Monday, November 23, 2015

More to come and Winter is come

So I only have a short time right now to email. I would like to let y'all know that I am staying in the same area (kindof). I will be moving to the Yorkton apartment so any of you who have my old address it is no longer valid. Elder Spell and I will be staying together and we will be in a tripan with Elder Muller. Tripan: (sl) a companionship that includes three companions rather than two. We will also be taking all of Yorktons old area and adding it onto the Melville area. This is partially why I'm going to be sending emails later. We have got a LOT of packing/moving to do. wish me luck

*Later*

So. this week has been quite a wild one. I think you could gather that with the major upset we had again with transfer calls. We literally just lost one Elder from our district that's all. And for those of you who understand how transfers work this is quite the odd occurrence.
One of the wild things that happened was the weather change. It all happened in one day. We got weather warnings that there was going to be close to blizzard level. It ended up being about a couple centimeters of snow but being in the plains area the wind was around 50 ks per hour gusting up to 90 ks per hour. This combined with the already cold weather put us around -20, -25 degrees C. That was cold. I was only wearing slacks that day so my knees felt like they were going to shatter from the cold and walking. My face was the worst though. Bare skin with wind chill is not a good combination. Other than that I was fine. My hands were getting decently cold but my feet and body were just chillin. I learned a lot though and I'm never going to let it happen again :)
Another thing that happened just yesterday is we were able to attend the Montreal Quebec temple rededication. We had to go out to Regina to do that but it was a great experience. Everyone except President Eyring spoke French so that was weird. But it was great. We had some members take us out there and we had a great time with them as well. They also fed us that night so double bonus :) I realized the last dedication that I remember going to was the Oquirrh mountain temple and Elder Spell had his card from that so we found out it was in 2009. That was an eye opener for me.
Another crazy thing that happened this week was we went and visited a member who's name is Tom. Tom is his english name because he is originally from Taiwan. It is SO hard to understand him but he's got a big heart and he always feeds us. Which is not always a good thing and you'll see why. So we went over to his house at around 4 and we thought we were safe but when we got there he was eating this massive pot of wontons (I think) During the entire time we were there he was just eating through this massive heap of food. And he was like are you guys hungry (translation) When he asked us that he went into the kitchen and started microwaving something without us really saying anything. He then brought out this plate of buns (rolls) with meat in them. These things were pretty big to begin with and he had 7 of them on the plate. He then said Eata Eata (which roughly translates to you better eat) After we started that he went back into the kitchen and started microwaving something else. Elder Spell and I started looking at eachother like "what are we going to do???" By the point the second plate of buns finished we were already starting to feel full but he set it down and said "Eata Eata" I think I was only able to eat 5 of them.... it was brutal. and when we would slow down he would just repeat "Eata Eata" It was funny but we were stuffed.
That's all I got for now I love you all and have a great thanksgiving if you are celebrating thanksgiving this week. As for myself I already have had my turkey dinner.

*from my email*

We're no longer going to be living in Melville so I would just advise everyone to send the mail to the mission office. Hopefully they do like last year and have a Christmas devotional in Winnipeg and I should be able to get all of the mail then. I may be able to get some mail before then if they have another zone conference this transfer.

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