up and bear a dying testimony so that was awesome. And then we re-exchanged after church and all was well and elder Miller didn't die.
Today we are going to be having a zone barbecue in lynden that's gonna happen in a couple hours so stay tuned next week for what happened with that!!
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| Is it ST Patrick's Day? |
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| New Tie |
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| Peace Arch on Canadian border |
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| Canadian border |
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| Got my vest!! New deodorant camera!!!! |
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| Birthday box |
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| Dad send a lock picking kit for my birthday |
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| Lady bug stayed on my foot for a whole 30 min drive |
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| Member provided lunch between conference sessions |
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| P-day activity at a member's house |
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| incense |
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| Crochet! |
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| new toaster |
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| everything dyed green for St patrick's day |
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| Elder Graham died |
