We have an investigator who lives with his kids and grandkids, and the grandkid' s names are all watery names like, Ocean, Wave, Nautical, Pearl! There's just a ton of them too, so it's been fun to go over there. We haven't been able to teach him since I've been here, but we set something up for tonight, so hopefully that happens.
We also have been finding a ton of people to meet with recently. We randomly tracted into one lady who said we could come back, and then we came back and taught her the Plan of Salvation. She had a ton of questions too, so it was awesome!
I love being a District Leader. It's hard, but it's been super fun.
August 8, 2018
So we had zone conference yesterday, and it was an awesome!
Definitely learned a lot about how to be a better missionary. We talked a lot about Faith and how to best utilize our faith in the work we do.
So now that zone conference is over, we are having a huge p-day with everyone in the zone here! All the outlying areas got to sleep overnight, so it's going to be awesome.
Remember last week about the grandpa we were meeting with who has a bunch of grandkids with ocean names? (The smallest one is literally named Captain Tide!) Well his name is B, and we got to finally meet with him! It was pretty sweet. He is being prepared by God as we speak to hear the things we're sharing! He was talking about how are all those ancient Aztec or Mayan ruins must have had people living there with their own history and such, so he was pretty intrigued by our presentation about the Book of Mormon. We're hopefully going to meet with him again this week!
Also a miracle in disguise happened this week. We had set up an appointment with someone in Lacombe at 6:00 pm one day, so we were excited about that. We were just going through our day, when our Ward Mission Leader texted us about how he got us a dinner at 5:30 that night in a town about 25 mins away from Lacombe. I don't think we figured out the schedule issue until after dinner actually... Anyway, we got out of dinner and freaked out for a little bit. We tried texting and calling our appointment, but there was no answer, so we decided to go there as fast as possible and bring some chocolate or something to apologize. We didn't have any chocolate though, so we thought to go to a store really close to our appointment and buy some, then we met M! She was doing the checkout and said she had a Mormon friend, so we talked to her and she said we could talk to her about it later!
Also our appointment wasn't home anyway, so there was nothing we had to worry about at all!
August 14, 2018
Elder T, what are your thoughts on the Lacombe area?
T: It's a really good area, we've been finding a lot of people lately. We've had a lot of spiritual experiences. My companion said maybe we should try the puppy dog approach and we found this girl, and she hasn't texted us back yet. That's okay, though.
H: Thank you for that.
T: Now the Settler area--we drive 300 kilometers in a day and show up to a lady's house, where's she's not home. That's fine.
Elder S from Japan, what do you have to say to the grand old people?
S: Nothing
H: What's your favorite food?
S: I love Mexican food.
H: What's your favorite Mexican food?
S: Sushi.
H: He loves Mexican sushi. I don't know where you get that, but I want to try it.
We have Sister O. She is from Hawaii. Tell us your favorite color.
O: Blue
H: Why?
O: Cause it's like the ocean, and the ocean's pretty cool.
H: She is very Hawaiian.
O: Correct. And white.
H: Yes, she is white, somehow.
We have Elder F, one of the zone leaders, from El Salvadore. What is your favorite part about being a zone leader?
F: Good question.
H: Sing us a song, then.
F: (singing in Spanish)
Sister S, if you could baptize anybody in history, who would it be?
S: Jesus Christ. Just kidding. I meant, I would have him baptize me. Wait, hold on. This is really awkward. If I could baptized anyone?
V: You can't, you don't have the priesthood.
S: Okay, if I were a male and I could baptize anyone, maybe one of my family members? I don't like this question.
Other: Donald Trump.
S: Ha, ha, okay, yeah, Donald Trump, that's a good answer.
Sister V:
V: Ha ha, it's come around!
H: Tell us anything.
V: Sometimes I think about the word "enough", and I think about it too long and it doesn't become a word in my mind anymore. So weird. Also, isn't it weird that the word "pony" rhymes with "bologna", but bologna is phonetically spelled bo-log-na.
H: I'll remember that for the rest of my life.
Other zone leader, Elder E, tell us, why are we here?
E: We are here because every Tuesday we get a day off, kind of, from 8am to 6pm, and it's probably the worst day of my week because it should be longer, but whatever. So we're here playing sports with half of our district because everybody else is dumb.
H: But that's okay. Anything else you want to say?
E: I just want you to know if you are living in the States, be grateful for what you have, because the prime minister here is a lot worse than everyone makes it sound. Donald Trump is a lot better than everyone else makes him sound.
Sister P, what...
P: Things are going good. Help the missionaries, we appreciate it, we'll help you in return. Let us do stuff, let us serve you.
H: Wise words. Let the missionaries help, we're good at it.
This has been the weekly post, interview edition.
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