It is just a typical missionary day. The same things that get repeated over and over and over again on the mission. Sometimes they can get boring and you can get sick of them. I think I am heading towards that stage. Though I am not sick of the mission or want to go home before I am supposed to go home, I am getting bored of missionary work. Meh, I am still going on strong till the mission is over and it will be over pretty soon.
Lost sheep has taken a little break since we don't know much about these people. We have a plan with the whole lost sheep thing. We ask members at church to see if they know about 4 names we pick from the lost sheep list and if they know any, they tell us and all that. It has been doing alright so far. We just have to keep doing this till we get all of the lost sheep names done which is a lot!
We had a lesson with Josh this week. Their family always loves to invite missionaries over no matter what they are doing. Usually, every ward has this type of family and I love it because it helps fill in our time and get to gain their trust. Anywho, it was a short lesson with Josh. We just basically told him our expectations of when we come over. He has been taught everything, but we are not sure he cares much about it or to take it seriously. He has expressed that he has learned a lot more than he has been before. Now whether or not he is doing much about it, we don't know. He "does" want to get baptized, but he wants it to be in a lake in BC.That will be a lot of confusing work and talking with other stakes and such. I say "does" because he is just doing it mostly because Brother Tinney, his father in law, told him to do it. We are trying to help him want to do it.
Other than that, like I said at the beginning of this letter, it is just the same missionary day. Not much has changed. I am glad you guys got my package from Pincher Creek. I believe you can open up that one. The stuff in there are still mine, but you can look through it if you want if you haven't already. The other one should be coming soon.
Next week will be our zone conference and it will be President Nicholas' last one as well. Pretty odd that he has been here for all my mission so far. He looks a lot different than what he did look like when I first saw him in the air port. I believe you got those pictures of our entire transfer coming to the airport. If you didn't just let me know and I can send a picture of it to you in my next letter.
Alrighty then. It is question time!
Question #1, do the ward organizations play an active part is searching out these lost sheep?
They can. In Bow Valley Ward it was kinda divided up into separate quorums and other groups. Here however, it seemed they just dumped in all on the missionary organization meaning us and the Ward Mission Leader. I am not complaining on it, but I believe having others do it would be a bit better seeing they know them better than just missionaries.
Question #2, what has been a way or two that the Lord has answered your prayers this past week or so?
He blessed the food that nourishes and strengthens our body...next question. JKJK! Hmmmm, well, we didn't think Josh would make any progress or even be interested after he got married, but it seemed that it made him even more interested than before. We were kinda stunned to see him at church that one time and to say that he believes in a God now where before he had no clue.
Question #3, what has been a memorable experience where you have been teaching during your mission where you and/or your companion were teaching, felt the Spirit, and you stopped to testify and help understand to who you were teaching that they were feeling the Spirit?
Mmmmmmm, well...kinda. When we teach as missionaries, we are told that testifying is very key. So we are basically told to testify frequently as possible so that we can say we know what we are teaching is true and not just telling them. When we first taught Kade, we were just thinking of teaching him the 1st lesson because we had to hurry for him to get baptized on time. However, me and Elder Wiser just suddenly testified all about families seeing that it was the most important thing to Kade and all who were present there. That was pretty cool.
Question #4: So is Tyler Belliston older than you? What position did he play on the team?
Tyler Belliston is 2 years older than me and he played running back and line backer on the varsity team.
Question #5: How often have you been able to give a lesson?
That depends on what your definition of a lesson is. At the end of every dinner usually we give a message which is a short thought we had or spiritual thought. We as missionaries here call that a message. Lessons are usually those discussions you read in Preach My Gospel. We also call them Discussion, The Missionary Lessons, etc. But we usually give about 2-3 lessons per week. Messages, everyday so like 7 per week.
Well, that is all for this week. So far for mothers day, I believe we are free anytime. We just need to figure out who we are skyping at. Hopefully I can tell you next week. Love you all! Take care!
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