This week we had some really good times. It was a little bit slower, but still fun. The temperature has definitely dropped significantly though; it has been down in the twenties the past three nights.
The Ms fed us dinner on Wednesday night and we had a really good first lesson with them. The mom believes already that the Book of Mormon is scripture and understands the need for the Restoration. It was actually nice because she already knew the answers to all the questions we asked, even what apostasy meant. They are out of town this week, but I am pretty excited to keep working with them and helping them recognize their answer.
A while back we got a call from the office with a referral from missionaries in Seattle for a lady that just moved here. Well, she lived on the outskirts of our area and so we were not able to get out there until this last week. She is a nice older lady. She has been involved with the church since her youth off and on, but never had the desire to pursue it until now. The missionaries started teaching her in Washington and now that she is out here we get the privilege of teaching her now.
This week we also had the opportunity to go on team-ups with the missionaries in Eureka. It was lot of fun and we were able to find a couple of formers that the missionaries had no idea where they were. Definitely the Lord's hand in that one since we were just walking in an area we felt like we should and ran into them. The week before the elders in Eureka were trying to contact them and they had moved. Pretty neat.
Elder Carlson and I also helped the Strongs, members we live with, press some apples for apple cider. All together this year they got 50 gallons of cider. Lots of fun but lots of hard work as well. Sister Strong went crazy with her camera so I got some good pictures of it, which will be forwarded at a later date.
All the apples that made that cider came from six trees. Brother Strong when he first moved here planted a majority of those trees and is now seeing the results of years of work. The scripture for the week is the law of the harvest. One of the many scriptures that talks about this law is D&C 6:33. If we sow good we get good, bad for bad, joy for joy, mercy for mercy, love for love, and so on. By the "fruits" of a person, you can tell what kind of a person they are. Great motivation for us to make sure we are sowing good seeds as we go about our days so that we can harvest them when the time comes.
Hope everyone is getting ready for Halloween and have a good time.
Elder Wixom
