Well hello family!!!!
First of all....THANKYOU for the package and the letters and all of the fun suprises in the boxes! The letters and fruit and pecans and EVERYTHING was PERFECT! You guys are the best!!!!
And there are lots of little things to tell ya about!
This week was sweet! Saturday we did some hard core service! There is a less active family that has been completely shut off to the church that has been letting the missionaries come over. So we went and they are doing tons of work. They just had 2 big trucks of gravel dumped in their yard and so we shoveled that level and helped them put tile and grout on their back porch. I am just learning all sorts of things and finding muscles that I didn't even know I had. Ha. We started at 6 in the morning because that is the only time to work in Arizona.
We went to the temple as well this week. Amazing as always! That is one blessing from not being down in Yuma, they dont have a temple close to them down there. The member we went with took us out to eat afterwards and the owners of the little sandwich shop were members too so they gave us all free cookies...they were amazing!
One of the counselors in the branch presidency is an eye doctor and asked us if we wanted to get some free contacts (yes please!!!). The four of us don't know our perscriptions so he used my glasses to find it.. The first thing he said was "Oh Wow." Haha, he was a little bit astonished about how blind I was. It was super funny (you probably had to be there). Well, it was no suprise but he didn't have any contacts in my perscription, so the other sisters got some and now I have an updated perscription that I can get new glasses when I get home. Brother S is the best!
Also this week, we biked 30 miles in 1 day. haha. It was lots of fun and really hot. But we saw awesome miracles happen and it made it all worth it. It is really nice, because Sister Limburg is tall too and she likes to bike fast. All of my other comps (bless their hearts) just didn't have the power to bike fast. So now we are biking maniacs! It is fun:D
Also, last Monday we went bowling as a district! It was Elder Jergensmyer's birthday (side note... can you imagine spanish people trying to pronounce his name? haha, when he served with Elder Niederhouser is was ESPECIALLY funny. J is 6'9'' and N is 6'4 and they both have ridiculous names....those poor hispanics didn't have a chance. Bwhahaa). Well anyway....It was awesome and I suprised myself...I wasnt' half bad a bowling! woohoo!
Well on a sad note, our dear friend H wants to wait to be baptized. His wife found out and she was super angry. He wants to divorce her (so sad!! they made it through basically their whole life together!) But he wants to wait to sell the house so they can divide their things. He said probably baptism in October. Dang. It is a crazy rule, that the spouse has to give permission for the other one to be baptized, but the gosple is all about families and not about being the reason a family breaks up. We will see how it all works out.
But we do have one of our other investigators on date. C (the one that just got married so she could be baptized). She is going to be baptized on the 27th and her son in going to baptize her. PRECIOUS!!!!!!!!
Is was just such a crazy cool week. Last night we ran out of plans and people to go by. So we went to another apartment complex and found some awesomely prepared people to teach!!! We found 2 new investgators in 45 minutes. Being a missionary is the best.
Well. I love you all and hope all is well. Sorry to hear that some of your missionaries are leaving. That is always super sad. BUT, I bet the next ones will need ya just as much :D
I love you all!!!!
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