Hey
Everyone,
This week has been a
physically taxing one. We have done a lot of service. In addition to Tuesday,
when we went to the Love Kitchen, they asked us to help again on Friday because
a last minute, no prior notice truck was going to be delivering a surplus of
food. Ten pallets of food showed up. They emptied the whole trailer. And who
was there to help? That’s right…just us and one other guy (everyone else had to
do the kitchen stuff). So, the Love Kitchen received 4 pallets of bread and
baked good, 3 pallets of cantaloupe, 1 pallet of tomatoes, 1 pallet of massive
bags of tiny onions, and 1 pallet of 50 lb. bags of potatoes. That's a lot.
From 8:30, when we got there, to 2:00, when we left, I sat down a total of zero
times. This took a major toll on my lower back but sacrifice does not go
without blessing. We now have one of the 50 lb bags of potatoes, 2 cakes, a
tray of brownies, another tray of rolls, a bunch of pop tarts, some meat in the
freezer, a lasagna, some frozen yogurt, as many English muffins as you can
imagine and about 27 cantaloupes. Yum.
We went to the temple
again this week with the youth of our other ward. This time, the names that we
did ordinances for were ones that we brought. When I counted it up, there were
143 relatives of mine that were baptized and confirmed.
On top of being in much
pain my companion also became ill yesterday, so we are both a little hindered
in our work. Thankfully, we have today to rest and become ready for our labors.
We were going to go fishing today with a man we are trying to get back to
church, but we don't have enough money for the fishing license haha. Maybe at
the beginning of a month we would be able to afford it.
Things here are going
well. One of our wards has a new bishopric as of yesterday.
This Thursday will mark
1 year that I have been on my mission. It's pretty exciting and somewhat hard
to believe.
I hope you all have a
great week.
Elder Kirk
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