Hey family,




Yep, its getting nice outside...a little too nice. It was 89 with 999% humidity on memorial day, which just happened to be when we were helping someone move. But it was ok, we had like 10 missionaries there to help. The lady we were helping move isn't even a member, but had heard from a lds friend in Lacrosse that we help people move. So a couple of weeks ago we set the whole thing up and got together yesterday to help her. Hopefully she'll come to church :)

Brat Fest was pretty fun. Elder Bogarus and me were on 'brat runner' duty; we pretty much just took large trays of cooked brats from the grills to the place where they package them. Not too fun, but ya we got to talk to some people. Plus we got cool brat fest shirts. And yes we did get a free brat, they weren't that good, just because of the pace at which they had to pump them out. O talking about food, I've lost 10 lbs and counting over the last couple weeks! Anyways the brat fest inspired us (like you dad) to have our own brat fest on memorial/ p-day. We found this old grill in our basement storage compartment and some coalsand lighter fluid. Then the elders from Baraboo (right below A.F.) came down and got some brats and brat buns (SO much better than normal buns). Our brats were 100 times better then the Brat Fest brats.

Thats pretty cool Dad's interview thing went good. At least he has a backup job for when he does end up leaving the gov. Glad I might have a job in Frankfurt, and for 10.50 an hour thats not bad. Glad your asthma is under control, just hang on to the thought of the fresh mountain air Utah has to offer. And good job with the simple acts of kindness, they're really going to appreciate them.

Well Kyle is now in Germany on his way back from Jordan today. We're going to have a lesson with him on Fri probably on the word of wisdom. I'm pretty sad I won't get to continue to see him progress anymore, but Elder Bogardus will take good care of him. Plus when I go back into the normal world I can communicate better with him via email and facebook and such.

So far, no new inv. But it has given us an opportunity to venture into the lesser known parts of Madison to try those who haven't been inundated by missionaries in the past. There are a lot of really nice neighborhoods here that we like to walk through and just talk to people outside their homes.

O ya funny story. So on friday there was a miscommunication about a dinner appointment with an elderly lady in the ward, which happened to be at the same time as brat fest. So regretfully we had to cancel with her (yes I do make mistakes, shocking I know). Feeling bad for her we decided to make her cookies and drop them off and say sorry. So the next morning we went to Copps and got the necessary items, came back and made some ginger snaps. They turned out really good and we were excited to drop them off so we hurried to the bus stop. We got on the wrong bus, of course, but luckily the right bus was leaving just at the right time so we hopped on that when we got to the station. Right as we were leaving we noticed something...we left the cookies on the other bus..... we were laughing pretty hard and were getting some stares. It didn't really sink in till like 30 min later that we had just wasted our whole morning. Anyways, we've made new cookies and this time we're not going to forget them, hopefully.

Later that day we had a great lesson with the Franeys, in which she commited to prepare for the temple. One of the big problems shes been having with coming to church is that her girl (4) doesn't like primary so she gets pretty crazy. Sis Franey always says, 'ya I'd come more if Grace had more friends.' Yesterday we had dinner with another lady in the ward who just happened to invite the Franeys over too. This Sister also has a 4 year old girl, who thankfully hit it off with Grace. Now she has a friend at church :) Seems like everything is falling into place.

Theres been a lot of 'lasts' going on. Today was our last district meeting, kinda sad. But I have loved this district, such a great group of elders.

Well have a great week!

Love