Exceedingly astonished

Thanks for the picture of Grandpa Dale. That's a great one! Could you post that one to me with the one of him on the bronco? That would be great. Well this week has been great and crazy and short, especially short is my time to write about it! We had a busy p-day yesterday and didnt' have time to e-mail so we had to do it today. That also means I won't be able to send the pictures from Gemma's baptism until next week, which just so happens to be transfers! I hate transfers! But its exciting at the same time. So we had a pretty good week early on but the end of it saved us and then we had some major let downs. So on Friday and Saturday we were blessed to get loads of new people to work with. They were all little miracles in themselves. I'll briefly tell you about them. So we went finding in a really posh area at a really bad time of day when everyone was at work so in was really unsuccessful. Then we got into a cul-de-sac where there was these two guys cutting down a tree. We asked him if we could help and he gave us the cold shoulder and told us not to bother the people on that street but we kept knocking. The other guy left and I yelled across the street, "Did he give up?" He nodded his head. I yelled, "How mad do you think he would be if he came back and it was gone?" The guy smiled and said, "Do you really think you can do it?" So we cut down his tree for him. The problem was that the other guy had no idea what he was doing and was doing it the real hard way, you have to thank Grandpa Rowley for teaching me how to cut a tree properly! The whole time the man just looked there and stared at us! He would occasionally ask us a question or two about who we were and such. When his wife came back with the other guy they were exceedingly astonished! He asked if he could get us a hot tea and we told him we didn't drink tea, then he asked if we wanted a coffee. We finally accepted a hot chocolate and as his wife was walking back into the house she turned back and said, "I've never made hot chocolate before!" It was really good. We are going back to see them next week. Crazy! Then we met a guy named Eugene who had missionaries paint his whole house with him 5 years ago. Too bad he's moving today, but he's gonna get baptised on the 18th of Feburary! Then we found out that Tamara can't get baptised this week because her fellowshippers will be at the temple and she wants them to be there. Oh well, gotta run but I love you mum. I'll talk to you next week!
Elder Rowley