Branch in Monument, Oregon

It was another good week. Of course!

We had Zone Conference on Wednesday. We got to meet as Hermiston, Walla Walla, and Pasco Zones. It was fun to see old friends and the conference was in Pasco so I got to go back there for a little bit! It is always great to see President.

I have little time to email today. My computer time was taken up with putting together some reports.

Quick story: We cover a branch of the church in Monument, Oregon. Population: Less than Cathlamet. Much less. And missionaries never go down there. But, we did yesterday. We decided it would be good to make an appearance in a branch that we cover so we hitched a ride with the High Councilman assigned to go there to speak this month. It was a 2 1/2 hour drive one way from Hermiston. They meet in a double wide trailer converted into a church building. There were 13 of us there for church. and that included the high councilman and elder butler and I. We gave talks and in the middle of my talk a 10 year old boy in the back started throwing up hahaha. He threw up four times before he was done. His 5 year old brother said afterward "he had two things for breakfast this morning. Cereal and cereal!" hahahaha. His cereal was all over the ground. They quickly cleaned it up and I promptly closed my talk and we carried on.

After sacrament meeting they had a meal prepared for us. Apparently they do that every third Sunday when they have a high councilor come. That's the best Sunday of the month for them! They cooked us coconut shrimp and a roast among other things. It was very good.

Lovely week.

I love you all.

Elder Paxman