June 30 2014 Week 51

Hello July!

Wow!!! 

June flew by!  crazy stuff.  

Well the Oklahoma heat is coming!!  We should have a nice and hot 4th of July!  

There are some rumors going around the mission that we will be able to stay out until 11 to watch fireworks!!  I hope so.  

We have heard that Norman has some good fireworks.  

Well this week was pretty eventful!!  I guess the most eventful thing that happened this week was that we killed a snake!  haha 

We were doing service for an investigator who just had a knee replacement.  

Well they have a farm and they asked us to weed whack under the electric fence and switch the water for the farm animals... well when we went into the chicken coop we saw that the chickens were a little on edge... well we found out why.  

There was a massive snake trying to get through one of the corners of the barn but it couldn't get through because the egg that is just swallowed stopped it from going through... haha well we just couldn't let it get away with the egg!!! 

So I grabbed the tail and pulled it and then grabbed a shovel and-- attempted to chop off its head.  Snakes are thicker then I thought... Elder Taggart grabbed a pair of tree clippers and cut through about 90% of the head and then we finished it off with the shovel... it was interesting... but after all of that we were able to salvage the egg!! haha 

We still have the head we are trying to dry it out so then we can hang up the skull in our car.

The Hoffmans have officially quit smoking!!!  They are getting locked in and ready to go for baptism!!  I think that the biggest thing that would hold them back is disc golf! They have tournaments almost every weekend. ahhh but that shouldn't be as hard as getting them to stop smoking! we are actually going disc golfing with them today!  It should be fun! 

We had some miracles.  We found 6 new investigators in one day!! We only knocked on 2 doors too!!  and one of them was a Spanish family!  ahhh man it was hard to teach, it has been close to 5 months since I taught in Spanish and that is when I had a native companion.  But the don de lenguas will help me out!!  

The other family lives in a really small trailer but they are super prepared to hear the gospel!!  Oh yeah we are also getting a new car his week!!! 

woohoo  the malibu is about dead!!!

WELL I HOPE YALL HAVE GOOD WEEK 

ELDER FINLINSON