It was a bit slower this week, we didn't have
too much success but that's alright. My knee is doing quite a bit better but
still gets sore sometimes when we walk a lot. I donated blood the other day; it was great; you should all do it. They
make donor cards and I had mine sent to my home address because I don't
know our address here and don't know how long it would be until it got here so
please send it to me when it arrives so I can use it again!
That's great to hear about Ryan! I'm sure that he's happy to
finally be able to leave, it's been so long I feel sorry for him but tell him I
said congrats and wish him luck! What are all the dates that everyone is
leaving?
This week was really slow but it's alright.
Lots of our appointments didn't show up or cancelled but the ones we were able
to teach were really good. We had our FHE last week with our one
friend/less-active and he took us out to Wendy's before which was great!
He's a really great guy who is like 23 and just since I've been here he
has progressed a ton and he even fasted yesterday. Which is great, he's a
really good guy. We had a really good lesson with one of our really less
active and gave him a priesthood blessing at the end of it. We also had a really
good lesson with our Baptismal Date investigator on the Gospel of Christ, he is
really funny and is a great guy. It was kind of funny when we were done
teaching him he was going to jump on the bus with us and go to the store and a
few days this week it poured rain and was really windy and not even a minute
after we left his residence he took out his umbrella and the wind picked it up
and it got destroyed, basically snapped in half.
We went home teaching with the
high priest group leader and practiced lessons on the members which was realty
effective and good experience. Yesterday we (six missionaries from Brandon)
went out to a small town called Delaraine (not sure about the spelling) about
120Km outside of Brandon and we had a dinner appointment out there.
(2nd dinner appointment! it was so exciting!!) The man of the couple's
house we were at, got back from his mission about 7 years ago and his
friend was also there who also got back from his mission around the same time so
we taught them a lesson for practice and they gave us lots of good feedback and
talked about their missions and experiences and teaching strategies that worked
best for them. They were all really great people and we were able to learn
quite a bit so it was also very effective.
Wednesday we went to the blood bank and donated blood
which was really really great. I really liked it for some reason. We met some
really nice people and talked to them and we are thinking about going back; could be potential investigators.
Thursday we worked at the soup kitchen
again which was really good and we then went and made some hampers at the food
bank. We did some other service this week too like picking weeds and what not.
On Saturday we had our YSA activity which was
also really good. So many people came out. There was enough for two full teams
with extras. Lots of less-actives, non-members, and a few investigators came out and
we played beach volleyball and played for like two hours straight and everyone
had a lot of fun. Since I have been here that was the most people that came
out!
Today we got a referral texted to us from the
Temple Square visitor’s center which was really interesting. Elder McRitchie
said that that it was the first one he's received from there in like 5 months
and only the second one he has had since he has been out on his mission so
we'll try to contact that person tomorrow or some other time this week!
But that's what we did for the most part of the
week besides walking around trying to find people but I wish you luck with all your endeavors this week!
-Love Elder Dola
