service all week and only had time for like 3 appointments! It was
crazy! I think this was the least amount of time I have spent in
regular clothes.
Well it started out with us going back to help out Layne and Mike with
their house. This time we helped them start painting and start
throwing more things away! This house looked so bad when they started
and is now starting to come together. They are so awesome! After we
help them out they take us out for lunch and then we sit down and have
a little lesson with with them. And Layne is so awesome. He has
genuine questions and really wants to know if God is there.
We went to help out the Goettmans! They needed help hauling wood and
then splitting it. They are so funny and crazy it is entertaining! Art
Goettman the grandpa is like 90 years old and he just says whatever he
wants. The entire time we would go to chop a log with the ax he would
laugh and say "my money is on the log." Eventually he started to
realize that he lost the bet every time. So we settled on having him
take us to Taco Bell! Hahahaha he gave us a challenge to split this
monster log that was the size of a tractor! So we took all the wedges
and sledges and axes we could and me and Groesbeck started hammering
at this humongous log! After like 30 minutes of us putting everything
we got into it. It finally split in half!!! Hahaha I think that was
what won us Taco Bell!
We then went to help out a members neighbor by stacking wood for him.
He had this huge pile of would that needed to be stacked so without
thinking I just started grabbing and throwing the wood up to Groesbeck
for him to stack but this would had been sitting there for a while. I
heard Groesbeck yell and I turned and I saw the biggest spider in my
life sitting on the log I just threw over to him. Like this thing was
the size of my face! Elder Groesbeck then took another log and smashed
it as fast as possible. I then realized I had been doing this without
gloves the whole time and I think I have like 10 spider bites on my
hands and arms now... hahaha live and learn.
We then were able to visit a family called the Kruczeks. They are
awesome and this visit they expressed to us that their daughter has a
YouTube web cast about faith and so they asked if we would like to be
on it. So she told us that it would be like a faith to faith talk
show. She went over the questions with us and the stuff she wanted us
to answer and it was all great things like what are the basics of your
beliefs and how has your faith helped you and awesome questions like
that. So next time we go over we will have the chance to be on a faith
to faith web cast.
This week I wanted something to do that would attract young people to
start inviting friends to activities. So the missionaries are starting
up Tuesday night basketball and the ward is pumped I already had so
many young men come up to me and say that they are going to bring some
friends! I can't wait to get this started up and see what comes from
it!
This week we also got a chance to meet our new mission President! He
is awesome!! President and Sister Bednar set up a meet and greet and
so we went down there like a Zone conference and they told us about
their family and a little bit about themselves. They are just amazing
people. I can't wait to be able to get to know him better tomorrow
when we have interviews with him!
For the 4th we tried to go visit people but no one wanted to visit so
we then headed over to a members house for a picnic. We watched them
set off fireworks and had some good burgers and had a good time.
Nothing too much on the 4th.
We went to a picnic last Monday and I left my iPad on the table and
some young women got a hold of it and took a ton of pictures so I will
send you some of the pictures they took on it! Hahaha
Also a couple weeks back a older lady in the ward was trying to sell
some junk from her house and she had a bunch of old guitars. So I was
looking at them and she said that because I have helped her out so
much I could have one. So she gave me one. I took it home and scrapped
off the inch think of dust and grime that was on it. And I just got
brand new strings for it and it sounds amazing! So now I have 2
guitars! Hahahaha
Elder Swisher
Pictures:
1 & 2. Pictures the young women took
3. Random artillery in Beaver
4. My guitar I fixed up
5. My ward mission leader Brother Giaimo
6. Had to try Boxed Water
7. Beaver the other morning
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