The seed was planted..... and it grew!!!

Hey guys!

So this week was a little different than the usual, some bad and some good. We ended up doing quite a bit of service again this week and we recently started volunteering at a place called the Teresa house and it's a hospice type house thing. There is only two patients there at a time but we go for a couple hours once a week and just help around. We don't really do anything with the residents except for visiting with them. Usually we will just clean, make food, restock stuff, get stuff for the nurse, etc.. We went to the senior center but not to do service. We have a member who lives there so we went to go visit and we gave her a blessing. As for lessons this week we weren't able to meet with Trisha and Malissa because they were busy or out of town. Then we tried Brian but we knocked on his door and his wife came to the door and said he broke his femur bone when he slipped on the ice and he was still in the hospital and he can't walk around at all for a month. Randy was super busy. Rick was super busy. We had a lesson with Marissa and Steve and they are slowly but surely progressing so that's great! We also had the usual couple less actives that we see each week and trying to help them. We've been watching past conference talks with them in preparation for this next conference coming up.

On Thursday, we had zone conference for most of the day, which was really good. It's always great to go and see the other missionaries, president, and to learn. President is really trying to end his mission on a sprint because he finishes like two weeks before me so he's almost done with his 3 years. Then that night we went to the Pfaff’s for dinner, which was great!

Saturday, we had an Elders quorum bowling activity in mount Morris and that was a lot of fun! Somehow I won by total luck! Because I suck at bowling! But it was good to get together with them and we had some less actives come too! Then on I got to play the piano for primary and that was a lot of fun! Some of those kids are pretty crazy but they're awesome! And that was my week! Have a good week!

Love you!

P.S. -  Do you remember that Ukrainian guy Elder Gubler and I found in Brockport and taught? He got baptized! So, I know I didn't baptize, him but I'm countin' it ;)

FHE at the Pfaff's

It was a good week!

Hello guys,                                                                        May 18^th, 2015

This week was pretty good! We found a couple more new investigators and Vlad is progressing and we are developing good friendships with all of the people here in the area. For p day we went to Greece and played ultimate Frisbee but it got way to hot and humid to do that for long. But for the most part this week was a little cooler than last. We found the tennis girl from the clothing closet that we were trying to find. She walked into Jims store while we were teaching him and we were able to give her a Book of Mormon and to talk with her a little bit. The bad news is she seems interested and wants to learn more but she just graduated and is moving back to Long Island next week. So we'll have to send those missionaries to teach her. We were never able to set up good times to teach her because she was so busy.

The good news for the week is Vlad. He is the one from Ukraine and he is almost done with the Book of Mormon after a Week! He has come to church twice, and we are going to the sites with him tomorrow. So that will be really fun. We were able to Skype with one of Bro. Britton’s friends who just got back from the Ukraine so he could understand a little more what we are talking about. It should turn out good.

We did lots of service this week for the library doing weeding, we served food at the Baptist church with the Methodist members, we worked at the clothing closet at the Episcopal church, etc.. The Methodist pastor really loves us and she is going to have is over for dinner one night and we are going to teach all of the youth in her church about our religion this week. And one of the families we are teaching are members of her congregation and she's fine with us teaching them.

Friday, one of the members graduated and we had a huge surprise party at the church for her. Pretty much the whole ward came plus some. We want to the prison again and he gets out in 40 days so he's almost done. We had zone meeting in Batavia this week and that was fun! And this up coming week we have interviews with president. That's pretty much the week for me

Love ya!

This is Wegmans from our apartment. You can barely see it through the

trees but there is a trail and a bridge over the river right to it.