Pile out

Pile out: sl when missionaries just don't want to work pile. So this week we (Elder Lee and I) got the closest we ever have to just being piles. We had a plan to go to the reserve Peepeekisis (no it's not pee pee kisses) and everyone there decided to get on their horses and go to another town. Dead serious. We at least got told that they were going to have to cancel our lessons but They All Got On THeir Horses ANd Left. Haha it wouldn't have been so bad if we hadn't done everything else we could've that day in preparation for going there but we literally had nothing to do. So that was the closest we ever got to piling out thus far.

That being said we also had some excellent days this week. The first part of the week we had our first exchanges and I went with the district leader, Elder Baker, and Elder Lee went with Elder Spell. It was an interesting experience and I was able to learn some stuff from a missionary who this week hit his hump day (year mark). One of those things was the missionary genealogy it goes as thus: The trainer is the father the trainee the son. The trainers trainer is the sons grandfather. pretty simple My dad is Elder Lee and my Grandfather Elder Martens. I wasn't able to find out any further than that but I also have an uncle (forgot his name) and My grandfather died as soon as I entered the mission field. Another thing is the Elder you go on your first exchange with is your Godfather. So Elder Baker became my Godfather. It's just interesting when you get a whole bunch of LDS guys together they start relating more and more stuff to the gospel.

Another amazing thing that happened this week was I was able to give out my first Book of Mormon. I was so yoked just so yoked. Also I was able to go to a hockey game with a Non Active which was a lot of fun. In Melville we have a building that is nicer than any other building which apparently cost 10 million. This is our hockey rink and the team that plays there is called the Melville Millionaires. I was so impressed by it that I went and bought me some roller blades and I now have a goal to by the end of my mission become decent at skating. When I got them and first tried them on I could barely move around :D.

That was my week. I'd like to thank everyone who's emailed me and helped me out with those emails. I wish I could email each one of you specifically but you'll have to wait ;) I'll get to you sometime but for now I don't have much time. Keep on Keeping on. I have a firm testimony that everything will work out if you're patient and diligent. It may be hard right now but you can make it.

*The following came in an email to me.*

 To answer your questions first of all. We go to church in Yorkton which is 30-45 minutes away. This church is not like any other church I've been to it's centered between two shops and is something similar to adornit that brady and I worked on for a while. Since we're just a branch and haven't had 80 people come consistently for a while we don't have a church building. We have two other missionaries that come to our same branch. One of them, Elder Baker, is our district leader and the other has been in Yorkton since before us, Elder Spell. There is one other companionship in our district but they are over an hour away on a reserve called Carry the Kettle. We skype them for our District meetings but they also bring in all of the indicators for our district... (indicators: numbers signifying baptisms, lessons, referrals, etc.) We do have a car. Not only that but our cars are called The Fleet because I'm almost positive our mission has the most cars out of any other mission. I've only heard of a few companionships that do not have cars out of 120 missionaries. All of these cars are pretty much new so they're pretty nice and have a lot of new technology (per everyone using flash drives for music). Transfers are every 6 weeks. I'm in training right now which lasts two transfers, 12 weeks, 3 months. I highly doubt I'll be part of any transfers for a long time so you won't need to worry about me moving for a while.