- I picked up a rather addicting habit for car rides and lax time..... KNITTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha, yes, I know, here come the "where's your skirt, sister?" jokes, but I will stand strong in my kitchen of manliness!!!!!!!!!
- We drove past a hotel with the advertisement
"Try our quiet clean rooms!"
and all I could think of was Grandpa Bear making some crack about their other "noisy and dirty rooms"...
Monday:
We saw a HUGE wildfire (it light up the sky and made the moon orange.... to bad it didn't stay till halloween... :P) I started my kitchen/hand towel! Got over a small "stress-test" Prayer worked almost instantly!!!
Tuesday:
We found a bunch of cool service opportunities at the Native Friendship center!! (OA helped again!!!!!)
We also peaked inside during our lunch break and I found a sweet mixer!!!!!!!!!! Its a hand/standing mixer and has attachments for a food processor and a blender!!!! I spent the rest of lunch deep cleaning/bleaching the metaphorical tar out of it... haha.
Then we spent the rest of the day doing service for a woman in the area(I got a good sized cut on my thumb from a power washer..... but I was also able to talk food with her!!!!! And I helped fix her quad!!! (4 wheeler, not scriptures... lol)
Afterward, she gave us a box of garden potatoes and carrots, a loaf of homemade bread (which was super good!!!) and frozen packages of Salmon fillets (with the fins,skin, and some bones!!) and Halibut fillets that she got fresh caught from friends!!!!!!!
Then I made frosting with my new *clean* mixer!! :D
Wednesday:
We did service the whole day!!!!! We helped the Branch President help a nm fix his HUGE back hoe... at one point I was down to my waist inside the machine cleaning out gunk.... lol. Then we worked on Pres.'s farm before a big supper!!!!
Also, a man called his wife out of the blue and asked a bunch of questions so she could get her family baptized and involved in the church!!!!!!
Thursday:
Did more service (Bishop Blair is totally right, I'm lovin' it!!!!! XD ) we helped shelve at the library, clean up after a half dozen quilters (hauling sewing machines, moving quilts, eating extra food, mopping, sweeping, tables, chairs, etc.) it was like I was back at Humanitarian aid!!!
lol, Then we worked at the Branch mission leaders house installing floors, pulling boulders out of his lawn/driveway and burning extra wood!!!!
Another cool miracle, we stopped by the FCSS (Family & Community Support Services) and even though we didn't think we'd find much checking in again to see if they had any service. They got an email the night before asking for volunteers and had a bunch of projects lined up!!!!!
Friday:
It was Rachel's birthday!!!!!!!! I woke up with that in mind.... haha. Um, we spent basically the entire day doing service for a la family (who came to church on Sunday!!!) split wood, gathered/burned yard waste, dug holes, played with horses, etc!!
Saturday:
More community service (helped clean and de-paint windows) found more service opportunities!!!!! I might get a degree in HRM (historical recreational management.... or something)? um.... because of my cooking background/conversations we were asked (totally out of the blue!!!) to help cook a dinner for a large school silent auction!!!!!! and its gonna be mostly from scratch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
I was so happy when they asked us to help!!!!!! I'm pretty sure I wasn't on the ground during the whole conversation!
That night I fried up the Salmon fillets some one gave us with a special sauce mix I made from stuff around the Apartment! with fried potatoes, even Elder Anderson liked the "is that really done?" salmon!!! haha
Sunday:
Even though it was pretty cold (a high of -1 C.... tracting was.... uncomfortable) we had an awesome day at church!!! They asked us to give the Priesthood lesson, literally at the end of Sacrament meeting (we only have 2 blocks at church, SM and P/RS) But the Spirit was super strong and gave a great lesson!!!!!!!!!!
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