Erik covered in sweat after a service project.

This week was crazy busy for us. We had 3 people call us with service opportunities and we took them all. On Wednesday we helped a memberfamily take their last load of stuff from their old house to there new house. He had a TON of wood that we needed to haul and it was really heavy
because it was all Oak and American Cherry. He had a portable mill come and
cut those trees down and turn them into boards for $600. We asked him how
much the wood would be worth if he sold it, and he said it’s about $10,000
worth.

On Friday we had another move with a family that I have been trying to get
a lesson with for a long time. They were moving everything out of 3 storage
units and hauling it to there new house. They had some WAY heavy stuff too.
The father had this cool way to move his fridge too that I helped him with.
It’s called the ‘forearm forklift.’ Basically it’s two orange straps (made
of the same material as the straps we use on the Jeep top) that have loops
on both ends. You put the straps under the fridge then put your arms
through the loop and brace your hands against the fridge. Then all you do
is stand up and extend your arms straight and the fridge goes up fairly
easily. It’s a pretty cool system because you can move almost anything with
just two people. The only downside – blood blisters. I took a picture of
how beat my ams were after we moved it so I’ll attach it to the email. It
doesn’t hurt at all, just looks cool haha. I’ll also attach the picture of
how sweaty I was after the move. That’s not water, that’s sweat.
In just the month of June alone, I have helped 5 families move. Luckily
though the two families we moved this past week are staying in the
ward boundaries so our ward won’t shrink at all.

We’re not having a ton of luck with our investigators right now. Everyone
is sill kind of at a stand still except for the 9 year old girl we’re
teaching. She’ll be getting baptized on July 14 so everyone in the ward is
pretty excited. The Bishop and Stake President got together this week and
redid the ward mission plan and it looks like it will be a lot better now.
In Elders Quorum yesterday, the president went over the new mission plan
with the group and we came up with some good ideas in how to implement it
and hopefully get some new converts and some less active members back to
church.

Well I gotta bail but I’ll try and write a letter to you guys this
afternoon too. Hope everyone is having an awesome week and fun summer!

-Erik