Hey fam!
This week has been nuts, sooo much happened this week. It's been great. Happy Valentines day!!
On Wednesday we got to meet with Shannon and Kyra, we originally had planned to teach them about Prophets and the 10 commandments but we ended up just going over Prophets. It was a great lesson. We also dropped a mirror off to my old apartment that we accidentally stole. Patty, the manager, was sad that we were leaving. She said, "So idk who i'm going to get to shovel the walks now?" We volunteered since it was snowing, that the next day we would stop by and push the walks for her.
On Thursday we had a lesson with Frank, one of 5th ward's investigators. We taught him about the plan it went very well. He is pretty solid and I could see him getting baptized fairly soon. We got board updates from the districts since Elder Harrara is the district leader for the one district and I'm the one for the other. After that we got some lunch and headed over to push some snow for Patty. There wasn't a whole lot of snow to push but we pushed the sidewalk around the building and in between the cars. Just after we had finished and were heading back into the building we heard an old woman yelling at us for help. She had slipped and fallen in the snow and couldn't get back up. We ran over there and Elder Wiwichar on one arm and myself on the other lifted her up out of the snow, she was so grateful. She asked us if Patty was paying us for pushing snow and we told he nope we were just coming to push it for her. She couldn't believe that 3 young guys would do a thing like that. We even scraped off her car and shoveled around it and stuff. We gave her a card and told her if she needed help with anything to just call us. It was pretty great, I love helping people that are in a bind.
On Friday we helped out the food bank as usual. I was able to wear my pants this time because Shannon patched the big hole for me. It was a bummer though because I was pulling my pants up by the belt loop and the bottom part of it ripped and I now have another hole. I was hoping they would last till the end without buying another pair, we'll see. At this point I am trying not to buy anything that I am going to have to take home, my bags are pretty full. We did quite a few stop buys. We also had a lesson with Guy, one of 5th wards other investigators. The lesson went pretty well.
On Saturday we had breakfast with Bishop Mclung out in Bow Island and then headed to Dave and Mariet's to help them. They ended up having to run into Medicine Hat to pick up some parts but we did end up having a really good lesson with them. They haven't been reading the Book of Mormon or coming to church. I felt prompted to share a scripture out of the New Testament with them and asked them a pretty deep question and it was pretty intense you could really feel it in the lesson the spirit was really strong it was great. I think for now we are just going to read the Book of Mormon with them when we go over there so that they can feel the spirit and the greatness from it.
On Sunday I went on splits with Brother Sloan, who is on the high council. He had to give a talk out in Bow Island so I went with him to church. So that was fun it was a long drive but it was fun to go out there again for church. After I got back with my companions we ate lunch and then had a lesson/board game night with Tori 5th's other investigator. It was pretty fun. We then had dinner and another lesson with Shannon and Kyra and taught them the 10 commandments. Shannon said that was the most fun she had had talking about the 10 commandments so that was pretty cool.
On Monday we had service at Church hill, we were cutting up cucumbers again and it was pretty neat they had the news people there interviewing some of the people and we were in the background cutting up the cucumbers for the kids at various schools around the city.
Well thats some of the highlights of this week I hope that you all have a great week to come. Love you guys!!!
Love, Elder Allred
