Dear Deer,
So this week was fair week! That means the
whole town shuts down and everyone gets busy with fair
preparations. The fair ran Thursday to today and everyone
was there. Missionary work was very sparse. So how did we
use all the extra time? Well, we went to the fair of
course!
Thursday morning we helped the 4H judging of
the artsy stuff, the photographs, the baking, the
quilting, the random crafts, and so forth. We checked in
all the kids and youth and made sure their entries were
ready to present to the judges. It was fun.
Friday and Saturday evening we directed
parking at the main entrance. The fair was free, but
parking was 5 dollars so we collected money and gave
people passes and stuff. It was neat to see a lot of the
people we knew from town, to chat with them a bit, and to
get to know some more people. I think in such a small town
to see us being of service was fantastic, it really opens
the people's hearts to us. But by the end of the week it
was like, aaugh we need to do real missionary work! So I'm
glad it's over.
Yesterday we taught the youth a mission prep
class to the youth during third hour. We had done it in
Brookings and it was a smashing success so I had the
thought to do it here. We had dinner with the Ward Mission
Leader and he thought it was a great idea so we went to
the young men's leader and he thought it was a fabulous
idea so we went to the young women's leader and she liked
the idea so we went to the Bishop's and he thought it was
a good idea so we did it (it says a lot about the area
that we could walk to head of each auxiliaries house and
meet with them in under an hour). We only had two youth
from the ward, but because of fair there were three
visiting youth so it was good. Then we went with Bro.
Voelkel, the previous stake president, to the county
prison. I don't think I told you about this before, but
we've gone the past three weeks. It's a low security
prison, the inmates just run around in the big outdoor
courtyard and play basketball and stuff, but it's been an
interesting experience. The first week we had four men in
our little church group, the next week one had been
released, and yesterday another had been released so we
were down to two. It's two hours and we have two lessons.
We say a prayer, sing a hymn, then an inmate teaches one
lesson and usually one of the brethren who visit them
teaches the other, but yesterday we taught them a
missionary lesson, the Plan of Salvation. It was really
neat to read and discuss from the scriptures the
principles of Gods plan for us that these men understand
so well. They know a lot about the atonement and agency
and justice and mercy and spirit prison. But that was
probably the last week we can go without going through an
extensive training program, which we just don't have time
for.
This morning being P-day we went to the
parade! We got to go on the Christley's summer reading
program float and blow bubbles and throw candy. It was
great. Did I tell you Sis. Christley does the summer
reading program? But it's way more fun than our library,
it's more of a summer reading activity group with one for
teens and one for kids. That's why she did the stick bomb
and stuff.
Oh and I got the cookies! They were quite
alien again, but very oddly delicious. I love them!
Love love love,
Elder Georgia
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