Thompson, MB

October 15, 2018

Well here we go off to my possible last area. Got tmail this morning and I'm off to Thompson Mb with elder Allen, and our district is all sisters that are in Winnipeg so we just skype them. 

This week we got our k's given to us, and we found out that we have been allotted 1700 for the month of October rather than 2950 like last month which we figured would happen since we were 400 under 2950 last month. So with us driving back from Flin Flon and out to Regina for ZC and other little places in our area, we have officially gone over k's already....! We are now walking missionaries. 

This week we have walked everywhere that we can (which is everywhere because it's Melfort) but we have had some good success despite our lack of k's. We found 2 new people this week named Mark and Lisa, they are a younger Filipino couple that happens to know one of our member families the Lacnos. We got to teach the restoration and we committed them to read the book of Mormon and yeah it was pretty good! By the way I have no idea if I told you guys about there or not cause me and Black can't remember if we found them this week or last...weeks and days are all one big thing lately out here for us.

Had some nice days this week actually weather wise! Got 3-5° out and sunny with no wind, then we had a couple days where it was - 2 and super windy so it felt like - 15.

Had one guy this week tell us that he was catholic and didn't want to hear anything about Jesus Christ, then he slammed the door. 

Had another lady swing open her door and look at us like we were her kids and she had caught us coming home 2hrs past curfew, then she yelled at us saying we woke her up and slammed the door (it was 4.30) both those guys were on the same block so we decided that must have been the mean area of town, cause that's the first rude people we've had so far in Melfort like that. Made for a good tracting story or two!

ZC in Regina this week was pretty good! We drove down with Flin flon and told dumb stories and stuff the whole way and got to see all the Saskatchewan missionaries for a couple days. Got to see E. Doolen, woodruff, mills, and Nelson so it was a decent time.

Elder Gifford Neilson of the 70 came down with his wife and they did a training on the atonement and ways to teach it basically so that was pretty nice. 

Here’s a couple things from ZC they said. "the more difficult the obstacle, the bigger the miracle" which was related to pres Hitchcock climbing a little mountain in Utah and only going half way and taking a picture with the big Y on the hill and how great that was. Then how sis Hitchcock and her friends a little later climber the whole thing and how hard it was but how worth it was when they got to the top and saw the view.

Another one was "do the home canning thing." and pres Hitchcock related that to studying the scriptures and prayer. He said something along the lines of when we pray before we study we can remember the things we read better than if we didn't pray and when we pray that it's like canning, we bottle it up in our mind and then we can put it on the shelf for later and when we need that knowledge all we have to do is go back to the "storage room" and find that can.

Had a pretty crazy lesson with Sky and Cherish this week once we finally got a hold of them. We taught them the word of wisdom and it took a few minutes to gather everyone up for the lesson but when we finally did the first thing cherish said to us was "wow, you guys been drinking?! Smells like alcohol in here ha-ha." it was a super relaxed lesson if you ask us, everything anyone said today was just funny and they were in a super goofy mood the both of them. Sky calls Cherish his cherry bomb and always bugs her about not talking very much in lessons. When we got to the part about not smoking and that, sky was kind of against that and said that God put everything on earth for a reason and that smokes are for medical things. He told us the next time we come he'll get us all some blunts and we can each have one so we can relax and talk about god. He basically told us we gotta relax and not be so worried all the time. It was a good lesson but we don't think they took it as a commandment really so yeah got some work to do there.

On Sunday me and elder black gave talks on inviting people to join us on the covenant path so basically member missionary work. The talks both went well and I think the members liked it too so that’s always a plus!

Spent most of Sunday at church due to branch counsel and then driving around with pres Wright to see some LA’s so he could get to know them a bit. 

Far as I can remember not a whole lot else this week has gone on but it was a pretty good week I'd say.

Well love ya all talk to you next week! 

Conference weekend

October 8, 2018

Well this week as you already know started off out in Flin Flon doing exchanges.
Got to see a lot of old friends and even teach a few of them! Got to see sis Castel, Shyanne, John, the Davis's and a few others that I remember from door knocking.
Got super lucky while in Flin flon, I got a sore throat which took my voice pretty well right away as we were leaving to drive back home and it stuck around a few days. Made things for black super fun because he had to talk at all the doors since I couldn't hardly talk. After two days of me not able to talk and him doing all the doors we decided we better just stay in Friday to try and get me back to normal.
Had a pretty close call on the way home Tuesday night as we drove through the forest in the dark. We were driving along talking when we saw a bigger truck coming towards us with its bright lights which was whatever we just kept going but just as we were about to pass this truck we caught sight of a little grey Ford truck not very far off the edge of the road (parked right in the middle of the white line) basically last second since that was about how close we were when we saw it I touch the brakes to slow down a little so when we got hit we didn't get wrecked as bad and then I turned so that we barely miss this Ford and we barely missed this other truck too, we had almost no space between us and the two trucks as we passed each other. It was a miracle we didn't get hit by one or the other, or both.
Needless to say we were both extra awake after that close call.
Had a another close call on the way back from doing a Book of Mormon drop in Kelvington, about a 2hr drive S of us. On the way home it was dark by this time, we took a weird back road so we could cut across over to Watson and up to Pleasant Dale to stop by a less active. Just a little after Watson we were driving and taking about whatever when elder back all the sudden was like "Yo! Yo! Yo!" and me with my dad's eyes I can't see super awesome in the dark like him and I didn’t see this moose on the edge of the road till we were basically right there (neither did Elder Black) So I hit the brakes and turned a little away from the moose and we went from 110 to 0 pretty darn quick and luckily the moose got spooked and ran the other way of us and back into the field. Again we were both pretty alert after that close call... We came to the conclusion that we must be doing something right in our area and Satan is trying to slow us down in some pretty crazy ways lol or maybe we are just super unlucky.
Conference was pretty good as most all of you know, got some interesting changes coming up. We had our investigators sky and cherish come to the Saturday afternoon session so that was nice! They by the way also have baptism dates for the 3rd of November!
Yeah not a whole lot happened here this week other than me being sick for most of it and us almost dying a few times, also we got snow up here now.... Not a lot but enough to say it's probably not leaving till I'm leaving the mission.
Well love ya all talk to you next week!