Monday: nothing special happened. On Tuesday we had a great district meeting, and then we walked around to downtown and talked to everyone we could, then had a lesson with some less-active natives, and had a sports night. We invited everyone we could, and had a huge turn out. we had a ton of investigators come, and some less-actives too! and some members to friendship them. A big change from the sports nights we've had in the past where it was just 1 person showing up. During the sports night a drunk native walked in the church and started talking to us. His name was White dear and he lives in the north. He kept doing these weird prayer hand-signs, and talking in circles. Then he asked us to talk to the "father" and we told him to come back on Sunday, it took him forever to leave, but we finally got him out because he was so drunk.
Wednesday was fun. It was a very windy day. The windiest it got was about 120 Km/hr! pretty crazy. That was mainly because we had a "heat wave" blow in and it got up to +4*c which is about 36*f. big change from the -40 we've been having. IT was nice to only have to wear a jacket. During the day we did some service at a food bank, then drove out of town to a member's house and ate lunch. They had a beautiful view of the Northern Saskatchewan river, and we talked about how the sun doesn't go down till 10 in the summer. Pretty weird. After that we stopped by some people, and nothing Exciting happened.
Thursday we did some service at a mental recovery place. It was pretty fun, we got to build some shelves. And that night we had dinner at the Hunsaker's. They're a great family that used to live in Prince George, BC. He works for the RCMP as an aircraft mechanic. He's a pretty great guy. They made us enchiladas because she asked us what we haven't had in a while that we had back home, and they were great! I miss Mexican food, it's just so bland up here. It was a pretty fun night.
Friday was a little boring as usual. We always plan out our week, then we walked to a couple places, and had dinner at an other member's house. They're older, but still pretty fun. We also got our transfer calls, and I'm staying up here in P.A. along with Elder Hindes, so nothing exciting there. No one really got moved around in our mission. After everything settled down, we went and taught Eric. We taught him the Plan of salvation, and it was solid. He asked some high caliber questions, and he's going to be ready for baptism. The only thing that concerns us is that we found out from Ben Reconmacher, a less-active member that knows him, is that he might be gay. So we're keeping the eye on that, but he seems like he's ready to make changes and he's changed.
Saturday we did service at Habitat for humanity, and went out to teach our investigators out in Muskoday named the Bear's. they're kids, one's 12 and one's 9. We had a good lesson with them, and it was fun. After that we drove a little further out of town to go visit some people in a little town called Birch Hills, but no one was home, so we went and prepped for Eve's Baptism. It was a great service, I spoke at it, and a lot of people turned out to it. The spirit there was so strong. She bore her testimony at the end, and it was so powerful. I'm so happy for her, too bad I didn't teach her, haha.
Sunday was great, I had to give an other talk, but in Sacrament meeting. I was the last speaker so had to fill up the remaining time, but I thought it went great, I got a lot of compliments for it, and I made the ward laugh, and I think that's how you get the members to like you. It was great because Eric was there! After Church, we had a ward pot luck and it was really fun, we also had a crazy walk into the chuch, and I had to talk to him, it was fun! For dinner we drove way out of town to a member's house and it started to snow bad, and it was pretty sketchy getting back because it was a dirt road most of the way, and it was pitch black, with 6 missionaries in the truck, but we lived.
So that's my fun week. The sisters up here got 11 new investigators this week which is unheard of! but I know that the Lord has just prepared this area. I'm excited for this upcoming transfer because we can just buckle down and start baptizing people.
Love you all, and thank you for your prayers and support,
Elder Jake Sorenson
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