Every Tuesday we do service at a food pantry in Alliance. Its awesome we get to meet a lot of people and talk a lot about missions in the church. This Tuesday a lady we tracted into volunteered as well and was telling EVERYONE about us. We knocked on her door like 2 weeks ago and she wasn't interested and said she wasn't feeling well so we offered to sing her a song to cheer her up. We sang I am a Child of God to her. (We do that tracting especially when older women answer the door) So then she is in the pantry this week telling everyone that we came and sang to her and we should be in the Mo Tab and then all the people wanted us to sing for everyone in the pantry haha it was funny. We didn't sing by the way haha but its a good rep for the church and for us when someone else says how much they liked us knocking on the door just to sing a song and tells everyone about it.
Wednesday was ZDM in Youngstown which went really well. We went on exchanges after with the Zone leaders. Elder Anderson and I taught the weirdest guy. Picture like a super old super skinny Moses and that is who we taught haha it was quite the experience. I will send his "business" card he gave me home soon. He says he is a "political advocate and writer" quite the career eh? haha Thursday we went over to the Wagleys for a "cottage meeting". Sis Wagley reminds me so much of you. Her son comes home in April. There were like 5 investigators there and 4 sets of missionaries and a bunch of members. They fed us dinner and we watched the restoration movie and had a testimony meeting. Its a really good idea. You guys should talk to the missionaries and have one for their zone at our house. It helps soooooo much when you have a nice place where the spirit already resides with no distractions, a bunch of missionaries, people investigating the church just like them and members to bare testimony. We took Bruce there and it totally changed him. He is doing awesome. His less active fiance is holding him back though which is too bad. We saw him last night and he said when he got home form the meeting he just felt awesome and like everything made sense and just at peace. Then he went home to Debbie's son running around screaming and her mom drunk trying to bring some other drunk guy into the house. He said he just felt crushed. I felt so bad but I think we made him feel better. We talked about conversion and read out of the BD about how it only comes after much trial and testing. He is doing awesome though, I will probably never see him get baptized but he has been one of my favorite people to teach.
Saturday we spent most of the afternoon helping our ward mission leader build a fountain in his backyard. We started with nothing and built the whole thing. We were quite proud of ourselves haha it was fun getting to do some physical labor though. I am excited to get your quotes! I am frustrated every week at one point or another haha but you get over it. I have a little book full of quotes I like so I will put yours in there. So this week I want you guys or at least you and dad to do something I did in LTM. Print off the lyrics to "Come thou fount of Every Blessing" and just go through the lines and define the words and write down thoughts feelings and questions. I will send you what I came up with in the mail this week along with my SD card. I thought it was pretty cool and made me think. Well I think that's it for this week! I hope you have a great week and be safe traveling wherever you guys are going.
Love and miss you!! Elder Skalla
The lake is in the Bishops backyard and they are using the bishops equipment. The "waterfall" at the bottom is at his ward mission leaders home.
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