HOLY CRAP!!! Another week has gone by?!?!?!? SOOOOO, today I just realized something....I'VE BEEN AWAY FROM HOME FOR TWO MONTHS!!! WHAT THE HECK?!?!?! So yeah, time flies!! So this week was transfer week like I told you last week. So Elder Webb ended up on getting transferred to Surrey. Super cool area with so many people. My new companion is Elder Zieler! He is such an awesome missionary! Elder Zieler is this 6ft 4 country boy who plays bball, baseball, and has a football scholarship to some place in Kansas. Super cool awesome missionary though!
So this week was pretty stressful. Taking on the area since I am the only one who knows it and who our investigators are is pretty hard. But it has gotten a lot easier in the past 2 days. So Tuesday was the first day in Port Alberni with Elder Zieler. It was hard enough getting there. I got lost so much in Nanaimo and we took a nice 2 hour detour up to Campbell river....oops! So that was pretty embarrassing....
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| Elder Zieler & Colton |
Wednesday was a SUPER AWESOME day though. We went and contacted a recent referral we had received from the Housholders. We ended up on contacting a super nice couple that told us to come back a week later. On our way back though, we ran into this guy named Steven. Super awesome guy that seemed pretty interested to hear about the gospel! Later that day, we had nothing really going on, so I felt inspired to go down this street that Elder Webb and I had almost fully tracted. Two new families that seemed very interested in the gospel came off of that street! Crazy thing about that day, all of the sudden, this white stuff started falling from the sky.... IT WAS SNOWING!!!! Anyway, one of them, we ended up on doing service for the next day! He’s super awesome and we have plans to go have dinner with him tonight!
We also met with Gracie who is such a sweet little 9 year old who wants to get baptized! We have a date set for December 20th for her!! It’s so exciting! Sunday was awesome too! The primary program was going on and we met with a couple nonmembers who were there to see the kids perform! So exciting! The primary kids provided such a good opportunity for us missionaries to meet with people that weren't members! A couple less actives came as well which was SUPER awesome!
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| Elder Johnston ~ District Leader |
Later that night, we met with the Patterson’s for dinner. I ate way too much, but it was soooooo good..... I swear I ate at least 10 pounds of food. Such nice couple. Later that night, at around 7:30, we decided to park the car at the apartment to go tracting down street since we couldn't find anyone to meet with. We decided to go down 3rd and talk to anyone that we met with, cause, ya know, that's just what missionaries do. Anyway, we were walking for about an hour and we ran into these two guys who were not really interested in the gospel. Anyway, the one guy I was talking to, ended up on giving me this piece of wood with the maple leaf carving for some reason. Pretty cool I guess. After the conversation, we started to walk home. Curfew is at 9 when you aren't teaching and it was 845 when Elder Zieler looked at his watch after the conversation. We were about 1.5 miles away from the apartment.... Next thing you know, everyone who was on one of streets we had to go down to get to our apartment sees two missionaries sprinting to get to their curfew on time. We made it into our apartment at 8:59 pm...We were literally sweating bullets and I don't even remember hitting the pillow last night. When I woke up this morning my legs were so sore. Haha oh well!
P day was pretty good. We spent most of the day playing pool and that's about it. Nice and relaxing! So how has everyone been doing?! I sure hope ya’ll don't miss me too much!
I sure love and miss ya’ll!
Love,
Elder McCown
