Dec 7 2015

Christmas is getting closer and closer! It amazes me how fast this year went by! Next month will be a new year- 2016! 

We had a better week than last week. Last week was not too good. Our numbers were low. We were in Lethbridge for a day. 

We had this investigator named Diana, I have taught her once since I have been here. We kind of dropped her because she was not really progressing and it seemed like the more she meets with us the more involved she was with her church, the Baptist church. She came to this Church once or twice and she has had the baptismal invitation more than once, so she was not progressing. Just this or last month she started texting us saying that she would like to meet up again. So we scheduled an appointment. That one went well.  I asked her why she wanted to all of a sudden meet up with us again. I really liked her answer. She said that she likes the feelings that she feels, and it makes her week better. So that's good. It’s good that she recognizes it! Three days later we met up again. We had a plan to talk about the Book of Mormon and the importance of it. But instead we ended up teaching about the Plan of Salvation. I know that was instruction by the spirit, because during that lesson she had a lot of questions that we answered. I felt the Spirit really strongly as we were teaching about God's Plan of Happiness, the Plan of Salvation. The Spirit put words in my mouth that was not planned beforehand. Always being in tune with the Spirit is so important, as a missionary and at all times. 

As a missionary we learn to always be in tune with the Spirit, especially in lessons, because without the Spirit, the lesson will not get anywhere. The investigator will not get anywhere, and you will not get anywhere. 

This week we had lots of service. They were all moves too, which is kind of ironic I think, because the house just sold. The weather has been awful. It does not even feel like it is December! It’s been too warm. I think we have been in a Schnook this pass week. It’s been nice with the moves that we helped with, but I would like to see some snow, and not the snow that is on the ground already, that's been there for weeks. One of those moves was for a nonmember. Their house smells like marijuana. Walking up those stairs the smell hits you like a ton of bricks! We stopped early because of complications with their other Landlord. As we talked to the guy he starts rolling up a joint. He said that he has a medical card for it because he has a severe back injury. We left before he lit it up. haha

Last week we went on exchanges with the APs. It was a lot of fun. I enjoyed them. We got a lot of work done. 

Yesterday we had Stake Conference. All Calgary stakes were there. It was broadcasted via satellite. They rearranged the stake boundaries and they added a stake! That was really cool to witness. A new stake means a new zone, Next week is transfers, I am really interested to see what goes on.      

There was General Authority there, Elder Anderson of the Seventy. He gave a really good talk. He talked about the temples, and the importance of temple sealing. He said "Those who receive the sealing covenant in the temple, they will still be together in the next life." even if they make wrong choices. 

He talked a lot about faith. There are three principles of faith.

1. Believe in Jesus Christ, Have hope. Faith and hope go together. 

2. Set goals that are in line with Gods will. Conform desire with his will. 

3. GET TO WORK! Faith without works is dead. 

I am really excited for Christmas and for the New Year. Good luck with the move. Hope it all goes well.

Love you all

Nov. 30 2015

This was one of those weeks where it was really busy and not a whole lot happened. We went to Lethbridge on Wednesday. We took the truck because we had some sick tires. We drove two other missionaries there as well. We were told that there could be more snow down there and their mini van had a low tire so it was a better idea to take the truck.

We did not have as many lessons as I wanted. Fred was busy all week. He came to church yesterday so that was good, and he came all on his own.  We contacted Kalhed on Saturday. He is not going anywhere. His mom will not let him. They are not interested. They have a different belief. 

It was coming to the end of the week and we really wanted to find a new investigator, because we are on a really good roll. We have this big list of part member families. There are about 112 names on there, and it’s really out of date. We both decided to fast until we get a new investigator, we are contacting this list and we knock on this door, the person who lives there is not the one we are looking for. She has lived there for 8 years, which shows how out of date the list is. We start talking to her about her dogs and about what we do. I have some things in common with them. Both of the dogs birthdays are in February and so is the owner’s. We give her a BoM and she asks for more reading assignments. She said that she would read the assignments and that we can come back on Tuesday. So last week we got a new investigator! Her name is Amy. 

We will be teaching Fred this week and we will try and put him on date.