November 17th 2014 Service all day

Well today for p-day we helped someone move..... all day that is why I am not just getting on.... it was pretty good.... we had 18 missionaries there i'm exhausted, so i think i forgot to mention but Elder Campbell is in my zone!!! :) and he is a district leader! it has been so good to see him again and serve around him! :) i love that kid, he is doing awesome! So this week, we went on exchanges and I was down in high river for the day with Elder Edwards, his birthday is the 19th haha crazy... Great Elder, thoroughly enjoy serving around him, I was his zone leader in Airdrie when I was there last too, he goes home this transfer, this is the 7 week transfer so it ends on Dec 4th,  tell grandma she is awesome for sending the money! I love her mucho! how is she doing by the way? and poppy? ummm after the exchange we heard word that one of the Elders we live with is going home so that was sad... he did go home honorably though... so that left us with 1 missionary and he was transferred to brooks so our apartment is empty now.... which led to Elder Baker and I super deep cleaning it and it looks SOOOO nice now! im excited :)  While on exchanges we got to teach a lady named Pam, and it was probably the sweetest lesson ever, I was able to share many experiences that could relate to what she had to say and question and we asked her to pray about Joseph smith being a prophet and what we have to testify of is true, and she started praying in the middle of a lesson, kinda funny but super awesome at the same time! :) her husband just needs to stop being a drunk and support her! then we would be solid! Saturday we had a stake conference priesthood session and that was just super fun... being questioned and having to reply about missionary work because we are the zone leaders ha ha.... all good though, its getting the stake excited for missionary work! then Sundays session of stake conference was amazing! the choir was amazing and the speakers were just phenomenal, i don't remember me as a youth or our youth back home being able to give such great talks but man up here they slayed it! all in all great week.... sure not a WHOLE lot of teaching but it seems like every day is just a spiritual high! :) its nice!!! hope you have an amazing week! your the best love you! :) and sorry no new updates on pictures

November 10th 2014

Not quite sure what to email about this week.... I would say winter is officially back... its 5 with windchill -13..... We Found a new less active who is reaching out, his names Chad and he is awesome! he is way into sports and what not, he also has a sick lumberjack beard ha ha thought I should throw that in there, other than that we had MLC this Friday talked about how to Hold the mission accountable and Discussed the topic for teaching this month which is Doctrines of Christ and how we can more fully apply the atonement to become Truly Converted Missionaries... aside from all that that's pretty much my week... we had a cool Remembrance day themed sacrament meeting at church that was nice, and then we have been planning for Zone Training Meeting for tomorrow! should be Exciting! Hope your weeks went well! Love  ya! 

November 3 2014

Well then another week in the life of a missionary!

So i don't know how exciting this weeks email will be so lets see what happened... well Monday we went to Sheep River Falls again and had a weeny roast, that was fun haha, cooked them on good ole fashioned sticks :) Then Tuesday we had to go to in the evening to Walk through an apartment that missionaries would be moving into then we had some delicious breakfast for dinner! :) on Wednesday we had institute, and had to clean the car because it was zone conference on Thursday, so we had one conference and that was pretty sweet, it was based off the Elder Robbins Talk "which way do you face" then we had to go change the sisters tire after Zone Conference. For dinner we went out to Buffalo Wild Wings for boneless wing Thursday haha, doesnt make sense to me but oh well and then we were told to go down to Okotoks to help Sheep River (the elders who are moving) to clean their apartment better, so we had to go down and babysit more or less and clean the apartment to perfection, that went on till the early morning haha Got some sleep only to start cleaning again on Friday before we had to travel the zone to pick up Gas Receipts and car log information to turn into the mission office that day. That took most of the day, then we had a lesson with Courtney who we picked up a few weeks ago, she seems to love missionaries and is super interested in what it is we do! so we met with her at Tim Hortons. Then we had to be inside by 6 unless we had a dinner so we went to the dinner at the Babcocks, they are awesome! He was born in Murrieta! pretty crazy, so they are an American family. On Saturday we correlated with our WML and went to Brothers for lunch, mmmm so good :) Then had a lesson with Qing who is our recent convert. After we went to dinner at a members house, and after that we had a second dinner! A returning less active in the woodbine ward saw us when we were teaching Courtney and told us Saturday he is feeding us no matter what ha ha, so he took us and the woodbine elders out to Joeys! They actually had some very good fish tacos! it was nice to have those ha ha. Sunday was Break the fast and that was delicious of course! :) had some AMAZING roast beef actually ha ha then we had a fireside with elder Hallstrom. that pretty much sums up my week! :) 

October 27th 2014

Well last week was pretty busy i suppose Monday was P-Day then For FHE we did Glow in the dark human fooseball that was sweet! Tuesday we had district meeting and then Wednesday exchanges with Elder Manning... we helped the senior couple in the mission office move (Elder and Sister Bryant) they go home on Friday.. they will be missed :( with that we made a trip to the dump! :) haha then Thursday we had to go to the mission office to pick up planners then run them around the zone so people could weekly plan. we stopped in Okotoks for some taco bell... I got out of the truck and heard a TSSSSSSS...... we had a nice big hole in our tire... sooo iI changed it and possibly ruined a white shirt... no big deal! Still got taco bell and as I ordered a member walked in and payed for us! BLESSINGS!!!  then went to High River to drop the rest of the planners off....   we came up to Okotoks again to do some mission business with the Elders there... fun,  after that ate dinner with our bishop... he gave us half a Costco roasted chicken EACH.. it was pretty sweet! then we had an AWESOME lesson with brody.. it was just amazing.... then Friday we got mail for the Zone and helped build a nice swing set play thing and had an amazing dinner at Earls with one of Elder Bakers old friends from his other zone and had a deep lesson with Quing ...pronounced (Ching) and Saturday was more service! helping the Bryants move some more and then we got the windshield on the truck replaced.. gotta love Alberta roads!!!! had some Lunch in Calgary with our Elders Quorum President at the big cheese and talked about the work.... that was sweet. Then church on Sunday.. was ward conference and today... going back down to sheep river falls! :) Sorry i'm sure I missed some things, but I'm doing great.

