What just happened? March 24, 2013
Dear Family and Friends,
We had a busy week. Week four of transfers ends tonight. We were notified that our replacement couple will be here on April 6th. We are to show them the ropes for a couple of days and then disappear. We are to have our apartment perfect by that day. On the morning of the 10th of April we will drive as far as Saint George and stay with Dan and Cathy Sheffer overnight and then come on in on the 11th of April. The weeks are going by so fast now that it seems we turn around and another one is gone. We have to ask ourselves, "What just happened?"
We were asked by the Stake Relief Society president to go to her home where she could go through our mission pictures and make copies for the Relief Society history. Sister Crane said that we should have been the stake photographers because we had been in so many places throughout the year.
We are having a great activity as a zone. To encourage the missionaries to help their investigators progress we are earning eggs for an Easter egg hunt by giving lessons. It is a fun way to encourage the companionships. We will have the hunt on April 1st. That is a great way to celebrate April Fools.
There is a sweet couple from Exeter who is going up to Utah for business and General Conference. Brother Hightower is the high councilman over missionary work. They are taking three boxes up for us. We are so grateful. It will be easier to load our car for our return trip.
Today we started in the 1st Ward, and then went to the 3rd Ward. We taught Priesthood in that ward. Then to the 6th Ward and then to the 7th Branch. After meetings we taught three lessons, had two visits and then went home. The big drama today was in the Single's Branch. A young man who was baptized a few months ago was dumped by his girlfriend for not living gospel standards. He took it hard. Today he dressed all in black including a black face mask gloves and glasses. When he sat down in the chapel several people freaked out. He looked scary and this was the church where the bishop was shot just a few years ago. Many of the people there were in the building when that terrible event occurred. We went and talked with him. We explained that some of the people were scared and he needed to uncover his face or sit out in the foyer with us. He refused. The whole time he never said a word. Then he decided to leave the building.
Elder Sheffer went with Brother Hightower to test drive the car. Brother Hightower is a great mechanic and our car has been giving us a little trouble. On the way back to the building, we passed three police cars parked and talking to the young man. The people had been made nervous enough that they had called the police. He is a good young man, but you have to be careful sometimes.
Today we went to dinner. They asked, "Now that you are finishing your mission are you going to go out again?"
Elder Sheffer answered, "I would like to take her out every week, but I am afraid in a couple of weeks we'll have to start paying for our dinners."
God bless you all. Elder and Sister Sheffer
PS Sister Sheffer found a street named Norman. That is her father's name.
Elder Sheffer is posing with a squirrel trap.
Elder Sheffer is standing with Joncina the crossing guard at the elementary school. We met him when we first came out on our mission. He blesses everyone and blesses his crosswalk every morning.
Elder Sheffer with Brother Allen Ross-- Elder Sheffer replaced Elder Ross in Visalia in January 1977-- small world
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