This week my companion and I realized that we
are in the movie groundhog day. It feels like we have the same things happen to
us every single day; it is actually rather depressing......
Monday we had p-day and there were no stores
open so we really didn't have anything to do all day. After though we had a turkey
dinner with our ward mission leader and his family so that was really good.
Tuesday we got groceries, had lunch, and then we
did our online work, stopped by a few members and shared some spiritual
messages with them and raked some leaves. We stopped by some more Less-active
members homes to no avail. We met with J and X and read scriptures with
her and shared dads conversion story and that seemed to really hit her hard. It
was really good. Then we had our two other
appointments cancelled on us so we went to the seventh day Adventist seminar
and got to meet with and fellowship with some of the membership there, then we
started exchanges.
Wednesday we went with the Sister missionaries
and gave Sister H a priesthood blessing and shared a message with her.
Then we had lunch and did our online work, then we walked over and saw B at
his store and he introduced us to his colleague who we gave a Book of Mormon
to. Unfortunately he is not at all interested in having us coming and teaching
him. Then we had dinner and went to the last Seventh
day seminar and met some more people there and were able to give out some
pass-along cards
Thursday we raked some leaves for some members
and for a place that that member gave us a referral to go and rake for! Then we
went to Boon Cafe for lunch with our Seventh-day Adventist pastor and Seventh-day Adventist Evangelist. Seventh-day Adventists are
vegetarian and lots are vegan so Boon Cafe is an all vegan place. It was
actually really good and we had a good conversation on our religions and shared
a few of our beliefs with them. After that we did our online work and then we
street contacted for a while handed out a few pass-along card and then tried to
see some more less-active members to no avail. Then we had a dinner appointment
with the Cardona family which is always good, shared a message with them and
then we went and saw B and were able to have a good meeting with him and we
helped answer a lot of his questions.
Friday was our Zone Conference at Dalhousie
Chapel. So we drove across town and had a conference and got to hang out with
Elder Per Gosta Malm of the second quorum of the Seventy. He was a really nice
guy and very funny. We had a good morning session and then the best lunch I have
ever had at a Zone Conference, must be because there was a General Authority
there so they stepped up their game, then we had our remaining training and
teachings from him and learnt a lot about how to have different viewpoints on
contacting people and looking more for signals. The whole theme of his training
the whole day was based on two things: 1. The Gathering of the Tribes of Israel,
and 2. Preparing for the Second Coming of Christ. He related all of it to
hastening the work of salvation. Lots was learnt and then following that he
showed us some of our mission stats which were very depressing. After the
conference I felt rather uplifted but also very depressed realizing how bad of
a missionary I am and how it's almost over! But after that we drove home and
had a dinner appointment with the O`s and had a good lesson with them and
their daughter. Then we went to the remainder of Basketball night.
Saturday we went to the Seventh-day Adventist
Sabbath day service and that was something different. We
met some more people and were even able to hand out some more pass-along cards
and I was seated beside a lady who was from Lethbridge and when she found out
that I was from Medicine Hat she talked to me the entire meeting. They
were all really nice people. Then we went and had some rabbit food with them
for lunch, which was actually pretty good. We invited the Pastors to come to
stake conference on Sunday but they were not able to make it on the short
notice, hopefully next time though. After that we went out to Brother H`s
place again and helped him rip up all of his carpet and then we laid a bunch of
hardwood floor down, ate pizza, and then laid some more floor, then came home.
Sunday we went to Dalhousie again and had Stake
conference and B came. There was a new stake presidency called so that was
interesting. After all the testimonies and what not were given Elder Malm`s
traveling companion spoke and then Elder Malm spoke and gave a really good talk
on how the members in the stake here need to go to the temple more and how more
people need to be getting temple recommends so that the Winnipeg Stake can be a
stake of Zion and so they can actually get their temple here! So after that we
went home, had lunch and said a prayer that someone would come to us as we went
out for the rest of the day and provide us with an opportunity to share the
gospel. And before we were even able to get into our car a guy came up to us
and asked us about our Church and we had a really good discussion with him and
were able to bear testimony of some truths and what not; it was a miracle for
sure. He was the first person who we have met on the street in like a month
that has actually been interested in our message. Unfortunately he was not
interested in meeting with us but we gave him our card and he lives in our apartment
building so I am sure that we will see him again. Then we went out with the
sisters to one of the less-active sisters they have been working with and we
gave her a blessing and shared a message then we walked to a less-active
members home to give them some Bread and a Pie and on our way of a walk of over
half an hour we only had one person who would even stop and talk with us!!!!
Anyways we got to the house and got invited in and we had a really good
discussion with one of the members of the family who is less-active and has
been closed towards us in the past but that day he really opened up to us and
we got to resolve some concerns and set up a return appointment. So that was
another miracle that day. Then we rushed to an unplanned dinner appointment
(Our investigator wanted us to come over last second) but when we got
there, there was some tension in the house and she just got up and left. Her roommate a said they had an argument about
cheese... But we went to try and get her to come back but she was gone. So we
ate some of the food awkwardly and left because she never came back and we went
to B`s and he fed us and we had another good discussion then we came home took
indicators and went to bed.
Today we took our car in because it had a recall
and it is all good now had p-day activity and played basketball got groceries
and then now we are e-mailing...
Have a good week.
Love Elder Shane Dola
