07/22/2019 Through the caverns and down in the Delph

It is the first week of transfer #7. Elder Andreasen is from Kayesville, Utah and has 3 transfers left, so there's a possibility I will end his missionary service. I keep on getting placed with old folks. Also along with this transfer brought a large reorganization of the mission. With Tupelo and a lot of missionaries leaving, zones got changed up. The Hot Springs zone got dissolved into the Little Rock Zone, and the previous Little Rock zone gave away some missionaries to the North Little Rock Zone. A bunch of change on the Memphis side, but I am not there right now. 

Anyways, for our last P Day Elder Green and I took a trip with some members up to the Blanchard Springs Caverns in Mountain View. The caverns were by far the best caves I had ever seen. We also went to a few other spots around Mointain View, like a waterfall and where the water in the caves runs out to. 

We had a deluge from the hurricane in Louisiana. Definitely not as bad, but bad enough that a lightning bolt hit one of the city water towers and busted a pipe and cause some flooding in downtown Arkadelphia. The humane society got flooded. The community got together and are taking care of the animals so that's good. Also water was cut off in some parts of town and we were under a boil order as well. Lots of people were buying bottled water. 

It was generally a good week for the work as well. We taught some good lessons with people. There was a good spirit especially in one of them. The house around us was in commotion, but on the coach where we were teaching, it was calm and quiet.

Verse I read and liked:
2 Corinthians 3:3
"Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart."

Pics
1) us that went to caves eating out.

2) signage

3) cave pic 1. I like the silhouette of the railing

4) waterfall

5)more waterfall 

6)more cave

7) pictures of missionaries, mostly during transfers. Top left: Elder Deushane, a previous district leader. Top right: Elder Green. Bottom left: Elder Short, previous Zone Leader. Middle Right: Elder Andreasen. Bottom right: Elder Stradling, previous zone leader. 

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