This week went pretty good
Monday we had P-day and then we had a really
good visit with a member who is allergic to the carpet and so is her daughter
so they have a hard time coming out to church... but we brought Brother D with us. They really appreciated the visit. Then we went and contacted some of
the potential investigators that we had tracted into on the previous Friday and
the first one was busy but M, the second one, let us in and we had a
really great experience with him. He is First Nations and turns out that he has
always had a belief in Christ and has always wanted to learn more as he has
always been the rock and main support in his family. His biggest concern was
"Why doesn't God speak to men anymore like he did with Adam and Moses and
Noah?" and "Why are there so many different Church's" and
"What is going to happen to me after this life?" All perfect questions!
It was great to be able to answer him and he really believed what we were
sharing with him and the spirit was really strong, he accepted the invitation
to be baptized, read the Book of Mormon and to come to church that Sunday! It
was really exciting, definitely the most successful finding and teaching
situation I have had here in Winnipeg!
Tuesday we helped sister Z clean up and organize
her basement and got to hang out with her non-member husband then we had did
online work and stopped by some potential investigators that we have been
working with, saw J and X and read some of the Book of Mormon with
them.
Wednesday we had district meeting and then we
had lunch and made some poppies for sister C for the meals that she hand
out to the homeless. Then we met with Brother L and had a good
meeting with him and his Catholic-baptized Mormon wife joined with and we had a
good meeting and she surprised us with cooking us a very large dinner. Then we
went and visited B and he is doing well, then we went and were with
X and J the rest of the night they had invited us to dinner
Thursday is was cold, we did our online work and
visited Br at his shop and his friend was there who Br invited right
there if he was interested in hear what we have to say and he was so we are
going to be teaching him this week!. Then we had lunch and mowed sister
F's lawns an had dinner and then we went and looked for people to teach
Friday we went out to G's place
and split a ton of wood probably 3 times as much as we did the last time that
we went out there and put some of his bee hives away into the bee house for the
winter. Then we went to Sister Z's house for dinner and were there all night we
helped her hand out Halloween candy all night
Saturday we went to a bible study at the SDA
which was good we got to share out thoughts and beliefs and the good thing was
that almost everyone there except the pastor who was running the study were of
different belief! Then we were there for their service and had been previously
been invited over for dinner by one of the Elders in their congregation so we
went there and had a good visit with them and had some good discussions on
religion and had their completely vegan meal which was surprisingly good! Then
we rushed over to Giant Tiger and helped with a service project with the Boys
and Girls Club organization and met a really nice guy there who was also
volunteering who has a brother in Boston who is a convert of the church! So that
was good we had dinner and stopped by a few to no avail did online and then
went for ice-cream to celebrate one of the sisters in our Districts birthday!
Sunday we got up thinking that it was 6:10 but
really it was 7:10 (I set the clock back on the phone an hour for day-light
savings but the phone decided to set it back another hour) so we were late for
our missionary correlation meeting at 7:30...but after the meeting we went to
M's and he didn't answer the door and the phone number he gave us was
wrong but church was good even though M didn't come. Brother L came
and Brother S came who are both Less-actives who we have been working with.
We helped with the Giant Tiger Thing again that afternoon and had a good
conversation with a girl who was volunteering there from Selkirk and referred
her to the missionaries there. Then we had dinner and contacted some people but
no one was home did our online work and tried to street contact but no one was
on the streets that night so we came home collected indicators and that was our
night!
Today the sisters cut my hair and did a very bad
job. We went to p-day activity and then to Boston Pizza with almost the whole
Zone to celebrate sister D's birthday today and then we went shopping at
Costco for groceries and then now we are e-mailing..
Thanks for the e-mail! I love you you take
care!
-Love Elder Shane Dola
