I sometimes wonder if in viewing our blog readers think all we do is play and eat.
NOT SO!
There are many places where we can't take pictures...
When they are in the office on Preparation Day they are releasing...
Frustration..
Rejection..
Tension..
and so on.
So as you view the week keep in mind...
These guys pound the pavement...
on foot
bike
and
when miles permit in their cars.
In the heat
Rain
cold
and
Lots of wind.
They teach
Preach
Invite
console
bless the sick
and Knock on a lot of doors.
They keep the spirit with them as they go.
They try to be worthy of the Spirit...
Because they know it isn't them that finds and teaches...
it is the Holy Ghost.
With that said here we go....
Elder Trotter hanging Elder Fullmer thinking about it...
He did give it a try...
Elder Trotter and companion Elder Brown...
Hard at work.
Okay Elder Fullmer really did try, he did get up quite a ways.
So President Hall, a coach at heart, got into the act.
He is putting Elder Fullmer on an exercise program.
(Elder Gregson and Spilsbury looking on with the days mail between them.)
That is Elder Campbell holding his feet and giving encouragement.
President Hall is sitting on the right.
While Elder Fullmer is getting fitness instructions...
Elder Jensen tries the wall... without help he gets pretty close
He resembles 'Spider Man'
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The day the missionaries were 'climbing the wall'
I also cut 4 heads of hair.
Elder Doxey who is now in Ocoee...
Contracted with me before he went there that I would come and give him his dying hair cut.
Dying in that he is going home to Virginia in a few weeks.
Since he is full bike I had to go to him.
We had fun and the Elders seemed to know I was coming with clippers.
So not only Elder Doxey got a cut but Elder Sheldon Wood.
Others were on exchanges or they would have been lined up.
Elder Doxey with his new hair cut.
At the Olive Garden after hair cuts.
Elder Call and Doxey.
Next Night we took Elder Thomas Wood and Fullmer to dinner at Appelbees
The Lord always puts Elder Wood with the BIG guys.
He has so much patience in working with their 'attitudes'.
A new bike for a new missionary.
Elder Jensen is a hands on guy.
He really loves this.
Elder Lewis is 'learning'..?
how to take care of a bike.
After this exercise in how to assemble bikes..
They had a funeral to attend.
We took them...
Jennifer is their investigator who is getting baptized on January 15.
Her father passed away Sunday night with complications from pneumonia.
(Jennefer's dad)
(Jennefer's dad)
They are both very young missionaries and this was their first experience with this.
They did very well...
But they learned so much more...
Next time they will be very confident in what they are supposed to do.
We were proud of them.
Hard hard hard!
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FINALLY!!!
Out with the Old
In with the new.
We got six new desk chairs.
There are so many ways you can adjust these guys you need a manual.
(Well a little card showing all the ins and out)
Very fancy!
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Elder Jensen Haydee and Elder Lewis
She was baptized in April.
It was her yard we worked in last week.
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Sunday night...
Elder Rydalch and Hyer.
They came because we couldn't find time to cut Elder Rydalch's hair.
It was almost long enough for a pony tail.
Plus we had dinner for them
This was the 7th hair cut this week, or is Sunday the beginning of another week?
I haven't cooked a pot roast since I left Idaho.
I was a little nervous.
Didn't have our meat, our potatoes and corn...
But...
These guys were in heaven.
They said that it was the best meal by far that they have had on their mission.
They have just a few months left,
That was all I needed.
Success.
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As the week came to a close we pondered one night as we were walking...
It has been a year since we found out we were coming to Florida in March.
What a whirl wind of things that happened to get us here on time.
Now looking back it feels like a blink.
Our release date is Feb 8 2012...
(Seniors on a two year mission really serve 23 months)
Let us do whatever is required to qualify for the Holy Ghost as our companion.
