Hello
everyone, hope you all had a great week! We have had a pretty good
week. Looking back on it now, it seems like it's been a long one, but it
has been filled with good stuff! It was Elder Parkers Birthday on
Sunday so that was fun. We could have fit everyone at church in a van!
So it got cut short to the 2 hour block and we had a lunch after where
we got free food! So that's awesome, because once again the dinner
calendar was untouched. But we are still looking forward to this week
nonetheless because on Saturday we get to leave the mission! We are
going to Meadow Lake Saskatchewan for a service project building homes
on a native reserve and some members from Lloydminster got it approved
and they will be driving us, so I'm pumped!
So
my companion and are doing really well with Comp unity, we are in so
deep we even both have in grown toe nails! So that has been fun. Mine
isn't too bad, just enough to be super annoying and Parkers looks like
he should just cut his toe off! So we bought some Epsom Salt this week
to try and make them a bit better.
We
did service yesterday out on a Ranch taking down a barbed wire fence. I
now know why so many of the Canadians swear so much out here. Not only
is there thistle everywhere, so thick it cuts through your jeans, it is a
breeding ground for mosquitoes who seemed like they hadn't ever before
seen any living thing with blood. I was eaten alive...
We
went on exchanges again this week, with Lloydminster and I went out
there again. We had a pretty cool experience and I had a funny one. So
we had a priest with us for a lesson that fell through and I guess the
elder hadn't planned any backups, so we went tracting. We knocked on 3
doors. The first one was a slam, second no answer and the third one was
the best. We noticed a no soliciting sign so they didn't want to knock
it, but I just told them that if they brought it up, we just ask them to
define soliciting for us (everyone has a different definition) so we
knocked and sure enough the guy pointed to the sign, so I then told him
to define it for us. He didn't, but just asked us who we were with, so
we told him The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and he
said, oh Jehovah's, we said nope, Mormons! He then said " oh well I
don't have a problem with you, do you want to come in and share a
message?" We were just like "uh... Yeah!" Haha it was pretty strange.
He was super nice to us from then on and even offered us stuff out of
his garden. Then we went to the branch activity which was bump. So there
is always this guy, nonmember, there who is a bit prideful, and a loose
canon, and has a short fuse. He kept getting out and would complain and
cry and what not saying we weren't letting him play for 5 seconds. So
the last game he was in front of me and I took it easy on him the first 3
shots or so, I'd let him make it before I'd shoot. The branch mission
leader was right behind me, and he was just like, "Go hard!" So I shot
and got him out, and the guy said "oh I knew it, you little bas*ard!"
Haha I have never been called that playing a game of bump! We all had a
pretty good laugh at it.
Quote of the week is from Thomas S. Monson
"There
is no tomorrow to remember, if we don't do something today!" This is
something I have learned especially out here in Canada. We will be so
much happier if we live in the present. Sure there are always those
times where we have crappy days and look forward to the next day, but we
can't just live waiting for the future because that one big event rolls
along and goes, what then? Do we just wait for the next one for
excitement? It also will not be as grande as it could be if we enjoy the
little moments in the daily life. That's what makes the big events
grande and exciting.
Keep it real,
Eat some Mexican food for me.
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