Well this transfer is going to be...crazy

Well, as you know like I told you last time it was transfers. My old companion went up north to South Calgary. He seems to like it there so far. I got a new companion and he is younger than I am so I am the senior companion! O my goodness I am freaking out so much! Cool thing is that my companion is from American Fork as well. We learned we live like 3 minutes away from eachother. HIs name is Elder Robinson. He pretty legit! I like him a ton and I feel like this is going to be a great transfer.

Our investigator that we got from the Zone leaders has not contacted us and we try to keep contacting her but she hasn't responded. Her roomate told me is because apparently I spelled her name wrong in the text I sent her and she took offence of that. So....I don't know what to tell ya. She has to push back her baptismal date though because she didn't come to church this Sunday and she needed to go at least twice in a row. So when we meet her, we will have to tell her that.

Andrea, our other investigator, we have gotten closer to her, but she is still progressing really slow. Yes her boyfriend is a member. We plan on teaching her this Thursday, but we still need to figure what exactly we need to teach her.

We got a bunch of changes in our zone. This transfer alone, President moved 108 missionaries including 28 purged areas. It was crazy! Almost every companionship in our zone has a new elder or sister. But our zone is pretty legit I think. We have so much fun together when we meet up and talk or work together. I have a feeling that this transfer is going to be a blast!

The missionary work is picking up insanely this transfer and we are hoping to get lots of investigators introduced to us. It will go swell.

I am completely shocked with all the news that is going on at home. Courtney getting married?! Kelsey as well?!!! Kyle going on a mission!? ASHLEY AS WELL!!!??? Jeez, what am I missing here!? I am freakin shocked on what is going on, and I only have been gone for 7 months!!! Gah! O well, we will see how it goes when I get back.

We are also expecting a purge after this transfer. The reason is because they combine the three YSA wards here and take two of the missionaries companionship out. If not it will probably be a shock to us. O well, we will see what will happen. 

Well, this is all I got for what has been going on this week. Crazy week as you can see. Phew!! I am still pretty stressed about being Senior companion and doing most of the stuff here. Well, talk to you guys next week!

-Elder Perucca

This week was great...but ended off...ugh

Heyo,

This week a lot of things happened. First of all we got in with our investigator Andrea and had a...pretty rough lesson. I am not sure we are getting anywhere with her. She is reading and coming to church and praying, but she keeps kinda Bible bashing us as we try to explain stuff to her. She is getting a lot of information about us from different sources. Some not so good. It was mainly a talk on what we do in the temple without telling too much about it. Luckly, her boyfriend came in at times to back us up, but I still feel that she will not progress if this keeps happening. I hope that we can help her a ton to understand.

On the other side, we got some rather happy news. We got a call on Thursday from another Zone Leader in Lethbridge saying that a investigator that is in our area called him and wanted to be baptized. They went to meet her and they set her date on April 14th! We just have to teach her the lessons and also hope that she will be able to come to church twice in a row. Her name is Mickayla and she seems super nice and solid. I hope that she goes through with this as we work with her. 

We are still working with the ward here and there. We are hopefully going to do splits with them on Wednesday. We are also trying to get in contact with more people and get to know our ward more.

Also, Elder Smith is getting transferred :'(. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! We had such a fun time together. He is going somewhere in the north, which means either in Calgary or somewhere near there. It is going to be tough seeing him go. I wonder if I am going to like my new companion or if its going to be another rough one. :/ Hopefully it is one that we like.

I have been out almost for 7 and 1/2 months. This mission is going by pretty fast, but I wonder if it is going to go faster. Perhaps so. Anyway, there is quite a bit that is going to happen this week with the new companion and all and the new investigator with the baptismal date. It will be hard to juggle it. 

This last sacrament meeting was awesome though. It was mainly focused on the spirit of service! There was a lot of times where I did feel the spirit of peace come over me when the speakers talked about it. It was swell. I hope our investigators felt it as well. Well, I think that is all I have to report on this week. Love you all and stay safe!

This week was...meh

Heyo,

The week has been better, but still not too active in the work. We were surprised however that the ward mission leader wants to start doing exchanges with the ward missionaries and us as well. It will get us to do something. The ward is getting more and more into the work and because of Elder Holland coming down to Lethbridge for a Leadership training, I think that was the final push that helped them want to do something. Hopefully, it will give us more activities to do. 

Yes, next week is transfers week and it is highly probable that Elder Smith is going to leave this area. He was a cool companion though and I learned quite a bit from him. He is very intelligent. He has also taught me a lot of valuable insights. But we will see how my next companion will be.

