June 15, 2015

Last week was good. We did some service for a potential investigator. We did some yard work for her. She really likes us and insists on giving us money for pizza. She told us that she was thinking on leaving her religion because the Catholics do not send out men like us to help other people and to teach. We will be helping her again this week.

On Wednesday we went on splits with the Ward Mission Leader, and Ward Missionaries to visit some people less actives in the ward. We got one return appointment from that.

We got a new investigator! His name is MJ. We got ahold of him. We taught him about who God is and about the Restoration. He likes what we taught him and he said the prayer before we left. He has a good job and works with members, so that is good. All during that lesson it was raining, and there was lots of thunder! We have had a couple of storms last week, hail and rain and thunder. We will be teaching MJ again on Saturday.

We had apartment inspections last week. We cleaned our apartment really hard. We got a 9 on a 10 point scale. They never give out 10s because 10 is celestial. I will take a 9 any day.

 We taught a less-active that day as well. We just read the Book of Mormon with him.

A couple of days before, we knocked on some door. We were invited to come to dinner at this one door because they were going to have some thing exotic, "Fishys" he called it, but when we got over there he was not home. No dinner. We walked back home and took the car to get something to eat. we got Donair Pizza. It is so so so good! Donair meat is sliced from a conical loaf cooked on a vertical spit, made from a combination of ground beef, flour or bread crumbs, and various spices.

The sauce is distinctively sweet compared to doner kebabs, being made from condensed milk, sugar, vinegar, and garlic. This is a Donair wrap. they are also really good.

We met with Cole last week. That went really really good! He was talking to us and telling us of the experiences that he had last week, because we did not meet with him. He said that he likes the feeling that he gets when he prays, and when he reads the Book of Mormon. He said that he prayed the day before he went to the place in Calgary where you can do day jobs and get paid for that day. He prayed that he would get a full-time job. The next morning when he went to the job site he got the full time job right away! Working Monday-Friday from 6:00-7:00 at $20.00 an hour starting wage. All he is doing is custom cutting wood for houses and putting them on a semi. He said that he loves it and that the hardest part of the job is standing on his feet all day long. I think he was kidding about that.

He also told us of another story where he took his girlfriend to the hospital because she was in pain. Turns out she's going to have a baby, and the baby is growing wrong, so they may loose the baby any day. Cole told us that he walked out to the back of the hospital because he was full of anger and wanted to take a smoke. He told us that he prayed for help. After he prayed he was not mad anymore! All of that was lifted from him. His burdens were lifted. He said it felt good! We had a little lesson on faith and we put him on date for baptism on July 4th. When he accepted the baptismal date the sun came out from the clouds. That was a cool experience.   That date may have to be pushed back, because he is smoking. He said that he is trying to cut back and that he has tried to quit before. I have this stop smoking program that is guaranteed to help you stop smoking in 7 days. We will start that on Thursday. He realizes the blessings in his life and the blessings that he has received ever since we met him. Cole told us that 4 months ago he would have just laughed at us. 

He is now on date and we have met our goal as a mission to have 50 investigators on date in the month of June. We are at 52 as a mission right now.

This area is doing well. It’s the same I’ve been in the last 3 weeks. The district is also the same and is doing really good.

Our car is doing fine. We have not had any problems with the ignition ever since we got it switched because of the stolen keys. They gave us and the whole mission the kilometers back! They said due to organizational difficulties.  We were really happy to hear that we are back to 800 for the month instead of 550. 

Sounds like EFY was really fun, and St. George as well. I saw a picture that Drew posted on facebook with Tanner. \

Callie sounds like Caleb when he was that age, everyone’s friend, the whole neighborhood knows and loves. Maybe during Christmas time Tallie will ask for Tanndy-Tanes hahah just kidding. kinda.;)

 Good thing Harvey has a close friend that is right next door. He can get some good exercise playing, because he probably is not getting walked.  ha

We will get a new mission president at the end of this month, I do not know where their homecoming will be, somewhere in Texas. We will be able to meet the new mission president on the 8th I think.