Here's a few highlights; Teaching English to the Spanish branch members was so much fun! The Elders were doing a lot of vocabulary and not much speaking, so I've encouraged them to get the students speaking. Its gone well so far. We plan to spend all of our Friday evenings at the church with the Spanish branch members.
We are helping the Elders teach a couple of recovering addicts. They are sweet and sincere, but its so hard for them to understand. Judy is about 60 and Jamie is about 40. They are cousins and the place where they live has a giant mud driveway when it rains and no air conditioning, just one fan inside.
In contrast we went with the Sisters to teach an investigator and her daughter that are so sharp and ask so many questions that its hard to not give them all the lessons at once. Tammy keeps notes and they have LDSlibrary on their phones so they can look up info and study about everything they hear.
We've been taking the young missionaries to more of their appointments and its been really fun!
I've gone through 3 double batches of my chocolate chip cookies for Family Home Evenings already! I'll make more this week.
The last 2 Family Home Evenings this week were both awesome. On Saturday night we met with the Grahams. They have not been to church in ages. Br. Graham is going through an addiction recovery program and is really humble and receptive right now. The kids loved the games and the 13 year old boy had the right answer to every question. He wants to get the priesthood and do baptisms for the dead. The 9 year old girl wants to be baptized and wants her dad to baptize her. As we were leaving the dad got all teary and said; "thanks for bringing the spirit into our home".
Last night we had our first Family Home Evening in Spanish! It went really well until we tried to play our games. The family has only been member since April and they didn't know enough hymns or Primary songs to play the game right. Oh well, we challenged them to get some names ready and to go to the temple and be baptized for them. Now I need to prepare a FHE on family history and temple work for round two.
We've been trying to talk to a couple of families about having FHEs with them for weeks. On Saturday we had great visits with both of them! Sister Homer even brought her granddaughter to church yesterday!
This week is filling up with great plans and I'm so excited for James to be baptized on Saturday! He is really one of those golden ones! His brother, John isn't quite as golden, but he plans to be at the baptism and he's sure to feel the spirit there! We've had lots of people tell us how thankful they are that we are here in Cleveland which makes us feel good about being here.
Here's some pictures.
This is unique, but clever, a driveway made out of asphalt shingles.
Gasing up in downtown Cleveland.
You see lots of ride on mowers being hauled. Mowing yards is a big deal here. Everyone has an acre in the country.
Sister Kentish's house.
A storm rolling in.
A new family is moving into the ward. This is how they put together homes here. Everything is up on blocks like this, so they can handle the rain and flooding.
A quick visit to Kendalls to pick up tools for the project tomorrow. We got to enjoy scriptures, family prayers and play a game before we left. Jane showing off the shirt she made.
Mary smiling for her mommy.
Alice holding still for a second. Her stitches on her eye left a small scar.
Dean was fascinated with our missionary badges and was thrilled to get this Future Missionary badge at church today.
Love this family!
Here's the shed Richard framed a door into.
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