Oct 27th 2014

This week has been good. There was someone living in the basement of a member that we helped move out. He got arrested, (not the member) and as they were moving him from cell to cell he threatened to shoot a cop. So when we got to the members house we put everything in his trailer. But the thing is that everything there was stolen. There were like 10 guitars, DJ system, speakers, 6 mountain bikes, tools, and a lot more. They also found some firearms and some ammo so the RCMP came to seize them, so that was a lot of fun. 

The ward had a Crokinole tournament they have had one every year for 14 years and the missionaries have been there every year. It is a huge thing and only the men are allowed to come. Their wives make something for them to bring. There were 3 tables full of food, So that was fun and good. Bishop is the one that is in charge of this activity because this is "his" thing. haha it was really fun.  

Our family that we are teaching came to church like two weeks ago. That was awesome, and they said that they loved it. They came the week of ward conference so that was probably a good/different experience for them because you move around more. But there was a linger-longer right after and they liked that. We taught them the same day. This time it was with the whole family as before it was just the parents. We taught them about the Restoration. We watched the Restoration video and taught them about FHE, how to run it and what to do. Because we were there for longer than we expected and we did not have a dinner that night they ordered pizza and we had pizza with them. When we showed them how FHE should be run they were all happy and laughing, but after that things went down hill with her. She was saying how bad her husband was and how she wants him to go and how she will never forgive him for what he has done in the past. Were were there for about 3 to 3.5 hours and at the end we were getting no where. It was just going around in a circle,  so we said we needed to go because it was getting late, and we left. The husband followed us to the door and said thanks for coming. I can see the change in him already. We had planned to go to Creston and meet the district at their pad to have pday the next morning but it was too late to drive because it is like a 1.5 hour drive to get over there. So we left that morning to Creston and had pday, spent the night there and had district meeting Tuesday morning. We visited some old contacts that were in the record book and we knocked on their door to see if they were still interested and gave away 2 Books of Mormon. 

We also taught Nina last week. She had a question and we answered it and we put her back on track for baptism. We do not have a date set yet, but hopefully soon. The next day she asked us if we could help her in her yard and she asked if we had a message to share with her, so we did. That just shows that she feels the Holy Ghost when we teach her. 

Mom that is so awesome that Ryans mom found you and got to meet you, and how she went to our church for that mothers meeting and saw my plaque. That is really cool 

So I’m like 95% sure that I will be here in Trail for Christmas, so in response to your email about the Christmas package some things that I need/would like:

Ties (not the fat ones)

Socks 

Grandmas Candy 

American Candy (mike&lkes ect)

Beef Jerky 

Ties 

Socks that match the ties

G-2 bold point pens 

They do accept US dollars here, US dollars are worth more here in Canada. 

So you will be able to send box to that same address as the GPS got sent too.

Thank you for you prayers and support. Love you all 

Oct. 15 2014

HAPPY CANADIAN THANKSGIVING YESTERDAY!!!! It was so so weird to have Thanksgiving in October when Halloween is!  But it was a good thanksgiving. A member fed us; Canadian Turkey, Canadian Corn, Canadian Mashed Potatoes, Canadian Gravy, Canadian Stuffing, and Canadian Pumpkin Pie! It was so good, especially the Canadian part! They are also going to invite us over for American Thanksgiving!   

One of the members in the Bishopric in the ward is an ex-RCMP officer (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) and had us over at his house and he let us wear his uniform! I have to be honest I look good in it! ahah;) I look like I could be a cop! I will send the picture to you and mom can you edit and enhance them to make them look better and then send them back? And please do not send those pictures to family or anyone yet. Thanks! That will be awesome! Can you send me Grams address because for Christmas I will be sending a little bit of something to you and Grandma, and Gram. It will be that picture. One of the members does this every year for missionaries. She asks for a picture and makes it all nice on a slab of tile and makes that all nice and she crosses the line (border) and sends it off to the addresses that I give her. So if you can give me that address that will be great. Or unless Grandma and Gram are coming over for Christmas then I will have it sent to home. So if you can let me know about that then that will be great! :) Thanks 

So this week is transfers! Thats why Im emailing today. Guess where I got transferred?!!?......................................................................................................................................................................................................I got transferred NOWHERE! I am staying in Trail! And so is Lybe. That means that I will be here in Trail for more than 6 months. That is 25% of my mission which is so CRAZY! 

I will not be seeing Meet the Mormons! :( because it only comes out in the states and not Canada! If it comes out of DVD I bet that somehow we will be able to get our hands on it. 

Last week I taught the 1st lesson to that family that I talked about last week and it went so good! The spirit was there! The wife was born JW. She does not agree with them. And the husband has no religion. There are some relationship problems going on. If he was to make that change and other changes and want to be baptized then President will have to come interview him because of past transgressions. It was so crazy because the wife completely opened up and told us everything that he has done and all of the problems that are going on. She trusted us right then and there. 

