Also I'm a District Leader!
Literally everything that we did not expect to happen.
July 24, 2018
Craaaazy stuff being a District Leader, like wow! I have so much respect for District Leaders now.
So let me tell y'all what went down this last week.
We drove into Edmonton from Slave Lake on Tuesday, which is why I didn't post much. Then we all stayed at random places with other missionaries. The next day was transfers, so we drove to the Temple and I found my new companion Elder T! Elder T and I are actually technically brothers. Our trainer was Elder J, and he was trained the transfer after J left Leduc, so he's only one transfer younger than me. He's from Utah, around the valley somewhere close to where I live. He likes long walks on the beach, he races dirt bikes, and that's it.
Our area is actually pretty funny. We live in Lacombe, but with Stettler's area attached our boundaries to all the way to the next province (like a state, but not...) to the east. Also there is probably about 30 churches in Lacombe. 30! Everyone here is super religious, but every time we talk with someone they tell us exactly which church they go to in Lacombe, and it's always a different church! I think it's funny.
The first night here we went tracting and heard about this thing called "Music in the Park", which is this thing that happens every Wednesday night in a park in town. There's food trucks, a new band every week, a market inside and outside the building, and the reason we would be there: people! There was so many people! We talked to a bunch of people there, and when the band saw us going around they started playing a Jesus song dedicated to us! Though then they did a song about being best friends with the devil soooo 😂
We don't have a bunch of people that we're meeting with, but we've been finding a bunch of people who are interested. When we meet with them this week I'll write about them, but for now there are too many.
Also! I'm still a District Leader! I had to give a training and everything on Thursday. I was super nervous and unprepared, but everyone said it was really good, so I won't worry too much about it.
Something that District Leaders do every week is Stewardship calls. Stewardship calls is something that happened every Monday night, and I talk to every companionship in the district, then write down a bunch of information about people in their area. It takes forever! We have a pretty big district, I'd say. We have us, then we have Red Deer 1st Ward Elders, and 1st Ward Sisters, then we got 2nd Ward Zone Leaders, then we got 3rd Ward Sisters. So we have about 10 people total. I went to bed late last night 😴 I am so tired. But it's fine, I've been having a blast in Lacombe so far.
Finally, I wanted to make a huge shout out to my Brotha' Elder Jaden Hill who is going to the Taiwan Taipei Mission! I'm super excited for ya bro! He gets to ride bikes and wear sandals all day in the rain! Gonna be a good time.
I love all you guys! Have a wonderful week! For those in my zone getting my emails (Elder M and Elder C) I'll see ya in Red Deer!
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