A Thanksgiving to Remember

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  We had all morning to cook and relax, then we picked up the Tsoluka family and took them to the Jones' for their first Thanksgiving dinner.  It was delicious and fun and we all had a good time.  We had to hurry away though to go help Amy move a couch (the one Elder Quincy wired together) to her apartment and to move her things out of Br. Westwater's garage into her storage unit, so the Elders have a garage to park in for the winter. We hurried from there to have dessert with the Gobbles! Sister Tsoluka wanted to shop at Thanksgiving for some specials so we got to experience the crazy shopping part of the holiday. We came home and relaxed and then got a call at 10:00 to come give a blessing to Sister Ferguson's daughter who was in a lot of pain.  So we had a couple of opportunities to serve and got to enjoy time with people we love like family!

Gredo figured out how to do a selfie.

Our apartment is decorated!  Its especially fun because most of the decoration were gifts from ward members and my sisters.

We did more construction work at the Rodriguezes on Friday and Saturday. Elder Quincy built this closet for them.

Replaced wood on a window.  It was even warm enough to caulk and paint it!

He put the kickplate under the cabinets.

The cabinets on the left of the stove are from bigger ones he cut down.  He made the shelf for the microwave, too.

This is Marisol with her puppy Scrappy.  Its hilarious because he really doesn't like Elder Quincy and he's learned to like me.  That never happens with dogs!  We love spending time with the Rodriguez family!  We'll miss having projects to do at their house!

Manathan is pregnant!! We got to take her to the Doctor's office to get the business part done today.  We're excited for Hardy and Manathan to be parents!

With our Family Home Evening group on Monday nights and spending time with members during the week, we are feeling more and more like we have family here!
There's no doubt that we are needed and able to help here!  We are doing a lot more immigration, translating, ride giving, and general red tape work here than we planned to do.  We thought we'd be teaching the gospel more, but really, half of the lessons we learned from Jesus were from his service.  So I guess we're teaching even when we aren't opening our mouths.