Yesterday for Pday we went on a hike to Gimili Peak as a district. That was so fun! I will send some pictures. We had no service, so when we got out of the canyon our phone went CRAZY!! We have 20 text messages. most of them were from that family, the wife saying that she has given up on her husband. She want to divorce he wont leave. She lives upstairs and never goes down and he swears at the kids and is going crazy. So yeah... This is how my first family investigators are like haha. 95% of the time its not like that.. I know that the gospel will change their lives but it will take time. And satan is already doing what he does with that family.  We are not going to give up. she said that she still wants the gospel for her and her kids. We are going to meet with them today.

Also dad thank you for sending that GPS. I have it right now and it works great! We used it yesterday to find the hike. 

Thank you for all that you do and for all of your support.

 Love you all

Oct 5 2014

I do not have my GPS yet. Elder Lybe got a package from his family too and there was another missionary that is going to be getting a package that his mom sent. She told Sis Parslow so some time this week… some time this week.

General Conference was really good! I really liked it. But the only thing is that it went by SO SO SO SO FAST!! Maybe it was because no one paused and waited for everyone to be quiet! haha

We watched all of the sessions and priesthood at the church, and we ate food that a member brought for us at the church. We did not get Nina (our investigator) to come but she said she watched it online and that she liked it. But that one lady that I think that I talked about, Jenifer, the one that one Sunday, she just came to church and wanted to see the bishop. So we have been helping her and working with her. It turns out that she is a member. She was sealed in the temple, but her husband died. Her boyfriend right now is bugging her and she does not want to be with him. But we have been helping her and working with her. She has a lot on her plate right now.

We met with Nina this week, we did not teach her anything but we just talked with her and asked her questions. We invited her to stake conference and she said that she could come and she even had relatives to stay with. But her ride called her mom and asked if she was ready and her mom said that she was in a meeting, and that she couldn't go. When we met with her she did say that she was at a Jehovah witness assembly (we already knew that she was doing something with the JW). She said that they are nice to her and she has friends there, and she said that a woman there gave her a blessing one time and she did not feel anything. And we talked with her, we were more bold with her, we told her about a talk that was given in Stake Conference about this kid who can play a song on the piano with one hand and another song with the other hand, and it sounded awful! That is the same way with her (in a way) we told her. We said that you can’t be studying with the JW and at the same time study from us. She needed to choose one or the other. We told her to read the BoM again and pray about it. I gave her a promise, and that same promise is in the Introduction in the BoM, and bore my testimony about it and the spirit was there and I could tell that she could feel it. When it was time for us to leave it almost seemed like she did not want us to leave, so that is good.

After the Saturday morning conference session we went street contacting at Gyro Park (its really, really nice, I will send a picture of it). I did all of the talking, I started the conversation cause Lybe wanted me too. We ran in to a lady probably in her lower 30s. She sounded really interested. we gave her a PoS pamphlet with our number on it and the church address and she said that she will try to make it to church. 

And there is a foreign exchange student staying at a member’s house (she speaks English and French). We are kind of teaching her but we have not started yet, she said that she does not know if she believes in God, we gave her a English BoM the last time we went over, but that was hard for her to read. We ordered some French copies of the BoM from the mission home. Yesterday before we headed to Crambrook for Zone Pday and Zone Training, we stopped by to drop it off. (The plan was to give her the French BoM and talk about it and then go street contacting. But we were there at the members house for an hour and a half. Just talking, playing with their kids and they fed us dinner and they were not on the dinner calendar. They asked us if we wanted dinner and we said sure. They are a really nice family. The husband is American/Canadian (maybe just Canadian) and the wife is Polynesian I believe, and they made a REALLY, REALLY good Polynesian dinner! It was SO good. Super good beef and rice and some sort of beef soup. It was GOOD! (By the way I don't know if you want to hear this hah but I gained 5 pounds) haha It has been weird I gain pounds and then I loose pounds. So I hope but the time I go home I do not gain more than 20 pounds. haha So the foreign  exchange student told us that she sent the English BoM to her mom because she wanted to know more about the Mormons. And she said that she would read the French copy that we gave her.

Also we have a new family that moved from Vancouver. Bishop called us because the missionaries there called him and he let us know. So we helped them move in and they said that they will all be going to church and they want to take the discussions. They want that in their lives they said. And before we left from helping them we left by saying a prayer. They wanted that. They have like 6 super young kids that are super loud! haha The oldest is 14 and her boyfriend is living with them, but they do not sleep in the same room, which is good. The boyfriend comes from a disfunctional family so I guess they kind of adopted him ha ha. So I’m excited to start teaching someone now. 

That's about all that happened this week. Love you all

Elder Condie