Christmas Eve

Well, not a whole lot happened this week.  Our shower broke so we had to go to a members home for a couple of days until that got fixed but now our pink shower is up and running again!  But besides that we wen't to Don's house last night for a Christmas party.  Don is some one we are teaching right now.  He is a super nice older guy and he had a bunch of people at his house so we had a bunch of people to talk to and we didn't have to go out in the cold!  We were super surprised though when he started bringing out gifts for every one.  He even got us something.  I got a giant container of popcorn and E. wise got a bunch of pretzels.  We also got 2 dinner appointments out of the deal, with non Members!

We did some service this week.  We helped a friend of ours named Jim get all of his wood down into his basement so he could heat his house.  Jim is the funniest guy you will ever meet and he is an expert in redneck science.  To move one of his trailers he put a hole in his bobcats lifting forks about an inch wide then drilled a hole in the trailers receiving hitch then put a 3/4 inch bolt with washers and nuts through both of those and called it good.  Look at the pictures for a more detailed description but it was pretty creative.  I just wanna know how he drilled the holes in every thing because they were giant for one and they were through supper thick metal but when there is a will their is a way!

One more thing on service.  I have really grown a testimony of service out here.  there are times when I have felt like people have been taking advantage of our kindness but 99% of the time it has gotten us in doors being able to teach people.  Service can soften the hardest of hearts!

And last fun story, we were up North in rose city and we had 10 minutes until a member was going to come and pick us up and I saw a trading post so we went in and looked around.  They had furs from every animal you could think of, knives, air rifles, fishing lures, and anything else you could think of.  But behind the counter there was a raccoon skin coat and E. Wise asked if he could put it on.  My jaw Dropped because the price tag on that coat was 950 bones!  After we gave the store clerks some light the world cards and headed back to the car I asked E. Wise, "did you see the price tag on that coat?"  He said no so I told him it was 950 bucks and he said I'm sure glad I didn't rip that thing!