Just another week wearing the badge

Just another week wearing the badge... smashing through walls and attending sacrament meeting in shorts and seas of unnamed celebrities in yellow tee shirts and then cap it off with and awesome lesson after an exhausting weekend and a long drive in sweaty dirty slightly moldy clothes..

 

Well we had another weekend of service down in Laplace gutting more houses.  They are wrapping it up down there, well missionary wise anyways, it was our last time helping out but members will still be working and volunteers are still coming in. It was really cool though getting dirty and helping people that needed it very bad.  We got to have another sacrament meeting in a gutted out church and in shorts and bright yellow tee shirts, it's weird and almost to comfortable to be sacrament meeting but the spirit is still there so its all good and the hymns were sounding excellent because 500+ men and a few women singing hymns about service while they are doing service really brings the spirit.

 

Right after lunch yesterday in Laplace we had to head out and make the 4 hour drive to Alexandria because we had a lesson with Jade and Sherry, it went really good. It was really reverent for how many kids were there, the member's house where we taught at have 6 kids so we were a little nervous but it went really well. They are really solid and really want to work to get baptized. Sherry has had her prayers answered in the past about it and he daughter said she will work on praying and getting one but that so far she really feels good about it. So we are basically focusing on teaching the daughter and its kind of a refresher course for the mom because she has had the lessons before. They committed to be baptized on the 27th of October so if all goes well there should be three baptism on that day.

 

So yesterday I go a little freaked out because Elder Rennie the noob that we live with came up to me and said "Happy 19 month mark!" and I was like "Wait! What? No its not!", then I looked at my watch and it was! I didn't even realize it time just keeps going faster and faster. When does Erica come home? It's in November right? And Eric gets home next month, and then everyone in our ward will becoming home like Shawn and Zack and Jordan! When did Shawn leave? November or December? And how are all of them doing? I haven't ever heard anything?

 

Love y'all, have a good week!

 

love elder ritchie