Where to start this week...Did i talk about our church tour FHE? Well i
will start there! We did that last Monday. We had a tour set up to talk
about the Book of Mormon. I taught questions of the soul. That Book of
Mormon can literally answer EVERY question that we have! If we listen to
the spirit and we pray. And it was amazing watching people learn. The
Moore's came, they are an investigating family! They also came to church
this week!! Woot woot(: And then our friends the Tatlow's brought their
friends to the tour as well!!! The members are starting to get the
purpose of these family nights!!(: it's so awesome how much farther the
work progresses when members make time for missionary work!
We had
ZTM's in Glenwood on tuesday! We had the musical number, Sister Connor
played the violin while i played the piano. And Elder Gibbs and Warinski
sang. They are both choir boys from Utah. We played the him...i don't
remember what it's called but it sings "brightly beams the fathers
mercy..." Then we stopped by the bank to talk to a referral we had and
she wasn't there! so luckily i had a american $10 that i could change
for Canadian money haha. Then Vedalyn, she is from the Phllipines and
she got baptized in February she invited us over and made us spring
rolls and wantons and noodles! Mmm!!! it was AMAZING! Then our
appointment with the Charlton family bailed on us so we helped teach
mission prep and then we had our weekly correlation meeting with our
stake WML. He is so funny he kept busting out these jokes like -- did
you know Lehi had a flea? He was told to take his family and "flea" into
the wilderness! haha and Nephi's horse was named beuntoyou "Whoa
beuntoyou!" hahaha then for you Ash Byu got a new coach, he is from
china. His name is Winonesoon haha(: GO AGGIES!
So Wednesday
we studied, our goal was to contact all our referrals this week so we
did a bunch of door knockin'. We ate lunch at the high school, they had
hawaiin hay stacks. Sister Connor said we need to make "Mud Lake
haystacks" haha our of hash browns and sausage and all things that are
good! How brilliant hey?(: Sister Connor then taught me how to index so i
can teach people! i wish i would have learned all that at home! Then we
chatted with our good friend Megan her girls were just getting home
from school. She is a less active. We had heard that she hurt her arm
but she wasn't wearing a brace! haha she's a go getter. She cracks me
up! We need to get her to start coming to church though. But i
definitely feel like she feels like she can trust us. One step at a
time! We went and did service for our good friend jackie, the one who
drove us to the temple a few weeks ago. She is a single girl, we helped
her dig some weeds where she is building a new pasture for her horses.
Then we taught Phil! He hasn't missed a week of church since we found
him! it's been going 6 weeks strong!
Thursday,
weekly planning day, we also had our weekly lunch with Dawna Jensen. I
was just chatting away when i noticed a MASSIVE HORNET in her house!!
ah. i hate bees. sister connor trapped it in a cup and then sat it
outside hopefully it died! EW it was sick! but Sister Jensen made us a
good lunch none the less! She is the best! We also made new planner
covers because this transfer is almost over! Jee wiz that went fast!
haha Oh then we had dinner with the Wild's they are an awesome family!
they recently moved here from Edmonton. Jordan is in grade 12. We are
going to get her to come on some splitz with us!!(: Then we saw George
and then Melanie! Melanie has come such a long ways!! She was up in
Edmonton this weekend though so hopefully she went to church with her
sister. We talked to her about tithing and i wish we would have a while
ago! She is afraid to because money is tight! We tried to explain the
blessings that come from it! hopefully she has the faith to try it our
and learn for herself! she is so awesome though!
Friday
we helped with Bingo at good sam's in the morning, David got so into
it!! it was a blast! haha! Then julie would get mad at him for saying
bingo when they were trying to get black outs so he would yell bingo
just to make her mad then he would just about laugh his dentures out of
his mouth!! hahaha(: Then we practiced our song for sacrament meeting
with Tekerra and she fed us lunch, then we went back to good sam's for
the thanksgiving partay! I just love old people they are so cute(:
haha! That night we taught this single mom, Shantelle, she has two cute
cute little boys! the one, Byron, he is almost 8 and Shantelle is a
convert and she was like i just don't know how to teach him simply
enough so we are going to prep him for his baptism! he's a little cutie!
we're excited about that(: Then that night, since elder burrows in
training they went up to Calgary we came home to MAIL and claresholm
chicken!!! What a good way to end the day!!(:
Saturday
morning sister connor broke a cereal bowl. luckily with no cereal and
milk in it so it was just a glass mess and not a milk and honeycomb
mess(: Then in honor of her year mark and Elder Burrows 18 month mark
she burnt some shoes and he burnt some pantalones! Then we ordered some
Russian Books of Mormon for sister harker, because they moved to a new
house and some Russians are moving into their old house! so naturally we
took pictures with them first(: Then we practiced with Tekerra with
Sister Freezie's critiquing to ensure our best performance for Sunday.
Then we Visited the Dean's a part Member LA family, who sister connor
had taught in Calgary! They are awesome and i taught Liz how to properly
peel the shell off a hard boiled egg(: i told her every time she did it
from now on she would never forget sister "Eg" bert(: hahaha! We had
dinner with the Galbraith's that evening after we visited with Dan the
man and made sure he was still planning on church, and he was! So
everyone in Raymond just has this wicked amazing art skills and paints
every painting hanging on their walls! i've got to learn their ways!
it's impressive! the Galbraith's had them all over their living room
from siblings and all sorts of family members, including themselves.
They are a cute older couple trying to retire haha! After that we went
around just contacting people and we came across brother Nishyama. He
had been tipping the bottle a bit...but we gave him a plan of salvation
pamphlet and hopefully when he came to he gave it a nice read!
Sunday
was good and busy as always! We played our song that tekerra sang at
good sam's and in 8th ward! it was a rendition of "For the Beauty of the
Earth" and "If you could Hie to Kolob" while sister Roach sang the
words to "Come ye Thankful People" It was really really pretty...if i
say so myself(; Dan did show up to church too, and he brought his
roommate/girlfriend lady's nonmember son! it was a really good sunday
for investigators! After church we had dinner with the Gardner's which
the mom is from Blackfoot! and then we taught Ray, he is still
progressing and doing better then ever. Then bishop was going to come
with us, but he got sick so we went with sister Robson and he husband to
go visit a guy who is trying to get over his cocaine addiction and his
wife is a nonmember. It went pretty well and he was nice to us.
Hopefully we can get him to see that the spirit is what will help him.
it's hard cuz he grew up in a super active family so hiopefully we can
change his opinions he's developed over the past like 20 years of his
life. Anything is possible with the Lord's help. We just have to be
obedient, have faith and follow the spirit!!
Monday:
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!! we had District meeting in the morning,
brother tyler came and taught us some about family history work! Then
the Tatlows fed us a nice lunch and the Robson's fed us a nice dinner!
it's kind of hard to do missionary work on holidays but hey we got
treated well none the less. i love raymond for that reason! it's kind of
nice having thanksgiving so much earlier then christmas too because by
the time that rolls around i won't still be full from thanksgiving. but
it didn't really feel like thanksgiving but hey can't' complain(:
Well i love ya! Thanks for all the love and support!
Photos for the week:
the hornet!!! notice on the wall "together the best place to...bee" hahaha!
SheepPR
Canadian Thanksgiving!
