Lake Michigan and a Farmers Market (week 23)

Hello everyone!

It's been another great week! This transfer is really flying by. 

We had a few lessons set up with new people this week that we were really excited about! Except all of them fell through. So things have been fairly slow this week but we have been able to decide some great time to finding new people and it has been a really good week there.

We have also been able to spend a lot of time with members over zoom which it has been a while since I've had the time to meet with members and it is great!!

On Wednesday we had district council over in Spring Lake and we were finally able to see Lake Michigan! It is beautiful! I loved finally seeing one of the great lakes. We walked out on a boardwalk to a lighthouse and it was super cool. 

We also went to a farmers market in Grand Rapids! It was awesome. I bought some really good bread, some smoked salt, and some cheese curds. It was cool to see an actual farmers market and there were some really cool things being sold. It was a ton of fun.

Things are great here in Grand Valley though, things are slowly starting to pick up but it is just a gorgeous area of Michigan. 

Thank you all for your support!

Elder Oswald

Some pictures of the lighthouse and the lake




A picture we took at district council


Nothing fishy here....


Painted pine cones from an awesome lady we met at the farmers market!










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