March 11, 2013

This week was very interesting.  Monday we had an appointment set with a part member family but they called and cancelled on us.  Tuesday, we went tracting and gave out a couple Books of Mormon. While tracting we found a guy that is very anti.  He told us that we are children of the Devil and that we believe in a different Jesus and that our Jesus is of the Devil and that there is a veil between us and him so that our evil spirit could get in him and destroy his sole.  On Wednesday, we taught our new member a new member discussion.  He remembered a lot of what we taught him about the restoration the 1st lesson we gave when we started teaching him, which made it easy to teach him on Wednesday.  Thursday, we did service with another companionship in a small town called Yacolt.  The guy that we helped was ranked 3rd in the world of arm wrestling at one time.  He had us restack his firewood that had fallen over in his yard.  That took most of the afternoon.  He fed us after we were done and then we went to a dinner appointment .  We were so full from having 2 dinners.  Friday, we did another service project for at a less active members house.  We cleaned the sky lights on her roof and then went and scooped more horse poop.  Saturday, we did another service project for another part member family.  We trimmed some trees in her front yard and got to feed her goats.  We also found a new investigator while tracting.  Sunday we taught him the 1st lesson.  He wouldn't let us in his house to teach him.  I think he maybe on some drugs.  It was kind of weird.
This evening we are planning on going back up to Yacolt to do some more service.  There maybe more dinner and a bonfire.

I'm getting known for always wearing my work boots for service projects, hikes or to the gym on p-days. I guess no one has done that before.
It sounds like the stake is really trying to get the youth involved in indexing which is good.  That means more work to do in the temples.  Speaking of temples, I will be going to the Portland temple of the 26 and to the distribution center.  I'm looking forward to that.

I love you.
Love,
Elder Poling