Quiver full of Quincys: The God People

Pictures from my walk this morning!

Our new missionaries arrived Monday night and surprise! We love them! Elder Quincy spent the whole day working on Shannon's stairs Monday. He did make it to the lesson with the Allen bunch that night though. Elder Allen, new to us, came to the lesson and talked about keeping the Sabbath day holy and why its important. There was a lot of the Spirit there. Tammy was getting sick. She asked for a blessing, because she didn't have time to be sick. It was a beautiful blessing telling her to pray and ask God for direction.

Elder Quincy spent all day Tuesday working on the stairs. I took them lunch and put in a couple of screws so I could say that I'd helped. I got to go with the Sisters and meet our cool new Sister from Hawaii, Sister Housman. She is wonderful and her middle name has 41 letters! We went to visit a member and went to the wrong house. The next door neighbors came out on their porch and the Sisters taught them a little lesson and left them with a Restoration pamphlet to read. The husband said he knew a member. It turns out he works with a guy from the ward at the prison. He's invited him to church many times. He said he'd like to come! So then we went to the member's house next door and met her 17 year old twin boys who'd like to learn more about the church! Win/win! That night Elder Quincy made it home in time to go to Ramon's with me and the Spanish Elders. We got to meet Elder Barrett! He speaks Spanish with a southern accent, so he's great fun! Ramon and his wife Maria are awesome. They want to feed us again this week. Its great because the Elders have been teaching Ramon and his sister-in-law, but never his wife! The feeding us thing gets her involved and she is great! They are interested in English classes, too.

The Morales family had great news, while Antonio was helping with the stair building project! They need to go to Guatemala for 2 weeks and when they come back he'll be a citizen!!

Wednesday we had a new student at the English class, Jini, who's only been here for 41 days from Honduras. She wants to know everything! We had a hard time ending the lesson in time to eat lunch and get back for the Missionary Coordination meeting. Elder Quincy finished the stairs project that morning. It was good to have a companion again. We actually got to visit a couple of members that afternoon before the Book of Mormon class. Sonya showed up at the class with her sister Tammy!! After the class we decided that we should paint the back of their parents house while they're out of town for a few days. We set it up for Saturday afternoon.

Thursday right after Preschool, we headed to Cypress to have lunch at Sydney's school for KISS day ( an acronym for something about special people eating with them). It was fun! We got back in to take the Sisters out for some lessons. We even got to visit a few members; including the Morales to celebrate with them, the Weitzels and Garrets with sympathy card, and to deliver a birthday card to Br. Tucker.

Friday morning Elder Quincy skipped another meeting; District meeting to go out with Br. Roberts to do some service and visits. Its pretty obvious that when its a choice between doing service and talking about it, Elder Quincy always chooses to serve. He's pretty awesome like that! After the meeting and visits, we ate lunch and headed to Jason and Nicole's. We had a blast tending their 3 darling kids that night. We got them up and ready and brought them to Cleveland Saturday morning so we could go to Eli's baptism. They were so good for us! Jason and Nicole showed up and took them home. We took the Sisters to a lesson with the cute Harris kids. It was great because their mom sat in on the lesson for the first time. Then we dropped off the Sisters, picked up the Elders and went to paint. The Elder had to leave at 5, so we took them home and came back to paint until there was no more light and barely got in finished! Tammy told us something hilarious while we painted. One of the kids at her preschool, Jackson, was showing her a picture and said it was from the God People. She aked what that meant and he said, "you know the Quincys, the people that God sent to teach us". She said that she couldn't correct him because she feels the same way about us. A great pay day!

Sunday was our Ward Conference and it was awesome! There were about 8 investigators there! Tammy cried through most of the meeting! Doc is becoming a regular attender, he's the guy who sang with Willie Nelson. He's a really good guy! We found out that Judy, an investigator that had a problem and hadn't been able to be baptized on Christmas Day as planned died last night! It was the one year anniversary of her husband's death!

We hurried off after church to take the Sisters to teach a lesson and then made it back in time for Juan Lopez' baptism. The Spanish Elders found him tracting, taught him the Restoration lesson and how to pray. He said the prayer and then cried and said he'd just broken up with his girlfriend and felt so sad that he'd asked God to help him and they'd knocked on his door. 3 weeks later he was baptized! He was sweet and crying after the baptism.

We had to take Elder Burdsol to another baptism from that one. He'd gotten a ride there from a member, who'd dropped them off and said he had to leave. It was about an hour south to take him and his comp to the church for their other baptism. We stopped and took the Sacrament to 3 people and gave 1 person a blessing on the way home and were soo hungry and exhausted when we finally ate at 7:00. I guess we need to start packing lunches on Sundays. We got to Skype with Jack's family and watch Jamison open his birthday presents! A great way to end the Sabbath!

Firsts for the week would have to be having to open the overflow into the gym for Sacrament meeting and taking my grandkids to our ward's baptism. I think we put over 200 miles on our car on Thursday. It was 83 degrees today. Its spring in Cleveland.

The finished project.

Working on the railing.

Lunch with Sydney.

We followed a big truck down this dirt road and the sun shining through the dust made it look like the light in the sacred grove in the first vision painting.