This week mostly consisted of
moving, and moving. The nice apartment we have now is empty and we will be
cleaning it today. All Alberta contracts end at noon, but we were able to
get an extension on the contract. Moving can be so stressful and very tiring!
The members that we are moving in with are nice and they have a nice basement
suite. We have our own kitchen, washer and dryer, and washroom. They have a
tenant there now and he has to be out by the first, (tomorrow at noon). We
were able to store everything in their garage until we move in which was so
helpful! The tenant now is kind of a hoarder. Not trash, but its just junk. He
has a lot of stuff. So it might take a day to clean up. We will not be able to
move in on Tuesday but maybe Wednesday. So I guess now I can say that I was
homeless on my mission for a few days. We have been living with other
missionaries in the district in the Somerset Ward. It has been fun but I could
not do that forever.
With this move we had to trade
cars with the Calgary East Zone Leaders. They have a big Silverado 1500 that
helped out a lot. That was when we got in an "accident". We took a
load to the landfill and backed up into one of the dumpsters. Elder Gregory was
backing me up and one of the workers was yelling at us from the other side of
the lot telling us to go to dumpster 10. I could not hear anything all. All I
knew was that I was good to keep backing up. We just broke the tail light, that
was it. No other damage.
Today we have to clean our apartment.
We will have other missionaries there. Then we will hand in the keys.
We had a lesson with David, he
was baptized not to long ago. He is progressing faster than his sister. The
first lesson she was not there, and the second lesson she was there but she had
a tantrum and did not want to come out because she wanted to play with the ipad
which was taken way. The lessons with them are great. Easy to teach no hard
questions, and they remembered everything. Their hometeacher is our WML.
Heidi has accepted a baptismal
date! We met with her and brought a member with us, which was the best
idea! He is an older guy and is a neighbor of Gail's, I am so, so glad
that we brought him because Gail is a member and is not able to move around,
and she likes to talk. Heidi is her caretaker. We teach Heidi at Gail's
house. Gail loves to talk and is not shy to interrupt the lesson to speak
whatever is on her mind. It’s always off topic. haha Its always the same stuff;
Her farm she’s selling, her lawyers, and her daughter. Bro. Vance is the member
we brought with us. He talked to Gail one on one and we were able to talk to
and teach Heidi. This lesson was kind of the same as last time but we talked
more about it. We taught about baptism, taught about baptisms for the
dead. We asked her if she will be baptized, and she said yes. She would not
commit to a date yet because she still has questions. The cool thing was we are
able to talk over them and they did not disturb us while we were teaching, the
spirit had to have been there. aha
We contacted this referral that
we got. His name is Justin. He is a single dad. He has one daughter that is 2.
One of his wife's dying wishes was to have her daughter raised in
religion! On Saturday we contacted him. He said that he would come to church. He
did not come. So we will drop by again and see if we can teach him.
These last two weeks have been
awful! The air quality has been so bad because of the fire in Washington and
BC. The smoke has made its way to Calgary. Just being out side makes you smell
like smoke! The air quality was a 17 on a 1 to 10 point scale.
love
you guys
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