Good morning! This week has been full as we participated in back-to-back exchanges and traversed the length of our two areas several times teaching lessons and offering service.
I first exchanged with Elder Griffin where we did service for two older couples. In the first we pulled weeds and cleared thorny vines out of their garden. The second project was an hour away and consisted of mowing a lawn with an electric mower. It more closely compares with a vacuum, in place of wheels it just had a curved plastic lip that glided over the grass. Following the service we taught Carol-Ann. She was baptized a bit ago and wants to start coming back. Her husband, Billy, isn't a member but enjoys sitting in on the lessons. We asked Carol-Ann to lead us in prayer and ask if the Book of Mormon was true. We invited Billy to kneel with us as well. The Spirit was really strong and they both said they would come to church, we have yet to find out if they did because we attended the Taunton service and they live in the Washford area.
Our church attendance between Taunton and Washford has been very unfairly split this last month in Taunton favor. We went there again this week because our friend Richard wanted to go. We ended up walking a mile and a half with him to the church. He really enjoyed the service and after he left nearly every member in a leadership position came up to us and asked what they could change so that visitors feel more welcome! The members here are really outstanding and we even arranged for Richard to get lifts to and from church every Sunday! Additionally, we Elders are going to start teaching the Gospel Principles class until ward teachers can be called!
My other exchange was with Elder Hill in an area without a car. We ended up footing it nine miles or so for just two lessons that both had to happen that day, but were on opposite ends of town. We slept really well that night!
I appreciate the car we have in our area, but we drive so much that I wouldn't mind serving in a walking area eventually. Speaking of which, we found out that our car has some tire alignment issues and so the front tires are rubbed down to the wire on the inside. I am officially at eleven flat tires now total, two of which I have changed on the mission. Needless to say, we are marooned in Minehead today so we are cleaning, writing letters, and catching up on all our other miscellaneous tasks. For lunch we strolled down to the seaside and got a chippy which we brought back to the flat to munch on. So yeah, the full English experience, haha!
Have a great week!
Elder Desmond Killian
Pic #1 - the "chippy" I had for lunch today
Pic #2 - Elder Hill and myself five minutes from the southmead flat after walking all day
Pic #3 - Elder Griffin manning the "lawn vacuum"
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