Goodbye Elder Leafa

Elder Leafa was transferred this morning. He has moved on to Longmont. Before he left he gave us what he called a speech. It is from his Samoan culture to do speeches. I hope you enjoy it, because I did.

The Missionaries

Towards the beginning of October the missionaries moved in with us. At first we were a bit hesitant. Now we love it. It is so interesting talking to them daily, feeling their spirit, learning what being a missionary is all about, and having someone that will empty the dishwasher living with us.

Here are our elders, Elder Slezak and Elder Leafa.

It is especially fun because Matt's brother is currently on his mission to Samoa, and Elder Leafa is from Samoa. We tell him stories and pictures from Andrew and make Elder Leafa home sick. These elders are happy, work hard and are always laughing and giggling.

I totally started laughing today when I went into the garage and saw this
Who knew that missionaries had weight benches and weights, and why did it just show us today?

Another thing that I think is so hilarious is that they drive a minivan. I have never seen missionaries drive a minivan. It is so great, these two young guys in a mom mobile. It is nice because they put their bikes in it, but they said that all the other elders have cars with bike racks on them, and they have no idea how they were lucky enough to get the minivan.

Winter Storm and Halloween

A few days before Halloween we had a big snow storm. came down and didn't stop for two straight days. On the first day, I was out shoveling and when I was about three fourths of the way done, the missionaries pulled up. They ran over and said I was not supposed to get started without them and stole the shovel from my hands. After they finished they took my shovels "to go build the kingdom of God."

The next day I shoveled all by myself, and the snow was heavier, higher and our driveway is huge. It took me two and a half hours to shovel it all. The whole time I was trying to figure out how we could afford to buy a snow blower.

Here is a picture of me shoveling
Our trees and driveway.

Look how much snow we had, and it was wet and heavy.


This is a picture from our kitchen to the deck, it was awesome how the snow was blown up on the door.

For Halloween we went over to some friends house. It is interesting how Matt and I are in similar in random things, like neither of us really like to dress up. Whenever Halloween comes around we don't know what to do when it comes to dressing up, and are in no way creative with costumes. This year, I just borrowed a bunch of stuff from work and we dressed up as a surgeon and a patient. So creative, I know.