April 28

My week was pretty good! Was pretty hectic but good, I'm very settled in, it is good here except we live in an apartment with almost all Indian people (People from India) and so they make really nasty smelling food which leaks into our apartment so sometimes we come home and find it smelling like rotten fish and sometimes it smells like B.O. mixed with rotten fish or curry or tacos. It's pretty gross but I can't complain. I just got word that right when I left they made some major changes to the trailer in  Weyburn so I am happy for the Elders living there! 

There are 18 missionaries in Regina and four out in Yorkton and Melville (that's our Zone) 

This week was pretty crazy. I don't have too much time or too many things to tell. Basically we spent a lot of the week planning out the coming transfer and had to take care of some other things and make sure that things start running smoothly and back to normal now that everyone is back in their areas. Some things were left behind here in Regina and we had to get everything back to places all around the mission.

Monday was P-day and we helped some members move a fridge and other kitchen appliances and had a lunch appointment and dinner appointment.

Tuesday we had district meeting and met with the Stake President and had lunch with him and discussed some stake business and other things pertaining to us going out onto some reserves and had dinner with The Burgess' who is in the temple presidency, and then met with a less-active member.

Wednesday we went to some of the other district meetings and sent some stuff off in the mail, visited with C, had dinner with the H family and home taught them, met the S's, one of our home teaching families. (in our ward the recent initiative is for members to have only one home teaching family so they can focus more on the one family so the missionaries are the home teachers for the active families so we have 7 Home teaching families).

Thursday we focused a lot on prospective Elders and other things and Sister C and Dr C took us out to dinner.

Friday we planned for the transfer and for our week and met with R and a few other people.

Saturday we had a pancake breakfast put on by the ward mission leader who we helped out and were able to bring quite a few people out to that. We contacted some referrals and other Less Active members and had dinner and went on Facebook.

Sunday we had church and C and C came, which was good. We saw a few other people, gave a priesthood blessing, and stopped by some more LA and prospective Elders and had an appointment with the Spanish speaking guys but that fell through. We had dinner with the Stake President and went to another of our home teaching families.

I got the package with the cookies from Grandma and Grandpa last night! Tell them thanks and that I love them! You are right, I don't think that there would be much point to freezing them...

Some missionaries burn ties on their 6 month mark, some burn shirts on their year mark, some burn a pair of pants on their 18 month mark and then some burn an entire suit on their 2 year mark. But I don't think I will do any of that because I personally think that it is stupid to do that, and also as you know I am super stingy and cheap so I don't know if I could bring myself do do that....

For my year mark I just happen to be going out for lunch with Ali'i Lafontaine so I guess that is what I will do for my anniversary!?

But I love you you take care and take it easy!

-Love Elder Shane Dola

April 21

This week Monday we took the car in and found out that the recall on the Cruze's affected our car and that it has a hairline fracture in it so it will have to be fixed soon. We then e-mailed and went bowling with a recent convert from Saskatoon and her boyfriend who is a return missionary. 

Tuesday we went and visited D one last time before I left and then we went out to Carievale and said bye to C and K and helped put up his new garage door only to take it down, had a good message shared with them and then came back to Weyburn to have basketball night, which got cancelled because the church scheduled something else that night.

Wednesday we were pretty busy and later saw K and helped them put together some book shelves and talked a bit more about the experience he had with his father the other day. Then we went out to Francis and said good bye to the L's and K's and had a great dinner and lesson on mormon.org with the L's. Then we visited G at A&W and had a good chat with him; he can always feel the spirit stronger when we are around he always says.

Thursday we spent most of the day packing and preparing to go into Regina for the mission conference and picked up my suit from the dry cleaners (got it dry cleaned for the first time) then G took us out for dinner and Brother Morrissette was there so we ate with them (Brother Morrissette's wife is out of town in Calgary watching her grand-kids for like a month and ever since she has been gone he just eats out at least two sometimes three times a day! It's pretty funny, reminds me of what Grandpa Schultz would probably do :) ) Then we visited the J's and had a good meeting with them following a good lesson with P and A.

