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Monday, March 16, 2015

Mar. 16, 2015

This week was hard and good. We met our goal to teach 20 lessons so that was good, Today we are emailing at the Calgary Library because the family history center is closed so we can not use the computers there. So I will not be able to send any pictures today. Next week I’ll send some pictures.

We want to make 20 lessons a goal every week. Bishop thinks that's a great idea. But it is going to be really hard because everyone is busy. So lets hope that we will be able to do the 20 lessons again this week with March Madness going on.

This week we have interviews with president so that will be nice.
I saw some pictures of Brad coming home and at his homecoming. That's really cool. Time just flies!

At the beginning of last week I knew that we were not going to reach our goal, but when we went to meet with our WML (every Tuesday) we told him about that goal that we have. So he told his wife to post that goal on the RS Facebook page and so she did and no joke, about 5 minutes later we get like 2 texts from members in the ward saying that we can come over. So that helped a lot.

It snowed last night so there is snow outside.

General Conference is coming up again! I'm excited to watch that.

Last week our zone did a service project for, I think it was a potential investigator. We did some renovations so that was really fun. 


That’s about all that happened last week     

March 9, 2015


WOW so Callie is getting baptized! That’s so amazing! I saw her pictures they were amazing! She looked so good in her new dress! If possible see if you can get the missionaries serving in the your ward and have them teach Callie the lessons. That way she will have a better understanding of things and the missionaries there can get the numbers. haha 

Sounds like winter down there was just great! It must have been nice because there was not a lot of work removing snow or whipping out the snow blower. Its a good thing that I’m not there dad so you can’t blame me for braking the snow blower! haha:)  People here say that this winter we had was a LOT better than last year! Last year was really really bad, super cold, like -40 c cold. But it is really nice out here. Its starting to warm up. People here say that summers are really nice it gets in the upper 20s lower 30s. It’s a lot cooler than Trail. that’s good because it was really warm over there. 

That’s crazy to hear that Brad gets home this week, Time just flies. 
This week for me went by so fast! So that’s good. We tried to do the 20 lessons last week but it did not happen, so we are going to try it this week! 

Last week we visited lots of LAs and some LARCs (Less Active Recent Convert) and we did some service, we helped put up a tramp for a member. We had lots of stuff that the last missionaries left so we had to borrow a truck and we filled it up and I had to take it to the landfill. I typed Land Fill in my GPS and it pulls up CCS- Land Fill Services. So I clicked on it and drive where it takes me. It takes me to DOWNTOWN CALGARY! I was driving a truck full of junk in down town during rush hour! So I had it take me back to the mission office and we get our car back and headed home because we had a dinner apt. When we headed to our dinner apt. which is a ways out of town, we passed the land fill! So I guess that place in downtown was the offices or something. 

So the next day we went back to the mission office and picked up the truck again and took it to the landfill. Then we washed the truck because they asked us to because it was very dirty to start out with and they said that they would reimburse me, so I washed it. Then we took it back and got our car back and got on with business. 

My GPS is so helpful! But I need to update the maps because sometimes it tries to make me turn onto roads that do not exist. 



So there is this family that the last missionaries have been meeting with. They are super cool. They are moving and they called us to help them move so we are going to help them move. They will still be in our area so that is good. 

There is a family in the ward that is friends with this other family that are not members. The family that is not members lost a baby. He was alive for only 17 minutes. So anyways, they have not been doing very well because of that, and also the wife has pneumonia and so they have kinda turned away from God. But they were at dinner with the members. She accepted a priesthood blessing and that went really well! 

That’s about it. This week we will be doing the 20 lessons. 

Congrats Callie on your baptism. That so is cool. I’m proud of you. 


March 2, 2015

March 2, 2015
My new area is still in Calgary. New Brighton is the area. I am serving as DL and I’m also a trainer. The person that we helped move out is taking the discussions from the other missionaries because she said that she would listen to us. I do not have the same comp (thank-goodness)  My new comp is Elder Hopoi. He’s from Long Beach Ca. He is right from the MTC. he’s a sweet guy. 
The place that we live in is SO SO SO nice! ITS HUGE. Its probably the biggest living place in the whole mission.    We live in like a town house its 3 stories, 2 1/2 bathroom, and there is a garage to park the car! 


The ward is AWESOME. They are missionary ward for sure. They love missionary work and they help out the missionaries all the time. The last missionaries there said that they got about $400 from the members. 

This last week we were going to members’ houses and trying to get to know the members better because we are both new in this area. 

Our battery died so we called a member in the ward and he jump started us, so that was nice...We do have a Costa Vida in this area so that’s good. 

Our WML is really cool. He’s a big time hunter so we got to eat some deer when we had dinner at his house. 

Our bishop is a good guy too. He’s really smart, and he’s a Personal Injury Lawyer. 

So sounds like we are moving! Sweet. Find a place on the Bench or cliffside or somewhere like that! My say is that we stay somewhere in Providence. So the market is at a low. So that’s good for the sellers because it’s a sellers market? 

Make sure that you guys take care of my dog, Someone cut his nails if they are still there. 

SOME ONES BIRTHDAY IS COMING UP?!?! HAPPY BIRTHDAY CALLIE! 
Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie!
Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie!
Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie!
Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie!

Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie! Happy Birthday Callie!

Feb 23, 2015


            Well this week has been kinda really crazy! Not much has been going on but a lot has been going on but not much, but a lot! If that makes any sense at all whatsoever.
So this time last week we got a call from the mission office, saying that we need to pack up and get ready to move out, because they are going to close down the area. There are like 4 areas being closed down, or two different areas being merged into one big one. So that is what we have been doing this week is packing. And putting things into boxes to send to the mission office and throwing the rest of the junk away. We had 7 extra large trash bags full of stuff like: food, plastic containers and all of that stuff. We are super cleaning the place because we need to make sure that it is nicer than it was before. 

Also we helped out Trim, (the fleet coordinator for all of the cars in the mission) with his house in Calgary. Most of our zone was there. We had to leave early to help Betty, she is the one that we have been helping in the past move. Trim let us borrow this big huge truck to use for the move. 
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It looks like this ^   I hope it turns out in the email. So we helped her move stuff into the storage unit, and then we drove back to Calgary to drop the truck off. When we got to the house the sisters from our district was there, but their car looked funny, so i got closer and they had a flat tire, so went to tell them and let them know. They came out and I showed them, They did not know how to change a tire so I did it for them. There was a huge bolt in the tire. They said that they have been driving like that for like a week, the tire was not completely flat but it was very low..  The sisters said that the car was driving weird but they thought that it was the wind haha. But I got it changed for them and they were able to get the tire fixed that night. 

On I think Wednesday night I get a call from the APs saying that I’m going to train. I went to the trainers meeting in Calgary. So that means that I will be purge training, so that will be very interesting, we will have to see how that goes. 

And also I got an email from president that I have been assigned to be DL! This is all just so crazy!   There are two elder Condie’s in the mission so maybe president sent the email to the wrong person.. haha  

I do not know where my new area is. Also we found out that Betty will be moving into my area but we are heading out so the sisters will be teaching her.  

That is about it, we also visited with Neil. He’s a member in the ward, he is trying to get back to the temple. He said that Bishop said that in 43 days he will start the recommend process with him.

So now what I will be in a new area that means no more free visits to the Chiropractor. My last visit was so amazing. 


So that is about all that happened, Next week I will be emailing in a different area.