Aug 5th

A few weeks ago we had a burst of new investigators which meant we had several appointments everyday, which is very unusual, and we almost didn't know what to do with so many! Since then it's slowed down, but with Sister Loy as a native speaker we realized can get a lot done, so we decided to think of creative finding activities to help boost our investigator pool again:

Parks are a great way to contact people, and there's a public blueberry park free for the public to pick blueberries from that a lot of Asians frequent. Although we haven't had much success in catching an interested Cambodian, we talked to some members, Koreans, and part Filipinos amidst scavenging for ripe blueberries here and there. So many people go it's hard to find some that are actually ready and not sour, and although we offer our help, most people avoid talking to us anyway, so we scratched that one off our list for now.

Many doughnut shops are actually owned by Cambodians out here, and was actually a somewhat successful finding activity for one of our Cambodian speaking elders from the MTC serving in California, so we decided to put it to the test. Sadly, I can now say I am a doughnut connoisseur. But of the four doughnut shops we've tried, we found our favorite place, and talked to two about the church. Still, no solid game, but one of our investigators works at one of them so we plan on asking her if there is anyone she knows of who might be interested in learning as well.

Sunday we went down to Lacey to visit Say with the headphones we use to interpret. Even though he was the only one using them, and he sat right next to us, he loved it! And it was fun taking turns to translate testimonies, even if we did a better job of it because it was on simpler material than Pioneers, or the Fourth of July. If there was only a way we could get him over to our building it'd be awesome, but someday we'll have a group for him to come to.

Although it can be slow, the work is progressing in the WA-TAC, and slowly, but surely, we are bringing people to a knowledge of their great Redeemer.

Love you!

Sister Dunster

    Sister Loy likes to make seafood! And in spite of the hard work it took to get so little meat, it was really good.

                                                                      Sophary's baptism.

                                                                 The sunset on Mount Rainier