I got to give my first blessing in Canada yesterday to the Sunday School Teacher, thank you so much for having me go with Grandpa and give blessings to people in our ward it has helped me so much spiritually and ha also made me not look so much like a greeny. He just found out that he has kidney stones. He stayed home from church because of it. Elder Davis and I got the opportunity to teach his class for him because of it. It was on being honest. Kind of a hard subject but it ended up being really great. I have been assigned to my first area in Strathmore and Siksika. Strathmore is a small city and Siksika is a Blackfoot Indian Reservation. It is quite a bit like it is back home being on a rez and all, the only thing missing is that I can't see any mountains. The ground is just rolling hills and tons and tons of farm land in my area. They grow a lot of grains but also a ton of canola plants as well. There are a few colonies that are on the borders of my area that are full of Hutterite people. I saw some in Walmart this last week and it was pretty awesome they looked like a bunch of pioneers. We talked to them a little bit but they aren't a very social people. They will buy anything but food as far as I know. They grow 100% of all of their food. My companion and I are planning sometime to go and visit one of the colonies and buy a sack of potatoes or something. I have heard that they love to sell their food to others and that it is not as expensive as it is in the stores. The people here are generally pretty friendly, I haven't knocked on the doors too much but I have done quite a few and only gotten it slammed in my face twice. I have found that when people have dogs or cats you can just bring them up and they will go on forever talking about them. The two pretty cool dogs that I have seen here in Canada is a Bull dog and a race dog, I forgot what the name of it's breed is but they have long skinny bodies, especially their face and nose it comes to a point. They are very aerodynamic. This particular dog was famous and had won a few races. It was a pretty cool experience. I have really gotten to know the scriptures better I started over reading the Book Of Mormon in the MTC and I'm already in the middle of Alma. I had a really neat experience last night at a dinner appointment. Elder Davis had told the father of the home at church to come up with something for us to talk about after dinner. So after we ate the dinner which was pretty good except for the meat, only because we get meat every day. But after the dinner we went and sat down on the couches and he told us that he wanted us to talk about fear, and I thought shoot I have no idea of where to go with this, and Elder Davis I don't think did either but at that same time a scripture came to me in D&C 6:33-37 which was very very good. It said to fear not, and to fear not to do good, to follow the commandments. When I was thinking about this and talking to the family I thought we have no need to fear because if we are following the commandments and doing everything that we are supposed to then we know where we are going and we also know that Christ broke the bands of death for us so we have no need to fear. I really like this scripture and the thing is, is that I believe that you (Grandpa) may have taught this to me and our family in one of the lessons at your house. I know that I didn't write all that I should have down from those lessons but I am just sure glad of the Holy Ghost and how he brings all things to our remembrance. I love you all and hope that you have an amazing week!
Love, Elder Allred
We as missionaries are striving to bring or convert others to the gospel of Jesus Christ, but in the MTC I learned that the most important thing is that we convert ourselves. We have to have ourselves converted to the gospel before we can teach others. But things here in Canada have been pretty great, it has been a slower week because of people going out and vacationing, but here pretty soon everyone will be coming back and I think that the work will speed up a whole lot more.
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