The Jacket of the Seventh Day & 😄Something new and something old😀

October 16, 2018

Hey guys! I want to let y'all know what happened at transfers!
(By the way, I'm not sick anymore.)
I am still in Lacombe and my companion is Elder B. He's from Utah/New Mexico/Texas. He likes long walks on the beach, cars, and other stuff probably.
I'm out of time now 😆, kind of a bad pattern. I'll work on that.


October 23, 2018

Great stuff this week!

We have a lot of people we're teaching now!
Two of them are both on date for baptism as well!
Good stuff happening, also Elder B doesn't actually like long walks on the beach, apparently...


November 6, 2018

Hello, this is Elder Hill in the Great White North.  I'm here with Elder B and everything is good.  Sorry I didn't post last week; I didn't take my tablet to Red Deer last week, so I couldn't. And it's snowing!  Well, snowing/snowed.  The concrete's wet, that's all that matters.  Everything's white outside; it's actually getting pretty cold.  The president told me that it's probably going to stay cold for the rest of the winter.

We are meeting with a guy who is a Seventh Day Adventist, which pretty much means that they worship on Saturday. They think others are wrong and don't keep the Sabbath Day holy because they say Saturday must be the Sabbath Day.  He's a really awesome guy and we've been meeting with him for a while, and he invited us to one of their sermons/meetings on Saturday.  It was interesting, to say the least.  Not as crazy as when we went to a Pentacostal church in Leduc, but I learned some stuff, and my faith is unshaken.  We had a pretty good lesson after that and he is progressing nicely.

We also have this guy we've been meeting with a lot, almost every day for the last three weeks--gone through all the lessons. He's on date to be baptized December 15th.  Also, someone got baptized last Saturday!  It was this kid who was pretty much already a member and didn't get baptized earlier, so he got baptized later and had to be taught by the missionaries, so that was a really cool experience.

I was going to say I was not sick, since some people had been asking, but I'm actually feeling kind of sick today.  But we're good, teaching lots, being in the cold lots.  Our car ran out of gas on Sunday so we had to walk for a while.  That might be why I'm sick.

Elder L:  I had this old lady read my palm and figure out my greatest fears and told me how to conquer them.  I was like, all right, I feel pretty enlightened!

I love you guys!


November 20, 2018

Hello, Utahan friends!  This is Elder Hill in the Great White North.  I have a pretty good update for you this week.  The transfers are over and I am leaving Lacombe!  It's super depressing that I'm leaving; this place is awesome.  But I'm going to someplace pretty cool.  I'm going to still be a district leader in a place called Wapiti, which is near a place called Grand Prairie.  I haven't looked for it on the map yet.  My companion is going to be Elder K, of all people!  For those that remember, we were in the MTC together.  He's been to Leduc and served there after I did and did exchanges with me there.  It's been a long time since I've seen this guy but I'm really excited.  He's an awesome guy.

This last Saturday we had another baptism!  The fruit of our labors have paid of in Lacombe and two people have been baptized since I've been here!  It's been awesome to see people make that choice to follow Jesus Christ.  These are some of the best experiences I've ever had! 

Elder T and I were meeting with the first person who got baptized.  Some of her family are members but are not active in the Church.  She was choosing to go to Church anyway and finally got to the point where she wanted to be baptized.  Elder T and I were teaching her all the lessons and it's been great.  She got baptized this last week and wanted me to baptize her so I learned how to do that--first time I've done that.  It was a good experience.  I'm really excited for her and for her example to her family.

We're still meeting with some of the same people.  One asked us several "anti" questions about our Church, so I'm not a huge fan of that, but we're hopeful.  But, it's been a good time here in Lacombe and I'm excited to do some work with Elder K in Wapiti. 

Several people emailed me this week about the Holy Ghost and about following the promptings we get.  My brother talked about an awesome video he saw in the MTC and made a good point that if we are confused whether a prompting is from the Holy Ghost or from one's self, think about whether it is a good thing.  If it is a good thing, why wouldn't you do it, even if it isn't a prompting from the Spirit?  It's still something you should do, so don't worry about it.  Do every good thing and seek after those things.

My dad made another interesting comment about how if we don't have the Spirit with us, how are we supposed to know Jesus when He comes?  We've heard about some of the struggles that will be had by even the most faithful who will be deceived by false prophets and false doctrine.  In President Nelson's talk about receiving personal revelation, he said that it's imperative and essential for spiritual survival in the last days. My dad linked those two together and said, if we're supposed to be preparing for the Second Coming of the Savior, if that's the purpose of this Church, we need to have the Spirit with us.  Otherwise, when Christ returns, how are we supposed to receive that revelation of where we need to be and what we are supposed to do at that time?

I appreciate your emails and hope you have a good American Thanksgiving!  Eat a lot of turkey for me, because I'm really sick of turkey after so many Canadian Thanksgivings.  See you next time!