Paint, Pizza, Pennys and Portuguese. And More Pizza!

It snowed. But it is currently 15 degrees (59 F) so I am not that upset. Weather up here is super weird. Everybody keeps saying it is going to start warming up. But they have been saying that for a while now.

We started out the week by finding out who the new bishop was. We went to go visit the Penny's, and they have a 9ish year old. And he was just chilling, goofing off and his mom asked us if our dads had been in any big callings before. And we were like yeah both our dads had been in bishoprics. Gideon the 9 year old just turns around and says, "My dad is the new bishop." It was super funny.

We got invited to activity days so we could help show the girls how to make butter out of something. I don't actually remember what it started as. But we put it in a jar and we all shook the jar. It is really weird cause it starts out liquid and then goes solid then liquid again and then a lump of butter in butter milk. It was really weird. I think all the girls liked making it. 

On Thursday/Friday we painted a bunch of ceilings in a house. A member's friend needed service so we helped them move stuff and paint ceilings. It was pretty fun. And not to be to prideful. It didn't look like garbage. And the member had us over for pizza after so bonus. 

I think I said something about the less active's daughter that wanted to get baptized. We met with them and she really wants to be baptized but I don't think either of them really realize the importance of church. So that will be something we will hopefully be teaching them. 

We got free pizza again Saturday. We went to go visit Alyssa and forgot it was her birthday. And they were having a party and gave us some pizza. She came to church yesterday and she is really enjoying it I think. 

The Pennies has us over for dinner Saturday and invited two non member friends! It was pretty sweet being able to talk to the friends and they asked some good questions. They also had s'mores over a campfire. Which was sweet. 

Not too much happened. We got dropped by one of the media referrals. She had read some stuff online and was no longer interested and she called us in the middle of church to let us know. That was lame. The other one is still interested, but she is on vacation for a month. Tracting is super not effective here. But I think the secret is to not speak the same language as them. She was Portuguese and her English was not very good. We said something about if we had a Book of Mormon in her language so we are going to try and go back with one of the members that speaks Portuguese. 

We met with a less active family and they are super cool. The dad is big on hunting and fishing which is awesome. What is also awesome is he said he would have us over for dinner and it would be wild meat. Which tastes ten times better than store bought meat. 

We have meal appointments all this week. :)

Loves Elder Talbot

P.s. you all should write me emails about your lives. That would be cool. 

Elder Aspery, Canada Dry, dinner, and their dinner dice game, Farkle.

Making butter in a jar.