Tofield Chapters 17 and 18

 

Tofield Chapter 17 and 18

Colin O'Neill
to Family, Garrett, me, My, Regan

Well I do have to play some significant catch up with this email. I'm probably not going to remember much of the small details. The last couple of weeks have been crazy, as most of you already know. You just have to keep going on. I think its in the Joseph Smith movie, might be somewhere in the scriptures. "The Lord calls us in our weakness, so he can lift us higher." Well the latest news is that I'm staying in Tofield and I'm District Leader. :) It will be an adventure.

Tuesday
Well we came and emailed. We had lunch. I don't remember what we did that day. We went to Hillyer's for supper and us and Pres Hillyer were picked up by Bro Cahoon and Bro Hoag to go help Bro Pufong move in Veg. It was a fun night. The Branch presidency and the missionaries. It was a ton of fun.

Wednesday

Veg day

When we got to Veg we went and visited Sis Gillespie. We then talked with Soren. We were going to go to Shirley with Pres Hillyer, but she wasn't there. We tried by some others with him and ended up at Thompsons. Had a pretty good lesson there. Best in a while. We then went out to Stennes and helped them with their landscaping. We helped them build a rock wall around their garden with chunks of broken concrete. It was fun.

Thursday

Well that morning was crazy. We got up and ran to Sherwood Park, so I could call home. We knew we were going to be late for District Meeting, but it ended up being in Sherwood Park anyways. So we weren't too late. We had lunch at Panda Express. We then helped Fort Skat with some service. We had supper with Chutes and then visited with Fishers.

Friday

We got up and drove to Veg to help Chuck help some people move. Well that was most of the morning. They are really nice people. It was interesting, because they are French Canadian from Quebec, so communication was low. We got everything covered. We had to pick up some things from Walmart. Right after we got out is when President Manion called. We drove to the Catholic school. They quietest part of town that I know of. Took some time and then tried formers. We had supper with Chuck and Mary.

Saturday

We didn't really do a whole lot. We had weekly planning. We had supper at Gillis' and then helped them in their garden. Got to talk with Sis Crump for a while too.

Sunday

Church was incredible. I love the people in this branch. They really care. We had studies and then went to Kastendiecks for supper.

Monday

Played basketball in the morning. Had lunch at Kastendiecks and then went to look around the Acreage. We came back and had supper with Fishers. Then went and met with Carol.

Tuesday

We emailed then had lunch. We met with Ronnie. She is so great. It was a really good lesson. She is just willing to learn so much. We also were able to download the gospel library app for her to listen to the scriptures. That was rough. It's a learning experience for all of us. We went home and made some phone calls then had supper. We went out to Trent and Khristina's that night.

Wednesday

Veg day. Met with Sis Yost. We then went and met with Meggie then Shirley with Pres Hillyer. Both of those lessons went really well. We'll see if they will keep their commitments. We had supper and stopped by some people. We then drove to Sherwood Park to call home again. We should have just stayed the night, but we drove home instead.

Thursday

Today was full of meetings. We got up and went to the mission home so I could go to the Future Leadership Training Meeting. That was interesting. Get to see some old friends. :) We then drove to Sherwood Park Chapel for Zone Lunch. We then had ZTM. After that we went on exchanges and drove back to the mission home so I could Skype. That was a lot of fun. It helped me out a lot more that I thought it would. We then drove to Fort Skat and had supper. We then met with Alex.

Friday

Well Really didn't do a whole lot. We stopped by some people. We had lunch and stopped by some more people. We then drove out to Chipman later to exchange back. We then went home to have supper. We were just having some food and Jannell called us. She is a member in Rutherford. She and her sister were going to come out. So we went to Tilly's with them. It was a fun night.

Saturday

Well we helped out with the Hoag roofing project. Hoag's were re-shingling their roof. It was lot of hard work and fun. I have worked on two roofs on my mission. Two more than I even wanted to do. :) We worked on it all day. We came home, stopped by Sis Roughley's to pick some stuff up and then went home. Didn't do much that night.

Sunday

Well we had Branch Council. We then had Church. We usually are at the door of the chapel handing out programs. Well I'm looking outside watching people come in. I see this couple and I just look and think I should know them, but their not in the branch. Two seconds later I see President and Sister Manion. The brought Elder and Sister Hunt with them to the branch since they are the couple going to serve in Yellowknife. They haven't ever been in a branch and wanted to know what it is like. It was quite a shock to see them all there. They did leave after sacrament though. We didn't have anyone at church like we thought we were going to. We came home after and had lunch and then studies. We went to Sis Beck's for supper with the Chutes and Sis Roughley. We tried by some people and that was the night.

Monday

Well it was pretty laid back. We were going to go into Sherwood Park, but didn't. Fort Skat decided not to go, so neither did we. We just hung around for a while. We played basketball later with some of the kids. We then had supper and finished planning what we hadn't.

Well that has been my life the past couple of weeks. I'm ready to get back to normal missionary life....If that exists. :)

Love, 

Elder O'Neill