Kennewick Zone

Last week we got a call from Nanci Warner. She is an older lady in our ward and she needed help. Her dog got hit by a car and she needed to bury it. So we went over in our proselyting clothes  and dug a 3 foot deep hole in her front yard in 100+ degree weather. She loved that dog more than anything else in her life right now. It was sad to have to bury him, but it was also an odd experience. I never thought I would be doing that on my mission.

We made good progress with the Morgans this week too! We had a lesson on Tuesday and afterward played bocce with them and the Wesslings in our ward. The Wesslings are the coolest. It was good fellowship for John and Kelly and their 10 year old son Tyler. They missed church this week though... They had come three weeks in a row before this week. So we went over last night to check in and they're still doing great. She's been reading every day. He's been reading whenever we give him assignments. They've both made big strides in their progress in the gospel.

I ran into two former companions this week! We were at the church and we saw Elder Boswell in the parking lot. He's here visiting the mission. And then Saturday and Sunday we got to see Elder Metz who is doing the same things as Boswell. They're just coming back to visit before school starts. Elder Metz came to dinner last night with us too over at the Rose's house. It was pretty awesome to see both of them again and weird to see them not as missionaries.

We found a new investigator named Debra Halley-Hanson. She is super cool. She's met with missionaries in Pasco before and has attended church with a friend before. We "accidentally" found her when looking for someone else. SHe's coming on a church tour on Tuesday and then she's going to cook us dinner on Wednesday. Things are going well!

Speaking of church tours. We had zone conference this week and that was a big focus of it. In the Spokane Mission (which we just picked up a lot of) they were really big into church tours, and we have just adopted a lot of their ideas and tactics in our mission now. So there is a greater focus on getting non-members to the church to give them a quick tour of the building to help relieve any anxiety about coming to sacrament meeting. We're trying to get everyone through a tour! Including the active members to show them what we do when we take investigators on a tour. It was a great training, and my last zone conference. I learned a lot. President Ware and the Assistants trained us well.

A lot of other good things happened this week but I don't want to bore you with more details :). Just know that we're doing a lot of eating. Way too much eating. Take it easy on your missionaries, don't feed them so much that they pop. Even if they're skinny. No sense in making them fat like me haha.

This upcoming week will be one that is full of meetings. District Meeting, DoChrist training, MLC, then zone meeting next Tuesday It will be a good week.

Love you all.

Elder Paxman