Happy 4th of July!

hey fam! happy 4th!! sounds like you all had a fun holiday together :) . . . we had a really fun day! it started out with our ward 4th of july breakfast. . . . the highlight of the breakfast was the bike parade for the kids! (parade meaning they rode in circles around the parking lot) the night before, we stopped by the Gage's . . . to ask about a family they're trying to invite to meet with us. we got talking about the bike parade and we mentioned that we wished we had bikes to decorate. they offered us their little tikes two-seater wagon! haha they hosed it off for us and we fit it in the trunk of our car. we took turns pulling the other two in it and it was quite the hit! we ended up giving all the little kids rides in it. we were pretty wiped out after . . . it was a workout! one nonmember who came with his neighbor asked "who are those girls in the wagon??" "those are the sister missionaries!" haha he then made a comment about what fun, happy girls we were or something. hopefully it was a good impression . . . but we had fun :)

we proselyted like normal until 6 pm, and then we were told to just go hang out with members until 9. we were a little worried about tracting between 5 and 6 . . .we thought people would be peeved but everyone was really nice! we even met a sweet lady who took a book of mormon, promised to read it and invited us back next thursday. at night we went to 2 different members' homes where a bunch of families were gathered. it was really fun to just relax and chat . . . we were at our ward mission leader's house on lake sawyer and they had a little boat parade come by. a boat was pulling this raft where they had the music from south pacific playing and people were dancing and lip syncing. it was so fun! sis bush and i decided we're coming back to be part of the boat parade in a couple years :) so yeah we had to be in at 9 so we missed the fireworks (except for a couple bro moulton shot off for us). we laid in bed listening to them though if that counts haha. anyway it was a really fun day!!