Quiver full of Quincys: Service, a Funeral,a Party, and a Confirmation

We had another great lesson at the Allen's Monday night. This time they fed us dinner. We showed them Brad Wilcox's "His Grace is Sufficient" and the spirit was so strong you could have cut it with a knife! Tuesday morning we moved a new family into the ward! They are awesome! I'm guessing he'll be our new bishop. We went to see a new member who's struggling that night and Elder Quincy told her we'd bring dinner on Thursday night. I was kind of upset that he just said that without consulting me, because there really isn't much time to fix meals in our schedule, but he was very inspired, because her nonmember mother-in-law joined us and watched President Nelson's "Joy Cometh in the Morning" conference talk with us and it went very well.
Wednesday morning we had the Worldwide Missionary Broadcast, which lasted until our Missionary Coordination meeting time, so I ordered pizza and we fed the missionaries during our meeting. That night we had our biggest turn out for the Book of Mormon class yet! 4 investigators, 3 less active members and 3 active members, besides we 6 missionaries! After we went to the Preschool class on Thursday, we visited an investigator at her home and found her working on lots of big projects. So we took the Elders and worked with her trimming trees and bushes for a couple of hours. We were blessed because Luke, another investigator showed up to work on her porch and invited us to dinner the next night. Friday Elder Quincy helped Br. Roberts fix a member's well pump and took Br. Sneed to measure and make a material list for the new stairs they plan to start this week. I had lots of time to prepare handouts for the English class, Preschool next week, and the questions for the activity at the ward party. The dinner with Luke and Ashley, turned into a FHE that went really well. The kids loved the games so much it was hard to leave.
Saturday we spent almost the whole day at the church; leaving my food cooking in the kitchen, setting up for the funeral luncheon, attending the funeral, serving the luncheon and eating, cleaning up after the luncheon, then after taking the Sisters to a lesson and a couple of failed attempts at visits, we fixed the rolls and headed back to the church to set up for the Ward Pot Luck dinner. Br. Roberts wasn't feeling well enough to come, which was unheard of. Its hard to have a party without him. We had 11 investigators to the party and I was thrilled to see our new members fellowshipping each other! They also all brought delicious food! So we fed everyone, including ourselves, tried to talk to all the investigators, start the table get to know you activity we'd brought and then cleaned up, packed up and headed back home. Sunday we got to church at 7:30 as usual and found out there was no meeting because it was a 5th Sunday. I was able to get everything set up for my Sharing Time; with a game, pictures and a video! I've never had prep time doing Sharing Time here before. Usually its a request as I sit in Sunday School class, but this time the Primary President told me she'd be out of town and asked for my help the day before. It turned out to be a great week to be in Primary; an investigator was there for the first time, and 3 kids of less active families were there for the first time, besides the cute Ailene, who was baptized a couple of weeks ago. I really missed being in the Gospel Principles class with the investigators that were there, though. We took the Sacrament to a couple of sweet ladies; one, Sister Rigli, asked for a blessing, the other is weaker each week we see her, sweet Sister Jernigen is failing. Her spirit is amazing though! We took the Sacrament down to the ICON hospital in Humble to Br. Patterson, who said he'll be released today!!
It was super fun to go home and fix dinner for Ashley, Luke and kids AND the Kendalls! We got to play games with the kids again and it was fun to see how well the kids all enjoyed each other. Jenny gave Ashley lots of good advice for pregnancy and depression. It was good and fun to involve my daughter in our missionary work. As Luke and Ashley prepare to get married its great to have them see a great model of how marriage should be. We got to Skype with Jack's family last night. Fun stuff! And I think that we have been to 250 homes now.

Last District Meeting with this district.