We officially started teaching Glenda's husband this week. He's the cutest! Tammy still hasn't gotten the message about when she should be baptized. I'm praying that it'll be Saturday when 3 of my sisters and my sister by marriage are here visiting. The dad of Morgan, a cute girl the Sisters are teaching came to the party and then to church on Sunday! He grew up in the church and is now trying to get ready to baptize his daughter!!
Crawfish lovers!
It was outside of my comfort zone, but really delicious, it tastes like lobster. They cook in a Cajun spice with potatoes and corn. I actually liked the potatoes better than the crawfish tails. Lots less work to eat, too. Some people suck the meat out of the head, too. I just stuck to the tails, which are pulled off and then the shell is pulled off. Sister Housman, being from Hawaii is all about sucking all the meat out.
They just pour the whole pot onto the table and everyone loads up their trays!
Before they were cooked..
while cooking...
onto the second pot. The family of members that invited us, the Sisters and the Roberts, also invited the family of investigators you see in the background.
This sign is in a yard on our way to Glenda's house. 
This cool tree was in Luke's back yard.
While we were having a fun Senior Missionary Conference and attending the temple...
our daughter Jessica was running her first marathon. She not only finished, but qualified for the Boston Marathon!!
We decided that we needed to have a ward party with just one Sunday to announce and advertise, so I had the brilliant idea to make reminders to take to the members that weren't there that Sunday and to our investigators and less active members. We spent many hours this week delivering them. We were nervous that our efforts were wasted at 6:00 when hardly anyone was at the church.
The Elders blew up all the balloons for the tables for our "Up" with missionary work ward party!.
But, in the end we had 11 investigators there and around 85 people! One of the less actives has not been to a church meeting or activity since we came to Cleveland, and she brought her 2 non member daughters!! The other less active family that came are the Grahams whose daughter and cousin are being taught and prepared for baptism. Its great to see how God inspires us to do little things to make the difference needed for success!
One of the cutest investigators who came!
2 of the senior couples didn't make it in time for this picture before our session. We had to leave right after the session to get to the ward party, so here they are without us after the session.
Here we are before.
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