March update

Well, I guess I should try to update what is happening in the Jungles of Arkansas. I think we are allergic to everything that grows here. We are always stuffed up, red eyed or sneezing. Other than that things are great. We now have 7 investigators that we are teaching. The Branch Presidency has finally decided that they need to spend some time and go out visiting those who have become less active. It will be great to have someone from the branch tell them they are missed and needed rather than just us. Maybe now they will begin to believe it. We had a good day at Church yesterday even though we had to speak. I had a really hard time putting my talk together. When I tried to find scriptures that I thought I wanted or an article or talk I always ended up somewhere else. I kind of got the feeling that the Spirit wanted me to say something different than I thought I should. Anyway, I joted down some of the references and took the Conference Ensign with me and said I would follow the Spirit and trust the Lord. Well, Derrick and Stephanie Orrell and their daughter showed up for church. We were excited and Sis. Smith gave a great talk on the Book of Mormon and the Spirit gave a pretty good talk on believing and exercising faith and as I looked at the Orrells he was looking like, hey you're talking to me aren't you. It was great. We are teaching him again tomorrow and I pray the Spirit can be there again. The work is sometimes hard and sometimes frustrating but always worth the effort. The Spanish Elders asked me yesterday if we had started our D&C count down. That is where you start reading the D&C, 138 days before your release date and read one section per day. I said no. I started the D&C the middle of January and finished it the 3rd week of February. It was great. We love you all and look forward to the hugs and love of home. But the time is moving on and we still have a lot to do. We had a Senior Missionary Activity at the Mission Home Saturday. Some of them talk a lot about places they have been and sites they have seen. They can't believe that we haven't been to all of these places yet. For one thing they are much closer to those places. We are serving in the least populated most isolated area in the mission. The next smallest town to Danville is a little more than twice our size. But, we are greatful we are here and can know and serve with these people. We have too much work to do to have the freetime that some of the others seem to have. President Drewes did tell us Saturday that he expects us to go to the Temple more often. So, we may go this weekend. We haven't decided yet. Well, I have to go and this is way too long. Love y'all. Elder Dad and Sister Mom

Flat Timmy Pictures!

Mom and Dad I can tell had a lot of fun with their grandson visiting them. They took him everywhere.

Mom even made him a suit jacket and dress shoes that he could wear when they went to zone conference and to church. This is Lovisa the exchange student they have been teaching with flat timmy.

Mom and dad are such proud grandparents!

Flat Timmy with Elder and Sister Hinkley and some of the sister missionaries.

AHHHHH!!! Please don't eat me!!
It's never boring with Grandma and Grandpa!

Quick update

Just a quick one today because I spent all my time reading everyone else's. We are doing great. It actually snowed here on Saturday. Nothing stayed on the ground and the flakes were so light it really looked like the same 300,000 flakes just blowing around and around. Anyway some stuck on our car in the parking lot and the neighbor kids were scraping it off and eating it. Yuk! The car was filthy. We are still teaching Floyd, Lovisa and Derrick. We should add the Hills to our teaching pool this week. Lovisa committed yesterday to being baptised as soon as she knows it is true. We will probably get it done in April unless she wants to wait until her parents come from Sweden for her graduation. She is thinking about staying in Arkansas to go to college in Russellville next fall. We are going to take the Spanish missionaries and Flat Timmy to Mt. Magazine this afternoon for some great photos at the highest point in Arkansas. We took Flat Timmy to our Mission Tour meeting last Wednesday and got pictures of him with Pres. Drewes and his wife and Elder Hinckley and his wife. It has been fun having a family member visit. Ok, I have to quit or I won't get this posted before the computer shuts me off. Hope you are all enjoying spring.
Love,
Elder Dad, etc. and Sister Mom, etc.