This week was super interesting. Transfers are here. I'm staying in Leduc, but Elder J. is leaving to go train another guy in a tri-panionship. My new companion's name is Elder S., I have no idea who he is yet, but it's going to be fun! So, that's going to happen tomorrow, and we get to clean out our apartment to move out at the end of the month! So, yeah, I'll keep you updated on that.
It's great to hear that Utah is also still under the cold iron fist of winter for a bit, though ours stays longer and snows more, I think.
About driving, we do have some maps in our tablets. The fun part was trying to figure out where Elder L. was directing me. I also do have my driver's license (a temporary one waiting for the real one) and the funny part about that was that, when we went to go get them, they had us do a vision test. And of course, that was the one day that I didn't wear glasses or contacts. But I took it anyway, and I passed!!! Somehow, barely, so I may not actually need glasses to drive legally in Alberta, Canada! (But I will, because I'm super blind.)
We haven't played Extreme Croquet yet, nor have I been subject to a S.T.E.A.K. yet. Though that'll probably happen as soon as we're all able.
I also love showing people the Easter Video. My district at the MTC got to see it early when we had a guy who was over the development of it come and give a talk on a Tuesday devotional, so it's super awesome to be able to show it to the members.One of the coolest things I’ve learned in General Conference is that "we're called to the work, not to the place." It's great that I get to be in Canada and do the work, but I know that if I were anywhere else, I'd still be learning and growing spiritually and helping bring God's children back to Him.
Something that I learned just this last week is "Whom the Lord calls, He qualifies." So even though it's rough here right now, I know that if I don't lean on my own understanding, and if I let God help us, we will be doing everything we need to have the work progress.
We had a guy come to Church and the Priesthood session of General Conference. He also has read the Book of Mormon all the way through, has read every pamphlet that the church owns, and has marked them up till you can't see the words anymore (which is pretty amazing.) And we didn't even ask him to. In fact, we were just barely able to have a lesson with him on Sunday! Aaaannnddd we kinda dropped him. We knew going in that it was going to be a difficult lesson from talking to him before about how he doesn't listen to his feelings at all, so he didn't like how the Holy Ghost testifies, I guess. But we found out in the first few moments of the lesson that he has also been reading a big ol' book of anti-Mormonism... To put it shortly, he was a Bible basher. The whole time, he was telling us what was wrong with the Church and he expected us to pull out historical evidence of pretty much everything that we believed (not knowing that we didn't study for years on how to ARGUE our religion into people's lives.) The only thing that we could do was testify and hope that someday he'll soften his heart to the Gospel. He was really nice, though, and he gave us cookies (because, Canada.)
I know that my life has been changed, and for the better. We, as greenies, have this thing that we do called a “greenie read”. the greenie read is basically us reading through a fresh copy of the Book of Mormon and highlighting every time it talks about Heavenly Father, Jesus, or the Holy Ghost. It's been a HUGE benefit for me to see the ways the Godhead influences the lives of those in the Book of Mormon and in our lives in the latter days. If you haven't done a "greenie read" type of thing, I'd strongly recommend it.
And I guess that's about it. I love y'all, and I'll talk to ya next week!
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