March in Nazareth

This pictures are the beautiful Pennsylvania scenery....

This has been a really good week. We walked and walked and walked and then walked some more. My leg is doing great and I dont have to go to therapy anymore! I do have stretches to do for the rest of my life and exercises for quite a while.

We met some really amazing people this week. We go to doors and some people nicely tell you to go away, some others not so nicely (One lady sent her daughter to warn the neighbors not to talk to us. LOL) Then there will be a person out of the middle of nowhere who says yes please come back I do want to learn more. I was so suprised by the first person we found it took me a minute to start talking again because I could barely believe she wanted to talk to us. Goes to show you never know what is going to happen. We never know who will be ready to learn about the gospel but Heavenly Father does and either "we will be lead to them, or they will be lead to us." (Preach My Gospel) That is why we have to invite everyone because they may suprise us. 

Why did the Sister cross the river?    Because it was there and she loves "puddles."

This picture is of our family home evening at the bishop's house. We asked them to teach us last week and they did a whole thing on the armor of God and used us as the object lesson. They even threw "fiery darts" at us (cotton balls).  ( I love the cookie sheet 'breastplate'.)

Three Weeks in Nazareth (with a trip to Bethlehem, too)

For those of you that didn't know, Sister Stamm has been having problems with her knee.  This is not related to her broken foot.  She has super flat feet which throws her knee into a coniption fit and makes it hard to walk. 

This is from her email this week....

"This has been a really fast week.   Therapy is fun.   You should see me try to do the balance exercises. Talk about hilarious.  SO funny.   I am not very coordinated.  My cold is gone, my leg has been doing well this week, even with us doing a bit more walking.   I can feel the muscles getting looser and lots of pains I used to have while doing things like my pilates class are starting to make sense now. It is going good right now.   Lets hope it continues to.   The insoles are working good so far.   The doctor says that they are doing what they should when he had me stand on them. I may get another pair if I can convince my comp to let us go back to the store.   We'll see.   We had some extra miles because it was February so we went to the outskirts.   That was fun.   We can only use about 39 miles a day and well it takes 15 just to get to the populated areas boundry, Kind of frustrating with there and back taking 30 and then we only have 9 to do everything there and anything else around where we live which is very impossible.   Oh the joys of missions.

A family in the ward, the Zebley's, son is on a mission in Brazil and sent this awesome story home a while ago.   One of their members started working in like a little village or something where a lot of natives have been there for hundreds and hundreds of years.   The converstion turned to the natives ancestry one day and the member asked what the native mans people were called before what they are called now, (I cant remember what they are.) .   He said Lamanites.   The member almost fell over when he heard that and asked the native where he learned that.   He said from his father who got it from his and his and so forth.   The native had never before heard of the church or Book of Mormon in any way.   So cool."

 

This is on the door of their chapel....

 

Part of the countryside in Pennsylvania....

Another picture...isn't it beautiful....

I'm not so sure about this bridge...look at the rope!