This week has been a pretty great week! There were a lot of ups and downs, but all in all, we've had such a great time. On Thursday, Elder Whitney had a birthday! He is now 19 years old. His family sent him a lot of stuff for his birthday, and he's been enjoying all of the snacks (he's also been gaining some weight due to the snacks/Sis. Barrett's cooking). President Cutler gave us permission to visit the Rices, a family in the ward that actually lives outside of the mission boundaries, and it just so happened that the day we had scheduled was Elder Whitney's birthday, so we had cake, ice cream, and we got to visit a cranberry marsh. This is a picture of one of the beds on the marsh. What they do is drive some kind of tractor through the beds to get the berries off of the "vine," then they flood the beds and the berries float on top! At the Rices's marsh, they have about 66 beds of cranberries, and it takes a full day to harvest 2 1/2 beds, so they work hard!
This is me helping them harvest the cranberries. I tried a cranberry right out of the water, and it was really sour!
The correlation between harvesting the cranberries and missionary work is interesting. There are some missions where helping people into the Church is like this; they seem to just want to be collected. Our mission is different. We pretty much have to pick them one by one, but the fantastic thing is that Heavenly Father knows exactly what He needs us to do. I was called to go "fishing" with a pole, instead of a net. The blessings that have come from that are incredible. Though I might not be having as much "success" as other missions, it's the same work, and we receive the same "pay." How grateful I am to a Father who knows me and loves me perfectly. His plan is perfect; my plan is not.
I hope all of you know how much you are loved. :-)
~~Elder T. Riggs
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