It's hard to believe that September is here already, but I'm still holding fast to summer!
I joined the Sandy Rotary Club, the Sandy Boys and Girls Club and the Days of 47 Royalty for a hike down from the top of the tram at Snowbird. Beautiful!
Beauty among the boulders - we are trying to get a landscaping project done before the snow flies.
With Sharon's help and the cucumbers, tomatoes, red and green peppers from our garden, we canned 25 bottles of Mom's famous "Green Relish"
Canyon FHE with the Stephensons and Auntie Sharon...playing "Spot It!"
Hike to Donut Falls with the Activity girls
Stephanie's birthday haul...no "big bang" present, but she'll get organized, keep her bike in good repair and satisfy her chocolate cravings!
A talented photographer and friend, Michelle, took these photos of Daniel just before he left on his mission.
Mom, to answer your questions, I haven't had too many moments of homesickness or super discouraging times. There are sad times, and there are hard times, but it's been an amazing experience, and I guess I would say it's been more happy than sad. Our district was our ward, the sisters who serve in 1st ward, and Ranchester. Now, since our district is combined, we have all three Sheridan wards, Ranchester, and Buffalo. Our district will probably only be this big for one transfer, then it will split again.
Anyway, as for this week, it's been interesting. We have 4 investigators, and one is out of town working for 5 weeks, then off for 2 weeks. That's Jacob Campbell. Another is getting a liver transplant in Minnesota, and he won't be back till mid October. That's Robin Brown. Another got evicted from his apartment, and moved to Colorado, where he lived before. That's William. The last one is Tori, Jacob's sister. She has sat in on some lessons when we taught Jacob, so we have now been working with her, and she is really progressing. She completely accepted the Restoration lesson, and she said she's seen some pretty cool changes in Jacob since we started meeting with him. So that's been cool. She'll continue to be our only investigator for a couple more weeks.
Because of the lack of investigators, we have been focusing on LARCs. (less actives and recent converts) We have 3 recent convert familes we have been teaching the lessons over again to, and 7 less actives we have been focusing on. It's been going really well. Yesterday at church we had no investigators, but we had 4 less active members show up. It's really been amazing to work with these people to see them remember the blessings that come from the gospel, and that desire to come back return to their hearts. They can really feel of the Savior's love for them and He wants them back.
Here's a cool experience that happened yesterday at church. In Elder's quorum we had a lesson on the power of the Priesthood and mainly focusing on blessings, and the opportunity and responsibility we have as Priesthood holders to give blessings to those who need them. We act in Christ's behalf, because He can't be there personally. We also talked about preparing for blessings, and that sometimes we have to give blessings at a moment's notice, and how we need to be doing the every day things to make sure we are ready to do those blessings. After church, a member, sister Broad came up to us and said her knee has been hurting and she wanted a blessing. We said we'd love to, and asked her when she wanted it. She said, "Right now." She asked me to do the blessing, and it really was a cool experience, especially following our lesson.
On Saturday we had the opportunity to help in the First Annual Sheridan Sludge Trudge. It's a 5K through mud and obstacles. It's all mud where you run, and you had to climb over stable walls a couple times, under a gate (slide on your stomach) climb over hay bales. There was a mud slide, or adult slip n slide down to a puddle of bentonite, which apparently is the slipperiest mud anywhere, crawl through a tube half full of mud, run through mud pools. Anyway, you get pretty dirty. We were stationed at the obstacles to make sure no one got hurt. All 3 Sheridan wards helped, as well as Ranchester. After, we were able to run it. All the missionaries did it together, and we did it in our proselyting clothes. We took before and after pictures, but we don't have them yet, so I can't send them this week. Our shirts and ties can't be saved, and my white Nike socks are now a dark tan color. Oh well. Before mom gets a heart attack about my clothes being ruined, we went to Salvation Army to get some cheap clothes to wear so if they got ruined it wouldn't be a big deal. We also got a free t shirt out of that, so that's always fun. Next weekend we're helping with the Indian Relays, which is an all Native American Rodeo. That will be super sweet! I'm way excited for that!
Elder Ehlert
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