New Comp!

Transfers was last Wednesday and my last companion left down south somewhere and my new companion is Elder Larson. I am in the same ward that I was. My comp has been out for 13 months and he is freakin sweet. I like him a ton.

We are still working our hardest with members since me and my last companion street contacted and tracted everywhere in my area. We are trying to get the members to get the confidence to share the gospel with their friends. Now for what Kiana said. That is probably true where he was, but there are different missions and different things work in different areas.

If Dawna wants to know, I am on the south part of Calgary. If she knows where Deer Run Community center is or where Lake Bonivista is kinda is, that is my area. We usually walk around to our appointments to fill the time and maybe get a little street contacting in. She may see me around the Wal-Mart and with the Co-Op next to it. I usually pass that place a lot. So if they are looking for me, I should be around that area.

Yes, I read that article that you have sent to me and that is kinda what we are trying to do with our ward here. The ward gives us assignments and we go out and do them and also gain their trust. I am a firm believer in working with members and strengthening their faith for missionary work.

We are trying to doing some do-or-die lessons with our potential investigators. They are either into the message we share or we move on to more important things. That is our main focus.

Well, that is all I have to report! Love you all and stay safe at home! Thank you for all you do!

Whew...the transfer is over (almost)

This week went by pretty quick! I am surprised. I think the reason why it went pretty quick is because we had stuff to do. Time goes by SUPER SLOW when you are just tracting and street contacting all day. I like to get in members houses when I can. That is usually where we can get more people to teach and more trust from the members. As you can probably tell, I am not a fan of tracting...at all. Street contacting is more natural to me so that I can stand, but tracting I do not like and I have had absolutely NO success in it. The members here feel the same way and they are trying in every way they can to help us find people to teach or to get in members houses to help with our teaching. We are currently working with the Ward Mission Leader on trying to get into members houses and so far it is responding positively. Working with members is usually the best place to go.

Now that is just one of my few opinions I have on missionary work and what works best both from experience and companions who have told me. Maybe I can tell you more as I go later on.

I hit my 10 month mark on Saturday. I am now in double digits! Sheesh! It has been that long?! Holy Freak! I am almost halfway..sheesh. It is kinda scary that in about 2 months I was getting dropped off at the MTC. O, the greenie days haha! Those were, interesting days. 

The Hike that we went to last Monday was super sweet! We ate with the family and went on the hike. It went swell! We got along really close and also got to know a non-member. We are pretty close to the Nelson, who we went on the hike with. They come regularly, but we are trying to work with the father because he wants to get his family to the temple and be sealed but is struggling. So we are working on that with him.

4 missionaries are leaving this week in our zone for home and it is making our entire zone super trunkie! Especially me on Wednesday! I kept thinking to myself, "I am just doing this entire rotation of missionary work for another year and some...and I am getting sick of it." In some ways it is pretty true. That is why we try to spice up missionary work sometimes by playing games, working as a zone, and all that so that we can still be engaged in missionary work. But it hard when your current companion doesn't want to do that sort of stuff and wants to do missionary work the old ways by just tracting all day...I am trying my best to tell them their are better ways to do missionary work than just go around tracting all day. I lose my patience quite a bit with him and it won't be long until I go crazy so...hopefully he will get transferred.

We have a member missionary class during Sunday school which helps members as well.

We also went to the temple on Thursday as you can probably see from the pictures. It was a swell experience. I didn't see the new temple film, but oh well. 

Well, I will report back and see whether I got a new companion or not. Love you all and take care!

(Departing Missionaries)

Well, this week just flew by

This week just cruses by and I love those weeks! Weeks that go by so fast bring a smile on my face because not only does it show that we were busy, but that I got through another week on the mission with a happy mood. 

We do ask members for referrals, but not too often. We don't like to bother the members to much by asking for referrals so much. We do however help them be able to do missionary work on their own. It helps them a lot. 

We hang out as a zone every P-day. That's how close our zone is. If you remember in BC we were so far apart so we could only do P-day with our companions which we kinda liked but not too much. I like zone pdays a lot better so that we can do stuff with eachother.

We didn't go on the hike last week. We are actually going on it today. Turns out the schedule wasn't right for them so they decided to do it today. It will be fun and i will be sure to send some pictures of the hike and family that we went with. Speaking of that family, we went over on Thursday this last week and I got my hair highlighted by them. I love it so much! It is not like out of the ordinary highlighted. Just a bit! But I love it! It is so sweet! I will send you some pictures of it. 

This transfer is almost over. We only got one more week for this transfer. The thing that sucks is that 4 people in our zone are going home this transfer so they are really trunking us out right now. It is going to be a long last week of transfer because they won't stop talking about home. Oh, well. I will do what I can right?

Our investigator pool is still at 0 since our last investigator just dropped us. Oh well. We are trying to find new ones through members and also anyone we see. Hopefully we will find some. 

Well, Love you all and I am so jealous that you got to go to Hawaii....then again, I am in Canada ;). Love you all!

Tough Week

Well this week just sucked...again. Did lots of work and people didn't really like to talk to us. That brings me to my first major thought that happened:

1. I want to be looked at like a normal person. I don't people to see me and just think, "Oh, he is a missionary! I don't want to talk to him." I don't like that at all. It makes me feel kinda downgraded or someone who I am not I guess you can say. I hope that makes sense.

Anyways, we talked to a few less-actives though which was sweet. There is this family named the Nelson family and we talk about all sorts of things like fishing, guns, hair, all of that stuff. They are a sweet family and I love going to their house Thursday night! It is freakin sweet! 

We also met the Blonfields yesterday and they are a sweet family as well and we got along quite nicely. Also, I do show the ward my piano skills here and then and they think it is really good. I don't know why I don't think it is all that great, but I guess I see when people don't have that ability, it would make sense for them to think that. Still, I enjoy playing for people here and there.