Friday was crazy day. We left and drove up with Estevan elders to Regina and went to Subway and right after that, since almost all of the members in the entire mission were in Regina this weekend because of the Priesthood leadership training, or because there was a huge Winnipeg Stake temple trip, so one of the members who elder Dillon and Elder McGregor knew insisted that we all meet them at East Side Mario's and we ate another meal.... Then we went to the church and it was crazy. I saw so many missionaries there that I had never before seen in my life. Around 4:30 all of the missionaries in the whole mission showed up and then we ate again and then we had a good conference together to prepare for the visit from the Apostle. Then we drove around all night taking luggage places and different missionaries to their billets.

Saturday morning we left the 6 elders in our apartment and had a breakfast appointment with a member family and got a call from a lady who had a card form Elder Beacham a few months ago and asked us to help her so that was good. We then went to the church and waited and studied our scriptures until Elder Christofferson arrived. When he did you could just feel his presence as he walked in the Chapel, it was amazing. He had us all sit down and then everyone in the entire mission got to go up and introduce ourselves and tell him where we were from, then we got to shake his hand along with Elder Soares of the Presidency of the Seventy and Elder Spackman, the area seventy who lives in Calgary. It was a super great experience. We then heard from Sister and President Thomas and then Elder Spackman and Elder Soares followed by Elder Christofferson speaking and then he opened up about an hour and a half for the missionaries to ask questions. The talks were super good. Elder Christofferson is super funny too. It's really interesting to see General authorities when they aren't at general conference. They are completely different. I remember when I saw some at the MTC they are different than when you see them at general conference. They are super funny yet extremely dignified and can go right back to powerful doctrine just like that.  Too many things to choose from to talk about. The thing that stood out the most was what Elder Christofferson said. How he considers us his companions and that he would hope that he and the Brethren would never do anything to disappoint us and he hoped that we would do the same. He was super humble about everything, that definitely was one great attribute you could see in him. You could just feel their true and deep love that they had for us the entire time. The spirit was so strong the entire time. Definitely a superb experience! He is such a great scriptorian as well. Every question that anyone would ask him he would only have to think for a few seconds and would through out a scripture or a few relating to the topic. He bore the most powerful testimony I have ever heard before. His simple yet very powerful testimony of Christ and that he lives was so powerful, you could literally imagine and see and know that Christ was a person and that he lives. I can't use words to describe how powerful it truly was. After that the mission dispersed and all headed back to their areas and we made sure that everything was taken care of then Elder Christofferson had a four hour meeting with all of the Priesthood leadership in the Winnipeg and Saskatchewan stakes. Wish that we could have sat in on that but we weren't allowed. We then went to lunch with the Assistants before they headed back to Winnipeg and then met a few members and then we went to meet some potential investigators and later had dinner and met C, our 73 old man who is going to be baptized soon, I can just feel it. He wants to, just has to get a few things sorted out with himself.

Sunday was pretty crazy. We studied and went to church early to welcome people. We are in the Wascana Ward; there are three wards in Regina. But the first person I saw when I walked in the Chapel was Ali'i Lafontaine, but he is in the new ward, Sunrise. We had a good sacrament meeting and two people were confirmed, a child of record and a man who just got baptized on Friday. C came and went to all three meetings which was super good. He is such a great guy. It was weird being in such a big ward, even though there were only like 125-150 members it was the biggest I had been to in a year, and it was weird going back to 3 hour blocks because in Weyburn they only had 2 hours of Church.

But yeah, so after that we had lunch and stopped by a few other people, and we also had a lesson with two guys that speak almost 0 English and only speak French and Spanish. They are from Colombia and were working in Quebec before they came to Saskatchewan, so that's why they speak French. We brought a Recent Convert  with us and he is from Cuba so he translated for us. It was super funny because he kept forgetting to change languages and would sometimes speak to the other guys in English and then us in Spanish. But it was super good we gave them all copies of the book of Mormon and the pamphlets in English and Spanish and had a prayer with them and A translated that and it was super powerful, you could totally tell that they felt the spirit. We then had a dinner appointment with the C family, who used to live in Medicine Hat 1st or 2nd ward, I cannot remember but I recognized their faces and they did mine and had a good conversation of things back home.  So yeah anyways I literally have slowly been moving closer and closer to home, saw tons of people from Medicine Hat. After that we had some other appointments but they fell through so we stopped by a few other people before going home and collecting indicators.

Was a pretty crazy week but I loved it, looking forward to serve here!

