season 17 episode 4

This was a great week. Just hitting the highlights because it went by
way too fast. The 4th was a blast! We had an all day P-day and we had a
BBQ with the other missionaries. It was awesome! Then we went on a sick
hike by our house later in the evening.

Robert got baptized! He was so pumped and the baptism was awesome. It
went smoothly and there was some really good support for him which makes
everything easier in the long run. He has made a huge change since the
beginning of when we started teaching him.

A pretty funny story this week: Friday I was trying pray before before bed and the member’s dog Gizmo was just going berserk. It was impossible for me to have a good meaningful prayer when the dog was going. So I waited and hoped that it would stop but it didn't. It stopped barking for a while and then at 11 or so it just went crazy for a
while. So I was looking out the window to see what it was barking at. It was barking at the tree and pointing at something. So I heard one of the two old guys we live with trying to get up to go and get Gizmo to stop. So I thought I would do it because it wouldn't take us as long. I woke up Elder St. Clair and we slid on our slides. Then, as we are headed out the door I grabbed the big spot light that we had.  Once we got outside I grabbed the first thing I could find, which was a garden hoe. Elder St.Clair shined the light and then we saw two eyes looking at us! It was a big raccoon. It was just sitting in the tree. We both knew that raccoons are pretty mean. And we were in just flip flops and slides and all I had was a garden hoe so, it was not our most prepared situation. Bill comes
out and tries to poke the raccoon with his cane. We tried to get the dog out of the way in case this raccoon came down. But no luck! So I decided to grab a branch with the hoe and shake the thing out of the tree. It fell out and then immediately started booking it. I thought I was going have to ninja fight this thing but Gizmo ran up quick like lightning and bit it and then it jumped over the fence. So now we are famous around here
for the raccoon wrangling.