October 20th 2014

Well this week wasn't super exciting with it being transfers and everything, Monday was alright we had thanksgiving all day.... so much food!.... emails and pday on Tuesday, then Wednesday we moved the high-river sisters to their new apartment that took alllllll day! oh well ha ha. then Bjarnson had to pack and what not because Thursday was Transfers and hes gone! :( super sad to see him leave.... I now have Elder Baker... hes pretty dope.... he is from Murray Utah... :P  He has a fellow Missionary Girl back home as well they will be together 5 years as of next month.... crazy! Her name is Megan Walker then Friday we had mail and more moving furniture and stuff for the sisters and the Senior Missionary's in the office we will be helping the senior couple more on Wednesday... then Saturday we had a get to know you for all the new people in the Zone, that was fun then some Planning for the next week and dinner with Kevin so much fun... and Sunday was church and a fireside! :P that was our week haha not super exciting but im still alive! :)

October 14 email

Well this week was pretty good. Been busy with organizing the zone and getting ready for transfers... Elder Bjarnson is leaving me :( we have been down to high river several times to get things in order for the High River Sisters to move back there so we have been helping them move and found a new apartment for them to live in, we will be moving them in tomorrow thats going to be exciting at least i get to drive a Silverado :)

So on Pday last week we went to Sheep River Falls and it was gorgeous! :) got to get back into the grand outdoors! then the remainder of the week was trying to set up lessons with people to teach and finding people to teach, The spanish Elders had a baptism this week that we attended so that was cool :) When we went to Downtown Calgary on Wednesday I was with Elder Clark and we saw a little boy literally right after he got hit by a car, the kid couldn't have been older than 3, He only broke his leg, but in 2 places and it looked pretty gnarly, reminded me of mine.... there was luckily a lady who was there who was an emergency room nurse, so we felt helpless and didn't know what do do anymore so we left but then stopped and offered the little tyke a prayer and literally after the prayer was over we heard the Sirens of the Ambulance! :) and in all honesty Calgary Emergency isn't the quickest ive been told ha-ha, Then we met a Native man... who met the stereotype of drunk and homeless but we talked with him anyways, he was on a park bench and Elder Clark asked him first if he had a belief in god and he said he did, then i asked him "where did you come to gain this knowledge for yourself" The Gentlemen Launy was his name replied that his grandma took him to church ever week, then he just broke down into tears! we knelt down with him so we were on his level, it was quiet for about a minute and then we bore witness of the Plan Of Salvation told him we and Christ loved him, gave him a copy of the BoM, a picture of Jesus, and our information, it was way awesome! :) So that was Wednesday, the remainder up until Friday was normal then Friday we Knocked on this Referrals door that our stake president gave to us, She answered! her name was Emily we asked if she.... and then Emily herself cut us off and was like hey lets go to your church right now (it was down the street) so we went to the Church and taught her the first lesson and about temples and families together forever! :) it was awesome.... then Sunday rolls along and i gave my talk :) I was able to pick my favorite talk from Conference which was "lord is it I" by Uchtdorf :) Delivered it well i was told... a lot of compliments so i was happy! :) then had 3 thanksgiving dinners over the last 2 days ha ha :) and that was my week! 

Love them socks

Sheep River Falls

Better late than never 10-6-2014

This week was actually a little slower believe it or now! So after P-day we has some delicious Mucho Burrito and Elder Bjarnson ate the Ghost Pepper Sauce burrito and just about killed himself it was great to watch ha ha. Tuesday we had Normal District Meetings and A lesson with Brody, Hes pretty much awesome and super strong in coming back to church, that night we went on exchanges and i woke up with a swollen eye... weird right? 1 problem after the next... it was called Iritis, inflammation of the iris so i was wearing glasses for a week, doctors don't know what really causes it, it just happens. i'm all better now! :) soo Wednesday I was pretty much down for the count because the inflammation causes your eye to hurt if you look or see any light so we didn't do much, I pretty much slept the day away until dinner because it was dark enough I could go out with Brody who took us to this amazing Stir fry restaurant. then Thursday went down to the Doctors to get the whole eye thing diagnosed and then had some good dinner with a cool member in High River...  then Friday we had the Mission Leadership Council meeting all day (MLC) that was nothing but a ball of joy.... we have to train the mission on how to Teach People not Lessons now :) then Conference was just awesome....I still have a hard time taking notes and paying attention, so i tried my best but i don't think i got everything out of it that i could have, so i will be downloading all the talks onto my USB and listening to them again!

Happy Birthday Dad! But sorry to hear about the Bad news :( They are in a happier place now and arent in pain anymore :) how was teaching the freshman? I always thought it would be cool to be a seminary teacher when i got home to be honest.... it would have to be junior or senior though haha maybe sophomores.... Mom sounds like you had some fun with aunt Chris! and its going to be another awesome Halloween! but hey the last fun one without me! next year i will be there :) 

Today im headed down to Sheep River Falls for P-Day so that should be fun, might get off emails a bit early so we can have a whole day down there but that's my week for the most part!

Put your shoulder to the will

Dinner with Brody

Brody's