Calgary South serving in the Willow Park Ward!!!

I am in Calgary South serving in the Willow Park Ward, and yes that is the ward that President is in! its awesome!!! I have a car with only 500 Kilometers to drive on it though, but that's ok.... it use to be 300 until I talked with President :)    (negotiating with the President, that is definitely Elder Martin)  My new Companion is still new, he's been out 3 months and his names Elder Nilsson he's from Nova Scotia and is very quiet... and very timid but no worries I'm used to having those, He will do great.  Its a pretty dead Area because we share it with the sisters and well the ward likes the Sisters more than Elders so we are going to have to instill some amazing member trust here, so it looks like I have my work cut out for me! I am still district leader and in all honesty I think president put me in here because the ward needs a charismatic missionary haha......(still needs to learn some humility it seems....). We live on our own with payment of like 5 buck for wash and dry cycle its retarded expensive, the Spanish elders live 2 floors above us we have a little work out facility but nothing amazingly awesome... it smells like a smokes heaven on our hall but in the pad its pretty nice :) I drive a Chevy Cruze as well its pretty nice... front wheel drive though :( but this area should be pretty fun! :) In my District I have the Zone Leaders and the Sister Training Leaders...... so we will see how that goes.

Elder Ciminski And I before I Transfer from Taber

Elder King and I before he heads home

Elder Nilsson And Elder Martin I think

Transfers......

Wellll.... mom and dad i'm being transferred back up to Calgary somewhere! I'm alright with that, so I will find out exactly where and who my Companion is tomorrow, be surrounded by more missionaries instead of being out here.... way in Taber! :) I will get to know some of the mission more!

So this week we have meet with Kody 3 times, taught him about Book of Mormon and importance of baptism, The restoration, and Plan of salvation! he is just soaking it up with a sponge! His baptism is set for Feb 22! i'm a little bummed i'm gone but that's alright! :) so that's what our week consisted of! :)

I also went on an exchange with Elder King (going home this transfer) we went into Lethbridge, and he was asked by President to go to the LDS employment center to learn some things like how to apply all what you learned on your mission back into life at home and how to get a job, that was interesting...... haha but still cool :) then we went to Fat Burger, and I got the XXL burger! 1lbs of beef! and then all the condiments :) SOOOO good!!! Nice treat... 

We went to Barnwell and also talked with The Olsons... they are an awesome family, Brendan was a convert he's only 15 but is awesome, i've actually gotten to grow a relationship with that family over the past 6 months, defiantly a family I will be visiting and staying in touch with throughout my life :) other than that things are GREAT! a little chilly today -18 so our language like -1 haha but it warmed up significantly from last week :) Im sad Elder king is leaving, but he is off to home to start life! he will also be kept in touch with! :) Elder Ciminski is praying he gets another cool companion, he said who can hopefully handle putting him on the plane haha....  But I'm doing fantastic! sounds like all is well there as well! :) tell Calvin Gratz, and Traci hiiii! :) and Derek and Davis whats uppppp!!!! and that we can have matching cool scars :) 

Elder Ciminski And I

Same as above

Elder King and I in Lethbridge at Fat Burger before he heads home this Transfer

Its all good.....

District shoveling extravaganza in Taber

wow  and that's awesome that they are already talking about a mission... and at 18! (Derek & Davis) umm we just finished studying in PMG last month about Christ like attributes, I prefer Hope, Charity and love, and Knowledge :)

No idea when were getting IPads because of Canadas privacy rules... so I have no idea on the rules yet.

soooo this week we picked up another new investigator, he just walked up to us after church and said I want to learn what it will take to get baptized! :) his name is Cody ______ who is 11, and his mom is  getting active in the church again.... so that was awesome! :) were teaching him on Thursday night :) then we got a call from a member in 1st ward in Taber saying he has 2 people who are interested in learning the gospel.... so whats what we are going to do tonight! is going out to meet them! :) ( Elder Martin said the work is really starting to pick up but he feels like with transfers next week he might be leaving Taber)

We also went on a district shoveling extravaganza in Taber! :) just hit a ton of streets lol then went to Tim Hortons (pretty much the star bucks up here) mmm white hot chocolate haha or normal with a shot of creamy caramel! :) ummm I don't know what else happened haha if I think of it i shall let ya know! :) I have really enjoyed this last transfer.... 

Elder Martins Colors

this is the District with the a Zone leader on a 3 leg and an exchange.... the one on Ciminski is Elder Call... im on Elder Heath and then the other one is Elder Harris. 

