This one has 300 presents there.
Presents!
The BBB
The Pres's Vehicle
The District
I'll be talking more about how I got to level 2
in one of my skill sets but for now I'll talk about transfers. So.....
drumroll.... I'm staying in Yorkton and Elder Spell is moving to the
O-Zone (Ontario Zone). I'll be receiving Elder Cox here which funnily
enough he's related to me through the Elder Wiltse line. There will be
Missionaries getting put up in Kamsack/Cote so it's back to what Elder
Spell and I started with. I'm not going to be the district leader in
Yorkton though. They decided to move that to Elder Grant (who's been in
this district for ages) and Elder Ringger who was a zone leader up in
Kamsack. Major upsets for this district yet again. But, they'll be a lot
better changes than what we've had before. I'm pretty yoked to be
staying in Yoketown because I was really worried that I wouldn't be able
to say goodbye to all the people in our branch.
So to go
to the subject line of this email. I'm pretty proud of myself actually. I
should probably be more humble but hey it's a great achievement for me.
So to preface this I had lost the keys again. This time we still
haven't found them... But, there was a package in the mail WOO! :) it
contained three ties, two of which were from past missionaries. So now
the senders of the package know who they are and who to blame for this
conduct of mine ;) But anyways there was a package in my mailbox and I
really wanted it but we still hadn't found the keys. So by divine help
we found a bobby pin in the church. After we found that and got back to
the apartments I was just waiting to go and see if I could get in. So
when the coast was clear I had Elder Spell watch out for me and I went
and tried my luck at getting to my package. After around 10 tries, I
FINALLy GOT it!! I was so happy with myself and declared that I had
reached level 2 on lockpicking. :D
Another great cultural
thing that happened this week is I had my first Smudge. We were up at
this families house out in Cote last night for a turkey dinner. Before
we had our dinner Joe the head of the house asked us if we wanted to
smudge. Smudge:
n a prayer of sorts involving bringing sweet
grass smoke over ones head to purify the energies of the body. So that
is how I smudged for the first time. It was quite the experience there
and the bannock was soooo good. I'm not sure if I've told you about
Bannock before but it's a traditional bread made by the natives out
here. It is so good and the Bannock we had last night was deep fried
which makes it even better. I was going to learn how to make it but now
that Elders are going to kamsack I don't think I'll have the chance.
This
story is for my mom. This week while I was on exchanges with Elder
Grant in Yorkton we met a man named Probh we were looking for an Iqubal
but we met Probh. He was originally from India and was Shii or however
you spell it. He had a turban on that's all I got for you. But we were
able to hear about some of his traditions and talk about a lot of fun
stuff like that. He told us also that he was getting married in a month
in an arranged marriage back in India which was interesting. It was even
more fun to joke about how is women problems are just starting :D
Overall
this has been a most excellent last week of the transfer. It'll be
quite interesting this week and I should have some more stories next
time. Love you all and Happy New YEars
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