4/15/2013
This week was pretty spectacular!
First of all, I learned how to play Phase 10. Sheesh, where I have been this
entire time it's been out? Hiding under a rock? :) Family- you should invest in
it and we shall commence in playing it when I return, okay? Okay. We have
an Elder from Bolivia serving in the West Zone, Elder Pozo. He is hilarious!
And we had a zone meeting last week and he made us Bolivian food. It was
pretty great - so that was another first - Bolivian food.
We had interviews with President and
car inspections. We got 100% on our car inspection and we have to get an
oil change and our tires rotated. Thus, we have to go to the North East
side of Calgary. We are having a member print off directions, but I have a
feeling that we will have a great adventure ahead of us this week. hahaha. Pray
that we won't get too lost. :) Another exciting thing for this week: President
gave us permission to continue to teach Barb!!!!! yeah!!!! She was thrilled to
hear this news!!!! Ah! I just cannot get over how excited I am!!!!! We had
lunch with her this week and we will be back to our regular Wednesday evening
appointments.
Other firsts that happened this
week: first time going to Costco (we only have Sam's Club in Logan), I tried
poutine for the first time (the most authentic Canadian food you can get) ;)
and...wait for it...we went to the temple! No, this isn't a first for me, it
was for Sister Fenn (the Calgary temple) but we both went through a SPANISH
session. hahaha. We were going to the dressing room when someone asked if we
would need a headset for the Spanish session. Of course, of course I
would manage to choose the ONLY Spanish session they have a month to attend.
But it was really really neat- it sure makes you pay lots of attention to what
was going on. Good times, good times. Sister Fenn survived her
first winter snow storm. It may have been a blizzard. And she shoveled
snow for the first time. :)
Due to spring break we moved our 5th
Sunday combined lesson to this week. It was really neat. Bishop
Evans, did a wonderful job presenting the temple open house follow up. He
also shared a really neat story with the members. Last week we had dinner
with his family and we shared a message and asked them how they are
"Catching the Wave?" Everyone told us what they are doing to
share the gospel, which was fantastic. We then left two commitments with
them: one - to have the family pray for our investigators this week and two- we
asked Bishop if he would call/text/send an email to two of our investigators
this week to help them continue to have a spiritual experience during the week.
Bishop Evans then shared how he heard back from one of our investigators and
thanked him for sending a message.:) Bishop assured the members that we
will not be pressuring them into doing missionary work and we will probably be
asking them to pray for those we are working with. We felt that this will
really help move the work forward! It was a really neat experience. yeah!
I cannot remember if I had told you
about Thandi or not. Thandi, oh my, is hilarious and amazing. She
joined the church two years ago and she went a little less active, but now she
is back. She is attending a family instead of a YSA ward for now because
she is trying to help her younger sister feel comfortable coming to church.
Random fact- she's from Botswana, yeah it makes the coolness go up a notch. :)
I had one more bag full of spices for Pumpkin Cookies. Mom, they are famous up
here in Canada. You should patton the recipe :) People go gaga for them.
Yeah, it's pretty sweet. Any who, we went over to Thandi's and made them and watched
some golden oldie films on lds.org
such as "The Phone Call" and "Johnny Lingo". Good
times, good times. Thandi makes me laugh so hard every time we go over,
to the point of tears. She's just so great :)
We were unable to get in with our
investigators this week, besides Barb, but good things are going to come.
Especially if we get members on board to pray for our investigators.
Hope you all have a fantastic
week. Spring will come....so they say...
-Sister Douglass
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