Hello Everyone,

 

So this past week was great!  On Monday we had to drive to Farmington, NM once again for an MLC meeting!  We had to drop Elder Yazzie off in Greasewood that day with the Greasewood Elders!  It was weird driving the rest of the way without Elder Yazzie!  We just missed him haha!  Anyway we had a great MLC on Tuesday  we discussed many things and you always come away from there spiritually uplifted!  Tuesday night we decided that instead of driving all the way back to Winslow, AZ we were just going to stay with the  Wide Ruins and Sanders Elders and then go with them to there district meeting on Thursday!  So we did kill two birds with one stone!  We spent all Wednesday with those elders and met a lot of great people.  There are some awesome people in the Wide Ruins/Sanders area!  At there district meeting we had some fun, Elder Young was teaching at the district meeting did one of the best trainings I've seen yet on my mission and it was so fun!  He borrowed a pig from someone down in sanders brought it all the way to Holbrook and put it in a pen!  Well we had Elder Thompson my good MTC buddy (who is now in Greasewood)  get in the pen and try to catch the pig!  haha!  It was so funny watching him dive all over the ground and not being able to catch it at all haha!  To make it even better we told Elder Thompson it was going to bite him haha and he looked a little scared!  Anyway the training was on working with the Ward and Stake leaders!  So when Elder Thompson was in there trying to catch it himself he wasn't able to he tried and tried but he couldn't catch the pig!  Then we put a Elder Quorum President in there and they came close but the still couldn't catch the pig!  Finally we had to put a Bishop in there, so there were three elders in the pen and they caught the pig!  It was awesome we had a blast and it just goes to show that when you work with your ward leaders you can get stuff done!  Anyway Saturday and Sunday we had stake conference they did a special broadcast for the state of Arizona so we got to hear from President Uchtdorf and also Elder Christofferson, Sister Mckonckie was also a speaker and also Elder Bradley Foster of the Seventy who I met in Chinle when he was visiting that Stake Conference.  It was a great Stake Conference!  We also found out some cool news our
Stake President who lives here in Winslow, President Hancock, has just been called as a Mission President!  He has no clue where yet, all he knows is that he will be a mission president in June 2015.  I know him and his wife will do a great job together wherever they go!  I'm hoping for the Pocatello, ID Mission so I can pay him a visit when I get home!  Anyway it was a great week!

 

Love Elder Rushton