A Challenge, Creatures...and more food

Hey mom. How are you? I have a lot more this week :-)
First off, I am STAYING in Simi with Elder Gregory ! That makes me soo happy. He is soo great. 

Monday was our P-day. It was pretty great as we had our zone activity and played a few fun games. We played a game called Ozzy ball, where we pass a rugby ball around and sink it in a hoop so that was cool. 

Then we went to a members and had breakfast for dinner and Brother Groves made some bomb (meaning good...how old does he think I am? I know what "the bomb" means..geez) french toast. 

Tuesday we kept pretty busy all day. In the morning we went to Brother Danible's house to have him cut a piece of wood for an object lesson that requires nails and having a strong foundation. Then we went to walk dogs and help them clean up some cages and tidy around the shelter. After that we went and had some lunch, relaxed and then headed off for more service, finishing up cleaning the tree. 
While there, we found an unwanted friend...a decent sized animal which was black and white and smelled so bad, my first thought was skunk, so my companions and I ran as fast as could, out of there ! Well, this mystery animal crawled out and turned out to be a possum. When we went back to check out his home we found 6 other babies and I know they are pests but they wer soo very cute. We finished the job, and just worked around them, but it was kinda cool to see. 

Men In Black...and White shirts

Then we went to do that cool wood object lesson. After that we went to dinner at the Chambers and we helped them build a shelf and the rewarded us with a nice meal and some groceries from Costco. After dinner, we went to a Book of Mormon class we started. This was our first class and we have 4 wards involved in it now, so it's big, but it went sooo well. We had some very interesting people come out so it was cool. 

Wednesday was pretty good as well. In the morning we did some stuff on Mormon.org so that was pretty fun. There is a new video on there called, "Lift". You all should watch it. As a matter of fact, I'm challenging all of you back home to watch it if you haven't already and to act upon it and try to serve someone you know who needs help :)
After that we went and talked to a few people and then went for Taco's so that was good. 
We went to help that lady who is kind of a hoarder. She is a non-member and in our ward boundaries so we are going to try to get her to investigate church because she loves talking to us. 
We ended the night off with dinner at the Flinder's house. 

P-Day activity 

Thursday was our last district meeting because 4 of the 8 are being transferred into our district. We had some fun and got some good pictures. We also got an oil change today but we didn't have any tire issues this time, so that was pretty nice. Dinner at another families home. A little slower today, nothing too exciting. 

Friday was our weekly planning session, followed by dinner at the Herr's. We tried people all day and were not seeing very much success. Now that we know we are both staying together we have set some high goals to work harder and really get some people with seeds growing. All we really do is plant those seeds. Don't get me wrong, it is so great to be planting them, but like my companion, we'd like to see some of these amazing people reach the amazing gift of salvation. With this new transfer we are going to hit some of the goals we have put into place :)

 I hope you like the spider we found
it was huge enjoy :)

Saturday was crazy ! It was like 90 degrees all day. From 10am until like 5 at night. We baked. And we did a lot of tracting today to try to get some solid people, so we definitely stayed busy and we were sweating buckets. I was being a stick and hated it and complained. I realized from some talks that...get this..this is not my work. This is the Lord's work and if I can not sweat a few hours to help someone else with their salvation while the Lord, Jesus Christ was sweating blood from every pore, I am not doing my job. So...I sucked it up and realized He was with us and put my feet to the ground and got to work. And we ended up meeting two great ladies who are potential investigators, so it was pretty great. 
After all that, I needed Panda (Panda Express) so we went and got some Panda. It was so great. 
After more tracting we went and helped the Cambers build another shelf. They fed us some pizza and ice cream :)
We met two great ladies who are new potentials, so it was pretty great. 

P-Day Activity from last week 

After that we went to a soft ball game our ward was holding to try to encourage a less active family that there are people who care. (Don't worry, we got permission. this was to help a less active member and try to get him some friends). Unfortunately the family wasn't there so we only ended up being there 20 minutes but it was cool to see that. 

Sunday was just a regular church day. After church we tried some people and actually put our goals down and made them solid goals for this transfer. 

Just before I go, please tell Trish Congratulations for graduating. That is soo amazing. For the package that is coming a few more things, besides food :), are ties, socks and I wouldn't mind hard photos of y'all back home. I also like to put stickers on the letters I send you :)

Well Mom, Dad, Shel-bell, Scotty my boy. I love you all soo much and pray for you every night. Keep doing awesome and keep sending the support. I love it. I love you all soo very much :)