Week 33 Elder Wells Takes Over (Insert Stressed Out Emoji Here)

Week 33

Happy Transfers, everyone! This transfer literally FLEW by. Elder Nelson is headed out of Stony, he's been here for 6 months. He passed all his knowledge to me, and I will be taking over this place, plus I'm now the district leader. I'm trying not to let it stress me out. I promise. I am not stressed. At all. (#Fibbing)

Probably the most exciting things this week were the wonderful drunk lady we met with on her porch, our lesson with a six year old with really good questions, and we got a 5th Edmonton stake, so all the stakes here were moved around which also moves all the mission zones around as well. 

Tammy is the drunk lady. She is literally drunk all the time, according to Elder Nelson. She came to the door, showing way too much of herself but unaware of it because of her intoxication. We had a member with us, we stood on her doorstep and listened to her slur out a bunch of anxieties involving certain eastern religions. She rambled for about 15 minutes, then we prayed (holding hands at her request) right there in the rain on her porch. Luckily about halfway through her rambling she zipped up her weird adult sized onesie. (We were so uncomfortable.)

Winter was the insanely smart 6 year old. We had knocked into her mom Vicky a few weeks ago, and she told us to come back a couple times. We came back, and as it turns out, her kids were actually looking forward to us coming over, and Vickys friend (a member of the church) had told her years ago, "if you see missionaries, be nice to them!" Sooo glad she listened to her friend. She wanted us to come in and teach her and her kids, because the oldest, Winter, had heard tons of things from her friends about God, Jesus, and the like. She had insanely deep questions about the resurrection and reincarnation. That was way cool. We drew out the Plan of Salvation for her. It was honestly a miracle we were able to teach them. 

With the stakes being reorganised, we got moved from the Riverbend stake to the Edmonton North stake. On the other side of Edmonton there is now a Sherwood Park stake. So that's exciting! We got to hear from Elder Jörg Klebingat of the 70. He was way cool. 

I have learned so much from this transfer. Elder Nelson taught me a lot, and I'm glad we could be together for these six weeks. I now have to take on the responsibility of being a leader, so prayers are always welcome. 

Thanks for all y'all do! Love y'all! 

Elder Trevor J. Wells

Stony Plain, Alberta

Canada Edmonton Mission

Here are some pictures and videos for your enjoyment. 

1. The District. 

(Elder Wells, Elder Nelson, Elder Alvey, Elder Klunker

Sister Shoemaker, Sister Dearden, Sister Waite, Sister Watts

Sister Blackburn and Sister Hacking)

2. The District again

3. The Ukrainian Weather Caster.... I laughed way too hard at this

4. Someone's pet wolf #WelcomeToCanada

Videos:

Elder Nelson got mauled by a members dog

What even is spring?

Pretty sure this person had a wolf chained up...  

Stony Plain: Gospel Ghost Town

Week 32

Hello from the Canadian Side! 

How is everyone! That's good to hear! 

This will be a short email because we spent most of our day at the zoo and at the temple. I'll send more pictures later! 

The reason Stony is a Ghost Town is because not many people listen to us. We have no investigators, and the less Actives here don't want much to do with the church. So that's sad. But we continue forth! 

Fun story for the week, we went out to the Paul Band Indian Reserve, (which I forgot was in our area because it has been too cold to go out there). Before heading home, we decided to stop by a guy named Leon, but we ended up getting stuck in the mud. 5 heartfelt prayers later, we made it out and headed home. 

We did have one investigator ish person, Barb, came to the last session of conference, but she wasn't very happy with the session for weird reasons. 

We got to have supper with a nonmember named Dan, because he is friends with our less active friend Terra from my last area of Leduc. It was good to see her again. 

I'll be sending some more pictures here shortly from our trip to the temple and to the zoo. 

Thanks for everyone's support and prayers in our behalfs! 

Keep up the good work! 

Love y'all! 

-Elder Trevor J. Wells 

Pictures:

1. A member of our ward bought a creepy old abandoned house with a creepy barn and garage to match, so we explored before dinner.

2. Majestic

3. The Great Alberta Landscape

4. I climbed a thing

5. Trying to look good

6. I've really come to love dogs on my mission. Especially the huge ones.