Food, Hot Weather and Movie Writers

HELLO!!! EVERYONE OF THE CANADIAN WORLD. HOW ART THOU?? (it's good to see Elder Routledge hasn't lost his sense of humor lol) 

So this week was a week of intensity and hard work!! 
Monday we had dinner at the Morris'. Very hard ;) 
After we had a zone activity where a few of the Elders (me included) played football in 100 degree weather with 80% humidity...that was fun. I was sweating buckets, but it was fun. Then we taught C and A and they are still moving forward (with baptism). It was really cool. They are both sooo solid!! 

No idea where this was taken. Or why lol 

Tuesday..the day after Monday...This was a busy day. We did service in 80% humidity and again i was sweating lots. Service was for the dog shelter place helping them move stuff into their new shop. After that we moved 4 - 200 pound rocks for Brother Groves. That was a sure joyful time. Not. Serious, it was joyful. We got home made cinnamon buns out of it and we got to toss a bunch of big heavy rocks :)

Elder Comin, Member, Elder Routledge 

Sister Groves makes quilts. She has made hundreds, if not thousands and one she made was a Christmas tree with a train all around the border with little candy canes and presents. The quilt has over 50 different snow flakes all through it and not one of them is the same or even close to the same. It is about 10' x 8' and is so amazing. I will take pictures of it, but it is the coolest quilt I've ever seen. (No picture this week. Hopefully next week). 
After that we had a lesson with M and C and then our Book of Mormon class. It was a pretty cool day :)

Wednesday we mowed the lawn of the Morris family and somehow we got lunch with it. I tell ya, they feed us too much. I think they feed us just because they need more room in their food closets. We had dinner with the Flinder's tonight and we took joy in seeing Sister Flinders tell us how nervous she is about her son coming home in 3 days. She is rather excited you could say. 
We also saw B tonight and he gave us a lot of food...including a bowl of Salsa, half a cake, a 4 pound bag of Salsa chips, 2 party bowls of rice and beans and burrito patties. I swear they think there is either 50 of us in one apartment or we are starving children, but then again, I am not complaining. Free food :)

Thursday we had our district meeting and that was fun. We helped at Brother Danible's home, then taught C and A again. We went over the Word of Wisdom. He does have a smoking issue we did not know about BUT he is willing to do whatever it takes and recently talking with him, he has said his smoking had gone down like crazy. 

Elder Routledge 

Friday we went and did service up at a ranch in the middle of the desert. I sought out the rattle of snakes to collect. If you kill a rattlesnake, you cut off the rattles and you got yourself a toy, so I was searching for one to kill, but no luck, but I'll try again this Friday. (Really??? I am starting to think that Elder Routledge is finding WAY TOO much joy in stressing his mother out !)
We had dinner with Brother Baker at a Chinese food restaurant. It was very good. 

Saturday had 2 main things of interest. First being our weekly planning which had to be moved to today because of the business on Friday and the Road Show. This was where all the wards in Simi Valley put on 15 minute plays for the Stake and we had C go, so we went with him. It was soo cool to see all of these youth do these little plays. Some of them were so funny. It was just intense how much effort they put into them. 

Sunday was sooo cool so I'll just tell you about the fireside last night. 
The two guys are partner movie writers and they related the movies they wrote to the Plan of Salvation. They are both very active and very big in the biz. They have written movies such as Despicable me 1 and 2 (and now 3), Bubble Boy, Santa Clause 2 and Horten hears a Who. They have worked with people like Steve Carrell, Jim Carrey, Julia Andrews, Ed Helms and Tim Allen, all of which they said were very nice. Steve Carrell would stop recording to go call his kids all the time. 
These guys were very funny and very nice. I got to talk to them after and they are very cool guys and they said they have turned down movies that were not okay with church standards. They have even put church messages in their movies, like in Despicable Me when the girls pray and in Bubble Boy being closed off from the world. That is what Satan wants, but we all need to break out of our bubble. There were a few other ones as well. It was cool to see them be so active in movies and the church duties. 

It was a very cool week, but I shall depart til next Monday. 
I love all of you Canadians. Keep being awesome. 
Love you Mom, Dad, Shel and Scotty and all the family and all of my extended family and extended, extended family in Okotoks.