Lovin' every minute

wow, it was a little slow this week. Erica committed to go to church! We gave her a tour Sat afternoon however she was a no show when Sunday came around. This week we didn't get a lot of finding hours in we only got 21, yeah we had to clean out a bap. font! So there is a lady in our branch who is a floralist, and every year she puts on a nativity display with over 3,000 nativities at the branch building and they open it to the public to come and see for free. well they put boards over the font and decided to use that as a closet space to store this stuff! yeah, we had a long talk with her and told her that in order for baptisms to occur we need to show our Heavenly Father that we are ready for them, and by that actually having a font ready to use! Yeah crazy its been like that for two years! So we tore up the boards covering the font, 23 screws we had to screw out! then there were 6 spiders and spider webs in the font and the chain was rusted over! so we did a deep scour on the font one day and found another place to store the nativity supplies! Investigator wise we did find one new one this week. Her name is Melinda, we met her on the street. She was just let out of Jail and lives an hour away, yet her family told her they were not coming to get her. She was really down. Elder Peck and I just went to a mail drop place that was way far from were we wanted to go, but idk the spirit was guiding us, because after the mail was dropped off we came across Melinda (18) on the curb crying. I went and sat next to her and asked her if she was ok, dumb question! She replied are you serious. Well then she told us about how she was arrested and how her life is so bad, she then asked what we were. We shared the we are representatives of Jesus Christ. Well, as it came we went to Coffee Coulture (Canada's Starbucks) and taught her the first lesson. We also taught her about Christ and his atonement, which touched her so much, to know that she had an older brother who was perfect and took upon him all of her sins and died for her. That is was possible for her to be clean again! As she said she has never been so lost and yet so found in her entire life. Here she was stranded in the middle of nowhere, knowing nothing about where she was and didn't know how to get home, yet found the love of Jesus Christ. We left her with a Book of Mormon, which made her cry when we told her it was free. I wish there could be more to this story but that afternoon, we were to meet her in the library, yet she was a no show and we have no idea where she is now! Calvin is still meeting with us but taking it slow, Pedro is taking his time its so hard with us not being able to communicate that well. Yet once again it was a great week! Lots of blessings! Hope you all are doing great! I love you all, and thank you for your support.
Elder Derek Allen