11/04/2019 This week was a real treat

Hope everyone reading this had a good Halloween. We did here in Benton. Our Ward Halloween party was on Wednesday, and we got to be the judges of the chili cook off. I've heard stories where the judges picked canned chili from the store as a winner. I don't think Elder Critchfield and I made that blunder, luckily. But I was nervous we would. I don't consider myself a chili connoisseur. 

We didn't see a lot of trick or treaters on Halloween. There were a lot of Halloween events and trunk or treats advertised outside churches. Sadly it may be a dying activity. And we didn't go knocking very many doors on Halloween. We stuck to delivering candy and cookies to people we are working with. 

Also really cool news! Michael, who has come to church twice now, is on date for baptism on Nov 16th! He is a really cool. It's been awesome to work with him thus far. We are excited for him. 

It's starting to cool down here thankfully. We also got our car back on Wednesday too, that was a real treat.

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1) occasionally we Elders have a spark of creativity. We drew halloween themed origami T shirts to give the people we visited on Halloween. 

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