Day 118

Today will be a little short, we are meeting with a seventy tomorrow in Saskatoon and we have to leave in an hour or so.

a lot of miracles happened this week it was really interesting, it's been a good week.

How goes the time management/getting things done that are important and letting the other stuff fall into place thing?

Things have been really good, we have been trying to start an open Gym night that we can invite whoever to it. we prayed about it and didn't have a lot of luck with any of the local churches (we don't have a gym in our church) we exhausted our resources and didn't really have anywhere else to go, then we were eating dinner at one of the members homes that feed us pretty consistently, and we told him about our Idea and he said that he was thinking about renting the rec center once a week so that his kids could go to it and said we would be welcome to use it for any of our purposes if we get back to him on the rate (I think it's like 20 an hour) so our prayer was answered in that way, in the lord's way and in his time. That was a really neat experience.

Has Elaine been pretty consistent in coming to church or hit and miss?

Two really interesting things happened with Elaine this week

first, she prayed for us for the first time in a while, in her prayer she said that she knew that she needed to join the Mormon church and that she needed to quit smoking, it was probably my most favorite prayer that I have heard. 

Second Elaine has been pretty consistent, she wasn't at church this last week but she was sick. we went over to visit her later Sunday night and she had talked to her son about the Mormon church and instead of negativity her son told her that the Mormon church is a good church, and he told her that she should become more active in the community with service and such especially since "The Elders" had helped her so much, maybe it was time to give back. He also independently reiterated that she should do a lot of things that we have tried to help her do so far. it's really neat because Elaine was Concerned about getting flack for becoming a member of the church and it sounds like her kids fully support her. Elaine is truly being prepared by God.

Is driving up there different at all?

Not really, weather has been nice

Has anyone had any accidents?

Last winter I guess was pretty bad, but I haven't seen any

Best moment?

Probably with Elaine

Any food at all this week?  (that makes me so sad)

yes, A member family fed us on Saturday, the food was really good.

How do you meet new people if you don't tract, only through members?

it's really hard, especially in Swift Current, we are trying to get more involved in the community and gain more member trust. I kind of delivered a zinger to our branch president yesterday but we asked what we could do for him and he said "baptize ten people" and I said, "give us someone to baptize and we'll have it done, if ten people in the branch gave us one person, we could teach and baptize them all" he may not have quite liked that too much, but  I don't regret what I said.

Can you use our money up there? or only Canadian $

yes of course, the allotment card that we have is a bank of America card. it's pretty nice.

thank you for thinking of me, you're really great, you'll have to apologize to everyone for me being short in the email department, there is a family the C's that has a daughter named kate, just kate, thought I'd let you know, their the ones that feed us and rent the rec center for us. have a wonderful day and I hope I didn't forget anything.. oh this week I got a big down parka from the thrift store, so that's pretty neat. the zipper even works. it's pretty ugly, I'll have to get it dry cleaned. but yeah, I'm all set on winter coats now for sure. I'm becoming a pro thrift store shopper, grandma would be proud. have a great week. love you!

Love you!

Ryus