BREAD RUN DOES IT AGAIN

July 14, 2010 Wednesday



Hurray! Justin Good returned our call; and as you can tell, I have a new keyboard where all the keys work. Justin seems like a really nice guy. We took the computer in to the place where he works yesterday and picked it up today. He said that it was a physical problem with the keyboard. So we bought one that just plugs in to the computer rather than replace the original keyboard. He said replacement would have run $150 to $300. The computer is working faster than it was. I’m glad we took it in. He did all the work for free. I think we’ll invite him over for dinner to thank him. He’s single; we think maybe he’d like that. If he turns us down, then I’ll make some cinnamon rolls or something after we get back from Port Hedland. We invited him to church Sunday to hear the new mission president, and he admitted that he needed to get back to church. Sure hope he comes.
We tried a little tracting yesterday up in Roebuck Estates. Only one lady listened. She accepted a Joseph Smith pamphlet but wouldn’t agree to let us come back. Another looked at us from a distance down her driveway and yelled, “Not interested, not interested!” We went at 4 in the afternoon but are beginning to think that later would be better. The days are getting longer. When we came, it was dark by 5:30. Now you can see until 6:30 or so.
We did the bread run. We had a lot of extra bread after visiting the people we knew who could use it, so we went to an overflow caravan park (trailer park in American). It was great. There are a ton of people traveling Australia, and they all come north during this time of year. Anyway, we ended up talking to one lady who had been traveling with her husband and kids for 4 months now. She was home schooling them so they could take this trip. We got to talking about the importance of families, and you could tell she totally agreed with everything we said. She said she knew a good Mormon in Melbourne. We told her to ask her friend about temples and eternal families when she got back home. She said she would. There was a great spirit there while we were talking to her. Some people just resonate with the spirit. It’s so great. The gospel is true. We are doing the Lord’s work.