Adventures of a Canadian Missionary: I Was Hoping You WOOD

Week 26
Happy (late) Family Day, everyone!

Yesterday was Alberta Family day, so I hope you all were hanging out with your fams! Families can be together forever!

Anyways, it's been a really good week. as far as updates go with our investigators, Braydon told his mom that he wants to be baptised after he turns ten, later this year. Also, he's been praying in the morning with his family, so that's pretty excellent!

Aaron is gone for the week so we haven't been able to meet with him. My companions had a lesson with him the other day before he left, while we were on exchanges, and they said it went really well. So great stuff!

On Thursday we had the Lamberts (an older convert couple from our ward) come to our district meeting and share their conversion story. It was really great to see how the gospel turned their life completely around. I can testify that this gospel can and will change your life, if you let it!

After district meeting, we were able to go on exchanges with Elder Lian, one of our Mandarin elders from Taiwan. He's sooooo funny. We had a lot of fun conversations, especially while we were doing service for our buddy Donne.

Cool story about a referral, we got a call from some missionaries in Edmonton, telling us about a guy named terry. So what happened was he is researching a bunch of different churches trying to find the right one for him. He remembered building a house for some Mormons, and decided to find the closest congregation and give them a call. So he called one of the chapels, and these missionaries "just happened" to be there to answer his call! I know that Heavenly Father planned for this to happen! So he talked the missionaries that he wanted a King James Bible, a Book of Mormon, a pearl of great price, and the Doctrine and Covenants! We got the referral from them, and decided to go visit him in Devon. When we sat down and talked to him, he had tons of questions about the temple and how we came to be and why we chose to serve missions, and why the Book of Mormon matters, and then he told us he would also like a copy of Mormon Doctrine (which is a pretty hardcore deep doctrine Book!). He said, "let me stay up for a few nights reading what you gave me, and then I'll call you." We were literally blown away! At this point we know he is focused a lot on the trivial stuff, but we can help him turn to the spiritual side more so. Pretty darn great!

I was also able to spend 2 hours with one of the Assistants to the President, Elder Saumweber, on Friday, tracting, and we were able to give out like 9 copies of the Book of Mormon. It was awesome to see the way he tracted and interacted with the people. We saw some real miracles. He leaves at the end of this transfer, so I'm glad I had that time with him. The main thing that made it great was getting to talk about country music the whole time. Made my day:D

Since yesterday was Family day, we went to the church and had breakfast with the ward family. I have really come to love our ward family. They're great. We had a huge breakfast, then we had the opportunity to drive out to the country and help the Arnold family chop some wood. Living the lumberjack life for a little while. I should have gotten a picture of the huge pile of wood we stacked. (That's where the terrible pun in my email title comes from.) It was a good workout. It's also amazing to feel the Love of God flow through us to bless other people through our service.

Next week is transfers, so we shall see what happens! Elder woodruff got a call from president yesterday saying the other missionaries who were waiting for their visas got them, and they will be leaving Sunday. Elder Woodruff's can't be too far behind, we think!

I'll be sure to let y'all know what's happening at transfers.

Thanks for all the prayers in behalf of my companions and I and our investigators! I love you guys and hope you have a great last week of February!

Love,

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Elder Wells