Dogs and miracles

Good Morning! It's been a fast week and I am looking forward to this next one!

It has also been an eventful week! It started with Elder Merrill and I going on a visit with our ward mission leader and his wife. We went to one of their friends house to see some kids from American Samoa that just got here! The wife is Samoan so she could help them out a little but and the kids' brother was here already and is married in the temple and everything! We got talking to the kids and we learned they are interested in taking the lessons! 2 of the 4 are YSA and the other 2 are in a family ward the other Elders cover so we will both teach them as a family! It was really cool and I hope to see them progress!

The second one was just yesterday. We were having a normal Monday morning of studies and planning when apparently my comp and the ZL in the house decided to do an exchange. They had planned it a while ago but never told the other 2 in the house. So Elder McGee and I plan really quick and go out! We had a normal day until about 5:15. We were visiting one last house before dinner and, like every house, this one had a dog outside. Now, most every dog is super sweet and is the family "guard dog" but not this one. This one didn't run up to us and get excited or bark a ton, it just laid there looking at us. So I start to carefully walk towards the door behind the dog when it gets up and charges barking and snarling at me. I stumble backwards and it bites my foot so I roll backwards to get away from it and it worked! It walked back to the door and kinda just looked at the ground a little confused at the "backflip" Elder McGee claims I did. I tore a shirt doing that and got my knee and elbow scraped up but nothing other than that. First dog attack tho! hopefully there's no more...

It was a crazy week with good and scary. Hopefully this next week is good too!

(I also burned a tie, a shirt, and some slacks for my 6, 12, and 18 month marks. Google Photos has the pics)

Grant Williams


Photos!
 We got to stain a house and it got us all covered in stain. We sprayed it through one of those pump sprayers but it misted everywhere.
 The shirt I tore. I'm going to ask someone to sew it together for me and hope that fixes it.
 The moon yesterday!
 Our ward mission leader has frogs fishing in his pond!
 That same ward mission leader does all those nostalgic books and cartoons in the New Era and for kids! It was so cool to be there!
 That isn't the dog that bit me but it was a mean dog. 
 Some burn pics.
 A different Ward mission leader's wife is a pretty close relative! 
 Some nature pictures. That's a triple rainbow but you can't see it on the picture.
















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