Week 16
Some of you may remember at my farewell talk, I read a poem that I wrote. One of the lines of the poem was, "I'm going to freeze my tail off, I'm going to go knock doors." Yeah, that was this week. It's been down to -40 Celsius (the same as -40 Fahrenheit). At that temperature, were not allowed to go outside, so we had some time to spend in the apartment together.
Oh yeah! Last week was transfers, so I was transferred to Devon/Leduc. It's just south of Edmonton. My new companions are Elder Johnston from Rigby, Idaho, and Elder Woodruff who is waiting on his visa to go to Guam. He is from Innisfail, Alberta. Not too far away.
It's been really hard to get used to a ward, after being in a branch of about 40-50 people. But it's been good thus far.
We have a lot of recent convert lessons going on, because I guess 5 people got baptized in September/October, so we only have like one investigator. His name is Brayden, he is a 9 year old boy, with severe ADD/ADHD. But luckily, he's on baptismal date for December 25 or 31. So our lessons only last about 10 minutes with him. We got to have a really cool object lesson with him about the Holy Ghost and how it's like an electric blanket. (I've been sleeping with the electric blanket since that lesson) Brayden's mom, Terra, is a returning less active we've been working with.
We've been able to have some really great lessons with some great people this past week. I wish I could go into more detail, but I don't have names down.
Kind of a fun experience the other day, while we were tracting, we knocked on this guys door, and he opened it and this massive wolf-like German shepherd almost knocked me over. I was so scared. But I know I have protection with the Lord on my side!
We stopped by a couple of older ladies, Ida and her daughter Erika, and Ida is from Germany. She lived through the wartimes and told us all about it. I now know more about Ukraine and Germany and Russia than I ever thought I would. We were able to share a Christmas video with them, and the spirit was very strong in the room.
That same area with the huge dog, we left half the block unknocked, because we had to go somewhere. A few days later, Elder Woodruff asked me where I wanted to tract. I said we needed to finish the last place we were. As we finished that block, nobody had heard us out, listened to anything we said, let us in, took a card, or anything. Then we got to the second to last house. A super nice lady named Ralene let us in and was really perky and happy that we were here to teach her about the truth of Jesus Christs gospel. That was a miracle in and of itself.
We went tracting yesterday, and the entire street for the most part was really nice to us. People feel bad when they see you freezing, and they will a lot of the time let you in. I'm thankful for hand warmers; greatest invention next to the toaster. I found a place on the map called Wells court, so we obviously had to go tracting there. We met a super cool dude named Darcy who is obsessed with gramophones. I knew that it wasn't just a coincidence that we tracted Wells Court, but it was because Darcy needed us!
It'll take some getting used to, and I know that Heavenly Father knows us and our weaknesses. He knows where we don't quite reach the mark, but He makes up the difference. Sometimes we have to humble ourselves enough to be on our knees, asking for help from the atonement before He will help us do what we want or need to do. I know it's true, and you can too!
Love all y'all!
Elder Trevor J. Wells
Canada Edmonton Mission
2 Nephi 31:20
Many much pictures:
1. Chris, member from Vermilion, with Spike
2. The city of Edmonton
3. Letting my Idaho show
4. Elder Woodruff and Elder Johnston playing battleship on our -40 day
5. Repping the Ugly Christmas Ties (Johnston, Woodruff, Wells Christmas Card)
6. Leduc thought I was so baller, they named the court after me.
7. Whoa. That's my name.
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