March 27

This week we went to Cardston. There we met the whole zone for the first time. I met my cousin for the first time! Elder Derek Purvis! He is a District Leader in Raymond, and he’s training a missionary. He was happy to find out that we are cousins. He’s a cool guy. I got some pictures of him, and lots more pictures of other things, but I have no way of sending them because I do not have an SD card reader, and I have no place to buy one because there is no Wal-Mart in our area. I think that it will be good, because when I get home I will have lots of pictures to show for family night! A whole slide show! And I will give you a tour of Calgary on Goolge Maps! 

We walked to the Church on Tuesday evening to do something, and then walked back. In Clareshome, when the sun goes down the town goes to bed. Walking home, we saw this guy walking. We talked to him and it turns out that Elder Panter knows him. He lives in the same house with a member and some other people. He knows who we are and what we do. He stayed around and listened to the dinner message when we had dinner at the house. We ended up talking to him for about 15 minutes and we gave him a Book of Mormon and a reading assignment. We had a lesson with him that week. We taught the Restoration. That was a very good lesson. He did read the chapter that we gave him, and he did accept a baptismal invite. He said that he would come to church but did not come. We have another appointment with him this week. His name is Brent, and he’s our new investigator for the week!  

 This week is so busy. We have Zone Conference and car inspections. We are wanting to go to the temple, and interviews are on April 1st. That’s funny.

We cover two wards. President has told us to focus and put most of our attention on one ward: Claresholm Ward. We still make it out to Champion once a month. We make the hour drive on Saturday to meet with Bishop and we went through the ward list, and we met with some less actives. We were able to get in one less active home. It’s hard to plan out there cause it’s too far and people don’t keep appointments. We were also there on Sunday. We gave talks in Sacrament Meeting with a High Councilman, That was good. He picked us up and drove us home. That saved us a lot of Ks! 

  

We had dinner with one of our investigators that we were not able to meet with. We taught the Restoration. His wife was there listening. Usually she wants nothing to do with church, but she sat and listened the whole time. The Spirit was there, she made the comment. Wow did you guys bug our house or something? That there was the spirit. 

I’m now getting over a small cold. Getting over it! 

Love you all