Things are great! How have you been doing? It has been raining, and then hot, and
then normal and raining, and whenever it rains though, it is always super humid.
The other day I heard someone say that it was 90% humidity and sometimes when
we walk outside, my glasses will fog up because it is so humid! This week was really busy again but it
has been great!
Monday we went to Sandbar Provincial Park with
the Tambres and then watched Legacy with J and she loved it, the Spirit was
so strong!
Tuesday we drove to Fort Francis and had a Zone
Training Meeting and went to I-Falls for lunch and came back and had a dinner
appointment with a great couple. They are just so nice and
great people who said that they would come to Church on Sunday.
Wednesday we went to the foodbank and helped out and and then we went on exchanges
with the Kenora Elders. Elder H and I went to the Dryden Mission and
helped sort some stuff and afterwards we went over to visit the N’s
and they were sick so we couldn't really meet with them and after that though
we got a call from J telling us that the truck to take stuff for Africa was
coming tomorrow and he needed to fill the rest of the truck and had two hours
to do it. The original date was set for September 30th where he would have over
100 volunteers to help him and now there was no one! Later that day we went and
had a great lesson with J and the Tambres came with us again and we taught
her the Gospel of Jesus Christ and she had some questions that were all cleared
up. She really understands the importance of baptism more now and once again
the spirit was very strong with her and she just told us how much happier she
has been and that she just enjoys herself more and that she just enjoys life
more. Later that night we stopped by a few others and went tracting a bit and
were able to set up a return appointment with a lady named C.
Thursday we went to the Dryden mission with the
Kenora Elders around 7:30 and were there until around 11:30 and they went back
to Kenora. We had to rearrange the whole semi-truck trailer when we got there because
it was half full but it wasn’t pushed to the back of the trailer and was spread
out so that took over an hour and then we started getting ready to load other
things up. The Tambres came to help and Sister M and random people just
started coming out of nowhere to come help out and we never told them or
anything. They just saw the truck
and came out to help! Then 2 high school classes showed up and helped us out
too and just had a line of people passing boxes and bags. It was so good. We
accomplished more than we had originally planned and never would have gotten it
done had not all of the people shown up! After that we went out to Aaron Park
and helped N cut some more brush for a while. Then we came back and took
this lady on a walk with her new motorized wheel chair because she just
recently got it and wasn't comfortable going out on her own with it. So we went with her and took her
shopping, and carried her bags, and 35 lbs of vegetables she bought at the
farmers market, and even brought her blasted dog with us too. We then ate for
the first time that day and went out and cut L & L’s lawn because
they were out of town in Thunder Bay because their newborn twins are in the
Hospital.
Friday we weekly planned. Then we set up for a church tour but the guy was sick so he
couldn't come. We then went to our other lesson for C but she wasn't home
so we tracted around the area and ran into a family of 5. It appeared to be single mom, and their
lawn I don't think was ever cut, so we cut down the 3-foot grass, even though
it clogged up our lawnmower numerous times. Then we drove out to President
V's and had my first dinner appointment with them and spent the rest of
the night helping him with things around his massive yard.
Saturday we went to teach the N's but they
were still sick so we went to a youth center and helped out a bunch there. Then we
went to President M’s Retirement party where he bore his testimony and
gave all of his colleagues a copy of the Scriptures and we were able to meet
with and talk with a ton of people there.
Sunday we had church and M&D came to
Sacrament meeting. We later had a ward correlation meeting, made some
invitations for the BBQ that we are having on Saturday, then we had a lesson
with G who we hadn’t been able to see in almost 3 weeks, and then we went
and invited all the people we could think of to the BBQ for the rest of the
night. We went to M & D’s to invite them and see what they thought of
Church, but when we got there they invited us in and had some other friends and
family over and we got to meet with them and talk a bit. They just had a BBQ
and fed us again and we hadn't even planned on eating that night but the Lord provided
for us and they told us they loved church and we found out that M saw one of
the videos I posted on Facebook from Mormon.org and went on there and spent
almost 2 hours on there afterwards just watching videos and learning more about
the church! After that we went to the N's and they were finally all feeling
better and we set up an appointment later on in the week and they are so
excited to meet with us!
Love Elder Shane Dola
