Service

So because the weather decided that it was time to be spring we've been doing a lot of service this last week. One of those service opportunities was unlike the others. Last week I was talking about how we sent a package down to the states. Well we got to come back out to the farm to do some more service for them. It was a blast. His whole family is moving back to the Battlefords area from Alberta and they were all there when we went and moved some more furniture. One of the better parts was he has twins that are about 6 years old and they do everything together. It was pretty wild :) They're going to be such a blessing to the branch when they finally move in.

This next story is probably one of the weirdest things that has happened on my mission. Elder Stevens and I were in the church doing our online proselyting and we hear this thud from somewhere in the church. Elder Stevens goes out to investigate by looking out all of the windows. We couldn't find anything until we heard some crying. It was so faint that we didn't even think that it was happening. Both, of our brains go to panic mode because we were both thinking someone got abused or something and was hiding behind the church. So we step outside to investigate and we find this lady sitting behind the church crying and we don't know why. She was probably in her 20's and just looked like she was done with life. We talked to her for a bit and she told us that her family disowned her and just a whole bunch of terrible stuff. We offered to say a prayer with her but she didn't tell us her name so it was kind of awkward but that's besides the point. As we're finishing the prayer this guy walks over to us and we both stand up because we're still in panic mode. He then tells us to not worry about him and says some things to this girl that he could've said a lot nicer. At this point Elder Stevens and I both realize that he's probably part of the problem because she quiets up real quick like. So I offered to her to let her into the church so she could clean up a bit and they accept. We get into the church and we have some small talk with this guy who tells us he's Pentecostal after grabbing a pamphlet on the testimony of Joseph Smith. It was a weird conversation. After all of that they leave and Elder Stevens and I look at eachother and were like "what just happened??" We made sure to give her a card with our number on it and tell her if she ever needs help to call us so we'll see if anything ever happens from this. 

Overall it was a good week and it had a great end with Sunday. Thank you for all of your prayers. I know that they help. Have a great week :) Potatoes gonna potate

 

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Our investigators are doing wonderfully. What was great was yesterday during our branch huddle the branch was very supportive. We also taught C the Word of Wisdom and he took it very well. He's looking like he's legitimately working towards this life and that makes me very happy :) We're now calling him and visiting him each day to help him overcome smoking. It was pretty great yesterday to ask him how he's doing with all this and we asked him how his drinking coffee was coming and he just said "oh I had a glass of milk instead" Haha it was great :)