Hey! This week has been going pretty good!
We do tons and tons of service each week. During the day there is hardly any one that's ever home, so we have planned service for almost every single day for several hours! Its so much fun! This past week we got to help groom horses on one day! It was definitely fun. For another of our service activities we help out at an assisted living home. This past week when we went we helped them write out cards to send home to their families. One particular woman named Elsa wasn't particularly happy about having to write a letter. She was very determined to get out of the home and start walking to her home in new York, which in her mind was only a 5 minute walk down the road. Elsa said, "what do you want me to write? 'Help!! I'm stranded!!!' ...hmm yeah I think I'll write that..." ha ha it was really funny and she was completely serious when she said it.
We've had a couple of really cool miracles this week. We were visiting with a woman named Vikki Eddington, her husband is a long time inactive member, and she hadn't ever been a member. We were sitting at her house talking to her when she said, "ya know.. I decided that I want to give up smoking. and actually coffee probably isn't healthy, maybe ill give that up too. Oh and also, It's been 28 years since I've heard the missionary discussions. They've probably changed since then, you should go through them with me!" Needless to say sister Christensen and I were pretty excited to have a person make themselves into an investigator.
Another cool miracle that happened was with a woman named Susan Parker. Actually almost the same thing that happened with Vikki happened with Susan. We were sitting down talking to Susan and she asked us a bunch of questions about our believes and asked for a book of Mormon and said that she wanted to learn more about our church! It was pretty awesome.
This past Saturday we had a reaaaaally long service scheduled. A less active family had a bunch of trees to chop down and make into a wood pile. We knew that it was going to be a lot of work so we called our whole district and asked them all to come down and help us. We all got there and started getting to work. Brother Parker(the less active) called us over from chopping wood and asked us to help him cut a tree down. He had mostly done it himself already, but the tree had gone the wrong way and would've landed on the house if it had not been caught by another tree. Our job was to tie a rope around the fallen tree and pull it the correct way so that it wouldn't land on the house. We started pulling as brother parker started sawing the tree again. The rope snapped out of nowhere and we all went tumbling backwards to the ground. The elder in front of the group had the rope snap him on his arm and stomach and you could clearly see where it had hit him. My companion had started a video right at the beginning, although she'd faced the camera towards the tree because we all were pretty sure that the tree was going to hit the house, so she wanted to catch it getting smashed. After the rope broke we all were wishing that the camera had faced us instead because that would've been pretty funny to see!!!
yesterday right before church one of the councilors walked up and told us that one of the youth speakers and an adult speaker could not show up for church today, so we were asked to speak. Goodness...definitely a little bit intimidating getting up and speaking when you have no time to prepare anything. But it actually went pretty well!!!
Well...that's about it for the week!! love you all!!:)
