06/24/2019 'Tis the season

Of moving. 

Last week was moving, this week was as well. This week it was mostly a couple moving out of the Arkadelphia Branch. Lots of furniture. It was good though. They are really good people. We also have two more moves this upcoming week. Someone moving back to Arkadelphia, and another moving a block away from where they currently live. Fun fun

We have finished teaching Karl all the principles before baptism, which is exciting. We are really happy for him. We watched "Only a Stonecutter" with him on Sunday because he worked for a time as a stone cutter. He really liked that. We have had some really awesome lessons with him. His testimony of change through repentence and the atonement of Jesus Christ is amazing. And his mom is a really strong member whose participation in the lessons has been invaluable.

Also it was really great on Sunday. Remember that day many weeks ago where we biked to that one member's house that lives 15 miles away uphill? And how we knocked doors as we went. One of them was a guy who had lived in Utah for a time and had some good and bad interactions with members there. Well, we asked if he had ever been invited to attend a church service while in Utah and surprisingly he hadn't. We invited him, and went on our way. And he never did show up, we stopped by a couple times and he had been out of town or working, and so he had been unable to go, but said he would make it. Well he made it! He showed up with his wife and kids, and they seemed to like sacrament meeting, and said they'd try to come by again in two weeks! And while plans are not set, he invited us over for dinner too. We hope to spark a good friendship with this family. They are all pretty great! 

We also had the second performance (and probably last for our zone) for this round of Musical Tributes on Sunday. We had it at our Stake Center in Little Rock. It was a good time. Sadly Arkadelphia is pretty far, advertisement for it was a little sparse out here (we were not given any flyers), and it was storming outside, so we didn't get anybody from Arkadelphia--members or nonmembers--to show. 

Verse I read this week 
1 Corinthians 2:14:
"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned"

Pics
1) from the big move this week, they needed to get rid of a few things. We got this massive computer desk, some lamps, and small circular tables that fit inside each other, kind of like those Russian wooden dolls. We decided to spice up our apartment with them.

2) found this piano on the porch of a vacant home. I pretended like I remembered things from piano lessons from a decade ago. 

3) dog

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