Monday p-day - After our study time we went to Hood River. Don and the missionaries from our zone were going to hike up Dog Mountain. I went shopping at Walmart and headed back to The Dalles. The guys were gone from 12:30 to 6 pm when they got back to our house drenched but victorious in their climb. It was not a nice, it rained all day. When they got to our house we feed them dinner and sent them home.
We had an evening appointment to teach the second discussion. The family followed through and read their scriptures together. We invited them to come to church on Sunday with us. We hope they will come.
Wednesday just flew by as we knocked on doors and met a few more new friends.
Thanksgiving Thursday Don and the Elders went to participate in a turkey bowl the 2nd ward was having. While he was gone I started on my Christmas cards. In the afternoon we went to a members home for dinner with the Elders. We had the traditional Thanksgiving meal and we had some great conversation, they have a great library and he knows a lot about Lewis and Clark and Don is obsessed with them so he was pretty excited to have someone who shares his interest. When we went home the Elders dropped by and played a couple of games of sequence with us.
Friday we studied quite a bit and then we went out but no one seemed to be home. We finally stopped at a members house and visited with them. The day was our first wash where we found no one to visit.
Saturday we went to Wamic to visit some members out in the boonies. One of the brothers we visited has had some wonderful healing miracles in his life. We had a good visit with him. We also visited 3 active families out that way because they don't usually get visitors. It is a family of 3 generations of Cantrell,s. We visited with Idonna first she is the Grandma and had gone on a mission with her husband to Nigeria and she had some wonderful stories that she shared with us. We visited Annelie the granddaughter who is 35. She gives us a dozen eggs every week because she has a few hens and she is so generous to remember us. Our final visit was to Brother and Sister Cantrell. They welcomed us and as it was near dinner invited us to stay and we had such a good time visiting with them and getting to know them better.
Sunday we had a really great talk on gratitude, by Sister Ketchum. It was about the power of gratitude and how she had commitment to begin a 30-day exercise in expressing thanks. She put together a notebook just for that purpose and every day she took some quiet time and wrote down ten things for which she was grateful. She continued to do that every day for 30 days, writing down ten new things that she was thankful for each and every day. She said that after a few days, it gets little harder, you have to think, you have to look a little more closely at your situation in order to keep that list of 10 per day growing. This forces you to recognize God’s hand in the small things, the minutiae that make up most of our days. You begin to appreciate some of those little things that happened: the driver who let you into the flow of traffic; the laughter you shared with a friend; the deliciousness of a freshly picked apple; a little bird enjoying the feeder you hung in a tree. This exercise can be a powerful reminder of the multitude of things we all have to be grateful for. I want to try this exercise myself.
I want to say a few words about our gospel principles teacher. She is one of the best teachers I have ever had. After being in the church for 30+ years she makes the basic doctrine exciting. The spirit is so strong in her class, I look forward to her class each week. After the meeting we had a sister MM, for dinner and we taught her a discussion. I feel a strong bond with this sister and I love her so.
It was another good week for us!
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