The one with service and HosptialsBonjour à tous! How is everyone doing this week? This week here in Bridgewater was kinda slow but was still good. It has rained here a lot and no snow yet. I'm still hoping and praying that we will get some soon. Anyway here is a quick outline of what we did this week.
Last Tuesday we had dinner with our bishop and his wife. They got permission from the Mission President to have us over with a group of sister missionaries which was cool because it was Sister Hoag from Pine View High School. It was super cool to have that dinner. We also watched the video that the church came out with called The Christ Child. It is so good. Everyone should watch it and share it with a friend.
Wednesday we had district council and then we went and had some service with a member in our ward. He had a whole truck load of mulch that we had to move around to different areas on his property so I stayed by the pile just shoveling it into wheelbarrows while the others carried it around and dumped it in different places. It was really good and I got a good workout. We then had dinner with that family and they are super nice. After that we went to the church to play volleyball because all the youth had a dance on friday so we changed the day and we also had a little party before because it was the end of our missionary quest! We totalled up all the points that all the youth had earned and then the deal was that the winning team got to pie the losing missionary. My team earned around 600 more points than Elder Constants team so we had about 6 youth with whipped cream attack him. He was a very good sport about it all and the youth really liked it. After that we played volleyball and it was good.
Thursday we had another meeting with all of the people training this transfer. Those are always really good because we take a little bit of time to go around and share different miracles we have seen recently. I think that is very helpful for those new missionaries too so they can see that this is all worth it from the beginning. We also had dinner with a member family that we haven't really met before and it was really good to see that relationship start and grow. They are so nice and have such strong testimonies. They also asked us to help them move an oven and a fridge because they saw we had a truck. Oh the blessing of driving a truck haha. More service opportunities. That night we had our french class. Those are nice and our students are doing pretty well too.
Friday was good. We got to help out at the food bank and the Clothing bank here in town. We have become the professionals at bagging up dog and cat food at the food bank and the ladies love us at both places. They ask us questions every once in a while and we get to see quite a bit of people from the community. We got lunch between both at Subway and while we were eating, there was a school group of Acadians that walked in. Those are the people from New Brunswick that speak French. It was so nice to hear so much french again. It was also such a different accent and it was super fun to hear them speak. Later that night we did some street contacting and then went out to a members for dinner again. They are all nice out here. I love them all. We talked a little about St. George and the new temple because they lived there for about 2 years and loved the St.. George Temple and are planning on going to visit the new one once it is built. Its sad that they are closed for now but it will be so cool once both of those are open and working!
Saturday wasn't too exciting. We did have a lesson with the native man we are teaching. James had a few questions on Priesthood but understood it well once we explained it to him. He seemed to like it all really well and as we were talking he started talking about stories they tell in their community and between natives so we asked if they have a story kinda like the one told in 3 nephi chapter 11 and they do! So we told him about that and invited him to read that. It was really cool.
Sunday and yesterday were both pretty similar. We spent a good part of that in the Hospital and helping out a member in our ward. Sister Russell is an amazing recent convert that we have been working with and have been really her only "family" here. After church we gave her a blessing and then a member who is a doctor looked at her and called the ambulance to come pick her up. He thought she was going to have a heart attack and just was really sick so we went with her and made sure she was okay. We also helped that family move their oven and fridge and visited a couple more members. Nothing super crazy or exciting else happened.
That's about it for this week. I hope that you are all doing well and that you are enjoying this amazing season that is finally here. Keep being awesome and don't forget to watch The Christ Child and share it with a friend!
Love y'all!
Elder Beckstrand
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