-Love Elder Shane Dola

P.S. We don't have a car to drive anymore....all we have is a 2014 brand new Chevrolet Silverado with 2400Km's on it to drive around

April 14

Well transfer calls were this week and I have been released from being exiled to the Weyburn Trailer. It has been all right but I will have finally escaped!

This week on Monday A called us and told us about this experience he had while he was at his deceased father's place cleaning up and getting it ready to sell. He told us how the whole time he felt the presence of his father and that it was really calming. He said that where he was at there was no cell service and that he had just left his phone in the Truck when he looked at it next, a few hours later, his dads number who he hadn't called for almost a year showed up and right underneath it was our number who he hadn't called for over 3 months (we communicate mostly through text). He said it was the weirdest thing, That it was not possible that anyone could have input that into his phone and is still trying to figure our what it means and said he is having progress. 

Tuesday we visited D and then Estevan Elders drove us to Moose Jaw and we finally got our car back, which we hadn't had for exactly a month. That was great then we got back and had a good basketball night. We had 11 people show up.

Wednesday we had our district meeting and the Zone Leaders were there and then we helped G's friend clean up her place and helped out by cleaning up a garage sale ran by "The family place." Then we had dinner and went to the "Church of Christ Bible Study."

Thursday we got transfer calls I'm heading even closer to home.

Friday we stopped by a few places for service and J came into town and bought us lunch and we had a good meeting with him before he headed back to Ontario. We then weekly planned and went to HTM then we helped B and H take apart their truck so they can continue to paint it pink. Then we saw G again and he was doing pretty rough. He had been off his meds for a few days and his Schizophrenia was hitting him pretty hard and he asked for a priesthood blessing and afterwards called us that night saying that he felt as if though his Schizophrenia had almost been healed. He felt better that he had in a very long time which was pretty neat experience.

Saturday we helped the Salvation Army with their Trade show for quite a while then helped the old people play bingo at Tatagwa View then took down the Salvation Army thing. Then we met with K and C and S at McDonald's. They got us dinner and we had a bit of a discussion on what happened the other day with his dad and what not, then we stopped by a few referrals.

Sunday we had Church and A came for the first time in like 4 months which was great to see! The talks were on Eternal marriage and that is what she needed to hear. She said she enjoyed it quite a lot. Later we stopped by a referral and saw G. Then had lunch at 2:00 with the A's and Brother Morrissette and shared a message with them and sister A's mother who is not a member who just got here from the Philippines. Then we went and tracted a bit and contacted the rest of the Former investigators then we went out to the Regnier's and had dinner with them and brother Morrissette and shared a message then came back.

Today we visited with P at A&W and had a good discussion and then we went to Welsh Kitchen and visited with P and D. Then we went and took the Cruze into the shop because all Cruze 2013 have a recall on them because apparently the front axle could just snap in half at any time. It has a hairline fracture but it is all good for now, at least they say, still will have to order in the new parts and now we are e-mailing.

Take care.  Love Elder Shane Dola

April 7

Our week was not too bad, we did get to watch all of conference, which was really good, and yes it is warming up pretty good. It was 15 degrees on Saturday after we left the church from the morning session. No we have not received our car back yet, it is fixed and we will get it back on Tuesday! Not too else is new really.

Monday was P-day so we prepared for the week and then had an appointment, which unfortunately fell through.

Tuesday we walked to D's home and shared a message with him and focused on Alma 13. Following that we made our way back home and stopped by the Salvation Army before getting home and eating. After that we made the trek up to Hill Top Manor and helped the old people play cards. Then we walked home and phoned a few people looking for some ways to volunteer in the community building a house, which should be fun to get involved with. We got home and had dinner and then we embarked back into town and stopped by a referral but he wasn't home, only his daughter was so we continued on to contact a former investigator to set up an appointment with her and then we heard of the great experience that Elder Dillon and Elder McGregor had with C by answering his prayer that the Book of Mormon was true. It was probably the most spiritual experience I heard of and experienced on my mission so that was really powerful. We then walked home only to see that the lights were on and that the carport and the door to the trailer were wide open. Looked like someone had broken in so we went in and the whole place was torn apart, completely thrashed with stuff everywhere, it looked like someone ransacked the place. Then we went back and the bedroom and the bathroom were the same. But then we found Elder McGregor and Dillon in the back room. They played an April Fools joke on us which was actually pretty good.

