This week was pretty
sweet and a little disappointing when I found out that my sister got an iPhone
5 when I specifically asked for her not to get one until she was 16 so I have
really realized how unfair life is this week because of that ;)
Besides that this week was really
awesome! Monday was pretty hectic because we had to go to about a million
different stores to buy things and to get Christmas presents for people so it
was petty crazy but we finally got everything done and went to a dinner
appointment with Bishop S’s family and unexpectedly Blaine, the bishops
son, had his girlfriend over, who is not a member, and so we had a really awesome
lesson with her and the family. Overall we have been really blessed with
lessons and having members at the lessons. This week we had 11 lessons with
investigators and had members with us which is the most I have ever had and at
least 4 of those were unexpected, like, we just went to a members house for a
visit and they had a non member there. We have had a lot of unexpected blessing
come to us.
Actually we went out on Tuesday night
to go visit some investigators and the lessons fell through so we just quickly
went to another investigators house, Joey if anyone remembers Joey, and we
really haven’t visited with Joey too much after he told us he didn’t want to be
baptized and felt he didn't really need to meet with us anymore. We went over
there and taught a really good lesson about the Book of Mormon and he told us
that he has really felt lost recently so we taught how the Book of Mormon and
prayer are amazing ways to find answers and to help us with difficult decisions
in our lives. He seemed to be really open to meeting with us again and we
committed him to start reading the Book of Mormon.
Probably the coolest thing that
happened this week was on Thursday morning. We went to the Church to weekly
plan. When we got there the parking lot was full of cars and we couldn’t figure
out why until Elder Kelly asked what was going on and we found out that there
was a Christmas Concert going on at the school across the street. So we went
inside and Elder Kelly received divine revelation that we should go buy hot chocolate
and make it then we should hand out hot chocolate to the people when the
concert is over so that is what we did. We called the Kamloops 1st Elders
to help us and they came over and we went ant talked to a bunch of people as they
where going back to their car and handed out a ton of cards and pamphlets to
people but sadly not many people took the hot chocolate so he have like 3
gallons of hot chocolate left in our Fridge but that doesn’t matter because we
talked to a lot of people and that is all we really wanted to accomplish. It
was really cool and pretty successful. Then on Friday we got a referral!! From
someone who went to Mormon.org and requested us to come over and visit them and
sadly we have not gotten over there yet but it is so cool to actually get
someone to come to us and tell us they want us to come to them.
One thing I have really seen this last
week is how The Lord is hastening his work and it’s going to happened whether we do anything or not. There are people who
are out there who are ready to hear the gospel and they are waiting for us.
They may not be waiting for 2 teenage boys to knock on their door but they may
be waiting for their friend to talk to them. It is not just missionaries who
are helping them hasten His work but it is the members who are also a huge part
of it. Even though missionaries do it full time for 2 years, there are people
who won’t listen to missionaries but they will listen to their friends. So have
a very merry CHRISTmas and remember what CHRISTmas is really about.
If you didn’t know I actually get to Skype home on Christmas because our mission president is Awesome!! We don’t have to be old school and
call which is Awesome!! Anyways...
Love Elder Slack
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| Elder Kelly's sister sent us some really "fresh" pillow cases |
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| One of our Christmas trees with our presents |
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| Our sweet District!!
Me Elder Woolf, Hawkes, Walker, Tolman, Esrich,
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| My "fresh" (I see a pattern here...new word??) new hat. I feel I have really adapted to Canada very well. |
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