Week 89 - Firework (7/9/2018)

Elder Cooke, Elder Saunders, and myself

Well another week come and gone. I can't believe how fast time flew. It was insane!! On Monday we had a good playing some volleyball. We then had some really great appointments that night that were just stellar!! Ran into a familiar face at one of our appointments and it was pretty cool!! 

Tuesday we had a meeting that lasted a good while. Saw some familiar faces which was pretty cool. Made it back to our area just in time for our dinner appointment. We then went to one of our appointments, but they weren't there. Did some other things and we went on Exchanges!! Got to be with Elder Blaisdell again and it was awesome!!

Really good drink

Wednesday was a hot day. We had a Ward Breakfast that morning and it was really good pancakes. We then had the rest of our day after a council meeting and some service to get to work. It was super hot cause we didn't have A/C... Our car is out of wack and doesn't work anymore. It still drives and it hasn't broken down yet. Fingers crossed! We did a lot of finding and ended up with nothing. People were probably out partying or something. Don't know why... We did have a really good appointment though which was awesome! This lady that we taught is so amazing!! She has a strong testimony about a lot of the things we taught and had all sorts of good questions! It was amazing as we testified of the Book of Mormon and God's plan for us, how much the spirit was there!! Saw some fireworks go off and it was pretty cool.

Elder Blaisdell and I

Thursday we re-exchanged and Elder Tauanu'u and I had our famous weekly planning session. He got home and he wasn't feeling good at all. He looked terrible. We stayed in until he started feeling better. He felt better and we went to our appointment that we had and wow it was awesome. This man that we are teaching just absorbs everything that we teach! Best part is how he answers questions!! It was amazing! From there we tried seeing people and finding some new people, but it's in the works haha.

Cool Sunset

Friday...It came and it went... We got up and we had another exchanged planned for that day so we went to Shoshone and had another Council with the other District and we exchanged up there. I came back to Jerome with another Elder and we made it back just in time for our service at the food pantry. Wow that place was jammed pack with people. We got to work and we were helping people out left and right. It was crazy good. We then went back home to drop off the Elders things and we got a phone call from some lady looking for some hands to load a truck. We made some phone calls and tried getting some help and we were able to have the Elders over in Wendell come help us out. Luckily they hadn't left Jerome from when they helped us cover the shift with us at the food pantry. We helped her pack and load her U-haul and we had a good time with it. We got a hold of some missionaries in Twin and sent them her way. Pretty good. We then had a bombtastic dinner. One of our Bishops invited us out to a family BBQ and wow the food was so good!! After that we tried some people that we've been trying to find and we caught them all home! It was a huge miracle!! It was a great day!

Cool Sunset

Banana Pancakes!

Saturday, we tried some other names before we re-exchanged, but nothing to our luck. Drove back to Shoshone and exchanged back. Made it just in time for one of our appointments. Had a good appointment and we went home to unload Elder Tauanu'us things and we got a text from one of our members if we could come help him out with some service. We agreed and he warned us that we'd be crawling under a porch, we still went through with it. We crawled under his porch and cleaned under it and then we helped install some crossbeams cause the original didn't feel to safe. It was quite an experience. Came out super tired. We then had a correlation meeting and then we took off toe get ourselves ready for the day again. Tried some finding and contacting after a companionship study. We then closed the night with a good appointment. 

Cool photo of a tree
after service

Sunday, we both woke up tired and sore. It wasn't the best feeling. Went to church and had long meetings like normal. Went home and had a snack and a quick study together. Went back to the church and I gave a Baptismal Interview in Spanish. It was pretty cool. Cool part about that is that we caught the lady I gave the interview for, at Wal-Mart today! Pretty cool!! We then did some contacting and met some really cool people. Had a quick dinner and then went out to one of our appointments. Had a good appointment, but at the same time, rather different. Came back and stopped by to visit someone really quick. We then closed the night at one of our Bishops house talking about the work in the area. He took us on a tour of his barn and it is pretty cool!! I loved it!

This week came and went. Too quick. A lot of fireworks going off this week too so that may have played a little bit into the lack of sleep as we kept hearing them go off throughout the night. Well... I love you all and I miss you all!! Hope you have a great week!!!

Elder Ruesch