So I was not transferred, staying in Dryden, but two new
Elders are coming so Elder Elliott will not be my companion any longer after
this Thursday. However we will still be in the same apartment until the 21st
when the Tambres go home and then we will live across the hall from each other!
It is going to be good, and I may or may not end up going to Atikokan if the
senior couple who is supposed to be going up there get their Visas to India any
time soon!
But this week was pretty great!
Monday we had P-day and had FHE with some
Members.
Tuesday it snowed all day and night and also
Wednesday, but Tuesday we were busy all day doing all kinds of stuff, like
getting stuck in our car. We taught a great lesson with a less-active where we
went to his workplace and he prayed for the first time in he doesn’t know how
long, it was great! We also helped out at the Mission and then ran a youth
Mutual night for the 3 youth here in Dryden, stopped by some others had dinner
with the Haesslers and then a really good appointment and lesson with P's.
Wednesday we traveled up to Fort Francis for a
Zone Training Meeting with Elder Tambre and the roads were not the greatest
going up but on the way back they were absolutely horrible. It blizzarded and the road that we take
wasn’t plowed and we kind of almost died, but we didn’t. We made it home and
then we had a good bible study and had a non-member and a less-active member
come out!
Thursday we had a good lesson with x and
her kids. We taught her more about Jesus Christ and watched “Finding faith in
Christ” with her and had a good conversation with her afterwards. Then we had
other places to go, but it took us over an hour to get out of our parking lot!
Because they didn't plow it yet! But after that, we ended up shoveling lots of
other people’s snow for quite a while and it was like 3 feet deep in some
places. We also received and contacted a few referrals that day, had dinner at
a less-active and taught him, and then taught a new investigator. Then we helped out y with making
Balloons for the Christmas Party the next day.
Friday we had a great lesson with the P's,
received and contacted two referrals, taught a non-active member, and had a
great Christmas party where about 35 people came out, including 4 investigators
and some less-actives and non-members as well, one who hadn’t been to the
church in over 15 years!
Saturday we helped this one lady move all
morning and had to move a huge piano and an old hide-a-bed... not pleasant.
Then we drove across a Lake! A real live lake! Then President was in town so we
got to see him, for a few minutes and ate lunch with him, sister Thomas and the
Tambres. Then we were busy shoveling more snow, stopped by a few others, and
had a lesson with z.
Sunday was slow. No one came to church but we
had a good meeting and got our weekly planning done finally! Then we went to
the Dryden Mission Volunteer Dinner, which was great and many people we know, who are all part of the Mission Staff
Volunteers, were there so we got to spend time with them and have a good
dinner. Then we went to the First Presidency Devotional which wasn’t actually the
First Presidency Devotional, which was kind of sad, but it was still good and
lots of non-members who we didn’t even know came, and everyone had a great
time!
Today we had to clean out our storage room in
our apartment because our garbage leaked, which we had been collecting for
almost a month, (Because here in NW Ontario you have to buy tags for your
garbage and they are $20 for 8 tags so we try to fit as much in a bag as we can
to save money because we are poor!!!) and that was super rank and super
disgusting. so that was not fun at all. But yeah other then that things have
been great!
-Love Elder Shane Dola!
