Hey cuties:) It's been quite a while since I've sent my group email directly to all of you, I hope you have all been doing truly fantastic and loving life. Before I get into this week I want to mention something coming up this Saturday, Sept. 10th that you can all somewhat participate in. That day is going to be Edmonton's YEG Mormon social media blitz day. So a little background: YEG is the abbreviation for the Edmonton Airport, and it's also the social media hashtag people use whenever they reference Edmonton. So YEG=Edmonton.
The
week after September 10th, the Broadway play "The Book of Mormon" is
coming to Edmonton. Apparently the play presents some very inaccurate
portrayals of what missionaries do and why they do it. Saturday, the
10th, all the missionaries in the greater Edmonton area are going to be
shadowed by social media savvy members all day long, 7:30 am-9:30 pm, and the
members will be posting pictures and videos of what we REALLY do as
missionaries, using #YEGMormon on their posts. Then the idea is for
everyone to share/retweet so everyone in the city on social media will get a
chance to see what Mormon missionaries are really all about. So yeah long
story short, we are going to have people following us all day on Saturday
posting something on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter every 15 minutes or so about
what we are doing with #YEGMormon. So on Saturday if you feel like following my
activities throughout the day, just search #YEGMormon on social media and
eventually you will find some posts of Elder Sites and I :) I will also put
some of the people's usernames who will be shadowing us down below if you want
to search them and look at their posts of our day. Anywho... super cool
eh?
 |
| District Selfie |
Friday
we had a fun district lunch at good ol Pizza Unlimited and got the legendary
donair pizza... Never ceases to amaze me. Most the rest of the day was
spent at a couple less active/ recent convert appointments, helping this
handicapped guy in the Ward count out and organize 8050 flyers for the stake
food drive coming up, and at our supper appointment, which turned out to be one
of the highlights of the week. There were two foreign exchange students
there who were staying there for the school year from Vietnam and Brazil, so of
course for our message we taught the restoration and watched the little video
about the First Vision. The spirit was so strong the whole time, and they
both acknowledged the good feeling they felt, and agreed to meeting again soon
to learn more! Sadly we won't be teaching them because they are in River Valley,
but I'm excited to see what happens with them, they seemed really prepared.
Saturday we were bummed to leave the River
Valley apartment and Elder Shipley, but excited to be able to get back to full
focus on our areas. We taught some potential named Brett who initially
just seemed like he was listening to us so he could tell us about his financial
education business that he wants to recruit us for haha. He seriously
expects us to email him about it when we are done with our missions.
Anyways, he actually seemed to be decently interested in actually figuring out
if our message is true by the time we left, so we will see what happens there.
The rest of the week was mostly
just weekly planning, dropping a lot of "investigators" who we have
never been able to contact or who aren't progressing at all, getting rejected
while finding, and church :)
 |
| I actually saw these right across the street form eachother. Must be someone's idea of a dirty trick to make me homesick! |
I felt the spirit so strong during Greenfield fast
and testimony meeting. At the beginning of the meeting the handicapped
guy wheeled his wheelchair up to the front of the chapel below the pulpit and
bore his testimony. He is so severely handicapped that it takes him so
much time effort to say anything at all, and it is all nearly impossible to
understand. I couldn't understand most of his testimony, but I hear him
say "God knows what we need", "I'm grateful for the life that I
have", "He hears us", and "I know the Savior is
real". At first I was kind of not looking forward to listening the
whole time, but then I was just overwhelmed with the spirit and love for this man.
I really felt the Holy Ghost testify to me that we are all children of our
Heavenly Father, and He loves us all with a more perfect love than we can
comprehend. I say that a lot to people as a missionary, and I know it's
true, but this was one of those times where I really FELT it strongly. It
was so humbling to see him with that strong of a desire to testify of Christ to
go through all that effort to do so, and to see that even though he has had to
go through a lot worse than so many people in his life, he knows that we have a
loving Heavenly Father, and that all he really needs is the Atonement.
For the whole rest of the meeting the spirit was so strong!
Well I hope you all are enjoying life and
making the most of every hour. Thank you all for the love and support, I
really appreciate it so much! Love you all!
Elder B
Weekly Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants
50:29-30: 29 And if ye are purified and cleansed from all sin, ye shall ask
whatsoever you will in the name of Jesus and it shall be done. 30 But know this, it shall be given you what
you shall ask; and as ye are appointed to the head, the spirits shall be
subject unto you.
No comments:
Post a Comment