99 Bottles of Pop

Hello everyone!  It is now July: surprise! 

This was one of those weird weeks that took forever but went by really fast. Weeks feel like days and the days feel like weeks.

Tuesday we had MLC in Bentonville and then dinner with Bishops family. Made a pitstop on the way home at an ice cream place :)

Wednesday we had a last minute zone meeting I had to run. It ended up going really well We talked about the correlation between Love and Expectations. If both are high we will experience miracles. We also applied it to helping members raise their vision of missionary work. We had dinner with the Yorks our EQP. We had some free time after so we went to the park to do some planning. While we were there we saw a family fishing. We were talking to them and realized that they were a part member family. We started teaching the Restoration and when we got to the Joseph Praying i asked if they have ever had a question like that. Their mom had died not to long ago from cancer and the dad was pretty bitter about that. They asked why bad things happened in life, a question we had talked about at MLC, so we were able to teach them the Plan of Salvation. It was a super powerful experience.

Thursday we had weekly planning and then a few exchanges with ward members. Got to spend some time teaching with President Leavitt, always learn a lot from him.

Friday all of our appointments canceled, even dinner, so we spent most of the day tracting. Also spent a bit in the park pondering what to do with ourselves. And we had a member show up with a non member friend and we ended up playing tennis with them. Was pretty fun even tough it was blazing hot.

Saturday was basically the same as Friday just less things to do haha. While we were tracting an old couple let us in because they "wanted to discuss what they had studied about our beliefs" as soon as she opened the door I know what was going to happen. So we came and sat down on a really nice couch in their interrogation room and listened while they proceeded to tell us a bunch of ridiculous things that we "believe"...but actually don't. They had this paper all printed up(pretty sure I've seen the same one before) and the wife seemed so excited to practice bashing Mormons. We were polite, crushed all their arguments told them to read the Book of Mormon and then left. Anti-   it makes me laugh

Sunday we spent most of the day with members. We had a family at church that brought a friend and say "Elders when can you come by and teach the lessons?"  That made me happy

Also  the stake Presidents wife called and asked if we had a dinner-we didn't.  Love when that happens.  Today we are going golfing and then it looks like tomorrow is going to be the busiest day of the week. Think we have about 4 member meals planned.

Hope y'all have a great week and Happy 4th!