Bonjour Yall! How is everyone doing?? This week has been an adventure up here in Canada. We have still been doing a lot of shoveling of snow and helping people move and I got my new comp! His name is Elder Moellmer. He is from the town of Tomball in Texas. This is his second transfer in the field so I am half training him! Anyway, here is a quick run down of what happened this week.
Last Wednesday we had some studies and then helped our bishop get ready to move by taking down a big tent for his car. Everyone has them here because no one really has a garage so they have tents that cover their cars in the winter. The only problem was that it was covered in snow and completely frozen to the ground so we had to get a sledge hammer and break up the Ice. That night we had a activity at the church with all the youth and some of their friends. We played some games and talked a little about the temple and going on missions. It was super cool.
Thursday was transfers so we got up and Elder Furness and Halliday finished packing up their stuff and we headed off to the mission office. Once we figured out who everyone was going with we moved suitcases around and I got Elder Moellmer and we headed back up to our place. We dropped his stuff off and went back over to bishops house because the movers were there so we helped load the truck and move everything to the new house. We did that a couple of times and then had dinner with the Candia family and helped them learn more french.
Friday we started off with district counsel in Granby. It was about an hour drive away and when we got there we found out that their meeting house is just part of this strip mall thing. They just bought part of this building and re did everything on the inside and made it into a church building. It was super cool. After that we headed back and passed by some of our amis and helped an older ward member shovel some snow off her balcony. We also had a lesson with our amazing family from Zimbabwe. We taught them about the plan of salvation and they loved all of it and kept saying how it all makes sense. It was really cool.
Saturday we had some really good studies in the morning and then went by a couple peoples houses and knocked a few doors. Not a lot of success but we did plant some seed with the people who let us in and out of the cold. Not everyone is interested but there are some really nice people who let us come into their house and let us warm up and grab a drink before continuing on with our work. That night we had volleyball and Elder Moellmer got to meet everyone and we had a lot of fun. Out of the 21 people there, about 8 of them were not members. It was amazing. Each week we are having more and more people come. Member and nonmembers.
Sunday we had church and it was fast and testimony meeting. Its one of my favorites because of the spirit you can feel as people are bearing their testimony's. I had to translate almost all of it for Elder Moellmer but it wasn't too bad. We spent most of the day after church walking around and knocking. Planting more seeds! We also did some finding through Facebook because Elder has never tried it before and he actually found someone who was somewhat interested and was asking us questions. It was really cool to see that. As missionaries, we have soo many tools for finding and teaching people and technology is one of them. I still think that one of the best tools that we have though is all of you. Members have so many friends and know so many more people who live in your town than the missionaries do and you also might know who is more ready for the gospel than others. Don't be afraid to help the missionaries who might be serving in your ward or stake to find new people. You might be surprised with what comes out of it.
Yesterday was a day full of service. We started with a member who needed help finishing her kitchen. We redid the ceramic backsplash on the walls of her kitchen. It was actually really fun because we were able to talk to her the whole time and learn about the things she is doing in her life to introduce the gospel to her friends and family who are not members. We finished up the walls and it looked really good once it was done. After that she ordered us a pizza and we ate some food before going to the next place. We then went to bishops again to move some furniture around in the new house and help put storage stuff away and some heavy outdoors stuff in their garage. It wasn't too bad but that whole night we had freezing rain and there was a 5mm layer of ice over everything. We had to spend some time breaking it off our car and everything that was left outside. It was crazy. We then went out to dinner with them at this nice restaurant and I got a really big poutine! It was super good. We then passed by a few people and then headed home for the day.
That's about it for this week. Keep being awesome and going to the temple before it closes down if you are in the St. George area. Also don't forget to keep reading the scriptures everyday and find ways to serve others!
I love yall so much.
Elder Beckstrand
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