Monday, January 30, 2017

Transfers

Well the big thing that happened this week of course was getting a new companion. Unlike pretty much every other mission in the world because of our transfers we were not able to watch the broadcast right away. So as for now I get to be on the same old schedule as missionaries have been on for years.

So first of all it was a bit weird for me to be watching Elder Shaw leave his first area. It reminded me quite a lot about leaving Yorkton almost a full year ago. I can't even believe I've been out for 17 months now. I try not to think about it but anymore I've just been around other missionaries from my group so oh well ;) Anyways he got to say goodbye to all the first people he met on his mission and it was good. The Judge kissed him on the cheek when I was taking their picture. That was hilarious :D I'm so glad I got it on picture as well :) 

Secondly I'm now officially with Elder Dagenais. It's been a good few days with him in spite of him being under the weather a bit. I'm probably going to leave this transfer with the knowledge of how to explain a bunch of random words to people. For example while out on the rez we were walking along and he asked me what a tree house in english was called. I told him it was called a tree house and he told me in French it was something like "caban" similar to cabin I guess. It's been a good time. He was also able to connect quite well with a family that I had no idea was completely bilingual. So I was sitting there like "what in the world are they even talking about" There were a few things I could pick up but nothing like my Spanish discerning. 

Other than that there's really not too much that happened. Oh I guess I could mention that our church is now going to be at 1 and go for three hours instead of 2. #firsttime So that should be quite a fun change. Hopefully it will help with getting people to church :) 

Anywho I hope youz all have a great week. Before we know it V-Day will be upon us.

*from my email*

It's been an interesting week. Elder Shaw leaving his first area was a good reminder for when I left Yorkton. A lot of the time was spent going to all of the members and saying goodbyes/taking pictures. Then the next half of the week Elder Dagenais and I started out strong but, he's been sick and I think it's getting to me so we took a bit of a breather yesterday. Otherwise there were some good things that happened this last week. We "taught" this older couple and set up an appointment for this tuesday to finally share the message of the restoration with them. They were super Jesus people so the conversation we had with them ranged from his wifes conversion of three years ago to spiritual gifts. It was unique. I'm glad that Elder Shaw was able to meet some people of another Faith that wasn't bent on trying to prove us wrong. Otherwise we're still on the find grind ;) I'm glad that one of my weaknesses has become one of my strengths. Elder Dagenais kept on telling me that he was a bit surprised at how much I wanted to go trackting :)

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