Ok well first let me dump some pictures to catch up. Goblin
valley
remember? And other stuff of course...
remember? And other stuff of course...
First of all, sunrise over the power plant. Unfortunately, I
didn't notice till too late, it could've been better but this is what you get.
This is the Rochester panel, a series of Petroglyphs near a
Ferron.
And here's Wall-E
This is us and the Castle Dale Elders at the panel. Elder
Barnes is the rainbow generating ginger and my companion Elder Baker has
mistakenly taken him for a God.
So he sacrificed me to him
With my own knife no less. Then I was saved by an angel and
we found a baby WallE and sacrificed that one instead. So Elder Barnes was
appeased.
The district in Goblin Valley. We had called the sisters to
invite them to Moab and they had already made plans to come here so we decided
to join them. I'm the only one who’s been before so it was quite the adventure.
I don't remember if I mentioned this, but Brent was totally in Moab the day
before and stayed the night at the wedge over the little Grand Canyon. So we
just barely missed him. Dang it.
And my beautiful companion riding a wild Goblin. Doesn't say
anything about that in the white handbook does it?
Anywho, that's the pictures, sorry I didn't take too many. I
was too busy helping our resident Gimp (Sister Perez) survive the goblins lair.
Anywho again... that was fun. And other cool stuff happened
but honestly I just don't remember. So here goes. I hope I didn't miss anything
last week. Cuz if I did then it's lost to everyone but the angels taking notes.
Anyway, we were hoping to contact a family in Emery which
fell through but J and his family are super solid and we've been meeting with
them a couple times a week for quite some time. It's great. We also are having
a nerf war next week for Zone activity... but it was gonna be this week. So we
went shopping. It was fun. We also had a great lesson with S... and discovered
they had an old nerf Vulcan that they've never used. So we've been searching
all week for an ammo belt to run it but no dice yet. We traded them a gun for
it. So nice. Good times.
Zone Training Meeting was an adventure... the sisters were
an hour and a half late... because they were in court. Awkward. I also played a
ton of piano to fill the time.
I've been working on modifying my nerf guns in the apartment
all last week as well. It's been an adventure. But I've learned lots. Then we
met a guy named Herb Flowers. Great name right? Anyway we talked to him and he
seems like a super cool guy. He literally moved out to Ferron because he loves
adventures and in every direction there is a different terrain type to explore.
He also trains goats to carry his packs for him. So cool. Anyway we talked to
him about all of the things he believes and he's one of those hyper realistic
science religion people... such a fun conversation. He said he was looking for
the local car guys because he's into that kind of stuff and he showed us his
super rare car... man it was pretty. So we're taking G to go meet him today,
his boys are going to be baptized as soon
as they get permission and is
like THE car guy. He has a car he built that's competing for the land speed
record in its class. So yeah. Also turns out almost all of Herb’s family are
already members so... we have high hopes.
Really the rest of the day was pretty normal... and same
with the week... until Stake conference! We literally spent all day on Saturday
trying to dig out a homemade cemented dog kennel... and then move it. Yeah.
That was an adventure on so so, so many levels. But it was fun and good to do
some really hard work. Then we headed straight to Emery to talk with the B’s again.
It was a great experience and we got a new investigator in the form of R. What
a guy. He'll need some help along the road but he is so ready, and his niece is
basically the perfect fellowshipper for him. We also got yelled at but that was
totally unrelated.
So we ate dinner and had to head back to Ferron fast for the
adult session of conference... because President Hodgman was there! We ended up
being late... but we carefully snuck in while he and Sister Hodgman weren't
looking. We also had Larry Lawrence of the 70 with us, and he did something
very cool and unique. He organized a panel of reactivated, formerly less active,
individuals (oddly enough they were all either currently in, or were just
released from bishoprics.) It was an incredible experience to hear from each of
them. Then the next day... more conference. No President Hodgman though...
looking forward to a new week of missionary work and ready to do my best to serve
Him in every way I can.
Love you all, and happy Easter!
Elder DeFord
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