Week 58...Rockin' & Rollin' in the Ridgway Branch

July 14, 2014

     

 Mural on the side of a building in the north part of our area

 Elder Muir's study area in the St. Mary's area

     We were pretty fast today cleaning.  I made Elder B clean fast because I wanted to get emailing.  I am impressed that you are getting so good at emailing from your phone.  I never thought I would see this happening.  Have fun at the meeting and I’ll get busy with the questions. 

1. How was your week?  What were the highs/lows?  Holy cow…this week was awesome week again.  We had tons of lessons and quite a bit of member involvement.  It has been awesome!!!  We have a pretty decent teaching pool right at the moment.  To start things off, a high was on Friday night when some people in the branch had a 50th wedding anniversary party.  Their kids threw the party for them and we were invited, we ended having to help serve root beer floats J  It was a fun little night and there were some non member family members that were there and also a bunch of people from the branch were there.  It was fun and we had way good food.  It was weird being on the receiving end of a catering event, I felt right at home when we started serving the root beer floats.  The kids did a great job doing the party.  I have determined we are going to give you and dad a party for your 50th wedding anniversary.  We also had an investigator at church yesterday.   S, a less active, came and a friend of hers who is an investigator also came to church.  We tried to get all of them there (P, J, S & G)  but only S and G  came.  We couldn't get a ride to fit all of them.  A low was not being able to get them all there.  Another low has been the rain and humidity, I am really starting to get sick of it.  It’s the middle of July and they’ve already had 3 ½ more inches of rain for the month of July.
   
   
2. How was your weather this week?    Did you encounter crazy weather on Tuesday or this week?  I'm assuming all is well and you survived :)    Yeah, it rained last Tuesday pretty hard but we survived and it poured again yesterday afternoon. 
3. What are 5 positive things from the week?  1) We had an investigator at church yesterday.  2) Meals are slowly starting to pick up.  3) In general everything is starting to pick up.  4)  We had 110 people in sacrament yesterday and we average 70-90 (10 or so were people visiting family for the weekend)  5)  Our 3rd missionary from the branch leaves this week to serve a mission in California. 
   
   
4. Do you know if the new mission president is keeping a blog?  Not sure
5. How are things with your investigators?
1. T & R ?  Any progress or did you have to drop them? We have pretty much dropped them but we are going to keep in contact with them and see how they are doing. 
2. S & P and the BF?  Things are going great. We got  S and her friend to church yesterday and they are really starting to progress.  We had 2 lessons with all of them this week and on Saturday they invited us over for lunch.  So things are going great with them. 
3. The G family ?  They are doing awesome.  They continue to come to church each week and we keep having dinner with them. 
4. Texas media referral (girlfriend & boyfriend from Kane)?  Not much has happened with them.  We are having another lesson with them tomorrow night. 
5. Any new leads/investigators?  The B family (one of our less active families) that we are teaching have people that living with them so we have started teaching them a little.  
   
   
6. Anything exciting going on?  This Saturday up in Kane we are helping with a  Mormon Helping Hands project. 
7. Do you have interviews or zone conference coming up?  We have interviews coming up on Thursday so we will head down to Brookville.  We don’t have zone conference until September again.  We are doing exchanges Thursday.  That is pretty much what is going on for mission business. 
   
   
8. How are things with Elder B?  Things are going well.  We are continuing to build unity with one another and trying to learn new things and ideas from each other.  So overall we are doing great. 
9. How are things with the members? They are doing awesome and they continue to show their support.  Random fact… we had dinner with a family that has 13 kids but only about 10 or 11 live at home.  It was pretty fun J

Another week of adventures and success.  Glad to hear you had a good week and had fun on TREK.  I can't wait to hear the rest of the report and see pictures. 

Love,

Elder Muir