We are not failures till we quit trying.

June 18, 2018

to start off the week we had a bunch of super long meetings for district leaders and trainers but they were good. 

Did some more service, this time for one of the members in Estevan (the woodruffs). We helped them put up some sides on their trailer they just got and by the time it was getting close to us needing to leave bro Woodruff was like "you guys can't leave I need you" we tried to use we don't have our toothbrush or anything so we could get home and sleep at our pace but that didn't work. He said "oh not a problem we'll just make run to Walmart and get what you need there!" never again will I go shopping with bro Woodruff, he was so bad in there. He was running the cart into the corners of the racks and making stuff fall off there hooks but at least he'd pick it all up after. At one point he left his cart and was pushing a cart full of fruit that was for sale.... He was doing it all on purpose! At Canadian Tire he took the workers to do list and was going to add a few things to it!... Luckily the guy came back in time. Supposedly bro Woodruff used to work there for a bit, but still! Haha it was bad.

In the end we stayed the night and finished the project we came to help him with so that was good.

Said our goodbyes Wednesday to everyone and had one last feast at the all you can eat KFC here in town, then off to Regina! Picked up Hornberger and we stayed the night at sunrises apartment along with Elder Perhson. 

Thursday I got a call from Fowler while we were out tracting in the rain and he said Abadicio came out of the bathroom the night before and was like that idiot put numbing paste in my toothbrush again! Hahaha I had to do it one last time just so he'd remember me ;)

Hornberger is way quieter than me and Abadicio were. He's from Calgary so that's nice and he just got done serving with elder Berry up in Saskatoon. He's been out 6 months so still pretty new. 

Did lots a tracting the last bit of the week and even find a couple people that might work out we hope. 

Had a 3hr lesson the other day with Albert... It was pretty good lots a thing talked about and I think we finally came to some common ground by the end again. Talked about prophets, priesthood, church organization, and the Book of Mormon along with lots of other little things here and there. Most the talking was done by Hornberger and it was a very round and round lesson meaning albert would bring up something and Hornberger would end up back to trying to commit albert to read and pray everyday. By the end of the first hr. Albert was getting tired of this whole loop back to the book of Mormon thing and Hornberger I could tell was getting frustrated by at all too but for some reason they kept going on. Finally after 2 and a half hrs. I was like alright well we best be going now, is there a time next week we can get back together and continue this. We talked for a little longer after that and we all got kinda refocused on what we were all doing and finished the lesson off on good terms and everything so yup we'll go back there next Friday and see what we can do for him then. Good lesson I just felt like we were stuck in one spot and getting nowhere right now with it so I figured it best to finish up and come back later when we had a better idea in place then what we were doing.

Had a good end to the week. Spent most of it tracting and walking around stopping by people, the last 2hrs on Saturday were the best I'd say.

We were tracting down a street along the way home and we came across this guy Dave who was pretty open to taking with us even though he doesn't have much of a faith in God but knows there is something more seeing as everything is so organized. So we stood on his deck for a bit with him and talked about this with him and talked about what he does for work and all that stuff. Turns out he in a gamer and he gets paid to do it...! Has 2 kids a 9yr old and a 3yr old, his wife we don't know much about but she is the one that works out of the house and he's the stay at home mom he says haha

Super nice guy. We got taking about church and he said he'd see about coming this week and it kinda gave him some motivation when we told him there'd be food after so we'll see. We nicknamed him gamer Dave. 

A few houses down from him the next ones to answer was a lady names Stephanie and it was my door so I did the usual approach and added a few different things here and there and she let us in! She said just a second I'll get my husband he's putting the kids to bed. So we came in and they switched off and she finished putting the kids to bed and we talked with Dave for a bit while she did that. 

We talked about the book of Mormon and what it is and why it's so important as well as the Bible. We told them about Joseph Smith and what role he played in all of this. Then Stephanie asked the question "this is kinda silly but I'm just wondering, why you don’t drink coffee?" so we pulled out D&C for them and showed them there what God told Joseph Smith and everything we talked about they loved and took with open minds. By the end I think we had them really wondering what we had just gave to them (in a good way) Stephanie said "I have a friend back in Calgary who about a yr. ago texted me and said she met there two boys from your church and they thought me some things." she said "this is what I have been looking for! I gave finally found it! I should have known earlier cause my last name even sounds like it!" her friends last name in Mooreman haha so it sounds like Mormon. I think Stephanie was very curious as to what we are sharing that her friend had been searching for so long and now she had the chance to see. They both said they would read the book of Mormon and yeah it was super good. 

On the way home we had a lady named Carla chase us down the street wanting to talk to us haha She said "I know you guys, my ex is a Mormon and so I know what you guys do." Sadly before we could really get to talk with her friends managed to take her away... So we didn't get a number or anything for her. Hopefully we see her again and we can meet with her.

Sadly Dave the gamer didn't show up to church but we did get to talk with him on his deck for a hr. n a half after church. Talked about politics (well he did) and kids, then finally got to teach him some stuff about the restoration. He even asked us for a book of Mormon after we got taking about it, he’s like "you don't happen to have an extra one of those do you?..." so yup it was good. Hopefully he works out good.

Got a lot of dinner appointments here for the coming week, like 3 days in a row! So that nice but kinda bad at the same time cause they are all out for Weyburn so that means less k's to go see Eoin and Jessica later next week but we'll make due.

That just about does it for this week though. It was a good kinda long week but lots happened so that's alright.

Well love ya all! talk to ya next week! 

 

Stake President Noblet and new comp Elder Hornberger

 

We are not failures till we quit trying.