Guess what!!! I made waffles again on Sunday! This time we had milk, water, eggs, and everything else we needed. So no funny business and the waffles turned out perfect. Our Sunday lunch consisted of waffles, desert from a member that we got last week, and some carrots. The blessings have been poured out upon us, the blessings of food. Food blessings are great and much appreciated. Let me tell you what we have in our fridge right now and how we got some of these food items. On Tuesday a member gave us a whole rotisserie chicken and we currently have that thawing out for lunch. Then on Wednesday a member called us very unexpectedly and without giving away any details he said "meet me at the Virgin Mobil store" We pulled into the parking lot and found his truck. He climbs out and throws at us a two foot long frozen salmon. We starting gawking at it and he shared with us how this is the smallest fish that he caught and since we had been so persistent in asking for one he decided to share with us. So now our freezer has a huge fish in it. On Saturday we were asked to help clean the church building. Boring right? Wrong! We found in the freezer 25 brats and 10 hamburger patties. We asked the member if he thought if it was okay for us to take them. He said yes but we decided to wait till Sunday to see if anyone would take them. Sunday (Yesterday) came and nobody from church took them. So Sunday night we called another member and asked if he knew anything about them and he didn't. He also gave us permission to take them. So with the permission of two members we took home 25 brats and 10 hamburger patties. We estimate that we have about 30 pounds of meat in our fridge right now. Pretty sweet huh!

Waffles for Sunday Lunch!

Other than glorious food, our week was mainly occupied with tracting and service. We did a lot of tracting for many hours this week. The cold weather is certainly not ideal but we need to find somebody to teach. Our service projects consisted of EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) which is an airport in Oshkosh where private planes are built and developed. So we often see some pretty nice birds flying in the air. At EAA we usually help out in the mail room moving heavy boxes for mailing and all of their many advertisements to EAA members. We also work the food line at Salvation Army. We had fewer people than normal show up to Salvation Army. But we get a great opportunity to talk to people of very different backgrounds. It’s fun when certain people come in that we know better because they know how to interact with us and goof off a little. We helped out with some of the members throughout the week too. We helped a senior sister move out of her apartment and put stuff in storage. She is very anxious to leave Wisconsin and get to Florida before winter really hits us hard. We helped another family with raking leaves. We spent a solid hour and a half raking and bringing the leaves to the curb for city pick up. The two dogs that this member has are very playful and I kept suggesting that we tie a rake to them and get them to help out too since they had so much energy, The last member that we helped was putting up their storm windows to help keep the warm air in. This project was a little interesting because the member kept hauling around this ladder to help us screw in the holds that prevent the windows from falling out of the frame. I found it funny because he would go through so much effort to haul this ladder everywhere from window to window. He didn't need to do this because I was easily able to climb up on something and reach the screws and put them in place. My 6ft 3inches was lot of help in this project. It also made things go by a lot faster because we didn’t need to place the ladder among all the plants and trees.

Lake Winnebago - bordering Appleton, Neenah, Oshkosh and Fon du Lac
districts.  We tract in this neighborhood and skip a rock or two.

The cold is creeping in. This week we are supposed to hit the teens and potentially some heavy snow fall today and tomorrow. Next week is transfer week. I doubt that I am moving but you never know.

Scripture for the week: 2 Nephi 12:3

 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Thank you, much love,

Elder Luymes

Dear Santa -- please send me two new shirts for Christmas.
The spray starch is doing a number on my shirts.