The field is ripe

What a great week we have had. We met with 3 different investigators, a couple of member families who are really struggling, met with the zone at the stake president's home for transfer introductions and instruction and toured an aviation museum and 18 hole private( as in one man private) golf course. Oh yes the course has a full scale replica of the Stonehenge in Bath, England.

Here are some pictures of our trip to Eureka Montana where we toured the museum met with two investigators and had a special lunch with Blake and Linda Beecher. He is an on fire ward mission leader and is the one who had the contact with the billionaire who owns it all. 

  Golf course

Stonehenge 

 

F-4U Corsair. This plane was the last prop plane used in actual air to air combat. I've forgotten the countries but it was two South American countries and the fight was between this plane and two P-51's. This guy won aby shooting both of them down. 

T-34, the very first airplane I flew but with much better Navy paint job than this Airforce paint job!!!

P-40 the type used by the Flying Tigers, an American squadron flying in China during WWII. This one was dug out of a farmers field where he had buried it so airplane aficionados would stop bothering him. True story. 

Now check out these pictures of Osburn Idaho we found on our way to Spokane for a temple trip. 

Not a very big town, but hey, do you have a town named after you?

 

Alecia has asked me to share some stories and to be real about how it really is out here. When most of us talk about our mission experience we usually just mention the highlights of which there have already been so many. But it is hard too as only those who have been out here know. The following poem given us by one of the Elders says it pretty well.

Highs and Lows

A mission is a strange experience. It is a trial and a test

A mission throws at you the worst, yet teaches you the best

Since I've been out, I've never been so happy. I've never been so depressed.

I've never felt so forsaken. I've never felt so blessed

.ive never felt so confused. My mind has never felt so clear.

I've never felt Heavenly Father so distant. I've never felt him so near. 

I've never felt so discouraged. I've never been so ful of hope. 

I think I can go on forever. I think I've come to the end of my rope. 

I've never had it so easy. I've never had it so tough. 

Things have never gone so smoothly. Things have never been so rough. 

I've never travelled through so many valleys. I've never ascended so many peaks. 

I've never met so many neat people. I've never met so many freaks. 

I've never had so many ups. I've never had so many downs. 

I've never worn so many smiles. I've never worn so many frowns. 

I've never been so lonely. I've never had so many friends. 

Man, I hope it's over soon. Gosh, I hope it never ends. 

Jack L. Brinkerhoff Lovell N.Y.