Week was pretty good; can always be better but
overall it was great! Overall I loved conference.
I am pretty sure this was the first time I have watched all 5 sessions of
conference but all of the speakers did great and lots of powerful messages
pertaining to members becoming more member missionaries in heeding the work of
Salvation! Yoga was a pretty good success, not as many people came out as I had
hoped, only one lady we didn't know came and then there was Elder Elliott and I
and President Vahovick and President and
Sister Haessler came too. Then N of course who did great this time being his first time actually
teaching a class but he enjoyed it and will be coming out two more times before
he leaves for the season and heads back to Alberta.
We watched conference at the church here. We
have a satellite and set up the projector and what not, and we also watched a
session with two of our investigators at their home!
Monday we had P-day and tracted a bit and met
some really nice people and invited them to Yoga.
Tuesday we had district meeting, volunteered at
the Dryden Mission, had a good dinner appointment with one of our investigators, and stopped by a few others.
Wednesday we helped out at the food bank and
community gardens, and the Tambres were gone so we couldn't teach J, but we
had a really good conversation on the doorstep and learnt a lot and helped her
out quite a bit. Then we mowed
another of our investigators lawn for him because he had to cancel and take his
sick baby to the hospital, and then we had our bible study, even though we still
haven't had anyone come out yet.
Thursday was super busy. We went to Aaron Park
and split and bagged a ton of wood and had some really good conversations with
N. His wife was there for the first time so we were able to answer a lot of
questions about what we do as missionaries. Then we went, and for the second
week in a row, bought a dozen donuts and ate them all for lunch before we went
to volunteer at the DNFC and then volunteered at the Go-Getters. Then we went
to help out a lady again and finally got her a giant Book of Mormon
so that she can read it but we haven't been able to give it to her yet. Then we
had Yoga night, which was pretty successful, and everyone enjoyed it, and more
will come out next week!
Friday we went out to President Vahovick's and
helped him put up some fluorescent lights in his shop and had a lunch with him
and his wife. Then we came back into town and visited the N's, then did our
weekly planning session, and went to the Masonic Hall open mic with M and
D and met few nice people there.
Saturday we watched the morning session of conference
and spent the rest of our free time trying to get investigators out to the rest
of the sessions. We watched the afternoon session with M and D and had
another great meal with them and were able to answer a lot of their questions
about the church and the conference and what not. We went to the priesthood session as well.
Sunday we went to conference and had J come
out in the morning. No investigators were able to come in the afternoon, but it
was still good. Later that day we went and visited with a family who we hadn't been able to contact in over a month and had really
good talk with them. They really opened up and we learnt a lot, and we set up
an appointment to help move a washing machine into their car on Monday!
I love you too! Also you should see the hat I got the
other day it's sheepskin, super nice and warm, you'd love it!
-Love Elder Shane Dola