Wednesday we went to the church and had our Zone Training Meeting over Skype, which was pretty good. Then we went for lunch and started our exchanges and Elder Dillon and I were left to walk around town all day and then we went to basketball, which was pretty good and J gave us a ride home. He’s a super great guy, just hope one day he will soften his heart towards the gospel.

Thursday we walked into town again and did some things on mormon.org and stopped by a few others. We were on our way back when we met this man named who we started talking to and as we walked back he invited us into his shack and he made us each eat 2 full cans of Campbell's Chunky soup and like half a loaf of bread each. We eventually escaped and ran into G while we continued on home, and helped him out a bit as he is really going through a hard time still.

Friday we completed our exchanges and everything else fell through but we were blessed to be invited to the Morrissette's for dinner and had KFC, which was good, and we got to share a message with them.

Saturday we were busy all day with Conference, which was super good and we tried to get everyone there that we could.

Sunday we watched conference again and had a really long discussion with G following conference. We got invited out to the Regnier's for dinner and Brother Morrissette took us there and back, which was nice of him. Later that night I got a call from Elder Elliott telling me that J was going to be making his way through Weyburn this week and that he has been going through a hard time with some things and wants to stop and meet with us here, so that was pretty exciting. Also we got the news that our car is fixed so we will be able to go and pick it up on Tuesday. So we had a pretty good weekend with some really good conference addresses.

Today we studied and now are e-mailing.

But it's good to hear from you again. I love you. You take care.

-Love Elder Shane Dola

March 31

Monday we had P-day and while e-mailing at the library we were asked if we could help sort some books for a big book sale that they were doing here so we went and helped with that which is good! It at least shows that people are still aware that we are here and that they can turn to us for help.

Tuesday we walked to D's home and had a good meeting with him and were able to give him a priesthood blessing, We then walked down to the newspaper office to try and see why they hadn't published our newspaper article, but the lady wasn't there so we went on and contacted a few former investigators and a referral that D just gave us and knocked a few other doors but no luck contacting anyone. We then went back to the newspaper office and she apologized and set up a new appointment for us to be interviewed. We then walked up to the church and were there for a while before we walked over to hill top manor and helped the old people play their card-bingo game again. Then we went home and had dinner and then tried stopping by some other formers in town and one told us to come back later, that she might be interested, just needed to talk with her grandpa. 

Wednesday we had district meeting and then Elder McGregor headed back to Estevan to go on an exchange. We got there and went to the Humane Society and I said I would go only if they didn't make us scoop poop. So we got there and they had us clean up garbage in the front yard and then the backyard where they had the dog run, which was good because there was no poop involved but then the worker guy comes out with a huge grin on his face, and hands us these pooper scoopers and we ended up cleaning up like 30 pounds of dog poop, so that was disgusting and I was not too impressed. Then we helped by playing with a few cats and there were some kittens that looked like Gremlins. Then we went and had a dinner appointment with Sister L, which was good. Then we went and tried to contact some other less-active and former investigators but no one was home, even though they all had their lights on, so we came home.

