If You Need Something, Ask the Missionaries

That seemed to be the theme for this week.

Soda Can Cube - Conquered by me.

Tuesday- We went and saw Brother Moody. We just read some scriptures with him. He practices the sacrament prayers whenever we come over. We went and walked around a bit. We got to talking with one really cool dude named John. We owns his own landscaping business. He does it all by himself. He's a super good guy. He told us that he would read the Book of Mormon. We got to see some less active youth named Ya-Ya and Traveous. Traveous said that he might come to church, but he didn't. We had dinner with the Myrick's. Brother Myrick is in the bishopric and asked me to give a talk on Sunday, cause the person originally assigned cancelled.

You see old worn down houses like this everywhere. I saw one once that had a tree growing out of it.

Wednesday- We got a call from the Bishop, asking us if we could help him move some stuff. We ended up loading over 2000 lbs. of old movie theatre equipment onto a trailer and to the scrapyard. It took up quite a bit of the day, but it was fun. Bishop is a really funny guy. He told us that one day, he would let us go to the movie theatre he owns and watch "Meet the Mormons" or something.

Thursday- We went and walked the streets a bit. I found a couple kids that wanted to shoot some hoops with us a bit. It was fun and they were super receptive. We had dinner at the Brletich's again. We had a really good conversation about hope, which Brother Brletich says that the people in this area lack.

Friday- Guess what we talked about in District Meeting...Hope. After district meeting, we went and walked around a little bit. It wasn't very effective though. We had dinner with the Tupper's. They love missionaries. Brother Tupper made some bacon cheese burgers that were extraordinary. We had a really fun time, then we went to coordination.

Look at all of that gravel. That's 8 tons right there.

Saturday- We went and helped Brother Dietrech put gravel into his back yard. It required 11 tons of gravel. We were working from 8-12. We went to a baptism at 1 for the sisters investigator Delores. We went home afterwards and I finally got some time to work on my talk. I sat there during personal and companion studies and just pounded it out. It was on Elder Holland's talk from General Conference. We went and saw Andrew and Chelsea. Chelsea's a member, Andrew's working on it haha. We've gotten pretty far with the discussions. They have a daughter, and the best news it, they're married. For once I don't have to worry about telling someone they have to move out and get hitched to get married. We went and saw Thomas afterwards. We got there and he just asked us if we could just talk. We were sitting on his porch just talking to him. He's got some crazy stories. We ran to the church so I could type up my talk.

Elder Fullerton draws funny pictures that make me smile

 Sunday- There were two really good talks given, then some noob spoke in the middle of them. Before church, everybody was all like, "ooh Elder Dumont is speaking." Apparently I did a good enough job. That's what people told me at least. Andrew and Chelsea came to church, but The Boys (Darrel and Marquette) didn't. They wanted to, but weren't able to get a hold of their ride. We had dinner, again, at the Brletich's. They're awesome.

Elder Mustache

My favorite quote from Elder Holland's talk: "That first Easter sequence of Atonement and Resurrection constitutes the most consequential moment, the most generous gift, the most excruciating pain, and the most majestic manifestation of pure love ever to be demonstrated in the history of this world. Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, suffered, died, and rose from death in order that He could, like lightning in a summer storm, grasp us as we fall, hold us with His might, and through our obedience to His commandments, lift us to eternal life." He will not abandon us, ever. There are no lost causes. If you're at the point where you think you're done, take that leap of faith. He will catch you and he will refuse to let you fall. If you get that chance, review talks from General Conference. There will be something there that's specifically designed by Heavenly Father for you.

That's my peace, that's my sense, that's my entry for this week. Love you all. Have a great week.

Elder Dumont