Last time I didn't explain what I meant about the "Fire". Well what it was kinda metaphorical, but I guess also literal with all the forest fires we've been hearing about over in British Colombia.
Also, it's funny, our last dinner appointment last night told us to find a pioneer story for the after dinner thing that was happening. So I looked at my family history for probably the first time seriously, and found some pioneer stories to share, but I also found a Hannah Dustin or Duston, it has both. She was captured by some natives and brought to a certain island, then during the night she took one of their hatches and slew 10 of them escaping with some other prisoners! I was like ?? family history is cool?!?! So yeah, they later named the island Dustin Island, and I think they do tours and such. But it was kinda cool to see family history in a different light. It is a great source to learn from other people's actions and the consequences of them.
August 1, 2017
This last week was pretty normal, we had some lessons and found a lady who really wants to come to church! So that's exciting, but I think the biggest surprise here is what's going to be happening this next week.
We have interviews with President Pattison tonight at 8, so we get to take a 2 hour drive up to Edmonton, then the next day we will have zone conference, and the next day we will have a training on how to use the new smartphones and Facebook stuff for missionary things, and to end it off we get to have another 2 hour drive back to Innisfail! What a week! I still think the concept of me using Facebook is weird, pretty much everyone back home encouraged me to not get Facebook ?? so what happens? I go on a mission and get Facebook! Weirds me out.
In other news, gravity still works. I have dedicated part of my knee to this scientific display of pain. We were riding around on bikes, and I tried to make a corner way too sharp, so now I have the battle scar of a champion (or just a guy who fell off his bike, but champions are cooler.)
Oh, also, I forgot to mention that we are going to be staying with the Spanish elders up in Belmead for most of the week, so that will be fun. Everyone will know Spanish but me!??
I'll just practice my gibberish or something.
I know that this church is true; I know that Heavenly Father is helping us to have His work progress in every way He can, and I know that there is nothing else I should be doing right now.
August 8, 2017
First of all, we have Facebook. Or to be more specific, I personally have Facebook. And it's weird. To establish some rules first, I can be friends with family members and actual friends back home, and people can follow me around on it, but it is still recommended that the social interaction between me and anyone back home is limited to emailing on p-day as usual.
The purpose of using Facebook is so that we can teach people who don't have a lot of time to meet, or they live far away, etc. It is also used to interact with members and get referrals and fellowshippers for investigators in a more organized manner.
For those that don't know, I have never used Facebook before, so I have no idea what I am doing most of the time??. But it has already helped a lot of people (in other areas) to meet with missionaries and such, so it is a good tool. The problem is, none of our investigators have Facebook, and the one who does is the guy that likes to bash with us ??????? so not a lot of success with it yet, but we are still trying.
In other news, we still haven't had any investigators at church, and everyone is on holiday so we can't meet with them. So naturally we have been tracting our hearts out! Yay! Tracting is such an interesting activity. Something weird happens every time, and it can be both awesome and dreadful, depends on the day, I guess. But now that the holiday is over, we should start teaching people again.
I didn't learn any Spanish though (Sorry, Lia). Elder S is trying to not use Spanish at all, and I pretty much just told them that "I am a pineapple" in French if they were talking in Spanish all together. So, yeah.
On a more spiritual note, in sacrament meeting, I feel that most of the people's testimonies were directed to me and the questions I had and the things I had prayed for. It was an amazing experience. I saw a quote somewhere that really sums up what I feel about prayer and it says "When I pray, coincidences happen. When I don't, they don't."- someone probably. I've seen this a lot in my life, and before my mission I saw a lot of miracles and treated them like coincidences. I had a "It was probably what was going to happen anyways, and it wasn't even that spectacular" attitude, but now I see that I pray for something, and it happens! Even if it was going to happen anyways it still answers the prayer. "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."
About the subject line above: We usually just listen to "Motab" or Christian rock music, and one of the songs has the lyrics saying that they would "dance like the rising sun!" And I was trying to picture what that would look like, and I'd recommend y'all to do it too, it's a pretty funny picture.
Also I've been getting a lot of comments about my bike accident, it wasn't that bad, don't worry I'm fine, it's pretty much healed now, and I don't have to use a wheelchair anymore. 😁
So to summarize: Its fine, don't worry about it. 😁
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