HOLY COW! This week was AWESOME!!! :D
So, it started out with a Family Home Evening with the
Jepsens (Bro Jepsen 2nd counselor in the bishopric and our designated Ward
Mission Leader, Sis Jepsen a Ward missionary, and all-around awesome family),
the Whiteheads (a less active family), the Marsalas (recent converts), and
VeAnne Jensen (another ward missionary). It was lots of fun! We
talked about baptismal covenants, and played a game called KISS (aka- Keep It
Simple Stupid). Basically, you split the groups into two teams and put
one member from each team up front. You then show the rest of the people
a word, and the teams each come up with one word to describe the first word.
The people up front have to guess what the word is based off the one-word
description. If that made sense. I hope it did. Anyways, it
was fun. :)
On Wednesday, Sister Ketring was sick with the stomach flu
(companion #2 that has had it), so most of the day was spent studying 1
Chronicles, reading the Book of Mormon, and watching Mormon Messages. It
was a nice, chill-out day.
We got to teach David Pitt on Thursday! He's such a
cute kid, and actually knew quite a bit about Joseph Smith. I'm sure
he'll be prepared for his baptism when he turns 8. :)
On Friday, we had a meeting with President Francis (the
Stake President for the Kuna East Stake), basically talking about how there
were going to be some major changes soon in leadership in our ward, and about
Progressive Mormonism, which is sort of running rampant in our ward. We
were both very grateful to be able to talk to him.
Later that day, we had the Jepsens come pick us up at
Cheveron, because we had left our bikes at their house the night before, and we
were buying a birthday gift for their daughter, Kylee. Well, as the four
of us were pulling out, we saw a bunch of the Elders at the sno cone shack, and
Brother Jepsen said "Well, that was rude of them to not invite you!"
What he did next was hilarious.
he pulled up to them, and rolled down only his window (all
his car windows being tinted), and yelled out in the most intimidating voice
"HEY! Are ya Mormons?" (Brother Jepson has worked as
Security before. He knows how to be intimidating.)
All 8 Elders, including our zone leaders, sat there,
slack-jawed and surprised. So, he continued! "I asked you, are
ya Mormons? Do you have one of those books?" Finally, after a
couple of minutes he yells "Come up here! I want to talk to
you!"
So, Elder Tupou, our fearless Tongan Elder, bravely strides
up to the truck. His Companion, Elder Astle, frantically pushed through
the other Elders to back up his companion as needed.
Elder Tupou walks right up to the truck, looks inside....
And makes direct eye contact with Sister Ketring, who was
trying to control her laughing, but couldn't.
All chaos erupted. Both Sister Ketring and I burst out
laughing with Elder Tupou's eyes growing so wide, and Brother Jepsen rolled
down the back seats window so that the rest of the Elders could see that we had
been sitting in back the whole time.
Their jaws dropped even lower, which just caused us to laugh
harder. It took them a couple of minutes to recover from the shock.
It was pretty funny.
On Saturday, we had exchanges with Sister Barnes and Cole,
so I stayed in Kuna with Sister Barnes.
Our morning started out busy. We were out the door by
8:15 to go clean up the banks of the river, than an hour later we went to a
less active's home to help her move out. And there was SO MUCH HAIR in
that home. She had a Huskey dog, who slept under the bed, and there were
hairballs the size of baseballs under it! And she had only been living
there since February! It was sort of gross. But it was good work.
We got a TON of cleaning done, and got everything out of the house in
like, an hour flat. It was pretty impressive.
After that, we went out to visit people, and around 4:20,
were leaving a less-actives home, and Sister Barnes said "Our bikes are
gone."
At first, I froze a bit, and then I realized that we were
across from the Marsalas. Now, Nick Marsala and Bro Jepsen are best
friends, so my first thought was "... Marsala..." So, I
was trying to get Sister Barnes to cross the street with me, while she was
distracted by another bike, when I see Brother Jepsens truck drive up to us.
With the bikes in back. He had seen them when he stopped by the
Marsalas home, and they had packed them in his truck and Brother Jepsen was
going to take them to his house!
However, he felt guilty, and came to return them to us.
It was pretty funny. Especially when Nick came out and said
"Did they catch you Shayne?!"
I yelled back "I knew you were a part of it!"
Nick just smiled and went back inside.
Yeah, great times. :)
And then Sunday was busy busy busy! I got to sing in
Sacrament Meeting for Jacob Goldsberry's homecoming. I sang "More
Holiness Give Me", and it was the best performance yet! I can
actually remember myself singing! And it made it worth it when Jacob got
up and said "I'm glad you sang that song. One of the ladies I got to
baptize asked for us to sing that song at her baptism, so I'm grateful for that
little flashback." It was really nice. :)
After that, we taught Gospel Principles in our ward, and
then taught Young Womens in the 12th ward. That was lots of fun. :)
We also got to eat dinner last night with Sister Lawrence,
the lady we live with, and a bunch of her family was over, so we sort of took
the night off and played with them. We played soccer for like, 2 hours
with the grandkids (something my feet are paying for-- 3 regular blisters, plus
a blood blister.), and ended the night watching 17 Miracles. it was
pretty fun.
Well, that's it for this week! The next couple of
weeks are going to be busy-- we have Zone Conference tomorrow, with Elder Gudoi
of the 70 coming to speak with us, and on September 12, I get to go on my first
temple trip! YAY!!! I'm super excited! Mostly for the temple
trip. Zone Conference-- only semi-excited. They tend to drain me,
but I can't wait to see what I'll learn. :)
Well, that's it for this week! Hope y'all had as great
of a week as I did! Keep the faith!
Love,
Sister Empey
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