I See Fire

Hello everyone, today is a special day. P-DAY! 

Fire at night - really cool

Recently our zone has been putting our heads together and trying to figure out what kind of fun activities we can do even when we are required to social distance. 

So we are doing a Zone Olympics, where each district represents a country of our own making. Because my district is contained entirely in the boons, we decided to call our country Dijbooni (yes it is right spelling, just like Djibouti). 

There are many activities planned and we are just getting started. First we have to make some type of clothing that would identify us as the people of Dijbooni, to be honest there weren't many good ideas, but we all settled on tie dye shirts. 

There will be more on that later though. 

This week we had a lot on our plate, but the big one was exchanges with our district leader and zone leaders.

Helicopters everywhere! We were confused for why they were around until we saw the fire

First the district exchange, our day was looking pretty empty at that time, but after a ward coordination it all changed. 

We had heard that a new family had moved in the ward but we didn't know who. After some discussions we found that one of our members helped the new family move in and made good friends with them already. Upon meeting this new family we found that the had been inactive for a long time and their kids weren't baptized either, but it seemed like they wanted to get back into the Church. They have become the most promising people we have to teach. For us that's pretty exciting. 

For the exchange with the zone leadership I went to Lewiston. 

There we had a lot to do - service and even a few lessons. Unfortunately one of the lessons fell through, but we still had more to accomplish. One of the only things worth note in this exchange was a lesson we had with two YSA age girls. The Elders had established a good relationship with them and was able to get them to read and pray about the stuff we had to share. They had great attitudes and were eager to learn. Teaching them was great. They were so receptive and everything made sense to them. It was so fun to teach them, and I would not be surprised if they got baptized soon. 

Get to the chopper

Recently there have been a few fires in this area. The valley we live in is covered in smoke and we can see fires on the hills across the river from us. Helicopters fly day in and day out, filling buckets from the river and dumping it on the fire. All worries aside it's really neat to look at the fire at night. Today it's raining so it may not last much longer.

The next day, the fire died down quite a bit, it also began raining.

That's about it, not much else to mention for the day. I hope you all have a great week and make the most of it.