Missionaries!!!

Lylia, Kelly, Elder Lucio, Elder Van Der Spek

 After delivering loads of furniture to a new investigator I found on craigslist for free, we took our favorite two Elders out for a big gulp of Gatorade! It tasted so good!!!

  

This was the table I got for free. The lady bought it for $500 she said, and had to move out quickly and the person who was supposed to buy it fell through, so when I saw her ad on craigslist I was the first to reply and got this beauty! It has a leaf that is built into it. You just unlatch it and it pulls up. It was a pretty awesome find! We also got her a couch, a recliner from a hotel renivation, pots, pans, toaster oven, lamps, bulbs, side tables, bed, tv stand, oven and hopefully in a week we can get her a fridge for free from the hotel renovation as well. Our friends Sandra and her daughter Adrianna just moved her back in October from Missisippi and due to katrina had nothing to their names. We have been greatly blessed by being able to serve them. They have taught our family a lot about how we don't need much to survive. Every time I come home after being at their home, I am reminded of what a blessed life I have. I have a healthy body for the most part, two beautiful babies that are perfectly healthy, a husband who works hard for us, family who helps us, and too many boxes full of stuff that I am realizing more and more just doesn't matter one bit. After going to their home, the thought of moving into a bigger apartment in a few weeks free of rent, with air conditioning and heating, makes me feel far too blessed. I've never seen poverty like this, and I know that it exists worse around the world. Justin and I hope that we can teach our children to serve others, and find ways to make others burdens lighter to bare. We love you each and hope you never forget the blessings that are yours.

 We helped like 3 families move in a matter of days. Our favorite missionaries on our quest to serve others, and bring others to the gospel. This family has a member and a non member of the church and so we felt great helping them out. Isacc King along with our missionaries Elder Van der Spek and Elder Lucio! Elder Van Der Spek kept calling me short, but he isn't if at all that much taller than me!