This week was pretty good, saw a lot of people and had some good experiences. Did some drywalling, sanding and painting this week with the R's and then out of nowhere we had a really deep conversation with A and B about their kids and the need for them to be baptized. Nick really wants me to baptize him so Sunday the 3rd, the last day as a missionary, I will be blessed to baptize him before we head home! Lots of other crazy stuff has been happening this week too, had 36 people at church which is always great to see! But see you all next week....except you Kurt...
Monday, April 27, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
April 20
April 20, 2015
This week was a very blessed week, we were able
to receive 8 new investigators and had many other successes.
Monday we had P-day and visited with some people.
Tuesday we made invites to our potluck dinner
went around handing those out for a while then we saw R. Visited with W and then we were able to start teaching a new family, T who we contacted
coincidentally last week, who is a member, has three kids who she wants to be
baptized. So we got to meet with them that day and had a really good discussion
with them and invited two of them to be baptized and they accepted. Following
that we watched some conference talks with M and had a good discussion with
her and her trying to quit smoking.
Wednesday we were out and about again handing
out invited to potluck and then we saw W and then we were able to start
teaching another part member family and committed all of the kids to be
baptized and they accepted. It was a really great experience to see J,
their father who is a member but has never really attended church, ask some
really great questions.
Thursday we had district meeting over Skype as
per usual then we went over to L's and helped him rake up some leaves in
his yard and then we had a good discussion with him and had dinner with him.
Then we visited with W and then we saw J and he wasn't doing
so well since he is going through Chemotherapy again but we prayed with him and
then rushed back to L's and helped his step-son load a bunch of garbage
into his truck then we rushed back to the church for our youth-night which was
great, we played capture the flag and all had a good time.
Friday we had breakfast at W's and then we
went to the school and helped out in the Cafeteria which is great because we
always get spend time with the workers there who are all less-active members.
We then had lunch, weekly planned and then visited with W and her family
before they headed off to Regina, Then we went over and visited the R's
and played some lacrosse with kids and they had some friends there too and we
then went inside and their friends wanted to come and listen to our message and
we were able to teach them and they all asked if they could be baptized it was
great! Then we had dinner and stopped by KC and saw O and had a really good
conversation with him. Then we stopped by some other investigators and members
but they weren't home.
Saturday we went to the band hall to hang up
some posters and were invited to come to the feast that was to happen in an
hour so we went back and got to experience and spend time with the community as
guests at one of their feasts they put on in remembrance of some of their relatives
who recently passed away. After that we visited with J who is a less active
and her boyfriend who is an investigator. While we were over there her
sister M came who is also less active and we got to teach them and some of
their kids. We then were able to visit with KC and while we were there his
nephew who lives down the road he saw us drive up and came over and
wanted to listen to our message so we got to teach him and committed him to be
baptized and he accepted and wanted to start reading the Book of Mormon
too!
Sunday was good we had a great sacrament
meeting.Unfortunately only had 24 people out but it was great to have L and 6 other less-active members out including both J and her sister who hasn't been to church since T and T got baptized. Had a good
potluck dinner afterwards and then we were surprised by a visit from F and J (taught him in Regina and he got baptized) who were passing
through CTK to go up to Balcarres so we had a good visit with them for a bit
and prayed and shared a quick message with them! Then we saw W and a couple
others before having dinner and then we went to Orson's sweat lodge and it was
different than the others I have been to. C who is a strong member
of the church, beside him never coming to church, was running the ceremony. It
was different because there was no pipe and he basically just prayed and taught
and talked about Jesus Christ and the atonement and he talked about the church as
well! Then we were given the opportunity to teach in the sweat lodge and bear
our testimonies which is a great honor to have. Then after that when we were
leaving O gave me an eagle feather to thank me for the work we have done in
the community. Receiving an Eagle feather is considered a great honor among the
First Nations people as they view the eagles as very sacred. Then K wanted
to give me his hand drum before I left too. Great to see the people and the
respect that keeps growing and them continually growing closer to coming back
to the church!
-Elder Shane Dola
Monday, April 13, 2015
April 13
My week was pretty good!
This week:
Monday we had our p-day and saw W and then
went over to B and C's place
Tuesday we had district meeting and then we had
lunch then saw H and E then we saw W and then R and then
M then we went to the S's
Wednesday we spent a lot of time organizing a
volleyball night here in CTK where we would have some youth from Regina come
out and we would play volleyball and introduce them to some of the youth that
would be at youth conference! Then this lady I met in Weyburn
over a year ago who has been a missionary for her religion for since 1982,
shows up at the church. This lady has been stalking me ever since I met her!
Every area I go to she somehow finds out where I am and gets a hold of my
number even though I have never given it to her! Anyways so she shows up with
her new partner and we gave her a tour of the church, and they saw a picture of
the temple and asked some questions about it so we were able to teach them
about temples and what not. had a good conversation with her then she went on
her way. Then we went over to R's to speak with him but he wasn't there but
we were talking with his grandson who we know and we ended up teaching him, and he was really liking it and taking it in, the best part was
when R came in he pretended like he wasn't listening but was definitely in
the other room listening the whole time. After that we went to W's and she
bought us steaks so we went over there and BBQ them and then went over to the S's shared a message with them and helped them with some things around
their house.
