Hey Fam!
How are
things going!? Things here in BC are getting really really cold lol, and the
hard part is that it is getting dark at 4:00. It’s so crazy, and it’s hard to
get use to. So imagine Tanner, Dallin, Caleb, and Callie, getting home from
school and it is already getting dark! Wake up, go to school, come home, and go
to bed! haha
My coat is
keeping me warm. It’s a nice coat and it’s doing its job. Also dad, I had to
use my home flow bank card, I bought a hat and some gloves, I spent $40 using that
card. I’m sorry. I did not want to use it, but I did not have enough cash or
money left on the BA card. So how it works: the church gives you a Bank of
America Prepaid card. Every month they put on $200 and it gets you through the
month; food, clothes, toiletries, and so on. I withdrew money from the BA card
(church card) from the ATM because its only one fee, instead of a fee any time
I use the BA card.
Last week
was Zone Conference. That was really good. On zone pday we played a
life-sized game of Sorry and that was so intense. My team won! Thanks to me, I
drew the card that we needed to get our guy back home. I Tebowed when I drew
the card. We won. Then after that game all missionaries got dressed into pross
and President took all of the missionaries out to dinner who did not have a
dinner planned with a member. He took us to Dennys. Then we had more training
after dinner, then we went back to the Zeds apartment. They have a nice
apartment. its two stories and three or four bedrooms. most of us slept on the
floor on mattresses. In the morning we got ready for the day, got ready for car
inspections, had some training meetings, and car safety training. After that,
when it was all over our district left together. We stopped at Creston to
chill, use the washroom, and to kill time until the next Ferry, but to make use
of time we went street contacting in the freezing cold. Most of us thought that
no one was going to be out because of the time (8:50ish PM) and because of how
cold it was. I was one of them haha. We went on exchanges for that night. So
Elder Lusk and I were walking down the road. we see nobody! But all of a sudden
we see this guy that crosses the street and walks right in front of us. I’m
the one that stops him and I talks to him. When I'm about to offer the BoM,
in my mind I'm thinking that he’s not going to except this BoM, but I ask
him anyways and I accepts it!!!:) That was really really cool! His name was
Ross. Then we met up with and left with the Nelson elders from Creston. We drove
to take the Ferry home. That was so nice and fun, We ended up spending the
night in Nelson and left for Trail that next morning.
On Friday
the Nelson ward had a bean bag tournament. We were invited to that and that was
so fun. There was lots of food, candy, and pizza. The Nelson ward has
like 180 members but only like 10 are active. Its kinda sad. I made it to
the semi-finals but I lost after that.
So the
church open house that we had 2 weeks ago went great! Our investigator family
showed up and we had some members show up too. So what happens in a church open
house is: You start off in the foyer, I was the ""tour
guide"" I told them what we were going to be doing and what was going
to be happening, I showed a Mormon Message video, then bore testimony. I took
them through some of the church building walking by rooms and telling
them what this room was and what goes on in this room and that room. Then
I took them inside a room and a missionary gave a quick talk about prophets or
the Savior’s earthly ministry, (one of the points in lesson 1) and he bore
testimony. Then I took them to another room. They sat down in front of another
missionary that talked about another point in Lesson 1 and he bore testimony. Then
I took them into another room where we had our WM (ward mission leader) talk about
the Atonement and he bore testimony, Then I took them to the room right behind
the chapel. There were no chairs and our WML talks about the 12 apostles and
what happened to them after Jesus dies on the cross. All of the names of the
apostles were on Hymn books and as our WML talked about them and about when
they died he knocked down a book. When he knocked down 6 books, a missionary
turned off one set of lights, and then once the other 6 were knocked down all
the lights go off, state of apostasy, state of darkness. He then went on
in saying something like "Because the Lord loves us he has called another
prophet here on this earth and *light* was restored." When he said “light”
two missionaries whipped open the big sliding fire doors (the same ones that
are in your ward) that lead into the Chapel with all the lights on and the
Restoration video ready to go. A missionary talked about the restoration and we
watched it and then he bore testimony about it after the movie was over. Then
last we had some cookies in the gym and some BoMs and other things that people
can take.
We are
having another Church open house next week on Sunday, with all of the members
that went to the last one. They said that they loved it! And it was so
good! So hopefully we will have a better turnout, because every member
was invited to bring a friend, and they did not do that but I bet they will
with this next one coming up because of all of the good things they heard
about it..
Two days ago
we went door-to-door in the cold (of course) in Castlegar and told everyone
about the church open house and handed out flyers. We ran into a lot of nice
people. One of them invited us in to
warm up and we stood there and talked for like 10 minutes.
This week we
will be doing the same approach about the church open house.
So now with
the investigators: Nina was not baptized. She gets a lot of "stuff"
from her good ole friend that's a JW. And with the Grieves, there is a lot of
stuff going on with them, mostly the husband. That is all I will say about
them. Sorry I did not email last week. It won’t happen again.
***Also I
don't think that we will be getting iPads any time soon, due to some
missionaries that are somewhere in the states who are making stupid choices
with their iPads. President says that he does not think that we will get iPads
while he is still president, so that will be in July, That's when he leaves.
And he inplied not to plan on getting them any time soon. So with that I was
thinking that I should get another pair of dress shoes/snow dress shoes because
the ones that I have now they are wearing out inside in the back. And if I keep
wearing them the there will be no back (back of the heal) So I could use some
Home Flow money and use the BA card that the church gave me. So what sayest
thou? haha
Also anytime
even when I get transferred you can send anything to the mission home; letters
or anything, that will be the best way to send things because I will be
transferred soon.
Also I am sorry
to ask for things but there are some things that I need if possible can you
send it to me, to that address that I gave you. I need:
My Black
Winter Gloves
Thermal
Garments...........I can give you the size that I bought that fit.
Warm Wool
Socks
Kenneth Cole
Reaction white shirts........They are the ones that we got at Sams club, they
are a thicker fabric then the other shirts that we ordered online they keep me
warmer. Especially when I get transferred to Calgary in February, that's the
months where it gets the coldest. Those Kenneth Cole white shirts can be the
winter shirts and the others can be summer shirts.
I heard that
Harvey contributed to the package! haha that’s so funny! There’s a member in
the ward that has two BIG greyhounds!
Thank you
Love all of
you
