This week was pretty good, it has been really
humid some days and has rained a few days too, and yeah, the mosquitoes are
still on their rise to power however they aren't quite as bad as long as you
are not near the river.
It's too bad to hear about the flooding though;
that really does not sound fun quite at all. I feel bad for the hundreds of
thousands of people who had to evacuate their homes and especially
those who have lost their homes. It looks like I left at the perfect time
though, not having to do any sandbags at home and not having to do any
sandbags here either. Kind of ironic how "High" River got flooded
though eh? It would be kind of fun to go canoeing downtown though!
That doesn't make much sense that you still have
to go to work but it really doesn't surprise me.
Highlights of the Week:
This week we went fishing with T again and
Elder McRitchie was the only one who caught a little fish. After that we had a good lesson with
T, still trying to strengthen his faith so he can grow his testimony.
Tuesday we had a good lesson with A again and he has really been progressing quite a lot. We read 1 Nephi 8
with him and explained the tree of life, and we later had a really good dinner
with a recent convert Spanish family from our ward who are going to get sealed
in the temple soon. They are a great family and we had a really good visit with
them and shared an interesting object lesson with them.
Wednesday we met with a part member, less active
family, and had a very interesting discussion with them. The one guy had tons
of questions and the lesson was all over the place but it was still not too bad.
They are really nice and wanted to come to church and had us for supper on
Friday, which really nice.
Thursday we went to the soup kitchen and food
bank again and had a really good lesson with A again and Friday we did
quite a bit of tracting. Saturday
we tracted a lot and had YSA again and played basketball.
Sunday was great. We had T, our less active
member, pick up A and bring him to church, which was fantastic. A loved it and could really tell how strong he felt the spirit. I'm really sure
we can baptize him soon. After church we decided we would tract in the very
rich neighborhood where all the huge houses in Brandon were and it was raining
so we got our suits soaked and had a good time. Barely anyone was interested
except for one, possibly two, potentials that we might go back and follow up
with, but after that we had a dinner appointment with a family and T came
too. We were able to watch the Works of Salvation Broadcast, which was
soo good and talked about member missionary work. If you haven't already
watched it, you definitely need to, and show it to all the other members.
But that was mostly what we were up to last
week. We had transfer calls
on Friday and I am staying here. Over all it was a pretty good week.
Love you all
-Love Elder Shane Dola
