This
week was good. We did not meet our goal to teach 20 lessons. March Madness is going on and it is also Spring Break out here in da north., so it might be
harder to reach our goal. The weather is bipolar here. Some days its warm some days
its cold. We will be getting snow tonight, somewhere around 3-5 cm, but that
will all be gone within the week. The snow here, it is like air! All it is - is
powder, you can sweep the snow off the sidewalks with a garage broom or blow it
off with a leaf blower.
We
helped a PI move on Saturday. That was really fun, hopefully we will be
able to teach them in the future. But he will be out of town at the beginning
of April. We also had like 11 baptisms on Saturday. 4 of them were from our
ward. (All 11 were 8 year old) In one of the other wards one of the
missionaries in my district baptized a girl and I was able to be one of the
witnesses. Her knee came out of the water so she had to be baptized again. We
also gave her the gift of the Holy Ghost and confirmed her a member of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which was also a good experience.
One of the families in our ward that had their son’s baptism is Filipino and
they had lunch after the baptism. They had a roasted pig! I wish I was there. I
have always wanted to eat a roasted pig. But we had to help someone move.
Our
WML is really cool! He has a strong personality. He’s really cool and he’s a
big time hunter. He gave us some antelope meat that has been marinated for two
days. It was so good! He has 10 brothers and sisters. He has three brothers and
one sister in the ward and they all live right next to each other.
Last
week we had interviews with the Mission President and we had car inspections on
Thursday, Interviews went well and we passed car inspections. I was able to
inspect my district’s cars. We drive a Subaru Impreza. I have been driving Seubs
my whole mission, I like the. They handle really well in the snow. Our Bishop
took us out for lunch at this Chinese Buffet. It was AMAZING! It’s a nice place.
For dinner they bring out duck, alligator stuff like that. Our bishop is a cool
guy. He’s very smart and he knows his stuff. He’s a Personal Injury Lawyer.
I
got a call from the mission office. When I answered the phone they said
that I was just the person that they wanted to talk to!:) They said that they
held before them a ticket! And the license plate number matched the car that I
drive! They said luckily it is a parking ticket, and that it is $40.00 we
were parked too close to a yield sign (in Canada you have to park 5m away from
all road sings) They told me that the ticket was issued on the 25th of
February. I said that was not me. I was not the person driving because the 25th
is before transfers, so I was in Airdrie at the time. They said okay that’s
right. They asked if I knew who was driving before me so I told them and they
said okay thank you very much, we will give him a call!
We
got a phone call from a former investigator. She called us and said that she wanted
to join the church and that she has found strength by reading the Book of
Mormon and it has helped her overcome some of her addiction problems. She said
that she wanted to come to church and that she will ask her neighbor (our WML)
if she could get a ride. After that call we called our WML to ask him what he
could tell us about this person.
He
said she is crazy, and out of her mind, She’s always drunk. She use to work for
an oil company making like a quarter of a million a year (something crazy like that.)
Whenever the missionaries have taught her she has been drunk. So we have to
reteach everything. She had a nice Corvette but she wrecked it because
she was under the influence. That’s why
she can’t drive. (this is what our WML told us). I told Kevin (WML) maybe this
is where our 20 lessons is going, and he got really excited.
So
it is going to be really interesting to work with her. She invited us to dinner
on Wednesday, she said that she is going to have a turkey dinner. We told Kevin
that, and he said she has done that before with the other missionaries. When
they came knocking on the door she was drunk and forgot about it. She had them
come in and she left and walked to Sobeys (store like Maceys) and bought a
frozen turkey, and had some more to drink. When she came back home she said she
was too tired and she went to bed. So then Kevin and the missionaries left.
Thats the story that I have, I hope it makes sense.
