Last week we...wow, I can hardly even remember what we did
because we were so busy serving people and helping others! We stacked firewood
for a single lady in the ward, we worked at the orchard again, and we
volunteered at the horse stables again and cleaned out stalls. On monday we
helped a member in the Oak Hills ward move furniture, and then I got a haircut
so now I have shorter hair! We had zone conference and all the missionaries in
the high desert got together again for that. The zone conference was really
focused on working through and with members in our area. Seriously though,
working with and through members is probably the most effective ways to
carrying out missionary work, but it's also difficult in many areas. The
Varieur family that we are teaching had a power outage during the week at about
9 at night, and our ward mission leader was able to contact a member of the
ward who is an electrician. He was able to come over and temporarily fix the
problem with their electric circuit. Talk about a great guy! We have been
teaching them a lot to get through the lessons so they can be baptized on
December 10th! They are really excited! The wife asked me to baptize her, and
their oldest son asked me to confirm him. I am very honored to participate in
their baptism and confirmation. Yesterday it rained, and during the night it
rained even harder, and when we woke up this morning, we looked out our back
window...AND THERE WAS SNOW ON THE MOUNTAINS!!!! I'm really excited about the
snowfall! Thanksgiving is good, but I am so pumped for the holiday season!
We are kept busy with plenty of service opportunities around
us. We are blessed as we serve others.
I think we can all be grateful for many things in our lives,
especially our Savior Jesus Christ and his Atonement that he completed. I am
eternally grateful for his sacrifice that he performed in behalf of us.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, enjoy your week and have
gratitude!
Elder Haven Ruiz
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