22 August 2016

WELCOME to the weekly update on the life of Elder Levi Windham of the Canada Calgary Mission!!!! this has been an eventful, but not so eventful, past week. Weird how that works out sometimes.. like it feels like stuff happened, but not much did. the week just flew right by me and i haven't a clue how it slipped away so fast... Must be my brain starting to slow down because of how flippin old i am in the mission.. haha!! just kidding, but did you guys know that on Thursday, i will have only 3 stinkin months left on the mission? How weird is that??? Like i literally used to only be OUT for 3 months, and now i have that much left.. Why is time going so quick?? but don't worry, i don't think about it too much, which is why i think it's going so fast haha. so yes!! this week honestly not a TON happened besides Gloria came to church yesterday... WHOOP WHOOP!!!! we literally only have to teach 2 more lessons and we will have taught all the doctrines that need to be taught before baptism, and i know she'll be fine in the baptismal interview :) we were talking about it this morning because we're gonna go over the baptismal questions tonight in our lesson, and we both felt she would be fine answering all of them :) even our branch president came to the lesson last week and he said he felt like she was ready for baptism :) so i will re-update you on the situation next week when it has either happened or not happened.. haha! As the Lord desires :) So yeah, this week we mostly tried to go by less-actives so we could update their info (address, number, etc.). It took a couple days to finish our weekly planning because we were working on the baptismal program which took FO EVA to make!!! but eese all good. It looks flippin sick :) oh, a big thing that did happen (besides our lessons with Gloria and her being amazing) was on Saturday, the branch had a branch picnic!! that was WAY fun!!! we played some football (the american kind haha), some soccer (other football),did some jump rope stuff, played a couple games, and THEN, for the final activity before we left, they did this thing where they took a rope and would hold it at varying heights and see who could jump the highest. I don't know if you all know, but i gots some hops... Like once i'm warmed up, i'm straight up able to dunk a basketball :) anyways, so me, one of the youth, and this other kid who's likea year or so younger than me and a recent convert were the last ones going. Eventually it was just me, and i flippin CLEARED that thing!!! The girl who was holding it is like 5'5" or something like that, and she had it up to her chin... i made it. then she put it to her nose.... i made it!! and THEN she put it up over her head so it was as tall as her!! i tried..... failed. BUT, i was determined to make it, so i tried again and i flippin MADE IT!!!! So i am able to jump and clear a height of almost five and a half feet!!! super crazy and it was SO FUN!!! the youth who stayed in the longest was like bro, you got hops man! haha that was a fun day :) also got SUPER sun burned!!! xD so yup, that was at least the gist of my week :) i hope everyone is doing great (or better), and you all keep focusing on your scripture studies. I know that's what has helped me a TON this last month or so, so if you're not doing it, DO IT!!! ;) talk to you all next week!! Love, Elder Levi Windham