Many kinds of Service

The Missionaries give many kinds of service in the community.

I have been helping a Sixth Grade Math class for a few months just for an hour a day.

We live only 2.5 blocks from the schools so it is an easy walk.

Pictured:  Ezekiel, Troy, myself, Mia, Denessia, and Mrs. Young

I substitute taught Mrs. Young's class one day.
Pictured above are myself, Ezekiel, Damien, Jacora and Katilyn.











Elder Keith and Elder Short are in the classroom that Elder Allsop built a counter in so that they can do computer repair in our Branch meetinghouse.

Twice a week the a companionship of Elders act as tutors at the Ft. Peck Community College in the Hi Set room where students come to study for taking the GED test to past High School graduation requirements.

Youth Survival night presentation

In April and May 2014 some groups came to give a presentation to the youth.  The Poplar Volunteer Fire Department gave a very useful presentation on safety concerning smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

Pictured are some of the youth listening to the Volunteer Fire Department's presentation.

The Fire Chief and volunteers took the youth outside where they had driven a fire truck and fire engine.  They showed them the vehicles, and blasted off the siren.  That got everyone's attention.

They also demonstrated the proper use of a fire extinguisher and showed them how the oxygen mask works that they wear when entering a house on fire.

Cleaning up the town, mowing and trash pick up

After hearing in May that the church would not be funding our plans to beautify the community by keeping large parks and other areas mowed, Elder Allsop found a discarded riding mower and after buying a battery, new starter and other parts got it running.  We are also allowed to use a mower owned by the tribe, but we have to use it only on tribal owned property.

Elder Steelman from Wolf Point helped get weed eaters operational that were given to us by the FM church man.

These machines were valuable as we went to Chicken Hill cemetery located about 4 miles west of Wolf Point to mow and clean it up.


 From the before pictures you can tell that it had been a long time since the cemetery had had any care.

Chicken Hill is a church historical area.  Melvin J. Ballard while serving as Area President had a vision there where he saw Christ and he also made prophesies which included a temple would some day stand there.

There are many church member buried there, but no one seems to be assigned to care for the cemetery.

With the help of Elder and Sister Steelman, the Wolf Point Elders Frost and Fuifatu and a branch member Bro. Pilgrim, it was 3 hours well spent using a mower and 3 weed eaters.

On another day we went back with a riding mower and cut the larger areas.  The green foliage was coming through and the cemetery looked so much better.

Those pictures Elder Fuifatu, Bro Pilgrim, Elder Frost, the Steelmans and the Allsops.

We feel the cemetery should have some kind of memorial or plaque erected to commemorate its significance.

Saying Good-bye to faithful Elders

Elder Pace from Manti, Utah served as a Zone Leader in Poplar for about 4 months.  He was transferred to Miles City where he served until his mission ended in late May.  We surely did enjoy his faithfulness and spirit.

Elders Scramm and Elder Wilson both served in Poplar for a few months.  They marked their one year serving and all this time they were waiting for a Visa so they could leave for their original mission area in Brazil.
Elder Scramm pictured to the right was transferred to Roundup.  Elder Wilson remained in Poplar.  Within a couple of weeks each of them heard that their Visa had been granted and they left for Brazil in early May.

This is the scene when about 8 Elders from all over the District show up at your house prior to leaving for transfers in this huge mission.  Our Mission covers all of Montana and a third of Wyoming.  Our Stake, the Glendive Stake, covers 66,000 square miles.

Pinewood Derby 2014 Poplar Montana

Pinewood Derby 2014

The track that we use actually belongs to the Presbyterian church, but we store it for them because they don't have room.  Elder Allsop and I decided and with Pastor Susie's permission, that it needed a face life so we painted it bright colors.  The Cub Scouts were very excited about it all.

Two of the Missionary Elders got into the act and created their own car from a discarded block of wood in the meetinghouse closet.  Elder Wilson and Elder Scramm's are shown with Pres. Hollom putting the finishing touches on their missionary car.

Pictured are the derby cars that Elder Allsop made and the Missionary's car.  Their's is in the center.  They made sure everyone knew it was their car.  Poplar is written on the front fender and their names are on the back fender, with the church's name on the hood.  Elder Allsop just wrapped a block of wood in a Hersey's wrapper for one of his cars, and streamlined another.  Both of his cars were winners every time because he was very good at setting the wheels just right and adding the weights in the right places.
Of Course only the Cub Scout boys were declared winners.

We had 10 very good looking cars and most were winners at some point.  Third one from the left was made by a father of two of our Cubs.  He learned a few lessons about not making the car too light weight.  It didn't fair so well in the competition.

We ordered little trophys from Al's Trophys in our home area of Logan, Utah and participation ribbons from the Scout Office.  Also pictured are the rank advancements and awards the boys had earned and was presented that night.

The night was so much fun.  Each boy got to race many times and a winner was declared.  Wayne was awarded with a candy bar of his choice as well as the second and third place winners.
Our Missionary Elders helped us and even got to race Elder Allsop's cars.

We were pleased that the parents supported the event, and we even invited Pastor Susie from the Presbyterian church and Father Bebe of the Catholic church. They both came.