..........You Lost Me

Week 30

7 months on Friday! 

Salutations! How goes life? 

Mission life is great. I love it out here. Especially since it's been warming up a little bit, finally to about an average of 0 Celsius every day. Same as our teaching pool. (Literally though)

We went on exchanges Tuesday night to Wednesday night, and I got to be with the great Elder Alvey from Ogden, Utah. (No relation to president Alvey from singles branch, as far as we know.) Our exchange was honestly awesome, being able to be a Zone leader for a day was pretty crazy. Nobody was home when we knocked, but that's ok. We had some good experiences and were able to learn a lot from eachother. 

Oh! And we had dinner with the temple president. That was pretty awesome. 

We tracted into a really cool guy named Marlon the other day, he decided to let us in and tell us his life story. He talked a lot, and I was tempted to sing "The Time is Far Spent" but I thought better of it before I did it. Luckily he took a Book of Mormon, and we told him where the church was, and invited him to come. We kept watch for him on Sunday, but he didn't ever show. 

Oh fun experience, we were tracting our neighbourhood, and this one guy opened the door. Super elderly guy, couldn't hear us, said, "hang on, let me get Karen." Karen comes to the door and says, "come in! Ron used to talk to you guys all the time!" So we went in, they gave us a bowl of fruit, water, and then we sat down to talk. Karen had the news on, so she started rambling on about politics and how terrible the US President is, and then she went off about the Canadian Prime minister, then she asked if we keep up on the news. As missionaries were not supposed to get involved too much with politics. Then she basically reprimanded us and said, "well you need to keep up on your government because it's all going to hell." She asked us a few things about Mormons, some specific things about the temple, which we couldn't be so detailed in answering, because it's sacred. Then we somehow got on the subject of her husband Ron. Here's the thing: we never met with Ron. The missionaries years ago did. Ron is now dead. Karen continued to tell us all about Ron, and how much she misses him, and that she feels his presence all the time, and he's definitely still around. The more he wants her to be comforted, the more she gets a bit of pressure on the back of her head, and she knows it's him. Apparently he's also been going over to the neighbour, because he wakes him up by yanking on his leg... we tried to teach while we were there. But the spirit wasn't there at all. Gotta love Canada. 

We finally were able to meet with a man named Cory, who literally talked for about two hours. The whole time he was talking, he talked so fast, and covered so much, I couldn't keep up. (Hence theI didn't say anything the whole time we were there. He and Elder Nelson talked about everything. I was waiting for the spirit to tell me what to say, but the spirit wasn't there. Cory was being way too analytical and nit picky. And I'm not one to bash. But the work continues to move on! 

Our one most solid potential, MaryLou, is on a trip to Cancun with her daughter until the first part of April. Sadly that means we won't be able to teach her until she's back. But! She did take a Book of Mormon with her to read on the way! 

Other than that it's just been a lot of knocking doors! One lady said when they were driving through Utah to get to Mexico, she could visibly see a difference in Utah compared to the other states. There's just something about Utah. And I can attest that that is basically Zion! That is the promised land! 

Alright everyone, have a great week! Keep on keepin on! 

Love you all! 

-Elder Trevor J. Wells

Pictures:

Elder Nelson (befuddled)

Stewardship selfie

Video of the back roads of Alberta