Wow this week has
been a bit of a gong show, but it was a good gong show. In total we got
3 new investigators and dropped one of them already.
Monday
Well we had a good pday. Crazy thing happened when we were shopping. We were walking down an aisle and this lady asked:
"Hey are you mormons?"
"Well yes we are."
"How do I get a Book of Mormon?"
"Well, we don't have one on us right now, but we can bring one to your door."
"Oh never mind then."
She walks away. Elder H
yells at her saying that if she sees other missionaries to ask them. We
continue shopping and a few minutes later she comes back.
"Do you have a card or something? I really want a Book of Mormon. Could we meet somewhere?"
"We could meet at your home."
"No I'd rather not. Could we meet here tomorrow."
"Well this is a little far from where we live. We live next to Londonderry Mall we could meet you there?"
"Ok, see you tomorrow. My name is Elizabeth by the way"
It was one of the weirdest experiences that kept going throughout the
week. You'll hear the whole story slowly. It's crazy. Well the rest of
p-day was good. We didn't play basketball again. Instead we played floor
hockey. We ended up playing full court too. It was awesome. We went to
Laubman's for supper. Some thing hit me while we were there. I thought
it was I just got a minute to finally relax for a bit, but it kept up.
Our lesson fell through that night, so we went back to do some phone
calls. I was wiped out. We planned out the next day and I went to bed at
like 9.
Tuesday
LRT and prep. I still had close to zero energy. We went and met Elizabeth at the mall.
"Thank
you for the Book of Mormon. It is actually for my son. He is really
interested in this right now and would like to meet with you."
"Ok well can we have his number to call him?"
"No he'll give you a call to probably meet with you tomorrow."
"Ok well our number is in the back of the Book"
So we went back to our apartment. We had studies and then we went
down to Dave's to help him out a little for this week. After that we
went and did
mormon.org
time. I was still wiped out don't know what was wrong. We were picked up
by Kingway and we met Dan and Jen from Parkland at OJ's for wing night.
They have
Tuesday
night wing night. 10 wings for $3.50. It was a lot of fun. Dan also,
I'm pretty sure when he went to the bathroom, paid for us all. It was
super nice. We then went back home and Elizabeth called us seeing if we
were available to meet
on Thursday at 3. We didn't know what was exactly going on
on Thursday so we planned for
Friday.
I don't know what was exactly wrong, but when we went to OJ's I was
just fine. It was weird I had zero energy. I wanted to go out and do
things, but my body didn't want to move. Totally fine now.
Wednesday
LRT,
prep, studies, lunch. We then went to Bro Duckworth's I haven't seen
him in a while. We weren't able to go last week and the week before they
went on exchanges. It was a good visit. We then rode the LRT for a
little bit and then went back to our apartment to wait for Tagalog to
pick us up for supper at Stebners. It was fun. We then stopped by some
LA's in the area.
Thursday
Well
today was all sorts of confusing. There was a big meeting in Sherwood
Park where some one from the missionary department came to give some
trainings on how to teach better. Well the thing was that not everyone
was going. Only about half of the city missionaries were going. By half
meant half of each companionship. So while Elder Hentunen went to the
meeting I was with Elder Scheiss in both of our areas. Well they came to
pick us up at
7:45
and then we dropped of our comps at the ZL's place so they could go to
the meeting. We went back to their apartment for studies. We then we out
to try LA's in Clareview. We stopped at 7-eleven to get drinks for the
day. We then stopped by some LA's in Clareview. We then went to pick up
CD2 to go to the Italian Bakery for lunch. We then dropped them off and
stayed there for a bit. We then stopped by some LA's in Londonderry. By
then it was time to get our companions back. We waited around our
apartment for them. We then planned the lessons for the night, then went
to Ewing's for supper. Supper was running late, so we shared the
message first and then ate. We told our next appointment, Purnell's
(upstairs), we might be a little late. We then went up and met with Bro
Purnell. We then went home for some phone calls.
Friday
LRT,
prep, studies, lunch. We then did a little weekly planning until we had
to go meet Elizabeth and Alex at Indigo, a bookstore. We met them
there. Elizabeth went shopping while we met with Alex. He was
interesting. He had a read a lot online about us. He had seen a lot of
the negative and really wanted to know what we were about. We taught him
Lesson one. We were going to meet him at the church
on Sunday.
We weren't really sure how interested he was in changing. "I still want
to wear speedos on the beach and drink wine and go to clubs." We then
went to Annette's for supper. She has signed up once a month to feed us
and once a month for the sisters as well. We went over with Josh from
the ward. It was really good and we had a really good lesson about the
Book of Mormon with her. Geordy had to work. Wish he could have been
there. We then went back to finish weekly planning while we waited for
CD1 to go on exchanges.
Saturday
Well
We exchanged right before we had to be in so I ended the night in
Castledowns. We went and played basketball in the morning. Prep,
studies. Part way through studies Elder K wasn't feeling too good so he
went to lay down for a bit. We waited for a little. He started to feel
better. We were going to help this family move, but I didn't have any
service clothes. So we went to get some clothes and then went to help
them move. We then picked up our comps and met some others and went to
lunch. We wanted to get together and go to lunch since one of the elders
is going home in a week. It was so much fun. We went to this place
where you build your own burger. They have different things that you can
put on your burger. We had fun with our burgers. We exchanged back
after lunch. We then headed to Higgins. When we got there they weren't
home, so we caught a bus to head home. While we were waiting at
Clareview, Higgins called. We asked if they could pick us up. He came
and we went for supper. We didn't eat much, but it was still good. We
then had an amazing lesson. We are going to start over with the lessons.
We then went to a lesson which was amazing. We met Jonah at the bus
stop
on Friday
on the way to Alex. We taught him the first lesson and challenged him
to be baptized. He accepted. A new investigator and on date.
Sunday
Well
we had church. We were hoping more investigators were going to show up.
The only one was Annette and Kennedy. Church was really good. We then
went home, had our lunch break, had a little bit of studies. We were
talking about Alex and decided to call him to see if he was really
interested in what we were teaching or if he just wanted the
information. He said he was really interested so we told him we would
meet him at the church at 3. Well we went to the church and waited
around for a little bit. It was a little after 3 and we called him.
Elizabeth answered. "You made it pretty clear you didn't want to meet
with him"
"We just wanted to see if he was interested. We still want to meet with him"
"Well he thought you didn't, so goodbye."
That
is the end of the crazy story. It ended in a little miscommunication.
Too bad. Well while we were there we remembered about Sister Gillespie.
We called Bro Skinner to see if he would go with us to give her the
Sacrament. We went then he dropped us off at our apartment. We were
picked up by Bro Branco for supper at there house. They are great. They
are going on a trip this week so I won't be able to see them before
transfers. It was a great time with them. We then went down to meet with
Joe and Sheena. We finally met with Sheena. She already knows the
church is true and wants to be baptized. May 10 is when.
It was overall a crazy week, but ended really well. 2 new
investigators and 4 investigators on date. Londonderry is doing great.
I'm going to miss this place. One week left. :(
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