This week has been pretty amazing actually. We have found so many potential investigators this week it's nuts, all we have to do is meet up for a lesson which seems to always be the tricky part. Especially for those who have really busy schedules.
On Tuesday we had dinner with Sister Holloran and she took us out for fish and chips, idk why they would call fries chips but oh well it was good. They had a special deal that night that you could eat as many strips of fish that you could get down for like 15 bucks. I left that meal pretty full. We then had a meeting with bishop and the WML of 5th ward about the work.
On Wednesday we had the apartment people come and check out our place to make sure everything is working right which it was. It was pretty funny because they couldn't believe that we could keep an apartment so clean. We then helped out at the food bank which is always pretty fun. We had planned to have a lesson with Rebecca and Byron but Byron was sick so we ended up going over there anyway and talking to them for a bit. They goofed up on their smoking plan which was too bad. I feel that it is always best to just stop smoking and cold turkey it. When looking back at the people that I have taught the ones that just stopped were the ones that were able to quit.
Thursday morning we played ball with the district which was pretty fun. I just wish I had better people to play with. We did our weekly planning. We had our Thanksgiving dinner cancel which was too bad but we ended up going with our zone leaders to dinner with a family that was in their ward. It was a fairly good dinner. It could never compare with the Thanksgiving dinners we had back home though, those were the best! We then had a lesson with Shaley, the little 9 year old girl that we have been teaching and we put her on date for baptism on the 16 of December. It was pretty funny she was so scared of how she was going to be getting baptized and how she was going to be pushed down into the water. We had the lesson at Bishop Tingle's house and the bishop and his young kids were able to tell her about what they had seen and experienced about their baptisms, then the bishop gave here a visual on how baptisms are performed, it went great.
On Friday we had to give the car to the Heritage so that they could go to a retrainer's meeting. We took the train through Down Town and over to the South East part of Calgary for the food bank. At the food bank Sister Zimmerman and I met this interesting guy. He was a straight up beach bum. He had dreaded hair and would only eat vegetables. He didn't have a ride so I told him that Elder Crawledy and I could help him get his stuff home, that he would just have to wait 30-40 min. He ended up waiting and all the vegetables that people didn't want I was giving to him. At the end of our shift we helped him carry his food over to the bus stop, we got on the bus which took us to the train and then road the train down to his house. His house was just a couple of blocks away from the train station. We had a great conversation with him and he told us that we could come over and teach him about the gospel sometime. So hopefully maybe this week we will be able to see him, the only problem is that he isn't in our area so we will have to pass him off to the elders in that area. We also had dinner with the Guidis in the ward that are from France. They are pretty sweet and they make some pretty good food.
On Saturday we had a great breakfast with the YSA ward and then helped them clean the church it was pretty fun. We were supposed to have a lesson with Ernesto, who was a former in the area book. He had to cancel though because he had to take his son to the pool but he seems like a pretty sweet guy. He is a black guy not that that really matters. He loves to play basketball, so that is pretty sweet, maybe I will get to play some ball with him. We then went to a ward baptism that we were invited to. That night we got a call from this lady who is a Jew she is 23 years old from Ireland. She sounds pretty solid over the phone she was talking about church and being baptized and all that stuff. I just wish that when Elder Crawley talked to her on the phone he didn't make it so awkward. We are hoping to meet with her sometime this week.
Sunday was pretty normal except their was a 17 year old girl from south Africa that came to church. She was also a former investigator that the sisters had in the area about 4-5 months ago. We have a lesson with her on Friday at the church, so we are really looking forward to that. The Young Woman's leader talked to us after church and told us that her dad doesn't like her being with the church. On time during a mutual activity she had the young woman's leader call the cops because she was afraid that she was going to be beat when she got home. So it will be interesting to see what happens. We started an exchange with the Mandarin Elders that night. Elder Chen came to my area with me and Elder Crawley went with Elder Peterson in the Mandarin area.
Elder Chen and I had a great time together yesterday. He is going to be finishing his mission in around 9 days which is too bad, I will really miss him. He is from Taiwan. We had district meeting, had a lesson and role play with Eric who is preparing for his mission, called a media referral who seems pretty solid as well, had dinner with the Stake President, and a lesson with an eternigator named Sabrina. She has been being taught by several missionaries, she is super sweet. Elder Chen also gave me a haircut. It was not a fail this time haha.
Well that is just a quick run down of the week, I wish I could write more but it is hard with the time that we are given. I hope you all have a great week in all that you do, I sure love you all.
Love, Elder Allred
