Monday night was funny. We went to the Mall to find one of Elder Hindes' old investigators that moved up here from Saskatoon, but little did we know that the mall closes at 6. But we walked through anyways. We ran into this drunk native (a quite common occurrence up here,) and he asked us if we could give his friends a ride. We couldn't so we told him we walked there, and we had no money. He then looked at me, said I was a good guy, and that I was going to heaven. I thanked him and asked him how he knew. He said I had a huge halo above my head that was very bright. haha it made me laugh, but then he turned to Elder Hindes and said that his Halo was broken. It was hilarious.
Tuesday we went street contacting downtown and ran into this guy named Paul. He told us that he'd been looking for direction in his life because he just got out of jail. He told us he was very interested and wanted to meet with us, and there's not a doubt in my mind that he was on that street, at that time, for a reason.
On Wednesday we taught our investigator Eric. He has a baptismal date for the 15th. That's coming up so fast! we had heard rumors that he might be gay, and we were teaching him the Law Of Chastity, so we were pretty nervous. But it went great, and he didn't have any problems. He's a solid guy, and there's no doubt that he'll be baptized next week. I'm so excited for him.
Thursday was cold.The forecast was for a -35*c windchill. But it felt so much colder than that. So much that the natives here were saying that it was freezing, which doesn't happen often, even when it's -50* outside. So we couldn't find many people out on the street, because they were all inside. But after a long day, we were trying to set up a member present lesson with a Filipino member named Edison. He has a couple filipino co-workers that are non-member, and we know because they live accross the hall from us. Edison said something about one of them named Joven, he lives down the hall from us, and we got the prompting to go knock on his door and give him something like candy. We do service at a food bank every Wednesday and they get candy, but can't hand it out, so they give it to us. We got a huge box of crispy crunches and so we decided to give him some. We knocked on his door, and he let us right in. We taught him the restoration, and gave him a BOM, and promised him one in Tagalog. He seems excited about it.
Friday we had all of our appointments fall through so we went tracting for a bit. In -30*c. No fun, Especially because we don't tract hardly at all. But it was good.
Saturday rolled around, and I was so happy that January was over! It was the longest month of my life! But we went and did service at Habitat for Humanity, and then drove out to Muskoday reserve and taught our investigators out there, the Bears. It was pretty fun, then we came back into town and taught our other investigators, the Birds. They have 7 little girls all under 12. It was a mad house! They're all native, and with native children, you can't have anything on you, because they'll steal it. They stole my scriptures about 5 times. haha but we went and colored plan of salvation charts with them, and they quieted right down, and the mom said that we should come over more often. It was great!
Sunday: We sadly didn't have anyone show up to church this week from our teaching pool. It was sad! But it wasn't our fault. But after church we taught an other native family, Michelle and Billy. We had indian tacos with them. It was so good. The rest of the day was slow, and I started to get a headache, but then I felt like we needed to stop by Tom. Tom is another one of Edison's friends. We stopped by, and he let us right in, he sat us down, and started to bash on us for worshiping on Sunday. He's baptist and worships on Saturday. We somehow turned the conversation around, and taught him the restoration. I don't know how, other than by the power of the spirit, but we took his bashing, and testified of the restoration, and he had nothing more to say about it. The spirit was so strong, and we knew he could feel it. He just lit up and was so thankful, especially when we gave him a Tagalog book of mormon. We invited him to pray at the end, and it was the most beautiful investigator prayer I had ever heard, he thanked Heavenly Father for us coming over and showing the new light unto him. I was so happy.
Well, this week was great, and sorry for the long email, I just have so much to tell you guys. I love it up here, and I'm 5 months out tomorrow! But that's nothing. haha, I love this work, and that spirit that was there last night with Tom, and is there everytime I teach and the spirit testifies, and I can feel it, and the investigator can feel it, I wouldn't trade that for the world.
I love you guys, and thank you for your prayers and support,
Elder Jake H. Sorenson
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