Well another week come and gone. And what has come with it? Lots of service. We did a bunch of sheet rocking and tore down a wall for brother Poe, which was fun. Literally an 8 to 5 job. We drug (is that the past tense for drag?) pipe for Bro. Garrett, during which we were suddenly in ankle deep water and realized that the tractor had split the water main, so we hurriedly bailed out water and muck. That was actually cool, Bro. Garrett kept a level and cool head the whole time and told us that there's no need to freak out once something has happened, no changing it, all we can do is fix it. Good advice. Later that same day I took a step and saw a flurry of motion at my feet, a snake. Faster than I could blink I had already ran 10 yards, grabbed a shovel, and got back to the snake poised and ready to take it out. It was then that I asked if I should kill it, to which Bro. Garrett said no, because it eats the mouse. You win this round mr. snake....
Despite all the service projects we have been getting work done. The Baker family came to stake conference which was good, it was the first time that they had come to a church meeting. Hopefully they enjoyed it, it was a very good meeting. The Romero's are still awesome. We have a few things we need to get hammered out before their baptism this weekend, but hopefully all will go well. In stake conference a pretty cool story was shared about a young man (10 years old) was on a baseball team coached by a catholic priest. 10 years later the little boy tracted into him in california as a missionary and taught and baptized him. It was the speakers son that was the missionary, so confirmed and true. It was a neat story.
We had an exchange this last week. I was in Hermiston with a young elder, and the district leader was with E. Partridge in our area. The young elder was still pretty new to the area so he wasn't too sure where investigators were and whatnot, but using the area book we were able to find a few. Olsen, (the elder I was with) is allergic to mushrooms, and what was for dinner? Basically a big plate of mushrooms. He was to shy to say anything and ate it, he even had seconds, what a champ! Later we were able to get him a bottle of childrens benodryl, after downing that he felt better. Meanwhile in my area Partridge and Dickerson were having some trouble. Partridge accidentally ran over a curb, busting up the two right side tires. So after much crazy confusion they got home. The next morning we put two spares on, and then got a replacement for one of them. Today we will be going to Les Shwaabs to see if they can fix the two tires. In the mean time we have been walking a lot.
Life is good out here. We have fun serving, and we teach really cool people. Eloisa and I are planning an awesome joint birthday party for this next week. It should be a lot of fun, and there will be members and investigators alike! Fun times. Hope yall have a good week, don't be afraid to write.
Love,
Elder Richards
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