Hey fam!
This week has been great. This Thursday is transfers, I don't know if I will be staying here for another transfer or not I will find out later tonight. I am kinda hoping that I stay or that I go to Raymond but we'll see.
Last Tuesday we went to dinosaur provincial park that was really fun, I will have to send you some pictures. Later that night we played basketball with some of the church members. A member in our ward told us that there was a lot of less-actives and non-members that would show up so we thought we would go and meet them. It was pretty fun we couldn't stay long but we met and talked to everyone there.
This week has been great. This Thursday is transfers, I don't know if I will be staying here for another transfer or not I will find out later tonight. I am kinda hoping that I stay or that I go to Raymond but we'll see.
Last Tuesday we went to dinosaur provincial park that was really fun, I will have to send you some pictures. Later that night we played basketball with some of the church members. A member in our ward told us that there was a lot of less-actives and non-members that would show up so we thought we would go and meet them. It was pretty fun we couldn't stay long but we met and talked to everyone there.
This week we have been spending quite a bit of time entering in all the information from our area books to our area book app on our phones. It will be really nice when all the information is all put in the area book app but for now it's a pain and it takes a lot of time. We had another lesson with Kyra and Shannon. We taught them the Gospel of Jesus Christ and focused mainly on the Holy Ghost and how we receive answers. Our stake also had an activity that involved several other churches in Medicine hat, it was centered on the family. It also took place in a Lutherine church so that was a little different but it was good. There was a lot of break out sessions and different classes that everyone could go to. We were there to help set up and help people know where to go. There was this one presentation that we went to that was talking about marriage and how to strengthen your relationship with your spouse. The man doing the presentation wasn't Mormon but it was really good. He really liked us missionaries, he had even written a book on what he was talking about. It's titled, Hiz and Herz I believe. After the presentation I went up to him and jokingly asked, "Do you by chance give missionaries a missionary discount?" He quickly responded and said, "Sure I'll give it to you for 10 bucks." I then said, "Oh I was just joking and laughed." He was serious though. I asked, "Do you mind if I have a look?" and as I was looking through the book he said, "You know what you could even do is take the book and just pay me later." I said, "Yeah I couldn't do that I would end up forgetting and that wouldn't be right." He then said, "Well you can just have the book on me." He took the book wrote a little message in there and signed it. It was pretty funny so now I have a book that talks all about marriage and how to strengthen your relationships haha.
We also picked up a new investigator his name is Kieth he's not super solid at the moment, he told us on the phone that if this is to get him to come to church he's not interested. I told him Keith to be completely honest we really aren't trying to get you to come to church all we are doing is teaching you about Christ and helping you increase your faith in Him. He said okay as long as it's not getting me to come to church. He's a funny guy.
Another highlight of the week was while we were in Bow Island we stopped by a lady named Mary. About 2 years ago Mary got introduced to the missionaries and went through the non-smoking program and it worked out for her. We stopped by to see how she was doing and she said I'm doing okay and then her eyes started to get watery and she said but my husband died a couple of weeks ago.. I said im sorry to hear that is there anything we can do to help? And she said no after that we talked a bit about the Plan of Salvation and asked her if we could maybe come over and teach her about it. She said no but we were able to give her a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and to testify of the great plan of happiness. We also left her with our number so she could give us a call if she needed anything. After visiting her it made me think of just how much we sometimes take it for granted. Sometimes we don't always realize just how great the plan is until we have a moment in our lives that changes our perspective on it. I know that the Plan of Salvation is real and that this life is not the end, but there are greater things to come as we remain faithful.
Well I am glad to hear that you are all doing well! I can't wait to see all of you again!
Love, Elder Allred
