Hey! If there
is room in the package could you please send those Dockers khaki pants that I
wore while I was at future shop! That would be great thanks! Also as always I always always
need more ties that are paisley or floral or plaid. It is a definite need! ;)
Week was pretty rough, not gonna lie...the
sisters in our district had one of their investigators pass away due to drug OD,
our most promising investigator won't respond to us whenever we try to contact
him, and our Ward Mission leader, who lives a few blocks away from us, had his
house broken into, (the police believe that it is gang related) and had his
iPad, wedding ring and car keys and car stolen...
but...
Monday we had p-day and had to plan our portion
for Zone Conference and also had to make the programs for Zone Conference.
Tuesday we had a meeting with my District
Leaders, had Zone Conference, had dinner with a member family who are here from
Alberta just for the summer, and had a few referrals that we stopped by.
Wednesday we were able to give the sisters a
blessing and helped a member take some stuff to the dump because we had a nice
big truck; we get to help out a lot. Taught a new investigator who is from
Alberta at a Tim Hortons, stopped by a few others, and had a meal appointment
with some members. Taught a lesson online. Started our Exchanges with Lewvan.
Thursday we tried to contact a referral who owns
an ice cream shop but he wasn't there so we just ate ice cream at 10:30 in the
morning went and did some online proselyting. Tried to contact a less active but we got kicked out of the apartment complex by some building
manager because he thought we were just punching in random numbers before he
could even answer the phone. We visited with J and then with M and then
had dinner at some fancy Italian Restaurant named Luigis Pasta House with
sister C and some of her family. There is one pasta dish there that is
3pounds of pasta 3 pounds of sauce and half a loaf of garlic bread...So I might
have to try that next time, because if you can eat all of it in 1 hour you get
a $50 gift card and your name on the wall of fame. But we had to leave before
dessert and we were able to teach H and X the restoration and
watched the Restoration DVD with them in Chinese, which was quite interesting.
Then we picked up brother S (he is the one whose house got broken into so
he no longer has a car) and went to the church where we had an appointment that
got launched so we took him back home and then ended our exchanges.
Friday we weekly planned and helped Sister T
move some stuff into a moving van that they were taking to her daughter who
lives outside of Selkirk and she gave us a ton of food for no reason, which was
great! Spent the rest of the night stopping by and visiting less-actives and
referrals and doing online work.
Saturday we had a missionary co-ordination
meeting with our District at brother S's. Following that we had lunch, had
our lesson with J, which was great. He is getting baptized on the 12 of
July and a lot of his family has been coming back into activity in the Church
to support him because of it. After the lesson we gave his mom a
blessing for her headache and she texted us later and told us how she knows
that the Church is true and that she didn't have a head ache at all right after
and she had had them for weeks straight, so that was a miracle for sure. Then
we did some online work, had dinner, and visited some more referrals and prospective
Elders.
Sunday we had church and C came again; he's a
Less Active we haven't seen for a very long time. C came again as always
and has been super great! Then we were a little disappointed because F and J didn't show up for their church (they are in a different ward) but
then a few seconds later, they showed up and J's dad, who previously told
us he wasn't coming, showed up too and they also brought one of their little
grandsons! So that was great; they really enjoyed it. We later did online work,
visited with C, which went really well, and then had dinner and stopped by
some more Less-actives. We have been cleaning up the records a lot if you can't
tell... then we collected indicators and that's it.
But it was great to hear from you. Sounds like
you have some fun weeks ahead of you! Love you, you take care :)
-Love Elder Shane Dola