Thursday we had a pretty cool experience, the
guys who ripped up the floor in our trailer were back to pick up all of their
equipment and one guy who is from Pakistan asked us if he
could ask us some questions about Christianity because he didn't know anything
about it but he told us how impressed he was coming out to our place and seeing
what we did and most importantly he explained how he just really liked the
spirit that he felt when he was around us and when he was in our trailer. So we
taught him and the other guy that was working with him right there on the spot.
He expressed how he wanted to learn more about it afterwards and expressed his
desire to come to church, so we told him that since he was from Regina he could
meet with Missionaries there and even go to church there too. He then said that
he would rather come here because it really wasn't too far (only about an hour)
and liked how it felt more personable here. So we gave him a Book of Mormon and
some other resources and he was set to go. Then we went to the school and got
some info for when we would be using the gym on Friday. Then we had to get gas
in Montmartre and some snacks for youth night, then we went over to L and
L's and had a good visit with them and shared a message before they
headed off. Then we stopped by some other people and saw W, had dinner and
got ready for youth night. Had a ton of kids come out and they watched Heaven
is for Real on the big screen that we had had set up for General Conference.
Everything was going really well until they left and we turned the lights on
and saw that 5 different kids had spilled their pop all over the floor... so we
cleaned that up.
Friday we weekly planned and took care of some
other things and went out and invited tons of people to Church specifically
because their were some more speakers from Regina coming out to talk more about
the youth conference. We went and knocked on some doors and two ladies at different
houses expressed that they wanted to be baptized and get all of their kids
baptized too, so that was pretty cool we have times set up to go visit them
this week. Then we met T who is very distinguished Elder out here
on CTK had a good visit with him before he headed off to Regina. We went home
and had dinner and went to the school and opened it up expecting 14 kids from
the Rez to come out but only two of them did and then a handful of kids form
Regina so it worked out but wasn't at all what we were hoping for or expecting
Saturday we had quite the adventure coming into
Regina with Elder Ruth and Elder Kenney. We went to the Regina Pow wow and
spent the day with the K family. It was a really good time and it was
funny because nearly everyone from CTK was there too.
Sunday we had church and only had 17 people out
unfortunately but had some youth speakers and youth leaders from Regina
speaking more about youth conference which was kind of strange seeing as no one
who would actually be attending youth conference showed up..that's always
disheartening when so many people commit to coming to the volleyball night and
then to church and then nothing actually becomes of it. But on the bright side
V came to church for the first time this year and we were able to have a
really good discussion with him and brother Waldie during our Priesthood class,
was great to have him out again. After church had lunch and visited W, went
home and baked a cake for N's birthday and went over and surprised her with
the cake spent the rest of the evening there before heading home.
Monday, April 6, 2015
April 6
This week we spent all week inviting people to
General Conference and tried getting the word out for that!:
Monday we had our P-day and spent most of it
with B, got stuck in the mud, had some of our appointments cancel on us,
but we saw W and then we drove to Indian head and had our appointment there
cancel on us to so we came home.
Tuesday we stopped by people most of the day and
saw W and weren't able to do all too much the remainder of the day, because
we went over our Kilometer allotment.
Wednesday we were busy in the morning and then
we saw E in the afternoon and shared a message with him and his sisters.
Thursday we helped out M with her fundraiser
that she was doing at work and then we went over to the daycare and had a free Turkey Dinner at the Day care then we went and tried contacting some more
people, had dinner and then our other appointments got cancelled. Then we had Youth Night where only three kids showed
up. Then C came with his projector and we went and had to go and get a VCR
from the school and we set up the satellite and everything for conference.
Friday we weekly planned and set some other
things up before going over to W's for Easter Dinner with her family, that
was fun and a little crazy at the same time. Then we went around to almost
every house on the reserve and gave out invitations for General Conference for
the rest of the night and ended up having a super spiritual, super great lesson
with H!
Saturday we had Conference all set up and
absolutely no on came at all all day except C came with like 10 minutes left
in the Priesthood session. We also were involved with the Grad Fundraiser
volleyball tournament at the school all day and played 13 sets and I'll tell
you, I haven't played Volleyball for over 3 years and my entire body was aching
after that day.
Sunday still no one came to the morning session,
and we then went to M's place for lunch they had a BBQ then we went back to
conference and no one came except M came for the last hour of the afternoon
session.. After that we went out and saw W and then stopped by some others
who ended up not being home, so we then went to the S's and shared a message
with them on Easter and had a good visit! Then we got our Kilometer allotment
for this month and were pretty disappointed because we only received a base of
about 1300 instead of 1800 and it is hard enough already trying to get around
to people on CTK when it has an area of over the size of the city of Regina
where there are about 200 household spread out everywhere....
-Elder Shane Dola
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