Bonjour y'all! How is everyone doing? I hope that you all had a wonderful week and watched and enjoyed Conference! It was soo good! This week here was pretty good and we saw some pretty cool miracles!
Last p-day we had a little time to do some finding and we knocked into this awesome man that was wearing an Ironman shirt. We had a really good conversation about Ironman and he showed us some of his gear and this awesome tattoo he has. It's the Mdot on his forearm. Super cool. We also then met some cool people that were not interested but told us which houses to knock next because they would be more open. It was actually a cool little miracle.
Wednesday we helped bishop take his bathtub out of their house because it was super old and super heavy. After that we ran over to district council in Granby. It was really good. We then had a cool lesson with Fordi. He is slowly progressing and getting better. We are sending him videos everyday and trying our best to help him read and feel the Spirit of God. That night we had a nice lesson with our buddy Patrick. He pulled his name out of the church a couple years back but now wants to come back. We are helping him read and teaching him the lessons now too. It was really good. After that we came back and Moellmer made us this really nice chicken dinner. It was good.
Thursday not much happened but that day I had been talking to this guy over Facebook and he seemed really interested. After he got off of work, he found out that his grandmother had had a stroke and was in the hospital. He called us and asked if we could pray for him and his grandma. We taught him how to pray right then and there and had him pray for his grandma. It was super cool and I'm super grateful for the opportunity we have to use technology as missionaries. We then found out he lives just outside our area so we had to pass him off to some other elders to continue to teach and help him.
Friday was great. We started the day off with studies and then had lunch with the Chacon family. They speak perfect Spanish and french but want to improve their English so we help them practice during lunch. After that we did some finding until volleyball. We had to play Friday night because of conference on Saturday. We had a lot smaller of a group but we still had all of our non member friends join us. We were just missing members. We had a lot of people there that liked soccer so we played volley with just our heads and feet for the fist half of the time. It was super cool. I also sat out for a little bit to talk with one of the non members about the mission and the church. It was a super good conversation. We then played normal volley for the rest of the time and had a ton of fun.
Saturday morning we had breakfast at my favorite Dumas family's house. We had a huge breakfast and they cut my hair and then we watched conference together. It was super cool and really nice to be in a family setting for conference again. After conference we changed into our service clothes and headed an hour away to help someone move and clean their new house. I thought it was a member at first but it was just a friend of a member. They were super nice to us and we worked hard and quick. They were super impressed with everything we did. We got about two full week-ends worth of work done in about 3 hours. It was really fun and we even got to share a little about missions and the church with them. They are awesome and were kinda interested. This was such a big miracle for us because we decided to skip the second session of conference to help them and my comp wasn't super sure about it at first but we knew that we would be blessed by helping. We are going back again to help them and hopefully teach them more about the church. Priesthood session was super! I loved the talks that were given in that. Everyone should go back and read all the talks from all of conference.
Sunday went by really quickly. We started out by watching the second session that we missed and then headed over to a different members house to watch Sunday mornings session. It was really cool and we met about 10 of her friends that come from different wards around here. We then had a big potluck afterward. It was really good. We watched the second Sunday session at the church and then had a dinner with all of the youth and the bishop and his wife. It was really good. We all discussed the things that we learned from the conference.
Yesterday not much happened but we have some solid finding time and we met an awesome man who let us in and talked to us for about 20 minutes. We had set a goal to find three people who were interested and didn't find him until after knocking houses for 45 minutes. He is married with three kids and is very spiritual. We then kept knocking and found this woman who was really interested but was busy with kids so we left her with brochure and told her we would come back later. We ran out of time before we could find the third but we did then have a good lesson with Patrick again. We read from the Book of Mormon with him and talked about conference! We also then invited him to teach us about faith the next time we come by. I'm excited to see what he knows and how he teaches it.
That's all for this week Folks! Hope you all loved conference! Let me know which talk was your favorite and what you learned! Keep being awesome!
Love you all!
Elder Beckstrand
Mdot tattoo and Moellmers dinner
Snow and ice
Cleaning service
My snapshot of our conversation today with his new haircut. - Penny
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