It
was another busy week. It seems to be
feast or famine around here. Valerie
has been very busy with all her assignments.
She is working very hard with the primary having primary presidency
meetings trying to demonstrate how a primary looks. She has put together a plan for each branch but it is difficult
to get to every presidency with only the weekends to get them together. Family History has slowed a bit but we are
working more with the missionaries lately than with the members. We are realizing that the time is slipping
away too quickly. We worked with Elder
Lawrence and Elder Pring on Tuesday.
They are hard working men.
Disappointment and weather conditions do not slow them down. We walked into the back country to teach
several lessons until many hours after dark.
I asked how they found people to teach so far back into the jungle but
they thought it was normal. After
walking down wet trails we would come into a group of huts and they would teach
a few lessons then go on to the next group.
The people are very Catholic and it is difficult to get past the
superstition of going against the church just to teach a lesson. Those that do allow a lesson absorb it and
feel the spirit. These are the elders
with a sister who is being baptized this Saturday.
They
taught a lesson to this man’s family but he was more interested in playing with
his fighting roosters.
We
taught this family but they showed more interest in us than the lesson. Elder Lawrence leaves for home in two
weeks. He is agreat kid and yes, he is
6’6” tall.
Thursday
and Friday we were in Naga for a mission conference. All the missionaries had to come in for flu shots. They came in over a two day period, four
zones each day. There were about 90
missionaries each day divided into groups of about 10. They rotated in the groups to four
different 30 minute sessions. Valerie and I taught a session on how to use
family history as a finding, teaching and reinforcement tool. It went very well. We had a good power point presentation with a few videos and
slides. It was very enjoyable to be
around the missionaries. This is day
one with the zones from the north part of the mission. We haven’t worked with most of these
missionaries. We are sitting next to
President and Sister Reeder.
Saturday was busy with a good-bye brunch with the Baao
missionaries. We gave Elder Lawrence a
farewell meal with the other local missionaries. He goes home to Idaho next Tuesday. We still had time for our crepes tradition on Sundays.
I will send this now as I have more pictures for
next week’s journal. Thanks to our
family for all your support and work in our behalf. Thank you Tab for posting our blog and making us look so
good. Thanks all of you for your communication
with us by Skype. Thanks to Mike and
Becky for keeping the farm and banking going for us at home. We love you all!
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