June 24, 2013

This week was an interesting one.  We had transfers this week and my companion and I are staying so we will be in the Washington Kennewick Mission.  My district got split again.  There are 4 elders in my district.  There were 3 new sisters that were transferred into our zone.  That makes 7 in my zone.  5 of them live in the same apartment complex as my companion and I do.

This week I finished the "Miracle of Forgiveness", which I enjoyed reading, and I'm now reading "Our Search for Happiness".

This week we stopped by a less active member.  He likes to have the missionaries over.  Max really likes to fish.  Everything that can go wrong will go wrong.  I thought it was bad when Dad, Mike, and I went fishing but he is much worse.  He's told us stories about having the boat trailer run over his foot and the guy he fishes with, both of them falling out of the boat.  He also mentioned that his fishing buddy can mess up a free lunch as well.
Max was going to take us out for lunch one day last week, but he ended up canceling on us because he had a date.  He calls a couple of days later and he wants to take us out to dinner that night, it just happened that we didn't have a dinner appointment that night.  Max tells us to be at his house at 5 for hamburgers.   We go about our day and we are doing are service at Sister Simpsons (which is building  an outdoor pot -a- potty),  5 O'clock rolls around and we don't have time to change so we just head over to Max's house.  After about 5 minutes of us getting there he tells us to get in his truck, he needs to make a quick stop before we get something to eat.  Next thing Elder Tubbs and I know we are driving across the bridge (the river is the boundary for our zone).  We tell Max that we are out of our zone and need to go back.  Max says that it won't be for long.  Max keeps driving and next thing we know he pulls up to a Chinese restaurant and tell us this is where we are eating.  After trying to explain to Max that we are not suppose to be on this side of the river he admitted that he was planning on taking us here all along.  The whole time Max is laughing at us and telling us that it won't be much longer.
While were were eating Max was telling me that I was big enough to be a line backer at a small college and that I could get through school playing football.  I tell him thanks and get up to go to the restroom.  While I'm drying my hands a small hispanic guy walks in with his shoulders up thinking he's all big and bad until he sees me in my boots and jeans, then he drops his shoulders and hurries to the stall.  When I walk out I tell Elder Tubbs and Max what happened and Max just dies laughing.

I watched the leadership training broadcast and recognized Pres. Bowman.  I had a couple of people ask if I knew him.

This week we also put one of our investigators on date to be baptized on July 20.  We need to finish teaching her the commandments and the rest of lesson 4 then she should be good to go.

That's been the highlight of my week.

I love you and hope you're doing well.

Love,
Scott