Monday, May 7th 2018

Hello people! 

Just to let you all know, our Friend Ian who had the train accident, is doing great and is having a speedy recovery. He had graduated from walker to cane. He had his interview with the bishop this week to receive the Aaronic Priesthood, and he has already participated in lessons we have had with other investigators. What a solid dude. 

We were tracting and we saw this house what looked like it had a train in their front yard. So of course we knocked on the house. It was an old couple that lived there. After they made it clear they were not interested in the gospel, we started asking questions about the big machine in their yard. They made it clear that it was a "steam engine", not a train. We started talking about it. They got it when it was old and broken down,  and they restored it, and took it to the Fair. I asked if they look out their window and see people taking pictures with it, and they said all the time, and they don't mind. So I asked if we could take a picture with it and they said of course. We took some pictures with it and started to walk away, and when we were doing so, we heard a voice saying "Would  you like to see more?" We looked back and it was the old man that lived there. We said yes, so he took us to their back yard and gave us a tour of all of their shops full of old restored tractors. There were so many. He said it's what he loves to do. They were really nice people, and they had some cool tractors. 

We had dinner with a family from the Philippines, and their was a curry dish. I took some and I asked what kind of meat was inside of it, they told me in was spine and tail meat. Tasty, but interesting. It had been so hot this week. Up in the high 80`s low 90`s with enough humidity to pack a slight punch. If this is what it is like in May, I can only imagine what July is going to be like. 

There is a lady in our ward who turned 74, and she went to the Amish market for her birthday, got a cheese-cake and shared it with us. It was so delicious. Her biggest wish is to see a wolf. They are her favorite animal and she has never seen one before. There is a wolf sanctuary in Pennsylvania and she is going there to see wolf's for the first time and get the birthday wish she has been waiting for 74 years. This lady loves wolf's. Almost every shirt she owns has a wolf on it, she calls them her wolfies. 

Probably the highlight of last week was going to the International 🚋🚊Trolley🚊🚋 Museum. It is a little museum ran by volunteers, kind of in the middle of the forest. There is a little sign by the side of the road that I have seen for the past 6 months, and I finally decided to go. It was so cool, they have there own little trolley ride you can take that does a 2 mile loop. We walked into the building and the conductor, (I think that what you would call him), said you are just in time for the 3:50 departure. We took two rides. One with a small group of people, and one with just us and the conductor. We got tickets and they punched them and everything. It was really nice. Afterwards we were the only ones in the museum, so the man gave us our own little tour around the shop where they keep all the trollies. I learned a lot about trollies this week. 

We have just recently been working with a new lady named Martha. She came to church and is already being fellow-shipped great by the ward. She said she got off at work at 10:30, and rushed home, got ready, and rushed to church. Now that is effort, and I know the Lord will bless her for that faithful action.

Well, we have done it all this week, from steam engines to trollies, and the Lord's work continues. Toot Toot! 

Elder Dallin Mckay Spurgeon