It’s kinda crazy to say that this is going to be my last letter, considering that I will see all of you on Friday! I am really, really looking forward to that. It is going to be an experience and a feeling that will not be forgotten. Just make sure that you are all there at the airport, and don’t forget to pick me up! Because that will be awkward for me to stand there and see all the other missionaries greet their families. I will be in the corner on the pay phone calling a taxi, if that happens! hahaha I’m sorry to hear about your back dad. It might so be that with the medication your on I will be coming home to a dad that’s high as a kite, because of all the pain medication(s)! haha .
This week will be a breeze. We will have DTM. I will pack and on Thursday I will head to the Transfer Station the Stake Centre in Lethbridge. When I get there I will load my stuff in the trailer along with all the other missionaries that are going home or being transferred to Calgary. When we get to Calgary we will unload all of our suitcases take them to the mission home for all of those that are going home. We go to the temple in the afternoon with all of the missionaries that are going home. After that, we will come back to the mission home, eat a nice meal, we will have a devotional/testimony meeting, spend the night in the mission home, wake up, eat breakfast and they drive us to the airport! That is what this week will intel. That is how they send missionaries home in this mission.
We have one new investigator. We helped some people that are relatives of a less active member. We have helped them with various service, so we have a pretty good relationship with them, and it all started with service. We drove by their house and saw them outside, so we stopped and visited with them for a while and taught a lesson, it was a good lesson. Very good questions and real intent.
Even though last week was long and this week will probably be a little longer. We got some work done last week. We had dinner at a members house. He had some family over from Saudi Arabia. They are members of the church, but they are not allowed to worship how they wish. They have to do it in secret, all of the members do. They have normal police and "Religious Police" Proselytizing is forbidden there. No one is allowed to talk to others about religion unless they are asked and have permission from the person. Sometimes it is a trap, someone may come up to you and ask you questions, and you cannot reply unless you have their permission. You are always being watched over there. When they were talking to us about that they said that we are so blessed to be able to have that freedom. So count your blessings and enjoy that freedom of religion, because it is really so nice to be able to walk down the road in Sunday dress walking to Church. It was really an eye opener for me talking with them and about their lifestyle that they have to live. They are originally from Spain but moved for work reasons (oil industry).
I enjoy and I am thankful for the freedoms that I have in the Country that I live in. Even though other countries are kicking missionaries out, or taking Jesus out, the Church will continue to grow! I have seen it here in Calgary when they added a new stake, years ago Calgary was only 2 or 3 stakes now we are at 7 stakes. (use to be 6).
The missionary workforce is stronger then it use to be and growing too! Tanner you will be on the front line for the Church, you will be a missionary, a representative of La glesia de Jesucristo de los santos de los ultimos dias! You will help others come unto Christ and experience the same joy you have, they will never forget you!
Thank you so much for the love and support and for your prayers, I’m so excited to see all of you on Friday!
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