July 15, 2019 Service, Teaching twins & Members

July 15, 2019-
We did service at a thrift store this week. We organized the donations coming in. It was pretty fun. One of the bags I got had a bunch of fancy dresses. Like ones you would wear to prom or something. 
A week or so ago we visited someone and they said they needed to work on weeding their yard. So we went and weeded it this week for them, which was fun. They were surprised that we actually came over and helped. It was fun to surprise them.
We started teaching two kids that are already members. They are twins and are nine years old. We are teaching them to get practice teaching and to help them understand the gospel. They are pretty wound up. We ended up doing our object lesson with them while they jumped on the trampoline. 
One funny thing that happened is that we always try to talk to everyone about the gospel. The problem with that is we do not always remember who we have talked to before and we also end up talking to members and trying to teach them we had that happen several times yesterday. One of them we asked if they had talked to missionaries before, the dad looked at his daughter and said, I don't know have we talked to missionaries before? They then told us they were members. Love, Sister Vernon 
Also something else I forgot in my other email is that we had just left our apartment to go somewhere and Sister Welker tipped over on her bicycle and got a little scraped up, but was ok.
We took chalk that we found in our apartment and drew the Plan of Salvation and scriptures on a sidewalk in the park. We did not really talk to very many people doing it, but hopefully a lot of people see it. Sister Welker and I  in the park, another picture from on top of Morgan Hill (it feels bigger when we broke it :), I always wear my helmet and sunglasses when biking.

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