August 11-17, Cape Cod and Moore!

This was another wonderful week for us on our mission!  We feel truly blessed to have this opportunity to be full-time missionaries.  We are amazed at how much we can get done in a day.  We literally fall into bed at night exhausted.  Our prayers are prayers of thanks for the wonderful people we are meeting and teaching and for guidance to help us keep finding those that are being prepared.  We love working full-time with the Sisters and Elders. They are such great young people.  They are great leaders and teachers and good examples to us and everyone around them of what it means to truly be in the service of God.  They are outstanding in every way and we love every one of them and would adopt them all in a second!

We started out our week with a wonderful p-day (preparation day) trip to Falmouth and Woods Hole, Mass. out on Cape Cod.  One of the things we really miss is riding our bikes around Longmont on the St. Vrain Greenway.  One of the things we really wanted to do here was ride bikes on Cape Cod.  We got to check that off our bucket list this week.  We rented bikes in Falmouth and rode on the Shining Sea Bike Path to Woods Hole.  It was a beautiful shaded bike path with portions of it right next to the beach.

When we arrived in Woods Hole, we ate delicious fish tacos in a wonderful little dive called Quick's Hole.

 

After exploring the town a little bit, we rode our bikes to the Nobska Lighthouse, another wonderful New England lighthouse!

Nobska Lighthouse

Supposedly the best cookies around!  Not really, but good and in a really cute place with a really cute sign!

From the lighthouse, we ventured on to a little piece of land that juts out into the sea called The Knob.  It was quite an adventure getting there on busy roads and then a path that led through lots of Poison Ivy and it really was just a little knob, nothing spectacular.  It was a fun journey nonetheless!  We have become quite the adventurous group.

After exploring the Knob, we headed back to Falmouth to return our bikes.  Somehow we missed the bike path and were on a very busy, narrow, road at what seemed to be rush hour.  There were cars and tour buses rushing by us continually and we had to stay as far to the right as we could and prayed hard that we wouldn't hit sand or a pothole and end up under the wheels of a bus!  It was a scary ride for several minutes until we finally reconnected with the bike path!  We were sure there were guardian angels riding with us and we were thankful to be alive after we returned!

After returning our bikes, we explored Falmouth a little bit and ate the best pizza of our lives at Stone L'Oven.  We had 1/2 sweet potato and bacon and the other 1/2 was fig jam and prosciutto!  We ended our day by stopping at Old Silver Beach on our way back to Boston just as the sun was setting!

Aside from that little portion of our ride that scared us to death, the day was perfect in every way.  We had delicious food and saw beautiful sites and got a lot of exercise in the wonderful Cape Cod sea air!

The Knob

Downtown Falmouth, Mass.

Old Silver Beach

 I'm trying to take more pictures of our district and zone and also of our investigators and events during the week, so that it doesn't look like we are on vacation.  Once again, I must clarify that we work hard all week and play hard on our time off.  It's the best of all worlds!

Some highlights of our missionary work were visiting Alice and Jimmy and their darling little kids. Jimmy is working on a graduate degree at MIT.  Holding little Logan was definitely a highlight of my week!

This is one of our investigator's, Mark Anthony.  It was his birthday and the sisters had found this large print triple combination and we all gave it to him along with brownies that Sister Scott made.  He was so happy!  We love teaching him. 

On Saturday morning, Elder Moore and I headed to Quincy for a very sweet visit to a couple from our ward.  The trip involved taking the subway and then transferring to a shuttle bus.  We are becoming pro's of the metro!  After our visit, we decided since we were already in Quincy, to take the tour of John and John Quincy Adam's birthplaces and farm.  It was really interesting and it was free since it's a national park and Mike has a senior pass that worked for both of us!  Growing older has some perks!

This is us on the city bus!

These two properties are next door to each other and are original.  They are the birthplaces of John Adams, our nation's second president and his son, John Quincy Adams, our sixth president.

"Peace Field"--the family farm.

The Stone Library--constructed to house their extensive library and to keep their books safe from fire.

The Adam's family contributed so much to the forming of this great nation.  It was wonderful getting to see a glimpse of their private lives and the beautiful place they called home.

This is the beautiful pedestrian walkway that we take from our apartment to the subway.

 We finished up our week by attending the baptism of one of our zone leader's investigators, Eric Pratt.  It was a wonderful way to end the week.  We look forward to having some of our own baptisms (with the sisters) in a few weeks!  Pray for the MBM (Mass. Boston Mission) to find those that are seeking the truth and are ready to hear the gospel!  We are ready to teach them!

Baptism of Eric Pratt; Elder Butters, Eric, and Elder Kerr

 Have a wonderful week!