This was a pretty good week. I love weeks like this where we can just be in our area, buckle down and find! We tracted a ton this week and actually saw some fruit come of it!
Monday I went and got a good haircut, my last one was from some ultra cuts and with all due respect i wish I would have cut my own hair with a butter knife. It was awful but it costed $20 so I had to wait a few weeks before I could justify another one. Anyways I went and got one at this super nice place. It was $8 more expensive but It was SOOOOO Nice. I am definitely going back. This kind of illustrates a principle I feel like i have learned on my mission, If you are going to do it, do it right. This really applies to anything, there is no point in halfheartedly doing anything because you will just have to do it over again or you may have lost your chance to do it at all. I am grateful for that lesson. That day we also played ball as part of P-Day and invited one of our investigators. His name is Nabi and he is 18. He is graduated but most of his friends are in grade 12. They came to play and they are all very black. It was kind of fun, they were not great at ball but it was good for Nabi as far as becoming socially converted. Trouble is Nabi is YSA so he will be turned over to them. I wish we were YSA because we find so many YSA people and turn them over and thy are so solid. I know of at least three found by us that were at church on Sunday. Everyone they teach in the past has been from Nigeria but now they are more on the China bandwagon and they are baptizing Chinese people all the time. YSA is the promised land. That night we got lunched so we tracted.
Tuesday was the MLC conference call. Weekly we have a Mission leadership call with all of the ZL, STL's and President Craig. We discuss the needs of the mission. It is interesting and I really enjoy it. I think i enjoy it more as an Assistant than I did a ZL because now I don't give a report of my zone but i get to listen and try to understand the mission as a whole. We also had District Meeting on this day. The Dalhousie Sisters were talking about one of their investigators who is hard to teach because she is in a governemnt funded program and because of that has some restrictions as to what she can do. They are trying to have daily contact with her but it is hard to do so. They were asking for ideas how to stay in contact with her even though they can't call or text her except for like 3 days a week. it was interesting to see how counseling together helps. We eventually decided that they should try writing a letter a day for her and giving them to her so that she can have contact with them every day even if there is no dialogue. Missionary work is a fun thing, it can be like a puzzle sometimes but it is fun to work though. We again did finding almost all day but the finding was interrupted by a dinner appointment so that was nice. Finding used to be the "if everything else falls through" Activity but as my mission has progressed I have learned that Finding is a key part of missionary work and I really do enjoy it. The weather makes it tough but finding someone is so gratifying.
Wednesday was an exchange with our trustee District Leader, Elder Lewis. I was with him in his area and we did some home teaching, taught one lesson and a bunch of driving. honestly I felt like we spent too much time in the car but the time we were out of the car were VERY productive. I think that is why we exchange. I learned that I could be more effective with my time while working by doing only worthwhile activities but also focusing on not wasting our time with driving which we are pretty good at right now! We had a dinner appointment that night with an Old German Couple. It is super interesting to talk to them. Since I was working in the Dalhousie ward i had never met them. When I met them she said I looked like her brother who died while fighting for the Nazi Army. She showed us some pictures and told us some stories. It makes me want to learn more about WW2. the war obviously had many terrible results but it is interesting how the war brought this family to the gospel. Talk about mysterious ways...
Thursday was full of tracting. We also taught a Chinese family with Brother Ip from the ward. Apparently President Eyring came here like 8 years ago and prophesied that the church in Winnipeg would grow immensely and that the growth would come almost exclusively through immigrants. Well believe it or not he is right. It is amazing the interest that immigrants have in the Gospel.
Friday we taught Emmanuel who is the 17 y/o son of Peter Who was baptized a month before I got here to Waverley. Emmanuel is on date for May 13th and we are teaching him again tonight with Bishop Smith. Emmanuel is a Nigerian immigrant.
Saturday we taught a lesson with a member of the Ward named Brother Basinet. We brought him because of his french. The family we taught is from Ivory Coast and speak better French than English. I think that they will be baptized eventually but probably not while i am here because they can only meet once a week. All in all the work is great!
Freaks me out that it is going by so fast...
Love Elder Stewart
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