This week was rather interesting. Gave a
lot of Priesthood blessings.
Monday we had our P-day and then we met
with X and J and taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ which was going
pretty good until we explained receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost by the
laying on of hands by those who hold the proper Priesthood authority. She got
really mad because she knew that it was only men who hold the priesthood. So
that lesson went completely down hill.
Tuesday we weekly planned, had lunch,
did our online work, and raked some leaves for some people, stopped by a few
members, did some street contacting to no avail. Had dinner and stopped by some
former investigators and had a pretty good success, hopefully will be working
with them soon, Then we went to Bishop Gatz's home, had a really good
visit with him and his family and had a good lesson and some good dessert!
Wednesday we had our district meeting,
had district lunch and had to stay at the church and watch it for a while
because they were doing voting in the gym for the election here in Winnipeg.
After that, we did our online work and tried to find more people to teach the
rest of the day, and then had our appointment cancelled that night, and started
our exchanges.
Thursday, while on exchanges Elder
P and I cleansed his apartment of their nasty futon mattress and threw
it out the 6 story window. Then we did our online work, had lunch, and jumped
on a bus and went down town and walked down Portage Ave...We ran into some of
the most down-trodden people I have ever seen, and some people who I am pretty sure were
on some pretty serious drugs! I really can tell why Winnipeg has such a bad
name after walking there for a while! But nonetheless, it was very fun. We ran
into a man who chose to be homeless to follow the way that Christ lived and he
had met missionaries before, he invited us to the church for the Homeless that
is in Winnipeg. While talking with him we got interrupted by a lady who gave us
some pamphlets and warned us that God is an angry, killing, punishing God etc
etc and that the bible was a warning for us to follow. So met them and ventured
into some of the Winnipeg Tunnels and then back out and talked with quite a few
people and weren't able to set any appointments but we gave out a lot of
pass-along cards, all of the ones we had actually. We were looking for the
Jehovah Witnesses because they usually have some of their members on the street
and have stands and we were going to go and meet them and see if we could get
some ideas about maybe doing the same thing downtown but we never found them
but we made a random turn and ended up in China Town and ran into a girl who
called us over and told us she was baptized when she was 12 and was just
thinking about coming back to church and then she saw us! Then we were heading
back to a bus stop and ran across a Church of Scientology and stopped by and
that was the weirdest thing I have ever experienced... they gave us a free
personality test and told us how to better ourselves through there Dianetics
and other interesting stuff then we gave them some pass-along cards and shared some
of our beliefs with them. Then we were heading back to a bus stop and a guy
while walking piped in "YOU GUYS REALLY NEED TO KEEP IT TO YOURSELF"
and kept on walking. Then when we got on the bus, a creepy lady stared straight
at me for like 5 minutes for no reason. Then we got home, had dinner, and
walked and I met M, the new investigator who is Muslim and a very nice man.
Friday we weekly planned and had lunch,
had our appointment cancelled, and then we saw sister Z and C and set up
some appointments to see them. Contacted some more LA members and tracted out a
whole neighborhood, had dinner, had our other appointment cancelled, went to
basketball and one of the kids we met tracting came and it was a really good
night.
Saturday we went out and helped Brother
Heieie do all kinds of stuff around his yard and his house preparing for winter
and went to a corn maze and petting zoo with their family, and ate pizza.
Sunday we had missionary correlation and
Church and M came, looking really classy in a white suit and
pin-stripped shirt. We gave the sacrament to Bro L in his home and gave him
a blessing. We had the rest of church, did our online, had our appointment
cancelled. Then we ended up helping Sister L clean out water from her
basement, had a dry shredded wheat patty for dinner, and then we went to the
mission fireside.
But I love you, you take care! Talk to
you later!
-Love Elder Shane Dola
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