Week 102 Tiny Watermelon

 Ollo. Another one for the books. Here were the highlights:

Elder Moon - went on exchanges and got to walk and bus around. Had a fun lesson with Janice, a sweet old lady. And then his bishop fed us dinner that night and we taught them and their children short message, and it was the first time I had taught children in a year 

Elliot - this week was the last week of institute for me because they are taking a break. Big sad. But afterwards we met with Elliot and brought Riley to the lesson. We talked about faith and Alma 32 and it seemed to go over well. We'll see if he experimented with the seed or not. Riley shared his testimony at the end and it was super awesome 

Azalee - in a crazy turn of events, she is actually leaving the ward before me. Her deployment got moved up so we said bye and she gave a departing testimony on Sunday. We shared the Dare to Stand Alone video and got her in contact with the ward over there. 

Hanni - she is this awesome referral, who just moved to Seattle and wanted to meet with missionaries again. She had in the past and loved it, so she found us online and requested a visit. We talked about the Restoration with her and she was super excited about having modern day prophets and knowing what she can do now to prepare for the future. We gave her some talks to listen to and we'll see her next week. 

Elizabeth - another new move in. She got baptized in March in Tacoma and moved to Seattle. She's originally from Kenya and it was super fun talking with her. She loves the scriptures and made jokes about how tall I was, and hopefully we can help her come to church next week. 

Tiny watermelon - went on splits with Elder Slade. He's a cool guy. We were talking to people in the store when I discovered a tiny watermelon. They're probably something I've seen before but I just couldn't remember. But we had some conversations because of it and although it didn't lead to someone wanting to take the missionary lessons, it did lead to me buying a very delicious watermelon 

Caitlin - we gave her a blessing on Thursday because she has to get surgery on her foot. Then Larry invited her over to his house after Church. And so despite her no longer being able to play basketball, she is still having fun and coming to church now. She commented on how she loved coming back and was sad she hadn't been back sooner because she feels the Spirit. We encouraged her to pray more and have a lesson for next week. 

Spiritual thought - so this one was stolen from a talk. He was speaking on recognizing God's hand in our lives. And he goes the best way is to have a missionary mindset. If you ask the missionaries how their day went they say great, even if they only just had rejection all day, because that morning their toast was perfect and they knew God did it. 

It was a funny narrative but completely true. We can have a ton of things go wrong in our lives but if we remember God and the small good things he gives, we can still find happiness and peace knowing God is still caring for us.

Love y'all