All the missionaries went fishing at the Neal's property on Monday. Elder Quincy caught this giant fish. Everyone had to pose with it. Jaymo caught this fish with Luke later in the same place. Its just as big if it look at it in proportion to the fisherman.
We went with the Sisters to eat at Odell's on Tuesday night. BTW he's getting baptized Saturday!! He fixed us a delicious meal with pork roast and vegetables. We left there and met the Spanish Elders to go teach Ramon's family. They failed to tell us that they were also feeding us dinner! First time to eat 2 big meals in one night! Shannon fed all of us lunch after we worked on her yard that day, and Sister Perry has been feeding Br. Sneed and Elder Quincy lunch everyday up at the ramp project, so we have had a record number of meals with investigators and members this week. We ate with the Allens on Monday night, as usual, with the Elders and Shannon on Thursday night and with Br. Hodges and the Elders on Saturday night. Sunday I cooked Café Rio pork for all the missionaries for a farewell dinner. So we only ate at home twice this week.
Ok, so on Friday night, Cinco de Mayo, after the Family History class and a lesson with Odell, we took some cookies to Ramon's house to thank them for dinner and Elder Quincy and I taught our first lesson in Spanish without the Elders. I gave my second prayer in Spanish for the week. Elder Quincy prayed in English, but I told them what he'd said after. The missionaries call the areas with lots of Hispanics in our area Spanishland. There are about 4 of them. There's a huge business; that's kind of like Craiglist for Spanish speaker and a real estate company all in one called Terrenos. I think it must be bigger than just here, because the signs say Terrenos Houston. They build these subdivisions and seem to mostly sell to Hispanics, which makes it easy for the Spanish Elders to know where to look.
Saturday we went to a funeral for a step grandson of a sister we visit in the nursing home. Her son is an inactive member. It was the most country funeral ever! Lots of cowboy music blaring, lots of guys in cowboy hats, and the preacher's accent was so thick, we had a hard time understanding him. He gave a good, uplifting message though.
Sunday was cool, Sister Houseman had the great idea of putting on a musical missionary fireside, this was planned months before we had the surprise fireside with David Archuleta last Sunday. She had the Primary kids, the Young Women and a few individuals in the ward preform. She also had President Rascon from the Mission Presidency speak and sing with his wife. It was really nice and each set of missionaries; Elders, Sisters and Spanish Elders, had an investigator there. The interesting part is that the Elder's Quorum were in charge of refreshments. I had brought some brownie bites from Sam's Club as back up, and Elder Allen brought a cake a member had given him, but there obviously wasn't enough to go around. The Spanish Elder's investigator left and bought a couple of chocolate cakes and a watermelon. Life is different here in the mission field! This ward is growing with new members and we are seeing inactives coming back!
Okay, the best for last! Luke was called to be the assistant Scout Master yesterday! Jessica Becker bore her testimony in Sacrament meeting and Ashley Evans gave her testimony in Relief Society! This is a great adventure! I'm so glad I have my companion back! Oh and another awesome thing is that this ramp Elder Quincy just finished is in the same street as the Mason family. Stephen Mason, the 14 year old son who is wheelchair bound was able to get into the Perry's home and hang out with their grandson, a 14 year old we are trying to get ready for the priesthood! We'd built the ramp with his great grandmother in mind, but how cool that Heavenly Father had another plan in mind!
Elder Romero is leaving us today.
While Elder Quincy was working on his ramp project, I went with all the missionaries to clean some of Shannon Watson's back yard. Br. Roberts showed up with his lawn mower and got the whole place mowed, which was awesome, but he didn't get the message about bringing his chain saw. All Shannon had was a machete and some hedge trimmers, but the missionaries managed to take out a few trees with what she had. My job was to make sure they didn't take out each other and/or get too close to the Copperhead snake we saw down by the creek.
Sister Housman said she did yard work with a machete in Hawaii all the time.
Meanwhile Br. Sneed and Elder Quincy worked on this ramp.
This is a memorial garden Sister Perry made in her back yard. This is something people do a lot around here.
Leveling this driveway, putting in some culverts, and bringing in gravel will be a future project.
Our last district meeting before transfers. The only picture I have of our whole district.
On the way to the Morales'. They made it back from Guatemala! Antonio is getting a Social Security card this week! We're going to help clean up the disaster their house was when they got home later today.
A pond with great lily pads I admired on our way to visit a new member Saturday.
One of the swap meets in Cleveland. This one sells ponies and goats.
Last few things Saturday; hanging this mirror and putting up the shower curtain. 
Logan graduated from Preschool on Thursday night. We didn't get to go because the Elders needed us to go to eat with them at a single women's house. Luckily Nicole is really good at taking pictures.
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