Eagle or a Tiger

September 23, 2018

This week was pretty good! Had a surprise exchange with Flin Flon on Wednesday, it was supposed to be on Saturday after ZC and after they had done exchanges with the zls in Saskatoon on Friday but they figured it better if they came and did it the day before ZC.
Me and Taylor worked together for the day and watched black and Arajuo walk around town since they can't drive on the mission. Me and Taylor had a pretty interesting exchange, we found out from a pretty different lady that told us when we die I'm gonna be an eagle or tiger and Taylor is going to be a red tail fox haha she believed that when we die we turn into animals. She told us that one of their cats is her husband’s best friends that died a while ago...
Had a girl on one door tell me and Taylor that we were hot, she was in her 20s and she was a little tipsy from the looks of it but hey we figured that still counts. It was Taylor's door and he did the little intro to us and what we share and she's staring at us the whole time kinda giggling and then she's like "look you guys are hot and all but I don't think I can do this tonight as much as I want to." so we kinda looked at each other and gave the look like well I think it's time to leave and we finished up with her and went on to the next door haha it was pretty funny though.
Had a pretty good ZC this week on members and missionaries and at the end president and sister Hitchcock gave us all M&M's to remind us of "members and missionaries" work together.
I did the musical number on the guitar for ZC, played a poor wayfaring man.
After ZC we drove out to a little town called Watson to meet with a part member family in the branch that we haven't ever really seen before other than this last Sunday. Super nice family, they live out on a little farm so that was a plus. Visited with them for a good 45 min about things they like to do and all that fun stuff, told them if they ever need a hand to give us a call and we'd try and make it out.
On the way out of Watson they told us we had to stop and see the 30' Santa in the middle of Watson so we did and got a couple pictures. It was pretty cool, they say he's up all yr.
Helped bro Prete this week with cleaning and cracking all his garlic. His living room right now has probably close to 2000 bulbs of garlic in it! Helped him drag it all in his place because he didn't want it to get froze out in the garage.
Had a pretty crazy thing happen this Sunday, pres. Froc was released as branch pres. and we got a new one from PA now pres. wright. Was kinda sad to see pres. Froc go even though I didn't even know him the whole 5+ yrs. as pres.
After church we had a memorial service to go to for a LA member Ashley who died this last week due to OD. Most everyone that was there was a nonmember so it was a different service but it was really good we thought. Played some Zac brown and highway to hell during it haha also did a balloon race after the little service.
Not too much else this week happened other than us finding a guy names Tim so made his own king James Bible because the name of God isn't correct in it.... So that was pretty interesting. He even gave us a huge copy to take home and read for a bit. He currently is working on the Spanish edition of the King James Bible and he doesn't know Spanish so I don't know how that's going for him. Bro turner said he knows Tim and that he was crazy even back when he was serving here 20yrs ago haha
Well hope you all have a good week!
Love ya talk to ya next week! 

Winters Coming

September 17, 2018

To clear this up here with transfers. I'm still in Melfort. I’m with elder Black again!
I was in Saskatoon waiting for the transfer train to come back and everyone that I went to see while I was there in Saskatoon thought I was the new elder in the area.  Also not ZL. I'm just a normal guy.
So this week was full of rain, cold weather and crazy boredom stuff.
Did lots of tracting and we even found a couple potentials! Found one girl named Yana she's 28 she says but we think she's 23, maybe. She's was super nice and let us talk with her about the B of M for a while on her door even though it was late at night.
At one point during the week we had kept a street we tracted in Elder Blacks phone but then he forgot to save it and we lost that streets info so we had to go back and try to remember who said yes and no and wasn’t home, it was kinda sad to see how fast you forget who said what and what doors answered when it was only couple hrs. ago.
Lots of funny/ dumb random stuff happened this week due to the rainy weather and us being bored when the day is over, I'll make group message on FB and send some videos and what not over sometime today.
Ever since e Black got here the weather has been pretty sad and cold.... It got to 3 the other day and we thought we were gonna die! Middle of the week we had already pulled out the long underwear and it was 8 outside.... Winter is gonna be cold to say the least.
Had a good lesson with one of our La's Miguel. He's 17 and was baptized about 3yrs ago now, hasn't been out to church a whole lot in the past yr. or so due to having no ride from St Bruiex which is about 35 min away from Melfort. Super nice kid and he seemed to have a desire to start coming back to church again if we could get him there. Miguel he invited us back out again for next Saturday, hopefully we can keep on with him.
Met with Ron our investigator this week at the Lacnos and did dinner and a lesson.
Taught him about the B of M and did a mini restoration again just to refresh his mind on it again. At the end of the lesson we went around and shared out fav part or verse from the B of M and did a little testimony about it and how the B of M has helped them in their life, it was super good
We had a pretty exciting week but it's gonna make a long crazy email if I told you all about it so I guess I'll have to tell you about some of the stuff when I'm home.
Over all we did lots of tracting and freezing but it was a good week anyway!
Love ya all talk to you next week! 

