Monday: Nothing special happened. Tuesday was a good day. We mainly stopped by a bunch of people and set up appointments, but we were just about to head home for dinner and a guy who we now know as Jose pulls up in his car and we said hi and started talking to him because he's seen missionaries before. The thing was he works for our apartment leasing building and he knew exactly who we were, especially because we just got our lease renewed. He offered to drive us home because he also works for the taxi cab in the city. So we accepted, he let us into his house while he warmed up his car and he drove us home as we talked about the gospel with him. It was definitely a blessing and we knew it. So we're going to stop by him sometime this next week. After dinner we had sports night as we do every Tuesday and we had a huge turn out! Binnie actually came even though we haven't been teaching him, and a lot of less-actives. It was just amazing.
Wednesday we did service for the Food bank here in town and they gave us tons of free candy as always! It was the best! our apartment is full of it, and we're going to get diabetes one of these days. After the food bank we had one of the other elders drive out of town because he was being transferred and we here hosting an other elder till saturday when the new one came up from Regina. A few weeks ago we got a referral from a less-active member on a reserve to teach her daughter and her common-law husband. We got in touch with them, but their always busy. So we dropped by on Wednesday and Billy, her husband happened to be home, so we taught him, and he was interested to hear more, and he wanted his family to hear it, so we set up something for Friday.
Thursday was fun. Loyd dropped us and doesn't really want to meet anymore. He said he just doesn't want to join and waist our time. But we told him to read the Book of mormon and Pray about it, which he has been doing, and then we watched finding faith in Christ and he loved it! Then he gave us some cinnamon rolls that his wife made. It was great. Hopefully in time, he'll have his heart softened. After him, we walked to downtown P.A. to stop by some people, and a lady stops us in her car and waves us over, she said that she had met with missionaries before, and she loved it! so she wanted to meet with us again. She gave us her number and address, so we called her up and set up an appointment. Hopefully it'll go somewhere, because if that wasn't a miracle, I don't know what is. Wednesday and Thursday night we taught Eric. both lessons were great! We read the BOM with him once, and also taught about the atonement and repentance, and I just love teaching the guy. He's so prepared. I just hope that now when he start teaching the Law of chastity and stuff, things won't come up, and he'll be baptised on Feb 15.
Friday was kinda pooched. We had a good study with our Zone leaders over SKYPE, and all of our appointments that day fell through. It was not fun at all. But we stopped by a less-active that we love to talk to, and she told us how much she loves us coming over, and her non-member husband even told us. But I just wish we could actually teach them. They just like shooting the breeze, and they'll come to church in their own time. We just have to keep inviting.
Saturday was a busy day. We did service at Habitat for humanity, which was fun, then we drove out to a reserve and taught our investigators that are kids. Malcom and Kassie. he's 10, and she's 12. It was a fun lesson. After that we drove back into town and finally got in touch with a potential who we've had for a while named Helan. She's an older lady, so we shoveled her walks and she let us in. She knows the mormons really well because when she visits her LDS daughter in Arizona she goes to church with her. So her daughter sent us the media referral. She's golden. After her, we picked up the missionaries in our district, threw them in the truck and we all drove 45 min out of town to a dinner appointment and it was snowing all day, so it was fun in our truck. On the way back the wind picked up and it was complete white-out conditions and that was pretty scary, but it buffs out.
Sunday was great, we had Eric come to church, and the sisters and other elders had a lot of people come too, even though we woke up and it was -40 out side. Which is not fun to shovel in without a binnie on by the way. But church was good. After that we went to Micelle and Billy's. They're that referral we got, and her less-active mom came into town from the reserve, and made us all lunch! we had Bannock burgers. Bannock's this type of fried bread that native's make and it's amazing. But the lesson was good, and we hope they go places.
So that's my lengthy email as always. I'm just loving it here. I'm really happy to have the area, and the companion I do. Some sad news is, my last companion, Elder Martin went home because he tore some Cartilage in his knee. I felt bad for the man. He only had 5 months left, so we'll see if he comes back out. In other news, it's getting back down to -40 and it's cold! I'm not frozen to death, but close. My glasses completely froze over yesterday and had a layer of ice on them while we were walking. It was funny. Well guys, the church is true, I know it because if it wasn't, missionaries would have messed it up long ago.
Love you guys, and thank you for your prayers and support,
Elder Jake Sorenson
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