Week 29
Hello Everybody!
It has been a super swell week!
It's been snowing like mad and finally this week we are GOING TO HAVE POSITIVE TEMPERATURES! It feels like forever since that has happened. I'm so excited, my friends... if you couldn't tell.
Let me begin by telling you all about the lunch we had Wednesday with an amazing Sister from our ward, Sister Buck. She is a very exuberant lady, she's a little bit older, and I don't think anything could get her down. We went to a super down home restaurant on the bottom floor of a little Stony Plain museum. The food was absolutely spectacular. The entire meal, sister Buck was giving us life tips, and I was mentally jotting them down because she is all knowing, I swear. She's so smart.
Alright, all y'all of my fellow missionaries, if you ever get the chance to receive a priesthood blessing from your mission president, DO NOT PASS UP THE OPPORTUNITY. I received a blessing from President Pattison, and all the words he spoke were exactly what I needed to hear, even though I had only told him I needed a blessing and explained a bit why a few minutes before that. It's crazy marvellous how he knows me and my circumstances through the spirit.
To make a short summary of the crazy woman we met with the other day, she spouted off the problems she has had in the last fifteen years, and then offered us a job doing her paperwork for a bunch of her lawsuits.... missionaries aren't supposed to do that. So yeah. We're not going to do that. She wasn't very happy with us, but it's not our place to get involved with that. Anyways. -Now back to your regularly scheduled Elder Wells Email.-
It's really funny to see our faces after we've been tracting for what feels like three days straight, and we finally find someone who says, "come on in boys! Teach us about Jesus." No lies, y'all. That happened like three times, and we almost had to pray to double check if it actually happened. And the first lady called herself a Bhuddist Catholic. Let me tell you, she had a really relaxing vibe all throughout the house. Super duper chill. Loved it.
And to end the week, on Sunday as we were scraping ice off our car, we accidentally locked our keys in our car... and it was running. We were late to ward council, but luckily we live in the same town as the mission vehicle manager couple missionaries. Blessings for sure. Eventually we got it fixed and whatnot.
In other news, we haven't been teaching hardly at all. There's a lot of work to be done, but not a lot of people are willing to change. So we just knock doors and do service and eat the member's food. No just kidding, but really, they feed us a lot and I love it.
Last night we did some pretty interesting service for a member, he asked us to help him load some things in his truck, he runs a Mac's Tools truck. So we figured it wouldn't take too long, but when we got there, the real problem was getting the back door (kind of like a drawbridge door on a castle) of his truck down. So we jumped up and down on it for 15 minutes. Because we're dignified young men in shirts and ties, and when we're asked do help, we do it. It finally came down and we got the giant tool box in the back of the truck. And we all lived spiritually ever after.
Hope everything is well for all y'all back home! I have really seen the ways the spirit teaches us through others this week. It's been a huge tender mercy to see all the things the spirit has been needing to teach me.
It's a great day to be alive. Love the Lord and He will love you back. (He loves you anyway but it sounded good so I'm leaving it in the email.)
Have a great week everyone!
-Elder Trevor J. Wells
Pictures:
1. The Fleet
2. Redneck Creativity
3. The Riverbend Zone (minus Elder Nelson, not sure where he was)
4. Canada is pretty
5. Canadian backdrop
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