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#18   2-18-19
HOLY COW it's already been 4 months, time sure does fly. This past week has been pretty good, and the weather has been pretty warm for the winters here on the island.  This past week I had to go see a specialist doctor all the way in New Hampshire, it was a long fun trip. We decided to do exchanges that day so Elder Lemon drove me up there. Best part about this trip is we went out of our mission boundaries. Not many missionaries can do that! On the way up we drove through Boston and it’s completely different from where I've been serving the past 4 months. We even drove by the Boston Temple!  It was a long day of traveling when we got back to Brewster we picked up Elder Foutz and Elder Halsell for our drive to the ferry. Before we left, we stopped by the Cape Cat a cool little shirt shop owned by a member.

       We finally got back to the Martha’s Vineyard Island later Monday night. Because we didn't have anytime to do anything (like shopping and laundry) on Monday, we did our P-day stuff on Tuesday morning. That night we had a purple dot because of the snowstorm coming in to the east coast. That night it snowed but by the time we woke up it was all gone! The next day our appointment had to reschedule till the next day so we did some contact attempts while waiting to go do some service. Brother Powell picked us up for the service, we brought wood over to an older lady and we just started to get to know her, she said she is interested in hearing more about the Gospel. One thing she really liked was Family History. That night we had dinner with our Branch president’s family the Bilious.

     Thursday came and that means it’s Valentine's day! Didn't expect to much but when we got to Rods home for our appointment we ended up helping him set up for a small family Valentine's party! It was fun we got to know his wife more and she said she also would be interested in taking the lessons! We went to go check the PO box and I got 2 surprise packages, one from my grandma and one from the LaRose family back in Madison (my last area). Friday was pretty awesome there is new revelation for missionaries, now we have the option to call or facetime home every week. I know this is inspired of God to have this it will for sure help with the work as we are able to talk to our families back home, and we can better teach about our eternal family's! We also went to a family we are teaching to help move a large and heavy treadmill up a flight of stairs, we got it done after turning on its side. Saturday was a fun day for service we helped out Jamie Norton (part member family) on there family farms Greenhouse. One of the panels at the top fell in. Elder Foutz and I got onto the top of it using ladders to screw it back in. That day I also got two packages from home, one of them had binders to help me be more organized with all the letters I will get throughout my mission.

     Ah-Sunday my favorite day of the week, because I can partake of the sacrament. We had two ladies from the Stake Young Women's come give talks. One was about revelation and how it comes at the time of need. The second one was keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. We then had our last Sunday School class as the teachers, and we talked about the miracles Jesus did in John 2-4. After church we met with Steve to do more family History work. While we were getting it all set up he had questions about the Book of Mormon, he said he started to read it! We hope to meet him later this week.

    Isaiah 58:13
"13 ¶ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:"

     Sunday's are truly my favorite day of the week, most importantly it's the day I of the week I get to attend church and learn more of him. Even better, I get to partake of the sacrament. I know that I will be blessed for keeping the worldly needs to the rest of the week, as I focus on keeping the Sabbath Day Holy while remembering Jesus Christ, I know I will be blessed. Sunday is always a delight! Amen