Week 22
5 Months!!!
Hey everybody!
My email title is clever, I promise. Just give it a second.
We started out this week helping out brother Nesom from our ward with his horses. We put up a round pen for his new colt so he can train it and break it to ride. Then he took us out for lunch... at McDonald's.
In the past week, all three of us have been some degree of sickly, and Wednesday was Elder Woodruff's day. So we sat inside a lot of the day, because it's better to take a day to recover than go out and work five days feeling like garbage. Later that night we had dinner with our bishop and his wife and his parents, who are from Scotland. They're so cool, I love being around them. Sister Lambert made my favourite meal for us, Chicken Cordon Bleu! It was awesome! Then we had a sweeeet strawberry rhubarb pie. (I've gained 20 pounds and there's no question on who's to blame for that. Haha)
Thursday we had our district meeting, then we went tracting and met a really cool new potential guy named Eric. (That's about the 5th one we've met) then we went to Devon and tracted a bit, met a large hairy shirtless guy holding a baby and talked to him about the gospel on his doorstep. We gave him a Book of Mormon and will hopefully be going back soon.
Then we had dinner with the Chutes, the family of our recent convert Julianna (9 years old). We had tacos! Julianna had to leave for a birthday party, but her younger brother Topher is getting baptized soon, so we focused the lesson on him. We taught him about the Holy Ghost. It takes me back to being his age, and I wish I knew as much about the gospel then as I do now. Depending upon when he decides to be baptized, Elder Johnston might get to baptize him because both his dad and his step dad are going to be getting surgery next month (don't quote me on that.) so I will at least get to go to one baptism.
We might be moving apartments next month, so we got to go and check out some pretty nice ones in town. We won't know for sure until later, but I shall keep y'all posted. We did a lot of planning Friday, then had dinner with the De Vries, an awesome young family with tons of returned/one serving missionaries. It was awesome to see connections with them, because One served with Spencer Anderson, one of the sons girlfriends who was there served with Elder Connor Hansen (Sister Hatch) and one served in Glasgow Scotland where Elder Greer is from! When you're a Mormon, you can't walk ten feet without having a connection to someone!
Later we had a lesson with Dalyce, our less active friend, and she was able to read the Book of Enos!
Braydon is slowly moving back towards baptism. He's been at church though which has been awesome.
We have a lesson with our buddy Aaron tonight, and I'm excited to talk to him more about faith and baptism!
Saturday morning, the Rector family (there's the joke in the title) had us over. Brother Peter Rector had a bunch of his nonmember friends over, and they shot guns, had lunch, and blew up a propane tank! It was awesome to watch, I have a couple videos of it, I'll send them. A lot of his friends wanted to know why we weren't shooting, why we were wearing ties, and what the heck two idahoans were doing in Canada. When we told them what missionaries do, they said that's very honourable and we must be dedicated. We try. It was great to plant that little seed and get the bug in their ear.
We had dinner with a family from the Philippines later that night, and they set up a time for Elder Johnston to try balut. If you don't know what it is, it's a fermented duck egg that they eat in the Philippines. I'm not going to eat it, because I know myself and I would not be able to keep it down.
Last night we had dinner with the Lamberts again and we had chicken and waffles.... if you haven't had that I suggest you get it sometime! Super good!
We met a lot of awesome people while tracting this week, and although we have been every degree of sickness, we are still pressing forward. With steadfastness in Christ. Always!
It's great to be here serving the Lord and the Canadians. Although many doors remain closed and many hearts remain hard, that doesn't mean we won't be looking for opportunities to share the gospel with people. If you haven't watched it already, I suggest y'all look up the "Work of Salvation" Mormon Message. It's amazing. Go out and do some good for someone! Let us all press on!
Love you guys!
Elder Trevor J. Wells
Canada Edmonton Mission
2 Nephi 31:20
Pictures/Videos
1. Long distance video of the explosion
2. Video from Brother Rectors Perspective in slow motion
3. All the trees here look like this right now.
4. These boots were made for tracting, and thats basically all they do.
5. Finding this in Walmart made me trunkier than an elephant going to Hogwarts
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