This
week has been pretty long but fast at the same time. I can't believe
it's already Monday again, but last Thursday seems soo long ago.
We had a lot of things happen this last week. I'm pretty sure I'm just going to do a day by day run down from now on.
Monday
I
told you a little bit of our plans for last Monday, but things were
really weird. So we went up to Red Deer to meet up with the Elder in
Rocky, so that we could get bags and possibly Khaki pants. I mostly
stayed pretty quiet when they were shopping. First off it was weird to
be in a mall as a missionary. You know you stand out and you just keep
going. They were looking at Khaki pants and were trying to find less
expensive pants than $40. If anything I learned working at Tommy that
you can't get Khaki dress pants that would be in good condition for less
than $40. They were also looking at Shoulder bags since backpacks
aren't allowed anymore. I was a little surprised at those price. They
were $100 for the cheap ones. All I can say is that I'm glad I already
had one. We then went to try to find somewhere for a haircut. That
didn't happen. One place was a salon that was booked and the other was a
walk in place with and Hour and a half wait. So we just went to the
Bower Chapel and played basketball with some of the zone. We went to the
Christenson's for dinner and Bro. Christenson's Daughter was in town
visiting from ....guess where... Utah. She lives in Layton (which I know
isn't close) and said when she drives back home she would be happy to
take things back. I don't know if I have anything to send back, but I
might so be ready.
Tuesday
We had a really cool lesson with Tom and
Mary. Mary is considered a less-active member, but she doesn't even know
she is a member. Tom is in rough condition. He has Parkinson's and now
has an eye infection so he is barely able to see. On top of that is just
came down with pneumonia. We just went over and shared a lesson with
them trying to say 'Christ' as many times as possible. We are going to
try and meet with them every tuesday. We then went to the Beckwiths (who
we went with to the bird farm). We were able to show them the pictures
of the blue birds that they missed, and we invited them to take the
lessons. They declined. We are still going to keep in contact with them
but it isn't really going to go anywhere. We then stopped by the Ellis'
to tell them about it and keep them updated. We then had dinner with
Bishop Mower. His wife was out of town so it was just him. We had dinner
and he went and changed to go visit some LA's. It was pretty rushed,
but it was good to see his excitement.
Wednesday
Service Day
Today was a day all
about service. Sister Dyck called us last night and asked if we would
teach gospel principles again, because they were going out of
town...again. We told her we would if she would cut our hair. She used
to work in a salon for years. So we finally went and got to have a
haircut. It was hard to describe how to cut my hair, since we have just
gone to Lori for all of these years. It looks pretty good and I'm not
bothered by it anymore. We then went and helped out at the Library. When
you think of a missionary doing service at the Library you never think
of wiping off board books. We spent about an hour wiping off all of the
board books that the little kids suck on. It wasn't bad just not
something you think of as a missionary. We pretty much went back to our
apartment and starting preparing a potential investigator list for ward
correlation. We didn't have any addresses written down so we drove
around getting them. It was funny with some houses that we didn't want
to stop at so we did a quick drive by to find the house number. We then
went and helped the Food Bank move to a new location. They were in a run
down warehouse and apparently someone backed up in to the side of it so
they had to move since the wall was now caving in a little. They moved
behind the Co-op. It is a much better place for them in my opinion. We
then had ward correlation and it was a very successful meeting. We got
the assignment to prepare a 15 minute presentation to present to Ward
Council at the end of the month. It will be a great way to get the work
moving forward.
Thursday
Today we had a follow-up training meeting up
in Edmonton. I didn't realize how long of a drive it is. It didn't seem
like it the first day since everything was still so new. We got up
there and I had a really great time talking to everyone from the MTC. It
was so much fun being able to see almost everyone again. The only ones
who weren't there were Elder Webb, Christensen, and Eyler, since they
are in areas that are too far away from Edmonton. They had to phone in
instead. I got a lot more out of the meeting being there, than I would
have otherwise. It was backwards because instead of me standing around
waiting for Elder Marsh to finish talking with everyone, it was him
trying to tell me to go, because I was talking to everyone. It really
was nice to see everyone again.
Friday
The only thing that really happened was that
we got a new potential investigator. They live right next to the
Joseph's. It is going to be hard to meet with them, because they are
always on the go, and we really don't go to Springbrook that often. We
really didn't have anything else too exciting happen today.
Saturday
"No Effort is Wasted"
Today went
pretty rough. We were pretty much planning our day as we went. We had
planned out things before hand, but we had to rearrange things
constantly. We were going to go over to Hubert (the guy who lives across
the street) and have lunch with him and his wife. Well He took longer
to get home than we thought and his wife had to go to work. We ended up
going to an appointment and coming back. We were able to talk with him
for a while. He wanted to know what our future life plans were. We tried
to talk to him about how our eternal goals were guiding our temporal
and trying to tie in gospel principles during it. We asked him if he
would take the lessons. Of course it was no. "I pretty much know what
you believe". We were just trying to give him a basic understanding and
he declined. We then went to go talk with Gail about maybe coming to
church or taking a church tour. She wasn't home of course. We got in the
car and Elder Marsh was super bummed out. It was another switch up. He
even told me. You should be the one getting down and I should be trying
to lift you up. We just talked about how we are doing everything that we
can, but people still have their agency of whether they want to accept
it or reject it. We tried to stop by a few more people and really didn't
get far with anything. We then went to talk to the Ellis' about how the
Relief Society activity went. (Carolyn Beckwith went with Sister Ellis)
It went really well and we were able to talk about things. It was a
really good visit. It kinda pumped us up. The Ellis' are so missionary
minded that it can be really uplifting. When we got home, I was flipping
through trying to find something in PMG and I came across the section
"No Effort is Wasted". It was pretty uplifting and a great boost.
Sunday
Today was pretty great. I found out the magic
of the 3rd Sunday of the month. It was Pot-luck lunch after church.
Church was pretty great and then it was even better with Pot-luck. We
then went back to the apartment to finish off 12-wk for the week and got
ready to go. We went and visited with one LA and then went out to Drew
Ellis' (the Ellis' son). It really reminded me of dinner at Peg's except
there was actually room. Her sister was in town with her kids from
South Jordan and her parents were there for dinner. It was buffet and
find a place to sit. We shared a message with the adults and any of the
kids that came in. We finished and left. It was strange because it was
just "ok, thank you for dinner, bye" and walk out. No one took us to the
door. It was just different from other dinner appointments. We then had
another Sunday night curse. We have no success in talking with anyone
on Sunday nights.
The recap of my days seem pretty long, but I actually have to try
and tell only the important parts. I could go on and on about everything
and wish I could just write all day. but then again it could get pretty
boring.
Well that was my week. It had it's ups and
downs, but I'm trying to stay positive through it all. I can tell you
that next week will be a crazy one so hope your excited for that email.
I'll start by saying that we get to go to the zoo today with Bro and Sis
Burns.
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