19 September 2016

Helloooo everyone!!! thank you for joining me again on this fabulous Monday morning. I'm your host, Elder Windham, and i'm about to give you all the low down on how this week done gone down!! So we had a pretty dang successful week, let's just say that for starters. The primary reason for that is because we found FOUR NEW INVESTIGATORS!!!! what what!! Crazy because that makes up close to 1/3 of all the investigators i've ever had for my entire mission. haha! yeah...... SO, two of them we found when we received a referral from some english elders for a lady who had apparently taken lessons before, and was interested in meeting some more missionaries. She's from Venezuela and her name beith Marilyn. She has 3 years in Canada and is here with her husband and has 2 kids. she's SUPER sweet and i think she'll be pretty open and accepting :) then when we met her, by surprise, we also met a friend of hers who is here learning English. He's been here for like 3 weeks now but speaks a tiny bit of english already (i'm pretty sure). But we've only met them once and shared some of the restoration with them, so we shall see where it goes :) Then one day we decided to pass by a former that was taught last year. They had trouble meeting last year because it was right after her husband DROWNED. but when we went by, we were only expecting to talk for a bit and she let us in!! (i think i may have already told you all that..... oh well) Anyways, we went back last Thursday to trim her trees (future reference, don't have missionaries trim your trees 😅) then shared a message about how God is our loving Heavenly Father. Interesting thing to note, last year when she was being taught, her mom wouldn't sit in on the lesson, but when they asked if she had been reading the Book of Mormon, she would say "no, but my mom has read some of it." and THEN when we were about to start the lesson, we asked her mom if she wanted to join for the lesson, and she was like "yeah, of course i would." SICK!!!! it'd be crazy if this whole time the mom has just been being prepared and now she can like help the daughter start doing stuff :) Then the last one we've started teaching is an 8 year old kid who's mom isn't a member but his aunt and cousins are, and he goes with them to church and loves going to church, so he said he wants to get baptized!!! So we gone teach him all do good stuff so he can be right and ready to get dunked :) haha! So yeah, besides that, nothing much.... except on Saturday we got to go to THE TEMPLE!!!!!! So i totally forgot to tell you all (i think.... i'm very forgetful) that a couple weeks ago, one of the kids here in the branch got his mission call to the Neucan Argentina mission!!! He lives the 26 of NEXT MONTH and he's going to the MTC... somewhere down there :P but on Saturday he took out his endowments and we and the other Spanish elders all went to the temple with him and his family and all their other Mexican friends (like, they're actually Mexican, not just Spanish and i say they're Mexican haha). Then afterwards we all went to Costco for some hotdogs and poutine :) YUM!!! oh yeah, this week we also had our zone conference and it was AWESOME!!!! It is my LAST zone conference EVER!!!! i couldn't believe it when i realised it. In fact, i still slightly can't believe it, but it flippin happened, and it was definitely a great last zone conference :) we totally have the best mission president ever :P haha! Whale, that was my week in a nutshell (kinda a big nutshell but whatevs haha). I hope you've all been doing great, and i want you to know that whatever happens in this life, or whatever trial you're going through, it'll be 10x lighter and easier if you allow the Lord to step in and lend a helping hand :) you're all the best and i'll talk to you laterz!! Love, Elder Levi Windham