August 25 2014 This week was Awesome

So this week was awesome, and it went by SO fast. I cant believe that this month is almost over! On Wednesday and Thursday we were in Cardston which is like a 7-8 hour drive from where we are at. so that's like driving to St. George for you guys haha. I like Cardston it is, no joke, just like Utah. It has a lot of LDS churches, and the members hand out money. I did not get any money but that is okay. We got to Cardston at around 7;00 and we checked into the hotel with all of the other missionaries that were there. After we checked in, the Nelson elders and us, we cleaned out our cars because car inspections were the next day eh. But all of the washes that we knew of were closed and it was getting late so we had to head back to the hotel and go to bed. That next morning we woke up early because we had to wash the cars. Our cars were hit by thousands of bugs because of the drive. When we headed out it was raining and it was kinda cold so we drove to the car wash, and vacuumed the cars and washed and waxed them so they looked super good. When we got done we drove back to the hotel and changed and headed to the church which was right across from the temple. All of the missionaries in the Western or Eastern zone were there so we had like 40-50 missionaries.

After the temple worker talked to us, President Nicholas talked to us and we all ran to the temple because it was pouring rain. That temple is SO SO SO SO NICE inside! We all got to do a session and they have a new film that we got to see. It was good. They were telling us before we went in about the temple and how neat it is and how it is built, and how people come to see it to get ideas on how to build new temples. There is a lot of wood work in there and all hand done because they did not have power tools back then. Most of that wood is extremely expensive because of the type of wood that they used.

After the session we ate lunch there. That was way good. we ate roast beef (beast) (haha) and potatoes. Then we went to the church. the Mission President talked to us for like 6 minutes. then we had a testimony meeting, and then we all went home. We got to drive another 6-8 hours back home in Trail! :) We got home around 11;00 or 11:30 haha 

So we did not have a baptism on Friday. She cancelled it again. she has a mental condition so that could be one of the factors. But she digs deep. she digs so deep into the doctrine and wants to know everything before she gets baptized. She is asking questions like "Why is Lord capitalized it?" and "Why cant I pray to Jesus?" stuff like that. She knows the answers and we have taught her everything. She knows that is church is true and she has received an answer. So we are still working on that. Also we have been working on a member that had some problems. his wife kicked him out because of the choices he’s made. They do not want to file for divorce  because they want to work things out.  He had smoking, and drinking problems. We worked with him and yesterday he had a steak dinner with his wife and he is now moving back with her. They are older but not super old, they have a pretty nice house, but he looks so much happier now!  

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So there is a new challenge that has been going around called the "Ice Bucket Challenge"  for the support of MLS Mitt Romney did it, George Bush did it, and people every where did it. So guess what?! Me and Elder Lybe are going to do it!!! :) And then we are going to challenge the mission President to do it! We are going to hike a short mountain so you have a good view and we are going to do the Ice bucket challenge. We will film it and send it to you and we will put it on Facebook! maybe we will get lots of shares and views that it will go viral and other missionaries will do it too. Maybe we will be on the news, they might show it. But yeah that's the plan for today!:)  

  

Love you all thanks for the prayers and support. :) 

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-Elder Condie