Thursday was a really good day. We went and visited with a less-active member in Estevan who is from the Philippines who really wants to be able to come to church but just can't because he is working to get his permanent residence here in Canada and if he misses or doesn't keep his work contract he gets deported back home. He's a super great guy was great to meet him. Then we left Estevan and travelled out an hour and a half to Carievale and I got to meet the newest investigators in our District. They are super great people. He works on the Rigs and the last kind of guy you would expect to see from working there. They were originally contacted because they requested a bible from the mormon.org website and so the week previous Elder Dillon and McGregor went down to give them the Bible, but he was super open and had them for lunch and they taught him about the Restoration of the Gospel and the Book of Mormon, and they said that they wanted to read it even before the Elders could invite them too. Was super great. Then I got to meet them and he is super nice, felt like we were best friends even though we had just barely met. She is just as nice too and is super new to religion and just started getting into it since she met him (hence why they wanted a copy of the Bible) But anyway they cooked us a great pork-chop,rice, and fries dinner with carrot cake, and then we had a super good lesson with them. It was probably like no other lesson I had taught before because we covered so many different things in a strange order (We started the lesson and they told us how they had been reading the book of Mormon together and to their kids and that they had watched both Finding Faith in Christ and The Restoration DVD's and we led into just doing a quick overview on the restoration but that wasn't really necessary because they had already understood all of it, we then started talking about temples and all that goes on in there, then we lead into the Plan of Salvation which went super well and we touched on our life on Earth and The Gospel of Jesus Christ and  lead to the invitation to be baptised!) But they were super receptive and really interested the whole time, nothing could distract them and most importantly the spirit was super strong! and when were talking about baptism she was super excited and expressed how she hadn't been baptised, and we invited both to be baptised and they accepted. It was super great, never had seen anyone so prepared than these two people were. Afterwards we had told them that we would play Street Hockey with them and their kids and we were playing a card game for a bit so that the one daughter could have a bit longer of a nap and out of nowhere he started asking more questions like "What do you guys expect of us" and other things which lead into more gospel conversations which was super good. After that we played Street Hockey with them and their kids and a bunch of other local kids showed up and played for a while which was super fun. As we were leaving he told us the next time we came back that we should brings some members of our church, because he wanted to get to know some more Mormons. Like I said he is the most prepared person I have met on my mission. After that we travelled back to Estevan and  had a quick dinner before we had a coordination meeting with Brother Johnson.

Friday we got up and went to the Hospital and had the old people play instruments again, even though only 3 or 4 of them really had any idea what was going on. This one lady in a wheelchair was shaking Elder McGregor's hand and then pulled herself in towards him and was trying to get him to kiss him, so that freaked him out a bit and was pretty funny. After that we came back to Weyburn and had lunch and then finished our Exchange and Elder Hornberger and I had our interview at the newspaper and we will have our article published this Friday hopefully. We got a few texts later on telling us that they heard Elder Hornberger and I on the radio which was pretty exciting to hear, hopefully something will come up because of that. Link to the article.

 http://www.discoverweyburn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26330&itemid=330

Then we had our quarterly interviews with President Thomas and had dinner and then Elder Hornberger and I went and helped out at the senior Center Drop off Center by helping clean up their huge dinner that they had. Then we met G at KFC, where he was with the other Elders because he was having a tough time, but we were able to help him through and he said he could feel with our presence the spirit lift him up and he felt a lot better.

Saturday we all went out to the A's kids birthday party and got to eat a ton of food and meet all of their friends and got to meet Sister A's Parents who just arrived in Canada from the Philippines the night previous. They didn't know much English and were super jet-lagged but we were able to meet them and hopefully we will be able to teach them (that is the goal that the A's have) Later Elder Dillon and I visited G and helped him out with a few other things.

Sunday we went to Church and had a great fast and testimony meeting and G came and bore his testimony and also S was there as well so that was great to see that she came out and seemed to have a good time. Later we went to the Gospel services and that was more interesting then the previous times. The preacher ladies kept making subtle attacks in their sermons towards us so that was kind of funny. Afterwards we met and were able to  fellowship with a bunch of the congregation there and gave the one preacher lady the first few Books of the Book of Mormon on CD so that she could listen to them because she has a hard time reading and she accepted happily (she had requested them) then we had a great dinner appointment at the Regnier's home which was even better because Brother Regniers non-member mother was there and we later shared a message with their whole family. We left shortly after and came home, stopped by a couple the other Elders had met the other day, and gave a few pamphlets and a copy of the Book of Mormon to them.

But I love you and hope that you have a good week, and will continue to pray that your back continues to get better! Take care love you.

-Love Elder Shane Dola

P.S. Please thank grandma and grandpa Schultz for the cards and packages they continually send me, They are greatly appreciated, tell them I love them! Thanks!

Really packing on the pounds lately!

Gremlin kitty at Humane Society in Estevan.

March 24

This week wasn't all too exciting or much better but I guess it could be worse!

Monday was our P-day so we e-mailed a bit and then went bowling with the Canadian Mental Health Association then e-mailed some more and then went and got our groceries and thankfully we were able to get a ride home from the members; that was a blessing. We tried to stop by a few other people that night but that didn't turn out so well.

