I've Seen Those Things Pick Up an Elephant!!!

June 25, 2018

Well we started off the week pretty good. We got to teach a few lesson right after pday was done, one to an older guy named Ray and well we got to visit a bit with another guy named Rob.

Ray he let us in and we talked for a little about how the world is changing and how bad it is becoming, talked a bit about where he grew up and how the town is no longer there anymore (he's 83) the family had a farm out there and he told us how they would run milk into Weyburn 6 days a week and it was kinda cool to listen to some of his story's he had. We shared the restoration with him but by the end he wouldn't commit to reading the book of Mormon more we think just cause he didn't want to try something new or take the time which is sad but I mean we can't force anyone to read if they don't want to, all we can do is invite.

Rob he was super nice. He doesn't believe in God really but he was kinda interested it seemed and he even let us in for a few minutes for a drink, so we talked with him for a bit. Found out he was in a band and they were getting back together for a show in Prince Albert on July 1st and a couple other little deals around that time. 

Did more tracting and found more people this week that said we could come back so that was sweet! Lots a good things are slowly turning up here in Weyburn, only took about 6 months! It's nice though to finally see the area picking up.

The areas not the only thing that's picking up though, the bugs are getting super bad now... I call it the Mosquito dance when Elder Hornburger starts getting attacked and he's trying to get them all haha

Had a good lesson with a lady named Ceta, she's from the Caribbean and her husband is from Jamaica but he wasn't there so we had Pres. Regnier come along.

We taught the Restoration and it all went good up till we brought up Joseph Smith and prophets cause she doesn't believe that there is just one prophet on earth cause then how would everyone be saved. That would mean everyone that thinks they are doing the right thing like being baptized by their priests is invalid because they don't have the authority. We tried to help her catch the idea of how the prophet isn't the only one with the authority to do that stuff and that that authority is passed down throughout the church to the worthy men in it. That's just a sum of what we told her.

The book of Mormon was another hard one for her. She doesn't believe it to be a word of God and she doesn't believe that there is any one true church/religion, she believes there is one true God and she has found him and that's all she needs.

When we first introduced the Book of Mormon to her she seemed to think that if she read it then she would have to be converted to our church, which in a sense is kinda true but that was the main reason she didn't want to read it because she doesn't think there is one true church. We finally got her to say she'd try it out by the end of the lesson and even if she was to read it she didn't have to become a member but that the things in the Book of Mormon would help her in her life and bless her even more. Even got a return appointment after!

Did some service out at the church this week with Bro Shugart helping him pull up the old bushes around the building. We got destroyed by Mosquitos there, down in the bushes where I was hooking on the chain was bad it was like a cloud of them in there. Once we got all the bushes taken up the Mosquitos had no places to hangout so they took on the grass and when we were carrying the bushes off to the truck to haul away you would scare them all up and man it was bad, there were thousands of those things! Bro Shugart was like "careful I’ve seen those things pick up an elephant before."

Had exchanges this week with the sunrise elders so I got to go back to the sunrise area for a day and night with Elder Robinson!

Exchanges where pretty good in sunrise we did some stop byes with people that I worked with when I was there and we visited some LA’s, and even got dinner with the Moores! 

Had some drunk guys yelling at me and Elder Robinson asking what we were selling but we were a little busy talking with an investigator to answer them. Eventually they figured we must be potato sales men haha

Formered Albert this week sadly.... We went over to talk about the plan of salvation but ended up having a big debate on God having a body of flesh and bone, the book of Mormon, the afterlife and all that. 3hrs later we walked out after not getting to far with him and Elder Hornburger and him getting kinda heated again over stuff. We finished on a good note but it finally came down to Albert saying he wasn’t going to read the Book of Mormon ever because it was false and that we needed to pray for our eyes to be opened to the truth and hope God would lead us in the right way so yeah it was good... Maybe the next missionaries will have better luck.

Had a pretty sweet branch party this Saturday, did a waffle/games night with everyone that wanted to come member or not and it turned out pretty good. We had way too many waffles though...

Met a lady that told us she loves Satan and that she was okay with him and didn't need God so Hornburger asked "that's okay, do you want to talk about it?" haha she's like nope I'm good with Satan! So that was our fun experience this week I'd say for weird people at the doors. 

Church was good yesterday, I gave another talk here on member missionary work so that was good!  

Got caught with President Regnier in a rain storm when we came out of a less actives place.  From the house to the car running as fast as we could in our suits haha we looked like we had jumped in a lake it was coming down so hard.  It was only a 50 yrd sprint too.  The best part was seeing Pres Regnier jump a 4ft wide little river running down the road to get to his car haha we all had a good laugh once we got in the car and saw each other all wet.  

Well that's was pretty well our excitement for the week here!  It was a good week and this next week's gonna be another good one.

Love ya all, talk to ya next week!