New Mission President Arrives

July 2, 2018

This week has been good. Started it off with bowling here in town with the Regnier’s and the temple missionaries from Regina that I know pretty well, so it was us two young guys and eight older couples. All the guys they put on one side to okay each other and then all the lady's went on a different game next to us so they could take their time. Pres Regnier he won on our side then elder Hackett, and then me. I did pretty well the first but then my luck ran out. It was pretty fun playing with them because they could really care what they got cause most the time it was the gutter ha-ha

Did some service Tuesday morning with Kevin out on the farm moving posts and old wood around so that he could get the one yard cleaned up and ready to hand over to the new owner this week so that was fun!
Went looking for a less active in the haunted apartment, didn't find the ghost but we did run into a crazy old guy named Edward that kept us at his place for a hr. and a half just talking about anything and everything. He talked about Americans and how they all drive new cars and how they don’t actually pay for them. Also says he can tell the difference between American cars and Canadian cars cause they are loud and they are big and new. Also says that cowboys are dumb and so is rodeo haha cause they ride these horses and they land on their heads and then they get back on again, "they never learn!!" he says ha-ha Talked about trump a bit and how dumb he is and yeah it was pretty funny.
Had in person district meeting this week in Regina so that was a party and a half! Lots a construction going on around here....
Went to see Edward the other day and when we pulled up he was walking away from his place so we tracked him down and talked with him. Turns out he doesn't like Mormons.... Says they are morons haha also called us a few other things that I won't say in here. So he wasn’t too interested in meeting with us anymore. 
Ran into an interesting older lady named Kathy in our old apartment area back on 5th Street and she let us right on in before we could even tell her what we were doing. We told her once we all got introduced to each other that we couldn't stay long cause of the fellow ship rule we got as missionaries, but that didn't seem to faze her any because after we told her that she was like "just give me a second I gotta put my teeth in" haha so she left and while she was gone we gave each other the look of like what the heck... We gotta get outta here, we can't stay long. When she came back she told us to come in and close the door then said "sit down here, you’re not gonna strangle me are ya!" haha We told her about the book of Mormon and how it can help her in her life and where it takes place and she committed to read through it! We asked if we could come back in the next few days with a member and she said we could but that soon she would be gone for a few months in Moose jaw. She told us that she has seen us waking quite a bit around town and knew we used to live just down a few buildings from her, she says we are great young men to be walking so much to teach people about god. 
Pres Regnier called us the other day during lunch saying there was a lady in town that was needing a blessing and he wanted us to come along with him. The lady and her friend were from High River and they were up here to get the one lady’s boys from her ex and she was needing some comfort and we were the men for the job I guess! We had a good talk with them and they found it pretty cool that they ran into two Alberta elders serving together right next to Alberta. 
Had a good talk with brother brown (LA) this week and we were able to help him with finding out what church he wanted to go to. A few weeks ago he had a moment where he decided that he was going to go to the Catholic Church because he was told to by something to do that, so he left our church for a few weeks before the Catholic Church stopped coming to see him and show that they cared about him. Meanwhile we and President Regnier had kept coming by trying to help him with whatever he needed and that was a big deal for him because he felt needed, which he is, everyone is needed in a ward or branch because we all serve a different and valuable purpose. It was super good! We went back to his place on Sunday morning and we got him up and we waited for him to get ready and got him a ride so he could come and we think he enjoyed being back.
Got told by some people this week that I look like Elvis when he was young..... Haha I don't know if I can see that but hey that's cool. Also had some old ladies this week say they weren’t interested in our message but we were really handsome young men. Haha 
Sunday we did games night with the woodruffs, Dudragnes, and Morrissettes along with our new investigators John who us actually sister Dudragnes brother! So it was super good to get to spend some fun time with all them and get to build a little bit of a relationship with John. Before we left bro Woodruff had us share a spiritual experience from our mission and then went around to everyone else that had served and had any nice experience with anything spiritual. It was a really good thing for John I think to hear all the different things we have experienced.
Well the sad news of the week is we have lost our president Craig.... But the good news is we have a new President Hitchcock! We are all pretty excited to get to meet him finally on Tuesday for ZC.

Well that was our pretty decent week!

Love ya all and talk to you next week!