 

 

Transfer Train

September 10, 2018

 

 

So this week has been kinda crazy due to transfers and packing and leaving and lots of driving.
Spent a good part of the week in Saskatoon with elder Burt from Calgary as sub ZL with him, we had a good time together for the few days as we waited for the transfer train to come back from Winnipeg. Almost sent Elder Black and Roberts up to Melfort so that me and Burt could serve together ha-ha wouldn't have actually but it woulda been fun.
Some of the members I met while I was there for the few days thought that I was the new missionary in the area even after we told them I wasn't... Wouldn't mind serving in Saskatoon after those few days of being there and meeting the members.
Finally the transfer train showed up Friday afternoon with everyone. Got to see Elder Doolen who I hadn't seen since Neepawa so that was nice! Got to see elder k Shaw for the first time since he got out here too so we had a good talk.
Had a good drive back to Melfort with Black talkin about Regina and what happened since we were last together which was quite a bit.
Once we got back we did some figuring with our phones since the Sim card didn't transfer the contacts over with it when we swapped it over at transfers so that sucked. Everyone is taking advantage of us not having contacts too cause they all call knowing we don't know who it is and they try to be someone who's interested in hearing from us or something like that. They got us once pretty good....
Done lots of tracting in the rain the last couple days which isn't too bad you just gotta look at it with the view of God is rain down blessing on you as you do the work.
Had stake conf Saturday and Sunday which was really good! Lots a good things were talked about and I think most the members needed to hear it as well as us missionaries.
Here’s a little quote from stake conf to give you an idea of what was the overall topic, "Don't only show love, speak love."
Well love ya all talk to ya next week! 

Elder Black is Back

September 3, 2018

Hey sorry I haven't got to you all till now been pretty busy helping the Turner's pull their house apart.
Well Saunis gone and Elder George black is back! Same one I served with in Regina about this time last yr. Never woulda thought I'd serve with 2 old companions in a row or ever.
This week was a pretty good week! Had exchanges with the zls in Saskatoon Wednesday night to Friday morning. Did some service with bro Vera helping him around his place again putting some drywall away and cleaning up the mess we made while fixing up the room.
Had dinner with the Turner's and a practice afterwards. Helped bro turner put up some hay in his shed before dinner so that was fun and itchy due to the fact we were in pros clothes, been quite a while since I’ve tossed square bales.
During practice with sis turner she decided I should sing with her on Wednesday (Tuesday was our first and only practice day). And we could do Johnny cash’s "Jackson" and "ain't me babe" ha-ha so we did a couple runs of it that night and we were doing alright so she figured yup let's do it! Wednesday night came and up we went to do our singing and playing for the museum bbq again. Lucy and Baylee they did there couple songs and I played all of sister turners songs for her while she sang and then she had me come in and sing those couple songs with her. Sis turners already lookin for another place we can go sing at...should be fun!
Had a pretty good exchange with the zls in Saskatoon Thursday. I was with elder Darley and elder Sauni was with elder Burt.
Every time me and elder Darley are together it seems that we have an interesting exchange and get all sorts of stories. Did a couple stop bys and we had one drunk native guy come out and talk to us for close to 30min since the lady we were looking for wasn't home (she was drunk) he asked us about gays and how we view them and how God views it all, Asked if we were born in the church, asked why we share God's word. Almost all the answers we gave him he had some way of turning them around on us and trying to get me and Darley to say opposite things if what the other said. It was pretty interesting because he'd ask one question to Darley and he’d answer no, then he'd ask me a different question and I'd say yes and he'd just get confused cause we think he thought he was asking the same question to both of us ha-ha it was just a round and round conversation with him.
Had a drug deal go down while we were teaching one of the potentials they had so that was pretty sweet.
Construction was all over the place down where we were trying to tract so in order to get around we had to drive up and down and around all the roads just to get to one street. On the way back though we just decided to use the alleyways and that kinda got us stuck when we came across one they had road closed signs at the end of it... It was a long ways to back up. While we were trying to decide what to do a car pulled up at the signs and a lady got out and moved the signs and the car drove in and we let them pass and then the lady let us out ha-ha and put the signs back. We were at this point on a construction site so we made a quick decision and elder Darley jumped out and moved the signs that were across road out of the way so I could get through to the other side of the alley and I drove across the road to the other side and yeah that's how we got around that time.
I gave a blessing to one of their investigators out in outlook after we taught a lesson with bro spencer which according to them was very good and what he was needing.
The Frocs boy got back from his mission this week so Saturday we had dinner with them and got to hear about his mission in Croatia (no idea how to spell it)
Had a last half hr. miracle Saturday night after dinner with the Frocs! We were doing some SBs and we got let into the one house we went to and got to teach a guy named Vincent, he's Filipino and has a Catholic background but isn't super strong in it from what he was saying but at the same time he is... Taught him the restoration and commitment him to read the B of M and pray about it. He wasn't too willing at first to do that because he felt he had what he needed and was good but eventually we got him to at least try and see and we didn't think we'd be getting back in with him but we got him to let us back again so that was good! He has lots of questions about us from the things other have told him but he doesn’t want to offend us. He asked a couple but we'll see if we can get him to ask more next time.
Had a lot of people show for Benton’s homecoming on Sunday! It was super good! I can't remember much of what he said but he made we wanna come home and have the change he seemed to have had while out, guess we'll see soon enough how that goes for me.
Well that was our week pretty much. It was a good one with lots a driving and finding new people so it's been nice.
Love ya all talk to ya next week!