My week was pretty good, not quite as busy as
last week, but still super busy! The coldest it has been here was -20 on
Saturday and I don’t know what the windchill was but it has snowed at least 5
out of the 7 days this week so it’s always snowing!!!! It warmed up today
though, only like -7.
My week was pretty good, not quite as busy as
last week, but still super busy! The coldest it has been here was -20 on Saturday
and I don’t know what the windchill was but it has snowed at least 5 out of the
7 days this week so it’s always snowing!!!! It warmed up today though, only
like -7.
We have a scheduled baptism on Dec.14 and one on
Dec.28 and hopefully another within a week or 2, but all our investigators are
progressing. Some very very slowly
and some rather fast, all in the Lords time!
Great to hear that everyone and everything seems
to be going by smoothly!
Monday we were busy shoveling snow and cleaning
the house, getting haircuts and getting an Ontario License. (That’s what the
$80 charge on my Credit card is, please remember to pay that off and I will get
reimbursed for that) Then we had FHE with one of our investigators and all
kinds of other stuff.
Tuesday we had a district meeting, helped out at the Mission and were busy all day doing other stuff, stopping by people
and finding new investigators and following up on referrals.
Wednesday we helped out at the foodbank and then we saw some people and taught some lessons and were super busy with that. We then had our bible study and had a
McDonalds feast to prepare us for our fast the next day.
Thursday we fasted for our appointment with J all day and went and helped out at the DNFC with the lunch and cleaning
up. We contacted a referral but before though we met with another investigator and had a lot of
our questions answered with how to move forth with him and had the best answers
to our questions and we took a huge step forward in figuring out what J’s main
concern with Baptism is and are now moving forward and should be seeing some
great results in the next little while! Truly humbling to see the great
blessing that come from fasting! Then we came home starving and ate bacon and
an apple for dinner.
Friday we were busy with receiving Media
Referrals and sending this Atheist guy who lives about three hours away (But is
still in our area!!!) a Book of Mormon along with our separate testimonies, and
a few pamphlets to him because he stated he didn't want to meet with any
missionaries or anyone, just wanted a Book of Mormon so we did all that we
could do with that and gave all our contact info to him and are now just hoping
for the best. Then we had a great lunch prepared by one of our investigators. His wife wanted to add you on Facebook and then facetime
you because she thought it was ridiculous that we can only contact our family
twice a year! Then we had a great lesson with him, who I have seen huge
changes in his life since I have been here in Dryden. At first it was only her who would invite us over and now most of the time he is the one who is
more involved and interested! It is truly great to see. We taught him a lesson
and then helped him take his couch and put it in his truck because it was
broken. We then taught A and went to the Vahovick’s for dinner and then
helped President Vahovick put his truck back together!
Saturday we had a bit of a slower day. We did our weekly planning and saw a lot
of people and investigators. We weren’t able to teach lessons but it was still
good we contacted some referrals and ran into a former investigator who we
tracted into because Elder Elliott felt prompted to go to this certain house
and we set an appointment to see him next week! Met lots of other great
potentials too.
Sunday we got up and shoveled and
``snowblowered`` the sidewalks at the church and J and M came as per
usual and they both stayed for all three hours, which was great! We had good
talks and good Sunday school and priesthood lessons. We had a ward council
meeting and had another fast, and finished some training for Elder Elliott. We
stopped by a family who showed lots of potential but they sent us away. Then we
visited and had a great talk with our Investigator L and his Wife, who just
lost a really good friend.
Today we got groceries, gas, cleaned the house,
went to Elglis and now we still have a lesson, FHE, and another lesson to
follow. Tomorrow we will be busy going out to Sioux Lookout (a town an hour and
a bit outside of Dryden in some direction) to visit some less actives and to
dedicate one of our new member's house. Then on Wednesday we are headed
up to Kenora for district meeting and then Exchanges, so always a busy time
here and it’s great!!
I love you too!
-Love Elder Shane Dola
