Well this week was pree good! I went with Elder T. who I
came out with on Tuesday tracting in London! I got to drive again! I am
loving this driving! We drive such nice cars here! They handle pretty
nicely too but they are gutless! It was fun being in another area and
companion! Elder T. is really doing well with the language and is so
funny to serve with! He still loves talking about dogs and about how he
loves to eat them haha. Wednesday after district meeting I went on
Exchange with Elder Roberts. He is super awesome! He is from Utah and is
pretty cool! He has about six months left on this mission! It was fun
going to teach their investigator Rick who is preparing for baptism too!
He just needs to get married but he knows everything is true! It was a
awesome exchange but he talked a lot about how his companion is leaving
in two months I think of this is his second last transfer . So he is
super trunky! We talked about his plans after the mission, what he did
before, possible girls he would like to take to the temple, his family,
and all this jazz that got me thinking about home . :P It is hard being
in a district full of missionaries who have under 6 months left and are
super trunky haha.
I got to do my first service project with Elder
Roberts for Bro. Granger. We cut up his fallen tree! I got to use a cool
power tool called a tree splitter and unfortunately did not take any
pictures! I promise I will take more pictures for fun things like that!
But ya. Then for service I wore shorts outside and it was probs minus 5
haha and he was like are you crazy! It was super nice haha. We also went
to a gas station to buy gas for the chain saw and car and the lady was
like its a little cold for shorts no haha and I was like well I am from
Alberta and she said it made sense.
Oh ya before I forget! On Tuesday
when we took the West Elders car, we also stole their house keys which we
did not know hahah so they were locked out of their apartment. They had
to get a ride to our apartment scale the balcony and then climb into
our apartment and slept there that night haha! Pays off to leave your
balcony door open.
Friday was pretty good we went and rode our bikes around
to go visit people who bombed our appointments! We saw Becky today at work and
she waved to us! She is super friendly! After that fun little adventure
we went over to give a Sis. A blessing for her wisdom teeth getting
taken out. For the rest of the night we came back and E. Koceja slept
because for the past few days he has been feeling pretty sick. This
morning was especially tough for him. I ended up studying for three
hours by myself! It was awesome. I am learning so much for myself by
asking myself what people do I want to find who have this question. It
has helped me study for my investigators and really be able to answer
their concerns. This evening we had Sports night with the YSA and some
people who came to it! It was fun we played dodgeball and all! Then
shortly after we went into the kitchen and found out we were all going
to eat balut which is a duck egg! It was so nasty I almost pucked haha!
It actually looked like a duck! It had a beak, wings, feathers starting
to grow. It was the grossest thing I have ever eaten in my life. The
juice was so disgusting! It was the nastiest thing I have ever drank and
eaten! Everybody was almost pucking haha all the missionaries did it.
Elder Bullock even ate 2! The next day he chucked buckets the very next
day. The taste stayed in my mouth all night long and I even had dreams
about it hahah :P I'll include pictures of the event haha.
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| eating balut- apparently it's a delicacy |
Then Saturday and Sunday rolled around. I went on
another Exchange with Elder Cowley into Windsor west! This area includes
the University. All our appointments bombed! But we saw all the investigators
out and about haha bombing our appointments so we went up to them and was like
hey where were you! We were supposed to have a lesson today! They were
so confused and bewildered haha it was awesome!
I ate my first Shawarmma
today! It was soooooo good! It is kind of like a pita but better. After
this we walked around in the flurries of the nice sunny day hahah and
then went back to our apartment to eat the delicious food that the Lui's
made for us! It was pasta with shrimp with red velvet cake. During our
dinner we listened to Elder Bullocks talks about Eternal Marriages and
Celestial Marriages and finding a wife! Man once again my point is
proven everyone in my district is so trunky and ready to go home but
they all still work hard. That evening we met with one of their
investigators Vomba from India, she is Hindu! She is super nice and a
high school student! She is loving to learn about the gospel and is
working towards a baptism! She is really growing in her faith of Jesus
Christ and is doing awesome with all her questions. Well that was our
Saturday!
Well on Sunday we were waiting at the doors of the church for
anyone to come to church! The whole entire zone was depending on us for
investigators at church because they cancelled church and we were the
only ones going to church. Lo and behold Becky showed up! It was
awesome! We have our first progressing investigator! Becky liked church
but she was a little timid of it as it is a little bit of a shock! But
people were super nice to her and welcomed her! She said she wanted to
come next week and bring Emma too! We are so excited she is progressing
so well and really growing a testimony of the truthfulness of the
gospel! Then also on Sunday we had a potential investigator become an
investigator! He is awesome he is from Uganda and is 24ish his name is
Charles! He loves Jesus Christ and is Roman Catholic but he says it is
good but not all true! He says he is looking for a church that preaches
apostasy and that there was a falling away! We are so excited to teach
him and help him understand the message of the restoration of the
Gospel! He is reading the Book of Mormon and says that what we have told
him about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon all sounds true and makes
sense! So we are excited to go back and teach him!
This Sunday we had a
Sis missionary leave from our ward and give her farewell talk! It was
awesome the food was great at it and the talks were awesome! It was fun
taking pictures and just chilling with the members! I remember when I
was like that a week before I left! Man I am so glad to be out here on
my mission! I am loving it! It is so awesome and the memories are
priceless!
Sorry for not writing to much this week next week Ill include more and
spiritual thought among other things! Love you all and have a great
week!
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