Here Comes the Sun, and the Chauffeur of Time!

April 17, 2018

Canada has decided to tease us the past couple of weeks. We get about 1 or 2 days of super nice sunny weather, then we get buckets of snow until you can't even remember what spring felt like. Though seriously, I've never been so ready for summer in my entire life!⛄🔥

On a different note, J and L won't be able to be baptized for a while; it's kind of a complicated situation, but pretty much we have to wait about a month, maybe more, before they can be baptized.

Also E! I guess I didn't really explain too much about him, but pretty much he's from Tanzania, and he's getting his PhD in Mathematics. The assistants were teaching him for a while, and then they discovered he's actually in our area, so we've been teaching him! 

He's awesome, but he hasn't been able to commit to be baptized. But this last lesson we had a plan. We and our Ward mission leader surprised him by taking him to the temple instead of having a normal lesson, and he absolutely loved it! He kept talking about the peace he felt there and the blessings he received just by being on the outside, then started talking about how he wanted to feel the blessings that come from being on the inside! 

We think he will be baptized soon 😁

April 24, 2018

Crazy transfer call a few minutes ago. Apparently I'm going back to LEDUC!

I know right?! What kinda crazy!? 

Seriously though, I'm pretty stoked. I love Leduc and can't wait to see it again.

Also I'm going to have 2 companions, and they are both Mandarin Elders! And also they can't drive! It's going to be amazing!

Also! I had an awesome experience on Wednesday. 

We went to a bible study that was being hosted by an investigator family, and some interesting things happened. 

The "pastor"? (Not sure what he's called) was talking about some things that I personally knew weren't true doctrinally, and I wasn't super happy about that. On one of the occasions that the false doctrine was really bad I decided I couldn't take it anymore, so I said a prayer. In my prayer I asked God what I should do. I wanted to do something, but I didn't know what. I told God that I would do anything he asked, he just needed to tell me what he wanted.

I didn't get an answer until the "teacher"? Dude started talking again, and then I heard the spirit say, "stand up." I was like 😰 what? The spirit said again "stand up, you said you would do anything, so stand up." As you could imagine, I was not super keen on doing that in a large group of people that would probably not appreciate my doctrinal advice. 

In the end I didn't stand up, and the feeling I had was awful. Probably the worst I've felt in my life. I had an opportunity to change someone's life, heck I even prayed for it! But I didn't take it when I came, and I even lied to the God I love. As you could imagine, this was not a good time for me.

But as I was writing this experiences down in my journal, we got a group message from our zone leaders telling us how awesome we all are. I won't get into the details, but what they randomly wrote to us that night was exactly what I needed to hear. And also I had a dream and stuff that I also won't get into for lack of time, but I want to bear my testimony to y'all that there is no such thing as coincidence. Maybe the zone leaders were just feeling creative and wanted to do something fun that they've never done before, but I don't buy that. I did something I would consider horrible, but my Heavenly Father still reached out to me in love. And I will never forget it.

I love you guys! Talk to ya in Leduc!!!