This morning Elder Phillips, our Australian Elder, decided he wanted to come out and run with Elder Gowans. We don't know for sure how long he has been on his mission, but it was easy to tell he had lost some of his endurance. He is a world class bicyclist, but he is not in as good a shape as he used to be.

This morning, we visited with Sister Arnett out at her new apartment. It was the shortest visit we have had with her. She had to be to work by 1145 and we arrived at 1000, we stayed about 50 minutes. She has arranged her place very nicely; she certainly has an eye for making things look real nice.

Early this afternoon, we visited Nathaniel and his friend Willey with the Sisters.We had a real nice discussion with them on the topic of Gospel of Jesus Christ. This lesson covers the first principles and ordinances of the gospel: Faith, Repentance, Baptism, The Gift of the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the End. We committed them to Baptism as they learn the truthfulness of the gospel and also committed them to attending church with us on Sunday.

This afternoon we went out to visit Brother Noah Nakaya;  we became acquainted with him about a month ago when his wife was befriended by Sister Cheney, an active member of  the branch. Noah has not been an active member for a long time, but having been befriended by the Cheneys he has been coming out to church and other activities quiet regularly. We made it a point to make sure we visited him; we hope that his testimony will be reignited and that he will take the initiative to get his wife and family taught the gospel, so they can be united together as a family.

Afterwards, we still had time before our next appointment, so we dropped by Sister Janssen's house. We found her home and had a nice visit with her. Her husband returns from deployment in just over a month; it will be wonderful to meet him and to get acquainted; we hope he will have a desire to hear the gospel and have it taught to him.

From there we went up to visit Brother and Sister Halford. As we drove up we found Sister Halford outside doing yard work. For most people that would not be anything unusual, but with her it is. She suffers terribly from different ailments that she is down more than she is up. Having done this yard work will probably put her down for a couple of days.

In the middle of this, we got a good start on our Institute Lesson for Friday, hopefully we will have a few more hours to get it all completed and studied before Friday; it is going to be a very busy week.