Tuesday, we walked to our appointment with D and had a good meeting with him, and stopped by a service referral at the senior centre so we will be able to help them clean up one of their events on Thursday. Then we went to the post office to pick up the package, because I remember Dad asking if there was a subway in town so I was thinking there probably was a Subway Gift Card in there. When we got to the post office I was excited until I gave the sheet to the lady at the desk and she said "Oh good, I sure hope this is that huge parcel!" then she came back and plopped this huge package that weighed like 40 lbs down, and at that point I realized that that was not going to fit in my backpack, but nevertheless we didn't really have any other choice than to take it, and so we walked down the street carrying the huge box, probably looking super ridiculous! But we got to Subway and that was good but after that I had to carry it all the way to the library! But we got there and did some research on some more service opportunities and then thankfully Brother Regnier picked us up to take us to our appointment that we had with a Less active lady. Which unfortunately she cancelled on us and said she had been thinking a lot since we saw her the last week before and wasn't interested any more, so we all left her with our testimonies and Brother Regnier said he was going to try getting back to her later on which will be good! We then went to Hill-top manor and helped them play Bingo with their cards again. Then we walked home and had dinner and walked back into town a bit and talked with people on the streets and stopped by a few former investigators and tracted a few houses with no success. However when we were walking back Elder Hornberger stepped on what appeared to be solid ice, which was not, and fell through into a huge hole up to his shins, so that was pretty hilarious as his shoe filled with water.

Wednesday, we had district meeting and washed our dishes at the church and then we had lunch and then walked around town talking to some people and followed up with a few more service referrals from a few other people. It didn't really turn out too well but then we went to the radio station and they, out of nowhere, just did an interview of us and took a picture to make an article for us for their website or newspaper, I am presuming, but that was good. We also ran into another Less Active lady who works there that we have been trying to contact for quite a while, then walked home and had a quick dinner and made some phone calls, then walked back and had a good basketball night following by having to walk home and being exhausted. 

Thursday, we had an appointment at A&W again, which went pretty good. Then we went to the Welsh Kitchen and had a good Roast Beef dinner and were able to set an appointment up with Sister J and talk to a few other people. Then we stopped by a few other service referrals and they all took our number but other than that, we had not too much other success. But yeah, after that we came home and tried contacting a few other people who all told us to leave them alone.

Friday, we tried helping out at Tatagwa view but there wasn't really anything that we could do to help so we left and did a few things at the Library on mormon.org because it was freezing. It was like -30 with the wind chill coming out of nowhere! Later we got to visit with K and C, even though they don't want us to try to teach them any more, they still want to be friends and wanted to meet Elder Hornberger. Then we got a ride home thankfully and out of nowhere Brother Morrissette phoned us and invited us over for Chinese food at his house in Celebration that Dakota (One of the members who is boarding at his house) got his mission call to Peru! So we did that and helped them with their Book of Mormon reading challenge and then they took us home.

Saturday, we weekly planned and had a good long missionary coordination with brother Regnier and discussed a lot of people and just trying to figure out more of what we can even do any more. We did some investigating to try and figure out some information about people on the membership records. But after that we came home, after washing our dishes at the church again, and then had dinner, and then the Estevan Elder's came and luckily we were able to take their car and visited P and A.

Sunday, we had church, which was good. We had High Council from Regina come and gave some good talks. Unfortunately, no Less Actives or Investigators came out but after that we went to the Regnier's for dinner, and that was great. We shared with them more how to make mormon.org profiles and how they can use it more effectively in their own missionary efforts, and came home and tried to set appointments but just ended up in more people being busy or telling us to leave them alone, so not too much else happened that day. 

But I love you too! I hope that you have a great week and take care!

-Love Elder Shane Dola

Beautiful view's of the good ol' trailer park that I have when looking out the only two windows in our trailer that actually are not boarded up!

March 17

March 17, 2014

Week was pretty good, still no car probably not for 2 or so more weeks! It's nice except it's super wet and muddy! but yeah it's still good! We are still on foot been walking everywhere, super muddy but has dried up a little bit lately! 

This week not too much happened. We got major shin splints from walking a total of over 62 Km this week (I calculated on Google maps our routes 9 KM on Monday 20 KM on Tuesday 5 KM on Wednesday 14 KM on Thursday 6 KM on Friday and 1 KM on Saturday 7 KM on Sunday!!!) which doesn't seem like much but it really is when you're used to driving everywhere so yeah that was fun. We've been super tired all week and it's so bad because our trailer court is almost 4 KM out of town!

