Hey yall, its been a solid week! I found out I come home on january 17th! President Jensen confirmed flight plans this week. Love yall!

We had some fun this week! Lots of new experiences.

Flood:

-We had the creek rise up again one morning we had to run out and sand bag the bottom doors to make sure they were blocked. It wasn't as bad as it was before.

Member Splits:

-An elder from the ward came out with us on splits and we went to see an investigator couple and the wifes brother. We had a powerful lesson about the restoration. The brother with me bore powerful testimony and was sharing how he got his answer that Joseph Smith was a prophet. Wow! It was incredible. We hope to see good things come out of this family.

-Saturday we met up with them and the guy who was on splits with us at the church to do a church tour. They loved the building, the Spirit was strong. We shared with them the Book of Mormon, they are great folks! They again said they believe it is true.

The South Paddles:

-We found out last night that they still let teachers or principals paddle kids in school!! haha Elder Franchino got a kick out of that. Good ole' southern living.

Lawn Mowing:

-On Friday we helped a sister we have been working with do some yard work. She owns about 4 acres, we had about 1 1/2 to 2 that we mowed. I started out with the push mower, we saw that her riding mower was out of oil and not working, her super kind neighbor actually works on mowers and he has like 15 in his backyard. He let us borrow two so we drove them down the hwy back to her house and got to work. Our high priest group leader was there cause we needed him to go inside and have lunch but since we were late getting things going we asked him to help out, so we had two riding mowers, and me with the push mower and it took us about an hour and a half to mow it all. I got super burnt! My neck was as red as one of those kids butts in the south who gets sent to the principals office for a paddling! I was beat that day, alot of sun and alot of biking. We ended the day at 30 miles on the bikes too. In PEC Sunday morning the High Priest group leader was getting a heck of a kick out of seeing us ride down the road on those mowers. Awesome day! We also found a yellow jacket nest and had to burn it. We poured gas in and lit it on fire real fast. It was sweet!!!

Last minute talk in church:

-In PEC sunday morning we were also asked to give last minute talks, they were only for about 7 minutes so it wasn't bad. We talked on the need for revelation. I tied it into how we can receive the witness from the spirit that what the prophet says is true.

Baptismal Dates:

-We met with the family of 4 this week, they fed us an awesome corn beef and cabbage meal, super good, we also read 3 Nephi 11 with them, they have been reading and doing great, its hard to get them to church, the wife has bad back problems. They are reading the Book of Mormon though.

-The other girl who the member brought to church is doing good, she is going to be baptized on Sept 15, we are really looking forward to that. She is such a good girl. Great members to support her. She feels the spirit so strongly. I am so grateful to be here to witness it.

Preacher:

-The preacher that we met last Sunday, we got to meet with on Thursday, had a great visit. He has no real intent to join the church but he does want to understand. He said he knew an apostate member in his last church he worked at and they told him alot of things. He is a real nice guy though. Smart.

Awesome splits:

-Another awesome experience with our Elders Chorum President, he is from good ole' Mesa town. He rocks! We had some fun lessons. It reminded him of his mission and how awesome it was. His wife also ran into us during the week at sonic and bought us sonic! Yumm yumm!! I felt like such a chunker though. Oh and that night he was on splits he bought us ice cream!!!

Eye Doctor and Regular Doctor:

-I was having a hard time hearing out of my ear again, so I went to the doctor and they cleaned out my ears! Ah that felt so weird! They have a mini super soaker water gun thingy ma-jig, and they just shoot water in your ear, they found a couple gnats in there! haha just kidding. I can hear again though, I feel totally better! Elder Franchino got some pictures. I will send one, it was gross!!! The doctor wasn't a big fan of us being LDS he was very angry looking. Not kind at all.

-I got my eyeglasses from the doctor, love em, they take care of business.

Goals for Members:

-We are making it priority to see members often, to make sure we have good uplifting contact with each active member each week. I think this change of focus will bring more success and better trust. I love this ward, these members are awesome!!