STOP! It's Email Time

 Dear Family!  Well, this has been a week!  There's a lot going on that I won't write in an email, but will try to call.

Tuesday morning I made brownies for district council on Wednesday. But most of em didn't make it til then. We also visited a guy named Jason that has been meeting with missionaries for a little while, he is pretty interesting. He definitely has been prepared to meet with missionaries, it's just he also has had a crazy life and has some preconceived notions about other people. But he loves church, and loves when we come over. I think change is going to take a bit for him though. 

Wednesday, we had District Council and also interviews with President Hurley. This was my first with him, and it was really cool to see the differences between him and President Nelson. He didn't talk much. Asked questions and then waited for a while. Everyone liked the scraps of the brownies I brought. I disguised them by putting them on a plate. So it looked like the whole pan. After that we walked around and tried to meet our neighbors. We caught a lady home who was a Baptist minister. She was super nice. It was kind of funny. We were walking away and it seemed as though there was a bit of a contest to see who was going to get the last, "Have a nice evening," in. 

Thursday was a ton of planning and another quick lesson with Jason. 

Friday we did similar as Wednesday but with our car and not near our house. 

Saturday we worked most of the day at a booth at the Rigby fair that was going on. We had a ton of copies of the Book of Mormon, and a big sign, and there were four sets of missionaries there. Sometimes we would wander around and talk to people and Sometimes we would hangout at the booth. It was really cool because I was able to see lots of people from Rigby East--my area a year ago. So that was good. In the evening Elder Cluff hurt his hand (purposely), so we had to go to urgent care and see if it was broken. We got home at 11 and I was really tired.

Sunday was church and some meetings. The last thing we did was visit a family and share a message, I talked about charity and how at the start of the mission I had trouble loving the people and really getting into the mood of the mission.

 Elder Pope (recently gone home companion,) in every prayer he said he always asked for more charity. I have really noticed the need of it on the mission. Especially in a more member area, lots of people are looking for reasons to leave the church, and it's really easy to get offended by something someone does. But charity helps us look past the failings of people.

Everyone has problems, and we can instead of getting offended, we can help and reach out.

the end

Rose:  Going to the fair and helping out

Thorn: Saturday night Urgent Care and driving in the dark