Adventures of a Canadian Missionary: (Stony) Plain and Simple Truths

Week 28

Do you get it? Stony Plain? Plain and simple truths? Ha....haha....

Hey y'all!

It has been a good first week in the great new area of Stony Plain! My companion is Elder Sean Nelson from South Jordan, Utah, right close to the temple I got my middle name from. He's a great guy, super organised (we're given companions to learn from, eh?), and he goes absolutely bonkers when he sees snowmobiles because that's his favourite thing. Especially after we got dumped on the other day, a foot and a half of snow OVERNIGHT!

So, as my title suggests, I've learned a few Plain and Simple truths in the last week.

Plain and simple truth number 1: sometimes we, as missionaries, are sent to areas to change other people's lives; other times we are sent to areas to learn things for ourselves. Here in Stony, there are very little teaching opportunities, we don't have any progressing investigators, and so that leaves tons of time to learn things for myself.

Plain and simple truth number 2: There is always more than one way to skin a cat. This is a phrase my dad used to say sometimes. This is what I learned from the service we did for a lady in our ward yesterday. She is a very independent lady, heck bent on doing her own thing. She sold her portable car garage to someone in their tiny village of Wabuman. Since it was so large and hard to take apart, we decided it would be easier to just pick it up and move it three blocks down and a block over (up a hill also). So that's what we did. Cars were driving around us and giving us the "What the Heck?!" Look. I'll attach a picture of it.

Pretty cool experience from Sunday, I bore my testimony in the Stony Plain Ward, even though I've only been here for a few days. A bunch of people came up and told me they know where Burley is. That was cool. One guy, Brother Heap, served his mission there. He was a missionary in my home ward when I was a kid. Now I'm a missionary in his ward. Funny how time flies, and the Lord places us in certain places for a reason.

But yeah besides those things, I've been a little homesick for Leduc. It's gonna be hard to connect with the members here, but I'm sure it will happen! Oh! And by the way, they are going to be creating a new stake in the Edmonton area. So in the next month or so, we will have 5 stakes instead of 4. That was some very unexpected news we got Sunday. So there will be some very hefty changes coming our way soon.

Thanks for all your prayers in not only my behalf, but in every other missionaries behalf as well. I know the work is moving forward, and we are standing firm in our steadfastness in Christ. There's nothing better than serving a mission to bring you closer to Jesus Christ. I know this is true. I've been able to actually tell some people how I came to know the truth of the gospel. The more we bear personal testimony, the more people feel the spirit. The church is true!

Hope all is well back, home! I love all y'all! Keep on keeping on.

-Elder Trevor J. Wells

Pictures:

1. The Millwoods Zone

2. A little more dignified

3. The Fitzners and I (they are the ones who buy and cook the crazy steaks)

4. Us and our friend Terra

5. Three of the five steak club members

6. The Lawrence family (minus their oldest daughter Sydney)

7. Our investigator Aaron

8. Elder Nelson and I outside the Edmonton Temple

9. Bench.