Emergency Transfer

July 17, 2018

 

This week has been good been doing a decent about of everything it seems this week. Did a decent amount of driving, tracting, teaching, and service.

To start off our week we did a few hrs. of tracting and we caught no one home for basically the whole street... But after and hr. and a bit we finally got someone to answer! They were and older couple named Joan and Wayne kind of like John Wayne haha but they were super nice and let us in for a bit to cool off and talk about stuff. Their house kinda reminded me of Ed and Marilyn’s back in Neepawa. And they kinda even reminded me of them a bit. We talked about farming and the price of grain, planting, home, work, what we are doing knocking on doors, and even got to share a little bit of the gospel with them bit not a whole lot.
They weren't interested in our message but they were nice enough to let us in for a bit and chat so that was good enough for me. Who knows maybe they will hear the next missionaries that come because of us.
Later that day we were knocking a different street but having about the same luck as before with catching people home. Finally we caught some people home and the third one to answer was a girl about my age, a little older named Ashley. It was my door so I told her who we were and what we were doing and asked if she would be interested and had some time now we could share this with her, and to our surprise she said "yes!" and stepped out onto her deck with us.
Ashley hasn't been to church in a while now, said she went all the time as a kid but since then not so much. She told us of a time when she and her grandfather had both been pronounced dead on an operation table and how they had both seen and heard many crazy things while they were dead and how since then she hasn't been scared of dying like she was back when she was younger. 
We taught her the restoration and then at the end had her read Moroni’s promise 10:3-5. She read it on her own since she want comfortable reading aloud and when she finished reading she handed the book back to me, we asked her what she was thinking and she told us she had no words for it she told us she had never felt the way she was feeling after reading something, she said "I have goosebumps. That's powerful." we told her that was the spirit testifying to her that what she was reading and being taught was true. She gladly accepted the book of Mormon and said "Yes! I'll read it."
We met with Ashley again a day or so later and we read 3 Nephi 11 with her and talked about it. Eventually the discussion went into where do people that commit suicide go and how are they judged, along with why does she feel promptings to do something just before someone close to her dies. She told us that her boyfriend who isn't all that into religion was reading the book of Mormon the day we found her, she says "he's further in it then I am I think..." he told her that it answers a lot of questions that the Bible isn't so clear about so that was pretty cool for her to tell us that! So we are gonna try and meet with him next time too.
So I got a little surprise for you all. Thursday morning I got a call from the AP's at 9am right as we were finishing studies and they said "are you two able to hear us?" we said "yeah what's going on?"
"we hate to put this on you elders with such short notice but elder Nelson we need you to pack your bags you’re going to Melfort and you need to be there by 9pm tonight, so do whatever you need to do to be there on time. We gotta ET another elder and we felt that you would be the best one to take his place." so off we went to packing and saying goodbye to everyone we could get to which luckily we got everyone I was wanting to say bye to other then the Buchanan’s in person anyway.
We stayed the night in Saskatoon with the wildwood elders elder Berry, Bloomfield, Russell, and the ETed elder. Everyone in that apartment was Albertan other than the ETed elder so that was pretty cool.
The next morning we got things going and we got put with the new companions well not really new for me cause it was elder Sauni! We were both pretty excited to get to serve around each other again when we found out.
First night here the PA (Prince Albert) elders came down for exchanges here and we goofed around a bit that night and made a fort in the living room to sleep in so that we could stay cool during the night since the AC in this place kinda sucks. Half way through the night though the wind from a storm blew it down... Haha but me and Wolff were the only ones that noticed so we left it alone till the morning.
Had a branch picnic down at Struthers Lake about 30min from our place. It was pretty fun! Played volley ball, catch, magic tricks and ate lots of food. At the end we had a little devotional with everyone around a fire and me and sister turner were the main act pretty well. Pres froc had us play guitar and sing, and believe it or not I sang and played with sister turner and the first song we did was Amarillo by morning haha good church song, we did those later. It was lotsa fun though to go and do that with the new branch and get to know them and all.
Church was pretty good! They have about the same amount show up for church as Weyburn does but way more kids then adults. We had one of our investigators Kaylin come to church, she's 12 and she's pretty great. We ended up over at her place later that night and met the rest of the family she has a sister that 16 names Carteea and a younger one that's 6 and her name is Aracellie and she's in love with me haha she had me push her on the swing and then play with her on the teeter-totter. Once we got back from our walk with them to the park Aracellie had me go with her out to the trampoline and play ring around the rosie and crack the egg haha it was fun, she's like "your fun, I won't leave you!" her mom just laughed and said "I think she likes you a little bit!" when we told her we had to leave she was kinda sad but I told her the sooner she goes to sleep the faster we'll be back tomorrow. We were going to walk with Kim (the mom) Monday morning at 6:30 so she was pretty excited to go to bed after that haha
The walk the morning with the family was good, Arasellie was holding my hand the whole time having me swing her around as we walked with her mom. She keeps asking if she can come home with us haha but her mom keeps telling her she can't. Aracellie once we got back to the house was wanting me to come jump on the trap again but we had to go so I told her Thursday I'd come a jump again.

So far Melfort has been good!  I think it'll be fun. 

Well love ya all talk to you next week!