August 20, 2018
This week has been good, did some service
as usual and even have to do some actual finding finally!
Ran into an ex communicated member that no one knew about so that was cool. They weren't interested but they visited with us for a few minutes on the doors step.
Found a guy named Trevor and his little boy Tradin. He told us the reason behind the name was because once he dies (Trevor) that his son is going to be a trade in of him so yeah, kinda cool I guess.
Talked with Trevor for close to 2hrs out on his deck. Got to hear a lot of his life story and what he believes in and why. In short he doesn't believe that religion is needed cause all it is people fighting over who's right and who's wrong and why you should follow them and no others.
It's true that's a lot of what religion seems to have become but there's more to it when you get past that. Also believes that religion is just something for people to lean on when they are scared, which is also true. A lot of the things he brought up were true but had some distortion to them but that's just how he saw it all so can't say much there. Super nice guy with lots of past behind him. What Trevor really wants is just for his son to have a better life then he did and to have what he needs. He told us we could come back and discuss things again but that we weren't gonna convert him haha challenge excepted.
Helped out the Salvation Army load up a truck full of clothes and shoes for other places throughout SK and Ab I think it was something close to 1600 bags of clothes... Took about 3hrs to load it all even with close to 20 people helping out.
Pres Nelson, his wife, and elder Anderson and his wife came out to Winnipeg this Friday to talk to the members on temple work and being a temple ready people. I don't remember much of what was said due to the connection we had over the internet but from what I caught it was good! Pres and sis Craig were there with pres Nelson so that was nice to see them again.
Sunday we helped the Kim and Sheldon move some more things into their place for more animals! After we got done moving the new stuff in we were out standing on the deck talking and their dogs popped the gate open and got up where we were and started jumping all over everyone and not listening to them when they said to get our get off. Finally once they got them back down Kim was like yeah we need to get that dog trained better, she just doesn't listen to us! So I offered to do that for them and Kim was like sweet when can you start!? So later today I’ll be going over there to start it, we'll see if they want me back after tonight... I told her yesterday the way we train our dogs are a little old fashioned with no treats other than petting them when they do good and dragging them back to where they are supposed to be when they don't listen but she didn't seem to care. Could be fun!
Had a lesson with a Filipino family last night as we were tracting! The lesson went pretty good despite the fact they couldn't understand English super well. We did find out though that they aren't super interested as of yet due to the fact that they feel all you have to do is believe in God and know he saved you and your good, also don't see much point in the scriptures cause they aren't 100% correct. They did however take the commitment to read and pray about the book of Mormon. No return appointment but they said we could come stop by and see how they were doing sometime.
But yup that was our week basically.
Bro turner invited us out to his place Saturday to help skin his Elk when he gets back from his bow hunt so I'm lookin forward to that! Might get to see Sauni get squeamish so it'll be fun haha.
Well Love ya all talk to ya next week!
Ran into an ex communicated member that no one knew about so that was cool. They weren't interested but they visited with us for a few minutes on the doors step.
Found a guy named Trevor and his little boy Tradin. He told us the reason behind the name was because once he dies (Trevor) that his son is going to be a trade in of him so yeah, kinda cool I guess.
Talked with Trevor for close to 2hrs out on his deck. Got to hear a lot of his life story and what he believes in and why. In short he doesn't believe that religion is needed cause all it is people fighting over who's right and who's wrong and why you should follow them and no others.
It's true that's a lot of what religion seems to have become but there's more to it when you get past that. Also believes that religion is just something for people to lean on when they are scared, which is also true. A lot of the things he brought up were true but had some distortion to them but that's just how he saw it all so can't say much there. Super nice guy with lots of past behind him. What Trevor really wants is just for his son to have a better life then he did and to have what he needs. He told us we could come back and discuss things again but that we weren't gonna convert him haha challenge excepted.
Helped out the Salvation Army load up a truck full of clothes and shoes for other places throughout SK and Ab I think it was something close to 1600 bags of clothes... Took about 3hrs to load it all even with close to 20 people helping out.
Pres Nelson, his wife, and elder Anderson and his wife came out to Winnipeg this Friday to talk to the members on temple work and being a temple ready people. I don't remember much of what was said due to the connection we had over the internet but from what I caught it was good! Pres and sis Craig were there with pres Nelson so that was nice to see them again.
Sunday we helped the Kim and Sheldon move some more things into their place for more animals! After we got done moving the new stuff in we were out standing on the deck talking and their dogs popped the gate open and got up where we were and started jumping all over everyone and not listening to them when they said to get our get off. Finally once they got them back down Kim was like yeah we need to get that dog trained better, she just doesn't listen to us! So I offered to do that for them and Kim was like sweet when can you start!? So later today I’ll be going over there to start it, we'll see if they want me back after tonight... I told her yesterday the way we train our dogs are a little old fashioned with no treats other than petting them when they do good and dragging them back to where they are supposed to be when they don't listen but she didn't seem to care. Could be fun!
Had a lesson with a Filipino family last night as we were tracting! The lesson went pretty good despite the fact they couldn't understand English super well. We did find out though that they aren't super interested as of yet due to the fact that they feel all you have to do is believe in God and know he saved you and your good, also don't see much point in the scriptures cause they aren't 100% correct. They did however take the commitment to read and pray about the book of Mormon. No return appointment but they said we could come stop by and see how they were doing sometime.
But yup that was our week basically.
Bro turner invited us out to his place Saturday to help skin his Elk when he gets back from his bow hunt so I'm lookin forward to that! Might get to see Sauni get squeamish so it'll be fun haha.
Well Love ya all talk to ya next week!
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