My companion and I have...nvm, I don't want to talk about this.

It wasn't IPads that we got at Zone Conference, however, I did get an update on the Ipads from President. Currently, the people who were overlooking the Ipads are getting a summary ready to bring to the 1st Presidency so that they can make the decision on it. Apparently, we were suppose to be one of those trial ipad missions, but because of the Canadians privacy law we couldn't do it. So, ya. But they  apparently figured out IF we get the iPads. I don't know when we will get them and neither does President, but I hope it is pretty soon.

I hope thinks will look up from here though. You asked about Nikole. She I think is about in her 30s and she just got married to a less-active and they are coming to church regularly. It wasn't much to witness a baptism because I didn't do much in it or to get them to it. But I may see what happens later on when I do get baptism. Whenever that is. 

Anyways, I got to go. I got to go shopping and all that. Hopefully, this work will begin to look up.

​(This is Sister Sannes! The Best Mission Mom in the World)

Its been a "Frozen" week

You know, "For The First Time In Forever", I have a pretty sweet missionary ward. They always are letting us know how they can help others all that. It is pretty sweet! I really want to go outside and ask people "Do You Want to Build A Snowman?", but I bring up the gospel instead you know. Still, there are sometimes where I hold back on what I want to say. But I know I just have to "Let It Go", and then I just "can't hold it back anymore". I may be in this area "In Summer", unless I get a random transfer notice. I think by then my "Frozen Heart" will be melted. I think I need a little "Fixer Upper" my companion so that he knows what missionary work is all about. One time we were out talking to people and this girl was just shutting us down with whatever we were saying and saying that we are wrong. After we talked to her, I was thinking "Reindeer(s) are better than people", but maybe I just had a bit of Frozen in my head. I was reading my scriptures and saw how Christ loves his people. "Love is an open door"! 

Alright Alright, I am done with all the Frozen references. But to tell the truth, this week was pretty brutal. It did end off well with our baptism that I didn't do too much in, but it was still a happy experience for all of us. Nikole, she was investigating the church for a year. No I did not participate. Like I said, I didn't do much with her. Lots and lots of people came though. It was a party! 

My companion and I are having a really difficult time getting along. He thinks he knows everything and won't open to my counsel. Hopefully, he will actually listen one of these days. 

The members here are pretty dang sweet. I can't complain and I get along with them so much! The children are so darling and it sucks that I can't do too much with them, but I do what I can to build a relationship with them and it is sweet. 

Well, we have heard something exciting is happening tomorrow in Zone Conference. I don't know exactly what it is, but I have a hunch what it might be. We shall see :)

Love you all and take care!

And so ends another Mother's Day

I got transferred up to Calgary this last transfer. I am in the south part of Calgary with my new companion, Elder Corning. He is ok, and I am grennie busting him which means I am his next companion after his trainer. It was a tough weekend because when I got here I got sick and couldn't do much. I had a lot of homesickness during those times, but I am doing better than I was. 

Yesterday was Mothers day and I hope all of you who get this email was able to show how much you love your mom and was able to talk to her as well. Mothers are amazing! Where would be without mothers? Well, I could name a pluthera amount of things. ;) But anywho, we cannot stress how important mothers are and how mothers will be at all times. Let us remember to love out mothers and thank them each day for all they do.

It is so odd to be in Calgary now since I was in the south part of my mission the entire time except for now. It is like a whole new world and it is kinda freaking me out. But I guess that happens to all when they go to a new area and experience what it is like to be there. I hope this doesn't turn out like my third transfer with my second companion. 

I was going to send you guys some photos of our last area, but I forgot my camera today so I guess that is going to wait till next week. I am sorry! I will also be sure to take some pictures up here if I see anything that is worth picture worthy. My companion I had two transfers ago is here in this zone and he and I get well along with another. Also, as well as my district leader was someone in my district two transfers ago. AS WELL, someone who was in my very first district is in my zone. So it is good to know all who is out here and will probably know a whole bunch of people at the end of my mission. 

Well, that is all I got to report on this crazy week. Hopefully, I will get to like my companion...soon. And also get a positive attitude in this area and being another senior companion. Love you all! See ya!

The PURGE!!

Holy Cow we are getting purged! My mind is totally blown right now! I am just losing it!! GAH! We got the call yesterday that both me and Elder Robinson are both leaving our area! We were both excited, but pretty dang freaked out! We have so much cleaning to do it is not even funny!!

We mostly spent this week just doing service which always helps when we don't have anything to do. Service helps fill in the times that we don't know what to do. This service was extremely hard though because we were doing demolition. We were tearing up floors and all that and it made me so sore for some odd reason. Still, I liked it.

To be honest, I am kinda happy that we are leaving this YSA ward. It was really fun and all and I loved the members, but the work was hard to do here. Now hopefully I will go to a great ward with family and all. I am still going to miss all.

On facebook you can see my pictures I recently took. We were with two members named Natalie Harris and Graham. They are both hilarious people and we had one final dinner with them before we said good-bye. It was amazing! I am going to miss them. I am also going to take some pictures of our mission mom in this area who is Sister Sannes. She was awesome! She is also hilarious and we will miss her dearly! I will post some pictures of me and her and all the family. The family was awesome and I could relate to them so much!

So next week is mothers day eh? That will be pretty dang sweet to talk to my family. To be honest, it felt like it was last week when I talked to you guys. Maybe you guys have gone through some changes since then. I can't wait! I don't know what time will work best for us. Hopefully I can talk to you before we skype.

Well, I got to go get some cleaning done with our pad and car for transfers. Love you all!