Two Weeks of Wonderful...

Ok so I will try to get this all in, if only I was a better typer! Ok so this is just great. The day after my last blog entry we went to a Farm where we've worked every Wednesday since then. At the Farm we trimmed hedges. And Mitchell the guy we have been trying to get in contact was there! Sweet! Well, we spent about 2 hours trimming the cedars he wanted us to trim. We only got one side done! Then we were called in for lunch by the dinner bell. Holy smokes I love farms! running in for our feast we find everyone in the kitchen. It was a huge old farm house table with nice table settings. Well we sit down and have a feast, with potatoes that were out of this world and steak, veggies, and a salad! Oh my was it good. There were 8 adults besides Elder Bishop and I and two little kids! Some of the farm hands look like the were from the 1820s! Then in the middle of the the meal questions come up. Elder Bishop and I had the chance to answer the question, which led into the first discussion. It was great teaching so many people at once the ideal teaching situation with them asking questions and it being an enlightening conversation instead of a lecture from the missionaries! There was however one point when the majority of the crowd got a little disrespectful to the topic at which we were discussing. Then to our surprise Mitchell calls everyone to be quite and tells them they are out of line. My insides jump for joy, to see someone showing respect for the amazing message of truth we share. Well the lesson went well and Mitchell actually asked for a copy of the Book of Mormon, because he wanted to do just what we invited to read and pray about it! We left them 3 copies of the Book of Mormon and an intro to the church DVD. It went well and we were very uplifted for the rest of the day. Thursday was a down day we really didn't get much done, we had horrible planning and did our weekly planning pretty much all day! Friday was District meeting! Out here in the mission we are given areas to cover and 2-4 areas make up a district. so we met with the other missionaries and I gave a lesson on finding when we teach, teaching when we find! This meaning when we are walking around talking to people we are teaching them right then and there something that applies to them, for this being the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and we all being children of God it is so easy to do. Then other part of it the finding when we teach, is the hard thing, asking people we teach if they know of others who can use the message we share. We then went to Port Elgin, the northern part of our area. there we taught Sally and her Mom, the Gospel of Jesus Christ (faith in Christ, repentance, baptism, gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end) with Brother Vickers who took us out to eat after the lesson to a place called Craby Joe's. There I had a wonderful T-bone steak. Saturday it was crazy it snowed! Ugh I thought I was all done with that stuff! Anyways it took more than that to keep Elder Bishop and I away! We headed over to the Franklins where we chopped wood, Wow what a work out my back was hurting for days after that! I was splitting logs for two hours! We then went down to work in Clifford, yet Elder Bishop had to use the washroom so we stopped at the Kebicks who let us in and bless Sister Kebick seeing us all bundled up made us some Hot Cocoa, with marshmellows of course! Then we went tracting in the the area for a while, then back to the Kebicks, because brother Kebick was coming to our next appointment! Our next appointment was way far down south part of our bondaries in a little town called Moorefield. Back at the Kebicks sister Kebick had wonderful soup waiting for us. She also told me to bring my pants back the next day so she could fix them, so my blue suit is all good now, my black suit needs new pants, they split one day when I was going down to say a prayer... awkward! Well in Moorefield we met with a mother and her daughter, the daughter seemed to be realizing what we were talking about more then the mom. The appointment however went for an hour! Church was great, I love Choir practice we sang great music with wonderful tenor lines! Then after church we went back to the Kebicks for a wonderful supper, that got all over me! Ugh now I need to take my suit to the dry cleaners! Monday I went in to email and well the computer deleted my blog entry. My preparation day was back to normal I was able to get letters in the mail made a few cards and started on an explosion box of favorite pictures and quotes for the Kebicks as a thank you for fixing my suits! At six we went to the Staff's home to get Erica back on the stop smoking program, I am proud to say she has stopped again and is set to be Baptized on Mothers day, so I will be able to tell my mom all about it then on the phone. On Tuesday we went to one of the families in our branch to help take down an electric fence that is around the Llamas! Things I do on my mission I tell you! We then ran home to change then went to talk to Erica! Who was doing great! Then we went to another Farm home for supper! I dont remember what we ate but I do remember there was fuzz coming off the salt shaker top... where the salt was suppose to come out! Haha! Oh boy! All of our appointments bombed for the rest of the day so we set up another one in Walkerton. There we taught a great lesson to this lady, who wanted to talk to her husband about meeting with us again. Wednesday was another fun day on Mitchell's Farm we finished the other side of the hedge. We didnt get much teaching in. We did find out that the workers are half and half on our message and they talk about what we teach with each other when we are not there! So, that is great! Then that night we taught the young man how to make a Mr. Noodle stir fry! Thursday we went to Port Elgin, where we met with a bunch of families! Friday was a finding day! We didnt have any appointments set so we just went out among the people! Saturday we met with the Mom and daughter once again which went great, it was there that the spirit confirmed my thoughts on the mother and daughter. The mother is not getting what we are teaching and the importance of the message but the daughter is and is showing signs of progression. Sunday we taught a lesson with a new Investigator! It was a great week, whew! I got it all in, well most of it! Hope you all are doing well too!