It has been raining much this week until, strangely, General Confrence came; when it stopped and turned beautiful. The rain made everything nice and green except the trees which are turning beautiful shades of red, yellow and gold. Sister J suffered from the cooler damper weather as her arthritis was acting up. It is much improved today.
We had FHE at the Klatts with the Elders and our returning teachee Br. Murra. It was a nice surprise to see he had been invited. Their son Cole, who is preparing for a mission, cooked us Navajo Tacos. If that was an indication of his abilities he is going to make someone a very happy companion. Sister Klatt prepared a very nice lesson and I brought the Elder Rasband talk on missionary selection to share. Br. Murra invited a non-member acquaintance we might be able to teach as well.
Since the Elder's car went in for repairs I volunteered to feed them lunch prior to our last District meeting, with the current make up of missionaries, before transfers in 2 weeks. We went to Hardees (Carl's Jr west...literally) and added a correlation component to make it seem official. We have decided that the Elders will focus their work within 20 miles of IM and we will work more on the outskirts (20-50 miles). Exceptions will abound I am sure.
Wednesday was our day to travel west. We were able to catch Kris Royal and have made a standing appointment for Wednesdays. She was very receptive we taught her half of a first discussion as she will need to move slower. We left a Restoration DVD and asked her to write down 3 questions, as she watched it, which we will discuss later. On the way back we drove through Crystal Falls home of the Humongous Fungus. It's big and ancient, look it up. In Florence we met and encouraged Tim Jeffords who is struggling with Parkinson's. His son Chris, Marianne's husband, was there so we were able to meet with them both. He is a trucker and is gone for long periods of time. His wife is here, however, and could be a big asset to the
branch.
On Thursday it was time to meet again with Br. Peters who attends every Sunday and who's family are all members. President Jones suggested we use Alma 32 to help those who need to know how to know. That was the lesson we gave. Elder Christofferson, in a previous Stake Conference, had pointed to this process as an upward cycle of small faith followed by a small confirmation followed by small bits of knowledge until we come to the full knowledge of Christ and his gospel and can say with total assuredness that "know", a little at first then finally we KNOW. I felt impressed to challenge him to be baptized, he said yes...when he knew. We will see if he was willing to apply the words of Alma. And yes we will try for a specific date.
We followed this visit with our scheduled one to Br. Murra. He was there and had begun to read the B of M. We taught lesson #1 in the GP manual and tried to answer his question about where suicides go in the next life. His wife died that way. We told him our goal was for him to receive the Melchizedek priesthood and go to the temple. We explained he needed an appointment with the branch president to initiate that process.
Friday we went back to our normal procedure of looking for members in far away places. In doing so we visited Sagola, Felch, Foster City and Crystal Falls again...in that order. I had an impression this past week to look for an investigator that was in the Area Book of the previous elders. They had met with and taught this 32 year old woman and her husband about 6 months ago. We found her home! she invited us in and was very cordial. We will return next week and see if we can get some teaching appointments with them. I missed it completely but Sister J noticed a copy of a print by Greg Olson on her table.
The brethren here meet at 6:00 prior to priesthood session and have a barbecue, brats and burgers. The conversation turned to other forms of food that nature provides i.e. squirrel, good barbecued; possum, greasy unless soaked in vinegar; beaver, which is a great stew meat and bear; just plain good. Things are going well but we are not particularly excited about being asked to eat with members anymore.
We love you all...this is the best time ever,
Elder and Sister J
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