But yeah, Monday we walked to Chiropractor, then to the post office, then to the library, then to Wholesale foods and then we carried our groceries all the way home.

Tuesday, we went to D, had a good visit with him, then we got some police record checks done for service for E. Hornberger, then we walked to Tatagwa View, then we walked home, then we walked all the way to Hill Top manor and helped the old people play cards, then we walked all the way home for dinner, and then we walked all the way to Knox hall for our Basketball night. Then fortunately, one of our friends who goes there, gave us a ride home. I don't think we would have made it back otherwise!

Wednesday, we had district meeting and then met the ladies from the "Gospel Services" Church thing at the Welsh kitchen because they wanted to meet us there for lunch but when we got there, it was closed because the plumbing all backed up so we ended up going to KFC and they so kindly bought us lunch unexpectedly and we had a good discussion on our beliefs and their beliefs and why they're missionaries for their whole life and why we are missionaries and what not. Had a good conversation until the topic of the Book of Mormon came out and then the one lady was really interested while the other just started bible-bashing with us and the the lady that was more interested seemed to believe the points that we were making but in the end we just let them know we could sit here all day and do this or you can just read it and pray about it, so the lady that was more interested said that she would do that! Then we left and walked to the Library and worked a bit more on LA information then came home, had dinner, and went to Church of Christ Bible study. We had a good time, people there are super friendly and one lady is going to let us share with her our message. Then we walked all the way home.

Thursday, we almost died. We had a list of tons of people we wanted to stop by and see all around town and didn't want to be going home until the end of the day so we literally walked around all day, but it was very successful. Everyone that we planned to stop by was home and we were able to talk to them and find out more of whether they were interested or not and even set up a few appointments. Then as we were walking back on the verge of total fatigue, we were greeted by one of our LA families, and we were invited in and they got to meet Elder Hornberger and then they drove us home, otherwise it would have been another 4+ KM walk and we were even more exhausted than on Tuesday!

Friday, we weekly planned and went to the Mental health Association and then went to the mall to follow up on some more service referrals. Then we were picked up by Estevan Elders, who came into town because they were watching a wedding on Skype the next morning. They cut my hair and went to a dinner appointment and then President Tiefenbach and his wife picked Elder Hornberger and I up and we went to the Temple and helped do baptisms for the dead. It was super great,  my first time there and first time in a temple for almost a year. Then we came home and Sister L had bought us a bunch of Costco muffins, which was great.

Saturday, we studied and spent most of the rest of the day co-ordinating things with Estevan and other areas out of town. Then we had to study and read the new information we got on our on-line proselyting that we are going to start soon. Then we went to the Relief Society social, where the whole branch was there, and had a super good time. It was potluck and there was all kinds of great foods! Especially all of the Korean foods, was super great.

Sunday, we called G and he said he isn't coming to church, that he and his girlfriend are now looking for the right church for them, so we didn't have any investigators  at church until  J showed up right after the sacrament was administrated. So that was good to at least see her there! Then we had a great potluck dinner (have one every third sunday) so it was super good, probably the best potluck I had ever gone too!! Then we went home and walked to the Gospel Services Church and on our way there we were walking down the street and there were 4 or 5 young adults standing there and they started talking to us and then one guy leans over to his friend and puts his arm around him and says "Do you want to watch me kiss this boy?!?!" to which Elder Hornberger replied "No, not really" and we continued walking and Elder Hornberger stopped to tie his shoe and the guys yelled back at us and so we turned around and he dropped his pants and full on mooned us in the middle of the street! It was quite hilarious nevertheless. But we got to the service and sang more songs to the same melody of our hymns and it was a pretty good service. As it was done I was thinking if us being there was really worth our time and just as we were leaving a lady stopped us who we had talked to last week and asked us to come by her house sometime, which was a miracle! Then when we were walking back down the street, this lady in a truck pulled over and shared with us how she was a Less-active member and was baptized 3-4 years ago and has been in Weyburn the last 1.5 years and wanted to come back to church but she couldn't find any information and just happened to see us as we were walking home which was another miracle! Was super good way to finish our day off.

Today we walked to the Library and then to the Mental Health Association and went Bowling with them and now we are back e-mailing!

But thanks so much you take care! Love you! 

-Love Elder Shane Dola