The one with 2 weeks because life is Crazy

Bonjour à tous! I hope you all are doing super well. As you can tell from the title, these last two weeks here have been just been crazy and I want to apologize for not sending a message last week! Here is a quick over view of the last two weeks with a couple cool stories of the people here. 

So over the last two weeks starting Wednesday we have driven into the city of Halifax 4 times with another travel to Annapolis royal the other Wednesday in there as well. Over all about 14-16 hours in the car but it was all well worth it. We had a district p-day last week were we played volleyball and soccer and ate pizza together which was really fun. We had a district council which is was nice. And this last weekend we went into Halifax for interviews, zone conference, and stake conference. Those were all very good. It was my second zone conference of the transfer because of how transfers worked out for me. it was really nice because I got a refresher on everything we talked about the first time but also learned so much on humility and patience. It was the subjects and same basic layout but with all different missionaries and different questions and things in mind during the conference and I came out of it with new answers and spirituality edified again. It's just like going to the temple or reading the  book of Mormon or going to church. It may be the same time every time you go or read but our lives change and we get different things out of what we read and learn new things that the Lord knows were are now prepared to learn. That's what I love so much about this church is that we can continue to learn no matter how long we have  been here. Even Elder Eyring says he learns more and more each time he reads and he is an Apostle of the Lord. I would highly encourage and invite you all to continue to read and go to the temple if you can. Keep learning. 

For the time we have spent here in Bridgewater however, we have been going around and visiting almost all of the members. We were just given a couple different ward lists so we have been trying to visit literally everyone and update everything and get to know all the members better. Everyone here is very nice and most of them already know who we are and why we are here so we have been trying new and creative ways to find those that God has prepared for us. We have found a lot of less active people and part member families that we are hoping to work with but along with all that we have also found a food bank to volunteer at. The ladies there were very nice and asked us a couple of questions. We also started up a French class because I have been struggling a little to switch back into a full English area. I think and pray in French still and speak it whenever I can but now I am teaching it to people as well. We had about three people show up last week which was awesome and they said they would bring more next week.

We are also starting to play volleyball this week and many different things to hopefully find more people to teach. We have found a few people to teach last week. One of them has been coming to church on her own for the last two months or so and we have started teaching here. She has definitely been prepared by the Lord to meet us at this time. Her name is Annette and she has a friend back in Montreal that is a member and they have talked about it a bit and then in the therapy clinic that she works at she has a couple clients that are members as well. In her Therapies, she does what she can to help the people calm down and one of the member reads the book of Mormon to her because that helps her calm down so she has heard parts of the book of Mormon. We had an amazing lesson with her last Friday where we answered any of her questions and one of them was how can she become a member! We explained the process to her and taught her more of the restoration. It was a super good lesson and the spirit was really strong. We also found two other people because we were visiting a member and as we were leaving there were two other ladies sitting under the tree so we sat down with them and asked them a few questions and then taught her the whole plan of salvation and that was another really good lesson. The Lord really does put people in our paths when we are doing what we are supposed to. Heavenly father wants to bless us so bad and as soon as we turn to him and do what we should be then he will shower us with blessings.

We have also done some cool random things lately as well for p-days and stuff. We have done a lot of service. We ripped out an entire basement and because of the flooding with the Hurricane. We also have stacked a lot of wood and done a couple other service projects as well. We also sang in the stake conference with all the other missionaries in Nova Scotia. It was really good and we sang a cool version of Called to Serve. Oh yeah, My companion also got his visa to go to California so he will be leaving me here on the 15th. I don't know what will happen after that but it will be interesting! 

And that's about it for these last two weeks. Sorry again for not writing last week but hopefully stuff will start to calm down here and go back to normal. I love you all and hope you all have a wonderful week. Keep being Awesome!

Love Elder Beckstrand

Our new place came with a Squatty Potty and a TRUCK!