So I found a yarn shop here in Ipswich called Loom n'
Shuttle. But unfortunately they don't have anything there to do with weaving.
But I was able to get some yarn, needles and a pattern. Today I finished the
first one for the infant of the family that we want to teach. We got to meet
the dad and help him paint his garage. They are all great and we are hoping
that these sweaters will be the thing that will let us teach them. Elder
Redford says that if they get baptized because of my knitting that he is going
to have to talk to President Monson about this.
One day while Tracting, we knocked on a house where a
middle aged lady answered and proclaimed "I know. I know. Jesus loves
me". Them said she was eating dinner and had four really excited dogs. So
it wasn't a good time. But she said that she would love to speak with us. We
gave a short doorstep message about the plan of salvation. She said that her
mom had died a year ago and her daughter two week s ago. She also said that she
could see a light in our eyes and that she could see that we were sincere. And
she also said that she wanted to bring one of her friends to sit in on one of
our lessons. We are pretty excited for our return appointment.
After all of that, we were walking down the street and
came upon a pole sticking out of the ground. We stopped and Elder Redford said
"I can flagpole that." After a short pause I said "Do it."
Then he did it! He's crazy.
In our apartment we have a small mismatched dumbbell set.
Instead of using them for their intended purpose, we use them for home defense
weapons if the need arises. We both took one of the bars and screw on some of
the stoppers on the end. We call it the "Clabber". We each keep one
on our night stands.
We had our apartment shown since we are moving soon. We
cleaned it up more than it already was so I could be as show worthy as
possible. And after they showed the apartment to the prospective tenant, we
realized that we left our clabbers out. We think that they think we are even
more of a peculiar people that originally assumed.
A funny story about last night at Bishop Adams' home. We
were just about dish up for dinner (Every one needs Sister Adams' cooking. You
haven't lived until you have eaten in their home), when their daughter offered
for us to go first. But we declined and asked her to go first.
We simply said "Ladies first." After our
special moment where we just exemplified gentlemanliness. She went in to start
dishing up, and while exclaiming " Alright Elders, let me show you how
it's done!", Bishop Adams totally cuts in front of her and starts going at
it. We all thought it was pretty funny. Besides that. We had a very good
spiritual discussion based on the word "Penitent".
Earlier in this past week we cleaned out a large portion
of our apartment. We found a number of odd things. And one was a large black
bag filled up with about a hundred beanie-babies. We had an idea to each carry
one with us and give it to a kid as a way to gain the trust of people. We have
already given away quite a few of them already. And we have had lots of great
experiences with it. I just hope that we don't find someone who wants the hedgehog
that I found. I'm not sure how willing I am to give that one up.
Fast Sunday was amazing. Some people might think that I
am really weird of how much I love fasting. And they'd be right! It's one of
the best ways to get super spiritually pumped up.
I am excited for New Missionary Training meeting
tomorrow.
I hope you all have a wonderful week. I love you all!
Elder Clawson / Старейшина Класон
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