Fire Flies

The night before the 4th of July we drove out to a member's home that was having a get-together and a firework show.  We got special permission to stay out til 10:00 but unfortunately we still weren't able to see any fireworks.  That being said I got to see fire fly's for the first time.  It was fascinating!  The following day for the 4th of July we went down to Mason and went to a car show and we talked to a bunch of people most of them weren't too interested, but it was still a good time.  Following the car show, we went to a Bbq with a member and we played a game of Kubb.  Long story short me and elder Anderson got our tails whooped after one game.  We headed back down to Mason after that and went to the parade.  It was kinda cloudy when we got out of the car but by the time the parade started, it was a torrential down pore.  We were hoping to wait it out under a tree by an elderly couple but we still got drenched.  The elderly couple ended up giving us a ride to our car. I felt bad because we got the inside of their car soaked.

We had Zone conference this week and we learned all kinds of interesting stuff about missionary work.  We got training about bridging the gap between different faiths and how we need to try and find similarities to build on instead of pointing differences.  It was really fun I was able to see all my MTC buddy's and Elder Eckersell and Elder Pancheri.  It was like a family reunion.

We had tons of success this week as far as missionary work. Specifically, Denise accepted a baptismal invitation!  All we have to do is get over a couple of small hurdles to get her to church and we will be home free.  We finally were able to sit down with a referral we got about three weeks ago by the name of Zac.  We have been messaging him back and forth for about 3 weeks now, but when we sat down he brought up baptism.  We talked about it for a little bit then we invited him to be baptized and he said "yes"!  I felt like I was living an episode of the district this week with how well our week went!

We also got back in contact with "granddad."  If you forgot Granddad was the one that we helped move about 2 months ago.  We sat down with him and talked about the Book of Mormon with him and he accepted a copy.  He had lots of great questions for us.  Before we left he fed us ribs and brats.  He had smoked them and made his own Bbq sauce and let me tell you they were amazing!  He said when we come back in a week he was going to fry up some bass for us!

-Me and President Brennan
-Drenched at the Parade
-A steam engine at the parade
-At The Parade
-Ribs and brats