Quiver full of Quincys: A Memorable Week; Good bye to the Drakes, Charity gets married and Robin Gunnels dies

Sunday, June 25, 2017

A Memorable Week; Good bye to the Drakes, Charity gets married and Robin Gunnels dies

Elder Quincy went on a bike ride Monday morning, while I went tot the grocery store. While I was there, I ran into Sister Teague G child and how they can try to be like him. We helped Bonnie Runge find more ancestors at the Nursing home, and helped Sandy Butler work on her talk for Sunday. I hurried and made cupcakes while Elder Quincy fixed something on Sister Witt's car. We dropped cupcakes off at the Gunnels and visited Br. Hamilton who was in the hospital on his birthday and got back in time to pick up Sandy and meet at the church for the youth and new member temple trip! It was Jaycie's first time! Sandy was baptized and confirmed for the 5 women out of the 10 of her ancestors the work was done for, including her mom! Only one of the 13 youth didn't have family names!
Friday morning Elder Quincy started the bathroom. I met the Elders to have a lesson at Bridget's home for the first time! Her 2 girls and 2 of her nieces were there! Bridget said that she's had lots of anxiety this year (she's going through a divorce) and as she been reading and praying from and about the Book of Mormon she had been calm and felt more peaceful than she's ever felt before! After that lesson, I went to Shepherd to help Sister Rigli to get going with Family Search. Elder Quincy was back from his project and we got to visit a bunch of people together.
Saturday we picked up the Sisters, including our newest missionary, Sister Atencio from West Jordan and spent the whole day with them. It was raining a bunch, so we had some adventures walking through mud and water and finding people. We fed them our left overs and went back out to work unto it was time for us to meet the Drakes and take them to Br. Robert's. That was fun and a bonus to see them one more time before they leave us on Friday! We tried to get Luke to come over for dinner with us that night, but he didn't make it. Jonathan, our son's good friend and our almost daughter, Charity was married! Hard to miss these things! Thanks for the picture Jonathan!
Today we had regular church, with Sandy doing a fantastic job on her talk! We took the sacrament to the Masons and visited 3 other families, ate our dinner and took the Elders to the viewing for Sister Gunnels. The family really appreciated having us there. The Elders had been at their home the day before Sister Gunnels died! This is the guy that we have the deal that if a missionary beats him at chess, he'll come to church. We promised we'd be back to visit soon. Sister Graham got her patriarchal blessing at 6 tonight. Luke had his at 7. He came by after to tell us about it and to eat the pizza he'd missed the night before. He had an amazing experience!

The Drakes