It has been a good week in Manistique, we had three investigators attend church this past Sunday and Dianne is still doing her part in preparing for her baptism on August 31st.

On Tuesdays we have District Meeting and normally Elder Thompson and I drive straight home because of how much time DM take away from our day. This past week we had splits or exchanges (which ever you want to call it), I stayed in Marquette with Elder Shurts while Elder Thompson drove back to Manistique with Elder Whicker. Being in Marquette was a great opportunity to get a taste of missionary work outside of small town Manistique. Elder Shurts is a cool guy and he introduced me to his and Elder Whicker's "golden investigator". This investigator completes all his commitments and then does extra, he shares his testimony all the time to his family and he is super excited for his baptism in August. He is so cool and he wants to leave for a mission. Splits ended well with Elder Thompson and Elder Whicker arriving an hour late at the exchange spot.

On Friday, Elder Thompson and I decided to walk to the furthest most point of Manistique and hopefully meet a few families out there who are potential investigators. We met with two of the three but weren't able to give a full lesson, and then while we were tracting we found one new family. This sounds all nice and simple but let me add a twist to what otherwise seems like a normal day in the field. It was raining so hard that visibility was down to 200 meters and our umbrellas were so soaked that they were dripping water through the fabric onto our heads. The puddles were sometime 50 feet in diameter and several inches deep. There were floods all over town and we heard stories of people pumping water out of their house because the water level had gotten too high. It was a crazy day and so Elder Thompson and I decided to end a little earlier than usual not only because of the rain but also because the lightning was getting closer to town. We were able to enjoy hot chocolate.

That’s about it for now, our number of investigators has doubles over these past two weeks and we are giving more lessons now and doing less tracting which is always good for our legs.

Thank you, Love

Elder Luymes

Splits with Elder Shurts

Artwork at the Marquette Elder's apartment. #saywhat?



Oh Joy! Tracting in the pouring rain.