23 November 2015

Hi everybody!!! I hope you've all had an awesome week because i have!!! Of course, things are always getting better and (pretty much) always looking promising :) For starters, i got to see my first temple rededication!!! The Montreal, Quebec temple was rededicated yesterday so all normal church services were cancelled!! But we went to the final session at 1, and lemme tell you, i flippin LOVED IT!!!!! seriously though, the spirit was for reals so flippin strong, and it made me want SO BAD to go back to the temple!!!!! It's been way too long since i've gone :( however, we live pretty close to it here in Calgary, so i just have to wait until next transfer to go with Sanchez since he went last transfer already :P But yeah, that was a super spiritual experience and a good tear jerker and i really liked it a lot and am so thankful for the chance i had to see it :) Oh, also, as i said last week, i past my "one year left" mark this past week...... Eh, not too huge, but i'm halfway this week until i'm done O.o CRAY CRAY!!!!! see you guys in a year ;) haha! So something weird this week was some members asked us to come give a blessing to a baby.. not a huge deal, but the kid isn't part of a member family, and the parents TOTALLY have no clue we gave it a blessing... They wanted us to give it a blessing of wellness (ok) and also the blessing they do in sacrament meeting where they give the baby a name..... HUH???? Yeah, they wanted us to do a "baby blessing" to a kid who's parents 1) aren't members, and 2) had noclue we were doing anything at all.... I was like uuhhhhhh i don't think we're really supposed to do that... So we didn't :P So there are some less-active kids we are working with who play WAY too much video games, and we taught them this week and it went pretty good we believe!! The dad is really solid and bore his testimony a couple times throughout the lesson, and you could see in the eyes of the kids that they were like thinking about it this time. The oldest one is kinda the worst one of them. I looked at him a few times throughout and i could see the gears really turning and it was a pretty nice thing to see. We talked pretty much about how this life passes, and after this, we have what we did in this life and our testimonies, and how we need to really work on strengthening our testimonies and reading the scriptures, because THAT is where we find happiness and protection from the world, not in some man-made entertainment made to distract us from all things reality and important. It was a super good lesson and it was nice that we prepared for it too and were ready :) We ALSO had a lesson with another less-active guy and his (active) wife. We were going to talk about Nephi's vision and the scriptures, but when we started talking about it, we discovered he had NO idea what the vision was and like totally hasn't read the BOM through. We came to the conclusion after a bit that he was baptized as a kid, but maybe his parents divorced and he lived with his dad who wasn't super active in the church... I feel like i've met a lot of cases like that and it's almost always the guy who was weak and not founded in the gospel so he fell away after a time :/ Anyways, it was also a really good lesson and he was SUPER attentive the whole time!! When we were getting ready to go, he asked his wife like "hey when's the next time we can have them come over?" SO AWESOME!!!!!! That was also a super good lesson and made me really appreciate being out here :) Oh, so sometimes it's ACTUALLY cold now!! We went area book contacting the other day, and DANG it was nippy outside! like it was only -9 C, but we were outside walking around for about 3 hours, and after 3 hours, you really stop being able to use your fingers if you don't have good gloves... Haha!! but that was fun and fetching cold. I've been really trying to think of what we can say to people who are like "yeah, we're already Catholic but thanks anyways." Like how do you get them to see that it's good to be christian, but it's more than just believing, because this church isn't just a church where you belive in Jesus Christ, this is HIS church.. But you have to do that in like 30 seconds or less and you can't hurt their feelings and you still get them interested... Hmmmmmm any suggestions? Anywes, my spanish is getting better and better and i LOVE IT!!!! just last night, at the end of comp. prayer, Sanchez got up and was like "good spanish." tehe. YEAH BUDDY!! So yuppers, i love you guys and i hope you're all have a FANTASTIC time :) take care!! Love, Elder Levi Windham