We don't have any senior couples serving in our area, but I don't doubt that there are other senior couples here in the mission.

Elder Nelson's devotional was awesome. We only saw a broadcast of it here in Lethbridge. It was pretty funny though how he called up 4 elders and they weren't expecting anything. Then he asked them to role play with them. It would have been terrifying for me if I got called up to role play with an apostle. But he taught us that we need to talk more not just to investigators, but to our members as well. We need to work hard with the members cause we can't do it alone. Me and Elder Smith both looked at each other and nodded because that's what we were trying to do. After the devotional, we helped moved this family in a new house for 6 Freakin Hours! I have been so sore these past 2 days and it is nuts. I have to keep popping my back and all. Anyways, that is mainly what happened this week.

We are trying to do, as usual, help our ward do missionary work. I don't know how exactly they are responding, but the ward council wants to do something. We are also trying to help some less-actives come back and there are quite a bit of them. 

Well, that is really the main points of what happen this week. We are going on exchanges with our district leader tomorrow and we will see how that will go. Love you all!

This week is warming up

This week has gotten a bit better. The ward is now trying to work with us so we can get to know more people and all. We will start going home teaching with them sooner or later as soon as there time is free. This week however was pretty grand. We went to a less-actives house again and made some lasanga. It was really good. However, we ate it three days in a row and I am kinda sick of it so I am going to take a break from it and focus on finishing my mac & cheese.

I got mail last P-day. I got a package from my priest leader and I loved all the letters the priest sent to me. Although, they were pretty old, but I could feel the love and care for me. Thank you guys for supporting me out here. It is really tough and I hate to say what everyone else is saying about missions, but it is a lot of fun! 

We have been getting more and more less-actives lessons and it has been going swell. I seem to do better with less-active lessons than investigator lessons. Plus though, we are planning a finding activity with the other YSA wards in our zone. WE are going to have a movie night where members can invite their friends to watch 17 Miracles. Hopefully, this will spike up a few interests.

I may get mail today but I am not too sure. Hopefully the zone leaders will bring it to us mail today after their little activity for their P-day.

I got some exciting news though. Elder Russell M. Nelson is coming to our mission to speak with us. Jeez, just keep the apostles coming. Our mission must be pretty popular for a bunch of apostle to come here. Also, Elder Holland is coming! It is freaking crazy on what is going on. I wonder what they are going to say to us. :/

Well, that is all that has happened this week. We are still trying to get in with members and help them with missionary work. Hopefully, that will pick up this week! Love you all!

Ok...

Alright, the reason being why my letter was so stinking short last week was because my computer decided to freeze up randomly and go crazy! I couldn't really do anything! I couldn't email much people and I only had like 5 minutes to email all of you so I am sooooooo sorry for that! Hopefully the computer won't do that again which now it seems to be working great now!

Anyways, this last week was insanely cold! Yeah it said it was like -25 C when we call for the weather, but they don't usually tell us of the extreme wind chill which could make it go to -40!! If that happens, we are not allowed to go out anywhere. We have to stay in, so guess what we did most of this week? Stay in!! Yep! Whooooooooo!!!!...and it was boring...but hopefully the weather will do better this week.

We did go to a small activity with our YSA members. They had a talent show and before you ask, No, I did not participate in the talent show because of short notice. I wanted to, but I was a bit late. But the entertainment was great! All the members were great and they did pretty dang good. One did like a little rock concert. Another did a magic show. Then there was a random pie eating contest which was slightly entertaining.

However, the thing that was pretty dang cool was even before the talent show, we went to help and after we were done setting up, members took us out to dinner and we went to Little Caesars! Holy fetch they are different! They sell salad here! What the Fetch?! And there pizza for hot and ready is so small compared to ours and it cost $8! But we still bought some and me and Elder Smith gorged ourselves with pizza and it was fun. The members that took us out really like us and we try to help them to do missionary work.

And on that point that is what we are mainly focusing on out here. We are trying to help members get involved in missionary work because we can't all do it by ourself. We are trying to meet with as many members as possible and possibly get in their house to sit down and get to know them and help us do some missionary work. It is pretty hard to adjust to the members schedules because they have school and work. But we are trying to do the best we can do here. Sometimes it is a pain to be in this area, sometimes it is a blast.

Anywho, that is all that we got so far and again I am sorry for the short email last week and hopefully it does not happen again. Love you all and hopefully I will get your snail mail soon!