Sunday, August 9, 2020

Week 83 (5/24/2020) Having Enough

 

Guten tag, everybody

We had some serious hope this week. Our branch president asked us to help him try out some different ways to make church happen on Sunday. He was sure we would be having services. Well, we figured out a method that would probably work, but we haven't gotten approval from the area presidency yet, which is not very surprising, but it was a little disappointing. So no church. 

 

One highlight from this week is that Tad R Callister gave one of our daily devos. I don't know how President and Sister Hewlett are getting all of these people, but it is pretty cool. T C Christenson will be addressing us this week. 

 

While we still aren't really allowed to interact with people in person, we did get cleared to do service, so Elder Morgan and I helped a member mow her lawn and plant some palm fronds. The palm fronds had been in a large metal bucket, but had grown through the bottom of it and rooted. So we tore them up, but didn't know how to get them out of the bucket. I suggested we just plant the whole bucket, but she wanted them arranged differently. We ended up tearing off the rusted bottom of the bucket and then chiseling one side open so that we could slide the plants out. They say necessity is the mother of invention, but I think she just mothered brute force in this case. 

 

One day, after calling several people who we had scheduled lessons with, to no avail, I was tired of it. After hanging up on yet another voicemail, I just went ahead and taught a lesson to the phone anyways. Which, incidentally, was the source of my subject line. 

 

And that is most of the exciting news from our week! We aren't living a very exciting life, but that is okay. We look forward with hope for a better world, which hope maketh an anchor to our souls. 

 

Happy Memorial Day,

Elder DeFord

 

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