The Projects, baseball, and speed limits...

August already!  WOW time flies!  Here is the NEWS from KNOXVILLE:

Last Saturday Elder Casper, the Elder attended a ward priesthood breakfast and then the two of us spent 5 hours with the missionaries – Elder Lutu and Hunter, going with them to appointments.  It was an experience.

Our ward has three families who live in the “projects” and they needed to visit them.  Elder Lutu was really cute – he said ”we have to go to the projects, it will be scary, will you be ok?’   It was like going into the projects was in the movie Blindside.  In fact, the apartments look exactly the same. The missionaries can only go in if someone is there who is a member or someone they know – no tracting or contacting is allowed in that housing area.  It is really interesting.

We have had another busy week – they all seem to be busy.
We have 17 new missionaries coming in the last week of the month and to get all the supplies and their orientation books ready and all the things President & Sister Irion need so it is a lot of busy work for me.  With my great abilities – I was able to jam 3 of the machines and had to have dad’s help in getting them going again.

We have been assigned to home teach the Bishops family – cute family.  Murphy is 7 (named for Dale Murphy – the family are BIG baseball fans); Maddie is 11 going on 16; Skylar is 13 and Sterling is 17.  Bishop McKellar is an attorney and they are just really fun.  We talked about the University of Tennessee and how cool it would be to go to a Vols game (the Volunteers).  Bishop gets tickets from all kinds of clients and so they are going to take us to a game.  They are going to Virginia for the BYU game and offered to take us but that is a 5 hour drive and is a bit out of our mission area so we had to decline.

We get to see Elder Laws Casper every Monday for staff meeting.  The rest of the week is iffy.  They travel so much.  It was zone meetings this week so he has been all over the place.  President & Sister Iron took 3 zones and the assistants took the other 3.   BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Papa has been busy with the cars – we are going to be loosing cars and there is great weeping & wailing * ganashing of teeth because of it.

 Our streets are only two lane with no shoulder, no sidewalk – nothing.  The speed limit for the most part is 55 – and that is how fast folks drive,  mostly I shut my eyes and let your dad do it.  Riding bikes and walking these street is scary.  Plus they are so hilly – up and down --- up and down.
Speed limit on freeway – 6 lane – is also 55.  Strange system.