Southgate Chapter 12 The Last letter. And Final Chapter of the Book

Well this is my last email home. It feels weird and joyful at the same time. It's been a good two years and I'm excited for the adventures ahead of me. :)

Here is a run down of my last week.

Tuesday

Pday. Emailed, then shopped with the Assistants. Ran to Puma for Elder Wilson. He got his shoes that he couldn't since the power went out last week. We then went to Wal-mart and then dropped everything off and grabbed a change of clothes. Mailed some boxes home that weren't going to fit. Then we changed at the church and played Frisbee. It was great. There were a lot of us to play and it was great. We then came back and showered and changed. We then had supper at Habing's. We made our way home after that. We were exhausted.

Wednesday

We were in the office. Continued to train Elder Strong. We traveled back and we had supper at Sis Thompson's with the other elders. We then went on the computer and did Facebook then went home.

Thursday

We had District Meeting and then lunch. We finished passing out some flyers for the Mandarin elders for their ESL class. We then did Facebook at the church. We traveled and had supper at the Calverts. We then went to the Raaflaub's. They asked us to come over a couple of times this week.

Friday

We were in the office. Last day of training Elder Strong. We then traveled back and had supper at the Browers. Then just stopped by some people.

Saturday

Did some Weekly Planning/Packing. Then did Facebook at the church. We had to pick up supper from Sis Fairbairn. We were going to go to the other elder's apartment, but they forgot to leave the back door unlocked for us, so luckily we got a ride from the Mandarin elders, who we were lucky to see. :) We then had supper and went to Raaflaub's again.

Sunday

We didn't have any meeting that morning. We had church. Sacrament meeting was great. Bro Munoz stands up to announce the rest of the program after the sacrament and gets to the closing prayer.
"and the closing prayer will be offerered by...Elder O'Neill".
Elder Wilson leaned over and asked, "when did he ask you to say the prayer?"
"Right now. :)"

It was great. We then had lunch with the other elder and then had coordination. We went home and had studies. We then went to the McCready's for supper. They are a fun family. We rode the LRT for a bit and then went to the Habing's.

Monday

We ran to the office in the morning. We then borrowed a car. Yes borrowed. Elder Salter approved it. We then ran back and grabbed some stuff and took it over to the Coombs. They are taking some stuff down for us. :) We then met Manadrin at the church for Facebook. They were in between service appointment and didn't want to change. We then picked up supper from Byam's. We then dropped the car back off. We got a ride from the other elders. Then went home and had supper. We then went to FHE at Raaflaub's. Painted some cool pictures.

Well that was my week. Today is Pday then tomorrow is Transfer meeting then the next day I fly home. Love you all and can't wait to see you. Going to miss Canada. It's been a great 2 years.
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Elder Colin O'Neill

Southgate Chapter 11

Wow I can't believe this is the last week of my mission. Where did the time go??? It's been so crazy. So many memories and experiences. Well here are some more from this past week. :)

Tuesday

We emailed and then borrowed the Ap's car to go shopping. We dropped of the car and then bussed to South Commons. We checked out some stores there. It was soo funny. We were in the Puma store and Elder Wilson had just made the decision to buy a new pair of shoes that were 60% off. He just made the decision that he was going to buy them and... the power shuts off. The whole South Commons power went out. We waited for a little while and continued to walk around, but nothing was open due to the power outage. :) I tried to tell him it was a sign that he shouldn't buy the shoes. :) We then travelled up to supper at Sister Merrell's. After supper we went to the Lee's.

Wednesday

We went into the office. Nothing too exciting. We got a ride to supper from the Ap's. We had supper with Sis Fairbairn, Bro Mackay, and Evlynn. It was great. We were told that Sis Hatch next door needed some help so we knocked on the door and she wouldn't let us help her since we were in pros. We then did Facebook and went home.

Thursday

We had an early lunch and then Mandarin picked us up for Mission Conference. It was so amazing. It was sort of weird for us that are coming home this next week. Elder Brent Nielson of the Seventy and Bro Mills, who manages the international MTC's, came and talked to us preparing the mission for Ipads. They talked a lot about how if we can learn to use technology effectively and to stay away from temptations then we will be better prepared for the future to help our future families stay away from the evil on the internet. It was a good mission conference. The whole mission was there. It was great to be able to talk to everyone again. I miss some of my mission friends already. Elder Walker brought down a frame that Bro Kidd made. When I was still up there we got him a picture of the temple to help remind him of his goal to get back. He made a frame for it and wanted all of us to sign it, so Elder Walker brought it down. It was awesome. :) Totally Bro Kidd style. :) We then got a ride back from the Ap's and then had supper with the Kastendieck's. We then just did some contacting.

Friday

Well we went down to the church and did some planning. We got some hints of what is happening with transfers so we were preparing for that. We were there for most of the day. We then had supper with the Herrick's. We then caught the LRT and were going to ride that for a bit and we rode up to the next stop and there was a man on the corner with a sign "Christ came to save the Sinners."  and "Learn of Christ and you will be saved". We decided to go and talk to him. We bashed a little, but he started being pretty rude. We then just rode the LRT again.

Saturday

We had some plans of things we were going to do, but they all got a little messed up. :( We were going to go to the Library and do some Facebook, but the transit was delayed. We were going to go to the church and get on the computer's before the open house, but by the time we got there, after getting on the wrong bus, We were just in time to help with the Open house. We were told that the missionaries had a little booth and we were supposed to stand there and if anyone had questions they could come talk to us. Well the whole time we were there the only people that would come over to talk were members and there weren't a lot of non-members showing up at that point either. It turned out to be really good afterwards. 26 people came for the open house of the church. Hopefully something will happen. We then went up to the library and then got a ride with the Ap's to our combined supper at the Raaflaub's.

Sunday

We had ward council. We then had Church. Nothing too exciting. Had lunch at the Ap's place and had coordination. We then did some studies and travelled to Speidel's for supper. Can't remember where we went after that, but we ended the night at Habing's. :)

Monday

Well we had to wake up early and Bearspaw came to pick us up so we could go help with Seminary. We were invited to help with the lesson about hastening the work. It was fun. We then came back finished preping then went to the office. I'm training Elder Strong on how to do the Finances so he can keep helping out when I'm gone. We then had supper at Byam's and FHE at Raaflaub's.

It's been a good week. Some crazy experiences, but that's normal.

Last week. Got to make it count. :)

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Elder Colin O'Neill