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| How do you like our P-day handywork? |
Well this week was a little less
productive than last week, so I don't really
have as much to write about...
A few
random things: I ate pigs ear the other
day, it was weird, I've eaten more pie in the
last 4 weeks than I have my whole life, random teenie-bopper songs that I always hated keep getting stuck in my
head for some reason. Why can't that happen with songs that I actually like?
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| Photos from MASSIVE fire back in 2011 |
They had a huge wild fire here in 2011 that burnt down almost a third of the town. Most people didn't even have time to pack anything they just had to
leave with their wallets and the clothes on their backs. There all
whole sections of town that have these really nice brand new houses so
its pretty easy to tell if a house was burnt down or not.
We had a few teaching appointments with
investigators this week but most of them
fell through or they weren't home. Our
truck was in the shop all week because
we had to take it in to get a dent fixed that
another missionary caused like 4 months ago.... gee, I'm sure glad they
waited until got here to fix it!
So this
week we had to walk everywhere or get a
ride from the senior missionary couple in our
area. We mostly ended up walking,
which actually hasn't been all that bad,
its just a bit chilly. Wednesday we had
exchanges and I spent the day with our
district leader, Elder Powell. I got to
learn some good things from him.
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| The Tagolog speaking Elders paid us a visit |
Saturday the Tagalog (the language Filipinos speak) speaking elders came up from Edmonton,
and we had a fun little branch
party/game night. One of the Filipino ladies
in the ward (there's lots of Filipino
people up here for some reason) invited like
20 of her Filipino friends and it was pretty cool. We gave a little devotional at the end and showed the
"Because of Him" video and the
spirit was definitely there. Then
the time came for the missionaries to
head home and the other people set up a game of musical chairs, and they had this huge speaker thing with a disco
light set on top of it, and when we
ended up leaving they were playing musical chairs with super loud Jay Z music, disco lights flashing
everywhere, IN THE CHAPEL (technically
its the multipurpose room). We just
facepalmed and left haha. Gotta love
these Canadians/Filipinos.
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| We finally got our blessed truck back - yeah! |
The
next day in sacrament meeting Elder Payne
and I both gave 15 minute talks on the importance of members and missionaries working together to bring people
to Christ, and how to most effectively
do that. I felt like we did pretty good
(well he did, anyone who went to my
farewell knows I'm not the best public speaker,
slowly getting better though). Everyone
seemed to be pretty impressed and
inspired! The only other highlight of
the week was last night, we taught a
lesson about Christ's earthly ministry and His
atonement to a recent convert, and at the end of the lesson I bore my testimony about the Savior and during that I
really just felt the spirit so
strongly. I know Jesus Christ lives, and
He is our Lord and Redeemer. I'm really so grateful to be a part of His
church re-established on the earth
today, and I'm so grateful for His atonement
and that sacrifice so that we can change ourselves and become perfect one day. Love you all, party
on:) -Elder Bonny
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| Its getting cold here...I'm soaking in the warm sun while I can. |
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