December 24, 2018
I don’t know where the time has gone this month, it seems like it just started not too long ago and now it’s Christmas tomorrow, and then New Year’s...! Maybe this New Year's we won't start off with getting frost bite lol
This week was good, started off with a pretty normal pday, had exchanges down in Winkler with Elder Tarwater and Araujo on Tuesday. Had a pretty good district council in their apartment since they don't have a church building there.
Did some tracting during the day and trying to find them some service opportunities around the town. Didn't find them anyone new but it was a good short exchange anyway.
Had to head home to Portage by 6 to make it back for a lesson with Aries our Filipino investigator at 8, so that's why the exchange was short. Taught Aries the plan of salvation and had a good discussion about it all. He asked an interesting question right at the end and it was "do you have to talk to someone if you commit a serious sin in your church?" we told him yes, and then we told him what was classified as a serous sin in our church. Seems to me like he's got a few things he’s wanting to clear up in his life, cause he asks a lot about sin and how to overcome it and things like that, which I'm glad for cause that means he wants to change.
As usual he made us a lot of food! 9:30 dinner was a little late especially for what he had for us but we survived. He made us a bunch of panset along with some chicken with lemon and parsley on it, then took it off he had a bunch of fries from McCain's where he works.
Wednesday was the usual at the soup kitchen helping out there. Got a butt ton of sausages from them this week cause the hoods drought them a bunch of soup in and then decided to drop a bunch of meet off to. The ladies there were like well boys were a soup kitchen not a bed and breakfast, do you want some of this stuff?
You better believe we took some of it!
Once we got done at the soup kitchen we went over to bro Judges sister in laws place to help him and bro Borczuch replace her pipes and toilet there.
Thursday, we went over to the Herman prior center to help them out for a bit in the morning. Started out with setting up chairs and tables for a funeral that was going on Saturday for a guy. After that Chris she sent us to Louis office and to do some filing while he was out... 3hrs later we finished...! After 30min of it I decided I wasn't going to work an office job, and by the end of the 3hrs I knew why most people hate their jobs. Lol
Honestly, I don't remember much of what happens during the day after we do service and stuff. Probably missionary work and studies, but what we did exactly I don't remember.
Friday was spent doing studies and weekly planning for the most part.
I know we did some other stuff, but what it was I can't tell ya right now, I'm getting old guys.
Saturday was a gong show since the AP's don't tell anyone anything. We got a call Friday night saying hey did you guys know your interview date changed and that it's tomorrow? It was set for this coming Saturday but for some reason they changed it. So, I got a good of Winkler and we tossed together an exchange for the next day and yeah.
Interviews went good! Talked a lot about how and how my plan is now on my mission portal (the program they have you do the last 6 weeks before you go home) and talked a lot about marriage. He's like elder Nelson I know this is more of a next transfer talk but I just wanna bring it up a bit right now for a moment, and then he went on for 10min about marriage. It was all good.
The exchange went well, me and Arajuo found quite a few potentials on the streets we tracted so that was nice! It snowed basically all day Saturday so we now have close to a foot and a half of snow. The roads are super great to, they look like they have little skating strips going down the roads from all the ice under the snow. It was 5° earlier in the week for a couple days, and then it rained Wednesday and we got - 10 and stuff so it was just awesome.
Sunday, we had the special church service thing and that was pretty good! The Palmer family here did it and it went well.
Bro Borczuch even came to church (he's the non-member that's married to a member) so that was nice!
After church we did some studies till about 3.30, then we tracted till 5. Didn't find anyone new yet, but we did get a couple potentials!
Had dinner over at the judges at 5 - 6.40 ish. The judges caught on to our little spiritual through we left them where we read Mosiah 24 I think it was, were the people of Alma aren’t allowed to pray or worship God so they pray in their hearts, and eventually God makes them free.
We related that to overcoming trials and keeping our testimony’s strong no matter what comes at us. Sis judge she pointed a figure at bro judge ha-ha so they knew it was kinda directed towards his little show this week with the cleaning deal. It went good though and I think it made them think a little about it all.
After dinner there we headed out and did some stop bys and a little drift busting along the way which was fun! Went and shoveled some walks around town, we got caught by one older guy named Raymond who we have managed to get his walk almost every time without him catching us. Super nice guy, but he loves to talk and he's had a stroke so he doesn't remember anything we teach him when he lets us talk so that makes it hard.
He comes out while we are shoveling and says "well the shoe maker finally caught the elves!!" ha-ha he says we're just like that story were the shoe maker has elves sneaking in and come make shoes in the night. So we went in and we visited from 7.30 - 9 about God and about his trips around the world in the music industry with Randy Travis and merle haggard and everyone else. He's got a lot of cool story's from Nashville and how he used to play with all those guys and all that. Maybe he could hook me up with some connections and I could get a shot at that world.
Since Raymond had his stroke he can't play guitar or remember much anymore so once he heard I played he had us come right in and play some stuff for him. He played a little bit for us and sang some but like I said its hard for him to remember and use his fingers like he used to. Sounds like he was pretty good at one time though from what he did for us, kinda that old merle haggard, Willie Nelson sound to his music.
All in all I'd say it was a pretty good week out here In portage winkler district. Found some potentials so thatll be nice once we can get with all them after the new year!
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