• Had dinner with our MTC buddies on a rare night off together. Sister Wilcox made Creole Jambalaya. Yummy! Played the game chicken foot.
• Elder Jaster serviced heavy equipment this week.
• I helped tie a quilt, sewed rags for rugs and worked in the sites.
• I worked with two sisters who are runners. One ran the Boston Marathon when she was 43. She’s 70 now. Another is 64. Wow! I am surrounded by some awesome women.
• We met a young gal who came for a tour whose father was a minister of another faith. She said she feels like she would be betraying him if she joined our church. But she sounds very interested. She was at church last Sunday. I felt her longing to belong.
• Elder Jaster said, “Are we allowed to have so much fun on our mission?”
• Sister Ludwig told the story about the farmer’s mule who fell into the well. The farmer couldn’t get him out so he got his friends to help him bury him. As they threw dirt down on top of him the mule decided to shake the dirt off and step up each time they threw dirt on him. After he kept shaking off the dirt and stepping up he eventually worked himself up to the top of the well. The moral of the story is that adversity can’t keep a good mule down. A good lesson for people, too!
• Sister Ludwig said to email our grandkids and tell them that she said “Thanks for praying for your grandparents who are on missions here.” There are currently 1,689 grandchildren and 276 great grand children in the mission now.
• She said the only people who don’t have problems live in little communities called cemeteries.