Our Taber District....I'm the one probably leaving this Transfer

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Cool Owl

My week we went on exchanges and had interviews with President! first off exchanges were AWESOME.. Elder King and I are going to have an AWESOME time when I get home from the mission... he lives in New River AZ sooo Phoenix area about 5 hours from our house... we contacted a referral and taught the first lesson right there on the door step! set up a return appointment and everything! her names Melissa Carol.. well we went to the follow up and she "wasn't there" soo we will keep on trying to get back in, but it seemed like she was very interested! but that exchange was one of the first times I felt almost 100% comfortable talking to a random person on the door step! being able to trust in my companion who can pick up where I leave off and where I can follow up after what he says! it was sooo sweet! Also had some discussions with some less active members that seemed to go well.... then interviews went well as always and then President asked if i had any questions for him and I was like yea.. just one "what color are you going to paint that 52 Chev" and he's like well Elder Martin what color would you paint it... so I told him "President I will be totally honest i'm a fan of Black and Red, but your wife tells me you would like yellow, and I have seen some really gorgeous Metallic yellow 52 Chev's" and he replied what do you think about Camaro yellow? I told him that it would be a perfect color then back it up with some Glossy black rims! That was possibly the most awesome interview with president ever! haha

Last night we went to the Harris' and played with the Chinchilla! those things are awesome! possibly the only rodent i would have haha.. soft cute and not noisy! other than that this week was just fabulous! love you lots! :)
also found this awesome owl!

Jan 21 2014 email

Well this was a fun week.... I have worn a short sleeve shirt for the past week! feels so nice, no idea when the next storm is coming in, but there's suppose to be one people say. We were able to meet with Bruce and commit him to continue reading the book of Mormon and to pray about it.... and pray in daily life! he seemed really interested and sincere so i hope things go well! We went out to Vauxhall again this week and contacted with a Part member family didn't get to meet him but his wife told us a little about him, names Duane Mills and is a HUGE gear head.... like James only worse.. he has like 18 car projects just sitting there so we will be getting back out there to talk with him! then we headed out to scandia to talk with a cool family that likes us... they are members and his niece was there... well turns out she's a Jehovah Witness and shes on her "mission" its 3 years... and it made me laugh when she said they have very little time to do what they want so they squeeze in family visits when they can, then she said "but that's ok were going down to Mexico next week" makes a whole lot of sense to me... oh well haha. they left, and we ended up staying and having dinner out there that was nice! Later on in the week we went to stop by our polish investigator, and he answers the door in his underwear haha.... I couldn't tell if he was drunk or really really tired, so we told him we would come by later... was an interesting week haha. Vauxhall is a fun place to drive around... the district is settling in well... possibly one of the most fun districts i've served around, the greenie is pretty funny (Elder Pitts) and his companion elder king is SWEET! I swear its like he and I were like best of friends somewhere else but never crossed paths it was just bound to happen he got transferred here, he lives in... Arizona only 5 hours away in a small town called New River. Elder Ciminski is fun and hilarious as always! and we are doing great together.


Elder Martin

Retlaw

 Weather up here wasn't to bad.. short sleeves it was nice to feel sun hah,

 even though it snowed all day yesterday it was only -1C. Southern Alberta

 has the worst Weather Predictions oh well.

 Well this week we were able to Get with Tom to just go over the

 Introduction to the Book of Mormon and he did say he was going to read it

 so we will be meeting with him again soon. Bishop thinks its going to be a

                        long process because of the situations he's going through.... so that's that...                       his  kids have shown interest in learning as well we are getting them a few

 more Polish copies so its pretty exciting. We also have had a good amount

 of Less active work this week and Setting up Youth lessons that the bishop

 has asked us to do. We are working on a Strengthen the Youth type program

 at church because they are having a hard time with like scouts and such so

 that should be fun! And then service as usual.. .taking down Lights

 shoveling snow.... typical Canadian stuff haha  we helped Julie and

 Sterling upstairs remove their counter tops and sink... they are a big

 D.I.Y family :)

Ghost Town of Retlaw we came through on our way back from Vauxhall

Elder King Elder Ciminski and Elder Pitts

Elder Ciminski and I

New Companion in Taber....

So don't have any pictures with the companion,(lol Zach didn't tell us his name) but he is from Arizona a little town called Eager, he's the 2nd oldest of 3 boys so that's pretty cool :) Then Elder King and Pitts (green!) are in Barnwell and Sister Martin, and Mortensen is in 1st and 3rd ward.... yes the Same Mortensen who was in Airdrie and apparently I have a long lost sister! haha we were able to meet with the a Family who wants to make it to the temple so we will be helping them with that... it is such an awesome household!

Then were trying to get a lot of member lessons going and then Bishop called us and said that his polish friend Tom was ready for a Book of Mormon! so we went over and gave it to him, and he said he would read it in 1 or 2 days and then we can talk with him or teach him in this case!.... and were just like 2 days? the whole thing? and he's like yea! ......so were shocked with that, but he says its because he wants to change! so that's great! Im excited...... other than that it got cold again only -30 just a light jacket was needed hah :)    But its going to be an awesome transfer I'm excited!.... have a great week! love ya!

Last Picture with Elder Campbell and Elder Martin

Suds in toilet after kids upstairs poured big bottle off bubbles in the plumbing upstairs