State was this week and they didn't do as well as they hoped, but they did learn some great lessons and are turning their sights to the last race of this season. They did host a color run fundraiser today and had lot's of fun doing that.
On the house we are down to the short list. We got quite a bit checked off - see pics below. It's super close now! Garage door installed, cement filled in, baseboards painted and installed - just need to seal seams, backsplash in bathroom installed and ready for grout, pan for shower poured, some of the lights in the garage done, and hole on the side by the retaining wall filled in. So Brooklyn is still loving Argentina. It's getting warmer there now as summer is approaching. She still hasn't been able to pop that popcorn, but she did have quite the adventure with two pit bulls and scissors while on splits with a different sister. A pit bull bit the elbow off of the other sister's coat and bit a hole in that same sister's pants. Thank goodness she was still wearing a coat and thank goodness for pants. This same sister also got a pair of scissors thrown at her head by a young child while they were visiting a family. Phew!! They have two more prospective investigators who are super close to getting baptized.
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Carsyn runs at State this Wednesday! His team has done better in the Region than they have in a long time and they are super pumped about how their season has gone this year. He is super glad that he tried it out this year. He ran the Region course almost 20 seconds faster than he did the same course a few weeks ago.
It was Fall Break this week so we did a lot of things on the addition. Painting in garage, siding now we're ready for stucco, floor sealed, backsplash in kitchen finished. See pics below. I just shared a video on Facebook of Brooklyn from the MTC. It is from her companion but she is in it. She's doing well with the language. She has had 2 baptisms. She got to do a little of unplanned exploring while waiting a couple of hours for a bus. Brooklyn - she is in the province of Metan. There are about 30,000 people in the city. She said there are a lot of dogs. She might have to ride a bike, and for anyone who knows Brooklyn this might be her biggest challenge of her whole mission. She was never very good at it and didn't enjoy it at all. Her other big challenge is how to pop the bag of popcorn she was given! That will be something that she will miss. She is kind of a buttered popcorn addict. She had 3 baptisms this week, one of which she actually had the tail end part of teaching.
Carsyn - nothing too much new this week. It has basically been the training week leading up to Region. He did secure his spot to run with Varsity at Region as he is the #4 runner on his team. Ashly & Jesse - have pretty much been helping on the house in their spare time. Jesse had a couple of concerts as well. Which brings us to: House - and we have lights!!! I came home from Tuacahn Monday to working lights in the Casita. We also have the floor mostly ready to seal over fall break, and we started tiling the backsplashes in the Casita. Dad and Eric got the garage door opening ready for installation in a couple of weeks and the garage is almost ready to paint over fall break. Ashly, Jesse, Eric, and I got the Casita painted Saturday! Eric spent most of the day finishing taping the garage, but he did come in to help with the ceiling once Jesse had to go to work. It's getting closer and closer - super excited!
Brooklyn got to her first area. This is from her Mission President - "Hermana Richins met her first companion, Hermana Valeria Mercado, from Cochabamba, Bolivia, who is an excellent missionary. They will be working in the area of Metan in the Province of Salta. " Metan has about 30,000 inhabitants and is South of Salta at the base of the mountains on the east side. Carsyn ran at the Cedar Invitational and got his best time by 12 seconds. He has had a super good experience this year and is excited that he broke into the 16 minute range! He also got to compete with the tech team up in Cedar for Shakespeare. |
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