Our current district missionaries starting from the left, Elder Robison, Elder Haslam, Elder and Sister Oakley,    Elder and Sister Peterson, Sister McCall and Sister Tauoa.  We are the most centrally located of the four areas so we are now hosting our Weekly district meetings at the Church.  Then we come to our home afterwards and have lunch.  The Oakleys and the Sisters are good about bringing food but Sister Peterson does quite a bit to get everything ready.  Elder Haslam is really tall - 6 ft. 6in.  He can do a pretty good job of putting the grub a way too.  The picture is in our front room.

Sherri and Will flew in yesterday and are staying for a few days and we enjoying their company.  They went to Church with us and also went to visit a family with us this afternoon.  Tomorrow on p-day we plan to go to Mammoth Caves and the Corvette Museum for Will.

Sister Peterson reading her scriptures?  Perhaps a little comfortable for pondering?  I give her a hard time but she really is diligent about reading every day.  I have been a little reluctant to share much about our actual missionary work on the blog because it is quite personal.  However we had what I call a mission miracle this week.  About two months ago a lady from a town near Nashville, called our branch mission leader and asked us to start fellowshipping her niece's son who lives in Morgantown.  He's a fourteen year old boy who lives in a very difficult home environment.  We have been fellowshipping him and he has been coming some, especially to MIA.  We have been trying to get him set up to be taught by our traveling elders but without much luck.  Sunday we took two investigators to Madison, Tennessee to a special musical fireside put on by the Mission.  Madison is a smaller town near Nashville.  After the fireside they always have a punch & cookies event so the missionaries can mingle and get referrals.  We were sitting at a table visiting with our investigators when this lady came by and sat down and started visiting with us.  She asked Sister Peterson and I where we were serving.  When we said Morgantown, she said excitedly, "I grew up there and have family there."  Then she proceeded to tell us about this boy she wanted taught the Gospel.  It turns out that she was the lady that had called our branch mission leader previously.  She was excited to talk to us and called her niece to break the ice for us.  Two days later we went to the home and picked the boy up and brought him to the Church.  The traveling Elders and us team taught him and committed him for baptism on Aug. 12th.  A chance meeting in a distant town helped so very much, perhaps our own little mission miracle?

Another picture of a memosa tree that still had some decent blossoms.  I guess we have run out of interesting road signs but we have found some other signs that are quite interesting.  Most of the protestant churches have marquee signs out front and seem to try to out do each other with catchy phrases and play on words.  Some interesting ones we have seen recently:
              "Eternity - smoking or non-smoking"
              "Our Sundays are better than Dairy Queens"
              "Moses was once a basket case"
              "Give Satan an inch and he will become your ruler"
              "Seven days without prayer makes one weak"
              "Don't pray about the Book of Mormon, that's how they get you."
The last one was seen on a Baptist marquee in Nashville and seems quite appropriate for what we are doing.
Elder and Sister Peterson (inviting people to pray about the Book of Mormon)