Adventures of a Canadian Missionary: Thy Will Be Medium-Well Done

Week 20

Hey howdy hey everyone!

It's been a crazy week, and this is probably gonna be a really long email, so bear with me.

Tuesday night we had dinner with the Jeffrey's, and while we ate, somehow we got started talking about Dr. Who. I have seen a couple episodes, but I was never educated very well in it, so their daughter Leomi gave us a crash course to becoming a Whovian. It's totally ok if some of the older folks don't understand this, it's just about a tv show. Haha

Wednesday was my birthday, we spent the morning tracting, went to subway for lunch, helped out at the old folks home with curling (weird Canadian sport I didn't know existed), then went around town taking pictures of some of the sights, especially the Meadowview Dinosaur park. If you know me at all, you know I have a huge fascination with dinosaurs, so we had to go. It was super duper cold, but we had fun nonetheless! Later that night we went to Braydon's Aunts house to have dinner and celebrate my birthday. It was really fun! Except for their hamster biting me, that was a bummer.

On Thursday we had district meeting in Bearspaw, we got taught about better ways to follow up and use some points from preach my gospel. There's a tradition where if anyone slips on the ice, they owe donuts for district meeting... we've had donuts every district meeting so far, and I am in charge of next times donuts... oops!

We had dinner at a members home on Saturday night, with the Rector family. We challenged them to have nonmembers in their home sometime in the next 30 days, and brother Rector immediately accepted, saying he'd have about 6 of his friends come over from work, and they were gonna go shooting in the back yard (they live in the middle of nowhere) and then he invited us and said we could watch him blow up a propane tank. So we get to do that sometime in the next month! We also might get to go ice fishing! Woo!

Later that night we also met a less active lady named Debbie and her two kids who are awesome. The only reason they don't come to church is because the boys live with their dad on Sunday, and Debbie works on Sundays, but she's trying to get her schedule changed! So we're excited! We mostly work with less actives in this area anyway, so that's exciting!

On Saturday, we were stopping by a bunch of people we were supposed to visit, and as we were heading to stop by someone, we spotted a Uhaul truck and some people looking stressed outside of it, smoking. We knew they needed help, so we walked up and asked if we could help them. The first thing the lady said is "well we can't pay you," but we told her that's fine. Later we found out that it took them 4 hours to load it all in the truck, but we unloaded it in roughly 15 minutes! I know we were supposed to be there for a reason!!

That night we accomplished the Steak Challenge. That includes an ice cream bar, a 43 ounce steak, two sides, two biscuits, another ice cream bar, key lime pie covered in whipped cream, and then a huge ice cream sandwich. And all 5 missionaries who attempted it made it through! It was awesome!

We also went on exchanges with the Mandarin Elders again, and we went and tracted in the tiny towns near Devon. It was a lot of fun, but it was also really really cold! We gave out about 8 or 9 Books of Mormon, but nothing too promising.. it's ok though!

This week has been great, and I know I'm here in Canada for a reason! Also by the way, Peggy from Vermilion has a baptismal date! Shes moving steadily along and I might be able to go to her baptism!

Hope y'all are staying warm! Love y'all!

-Elder Wells

Many much Pictures:

1. Half of Canada Edmonton Mission from Christmas Conference

2. Sunset on a hill

3. I got eaten by a dinosaur.

4. Birthday treat at my request

5. The meadowview Dinosaur park was a must for my birthday adventure

6. Apparently my favourite pose is a thumbs up

7. Welcome to Real. Welcome to Fresh. Elder Wells.

8. The first leg of the steak challenge... a 43.5 oz. steak!

9. We came, we conquered, we waddled home.