The Bees....

Welp. I still don't know what I'm going to do after my mission. just joking but, after every session of Conference I would ask Elder Peck if he knew what he was going to do after his mission now. It started because he told me that the last general conference of the mission is supposed to tell you what to do after the mission. The exchange went like this after every conference "So Elder Peck do you know what you're going to do after your mission now?" 

"Nope" 

"Haha Neither do I" 

After the last one we both decided that what we were supposed to do was not pile out after the mission and still be faithful. So I guess that's what's going to happen. And of course do lots of Family History and contribute to the family history ;) 

Other than that it was a wonderful General Conference. There's going to be lots of reviewing I'm going to be doing. Overall it was an answer to prayers. Plus I had a good time with the members here and just had a generally good time

So now for the rest of the week. I've promised a few people that there was a large mass email coming and I hope to fulfill. 

First of all we had the Winkler Elders over for a large part of the week. They were here at the beginning of the week so they could email. We had a good time on P-day and got lots of good stuff done. It's been a good time this week being able to talk with them and have a good time with them. Tossing it back to the Battlefords I remember why I enjoyed the district up there so much and a large part of it was Elder Peck :) He's still good. I may be getting sick now though because Elder Morales had quite the cold going on.. Still a great time talking to them and having a good time

Next day. Tuesday. We had quite the amazing experience. We found out on the Sunday before that we were going to be wanting some Addiction recovery stuff. We weren't entirely sure what our Branch President was meaning by that but we found out. So, basically there's this Part member family that really wants to change their life. He's trying to kick the bottle and they're both trying to stop smoking. We had a wonderful wonderful lesson with them that night. They've really been prepared for this. One of the highlights of that lesson was him telling us he's never been so excited for something in a long time. I don't know about you but, That's amazing. The guy never really had much Religious background he looks like he's been through punk stages with some interesting tattoos not only to add on that he's struggling with alcoholism. But, he's excited for something that after two meetings with people from our church, one with the branch president and one with us. He's excited. So good :)

Next day. Wednesday. The most frightening service I've ever been through. Alright imagine with me.

Imagine this red lit room. The only light comes from 5 red bulbs. The kind that you would imagine in a submarine to keep your night vision strong. Then imagine a buzzing noise all around you. You see these stacks of boxes in the room and their's crunching under your feet. Then you hear a buzzing get louder near you. and then a buzzing come whipping past your face. There's bees. Millions of them. One of them lands on your arm that's luckily covered by a jacket that has the sleeves Velcro'd up. Looking at the boxes you see bees swarming at the entrance, not flying, but like ants swarming. Then something lands on the back of your neck and as you try and swat it off pain courses into you. 

I was just about done when that bee landed on me and stung me. You know I had my hood on for the rest of that service. We were helping move hives around for him so he could prepare to get them out into the yards. But, I was getting super anxious and scared. I'm sure that was helping a lot because he was talking about how bees go for the CO2 the stuff you breath out. Shout out to the boys who know about my new dance moves I made up when I was like 10 years old. That memory and others of being stung came back to me in there and I was not having a good time. I think I left the room at least five times just to take a breather. You probably won't see me being a bee keeper ever. 

But, the next day we did some of the funnest service I've done on my mission as well for the same guy. We went out to one of his yards to go take down some trees that were blocking the way to get in. Don't worry I never operated the chain saw. But, I got to chuck logs and stick around after he cut them up. It was a good time being out in the bush. It was also the second time I heard gun shots on my mission. For some reason some guy was shooting his gun at something out on his farm. For those of you who know Canadian laws, guns are hard to acquire and harder to legally shoot. So that was really odd. It brought be back to growing up in the U.S. though :) It was a good time. 

The next fun thing that happened was Winkler came back for interviews here in Portage with President. That was a good time and it was great to talk to President again. Overall a good day that day. We were planning on going on exchanges but it didn't work out. Which is all good. It would've meant me staying inside with Elder Morales so he could be sick. Also this day and a few other days during the Gen Con weekend we got fed quite a bit by the Judge and others. It was super nice. I don't think I've been fed this much in a long time. 

Then Back to Gen con which again was a great time. One of the best on the mission. Everyone seemed super happy and there were lots of great talks. Anywho I hope y'all have a great week. Spring is coming up here. We've had so much snow melt. Which I finally took pictures so I'll be sending those.