This week was a pretty rough one for us, everyone dropped us or just flaked out. We have found a lot of tares so this week will be the week of the Harvest!
Monday for P-Day we played ball hockey in the church gym, it was inspired by Play On! It is pretty amazing how much all of the Canadians are than all of the Americans. None of us Canadians ever really played organized hockey but I guess the Pond hockey helps. If we played the Canada vs US game it was 7-1 like every time. Pretty interesting, must be in the Maple Syrup. We mixed up the teams a bit though and had some good games. We don't have any goalie equipment so we just played with the small round classroom tables in the church as nets. It is pretty small. We played with a Play On! ball though so our ankles are still recovering haha. Elder gee decided that the best way to play goalie was to sit cross legged in front of the net because that way he could cover like 90% of the net. that was a good idea until I shot the ball and it got tipped directly into his nose. He was bleeding and all. He is fine now so don't worry haha. that night our lesson with our the "Golden Investigator" Prince cancelled so we did some finding before YSA FHE. For FHE we cleaned the chapel and played some Frisbee. The stage was in grave need of that clean! We found some clothes in the corner that belong to a missionary serving from Winnipeg who left last year! SICK!!
Tuesday we had some good lessons scheduled but some of them fell through which is always frustrating, especially when they are far away. You drive 20 minutes there just to not have them answer. Usually when that happens we try to find over in that area to make the trip worth it but sometimes that is not the best idea because we are supposed to work with the YSA so if it is surrounded by a bunch of old people then we will drive somewhere there are more YSA. I think if as humans we could be just a bit more reliable our world would progress a lot faster. Maybe it is just with missionaries though... We also went to a Birthday lunch for a recent convert that day but that was short lived because we are only allotted 30 minutes for lunch to reserve pros time. That day we taught a Chinese student named Zak. He seems like he could be solid but he left for Hong Kong for the next 3 months so that was that. I have made a section in the area book for "In China, contact in September". Sadly it is currently more full that our investigator section haha. Most of the Chinese people here are very wealthy so they travel home for the summer every summer. it makes it hard to do missionary work because probably half or more of the U of M's students are in China. We also did a lot of tracting that night.
Wednesday we had District Meeting in the morning. It is weird being the oldest missionary in the district, I don't feel any older than I ever did but those around me seem a lot younger. Funny how perception works. As part of district meeting Elder Gee had me explain how we came to the goal of 204 baptisms in the year 2017. I talked about the 9 hour MLC that concluded with that decision. It was a nice trip down memory lane! After DM we went to do some service moving things out of the mission home that are not going to the new mission home. I don't know if I mentioned but they are moving the mission home down to a neighborhood closer to whee the temple will be. I was really hoping I could go home from the old mission home but not so. As we were moving some stuff out it was sad to see the famous "Mission Home" that always smells like a home cooked meal and is always bight empty and dark. The mission president and wives have lived there since 1976. Pretty sad to see it gone but apparently the new one is nice too. That night we got lunched by our then "Bronze Investigator" Prince. We also had ward correlation. That is such an important meeting! Our new Ward Mission Leader is a convert from China who was baptized in Edmonton. He is Great! He was very excited about the meeting, maybe because on Saturday he got to baptize his girlfriend who is also solid! That night we taught a recent convert from Nigeria named Layi.
Thursday we got lunched again by our probably then "Aluminum Investigator" Prince. He was so solid but then became so not solid. he heard some anti and we think he got offended when we asked why he skipped the lesson. I feel bad about how it all went down but live and learn I guess. We have not heard from him since :(. When we don't have lessons we spend a lot of time at the University of Manitoba street contacting. it is fun because there are so many people. It has potential to get awkward though because since we talk to so many Nigerians and so many Chinese people it is easy to not remember their face and then you realize you have already talked to them. They remember you but you don't remember them. It's a struggle but it makes you a little quicker on your feet. I like the university! that night was Institute. The Sr missionaries teach it and the current couple is very new. I think it takes people a bit to get used to a new teacher because no one ever answers questions. I feel bad for them as teachers..
Friday was a bit of a crazy day because we had to take our car into the dealership in the AM so we had to make up our studies and do weekly planning. Needless to say I could not wait to leave the apartment. We had a good lesson with a recent convert and he was anxious to update us on the NHL draft. I learned how uninformed I am. That night was very fun, the EQ organized an activity and we decided if we could get some people to go then we would go. We got the perfect hat trick, a less active, a recent convert and an investigator there! It was a murder mystery role play kind of game. Our people loved it! They also had pizza but as missionaries our curfew certainly limited our ability to stay for the pizza because we did not want to turn to pumpkins..
Saturday was the Baptism of Louise (our WML's GF). It was supposed to be at the stake center but since we have had so much rain it wrecked the pipes so at the stake center the water came out of the taps looking like watered down chocolate milk. So at noon on Saturday the sisters called an audible and moved the baptism. That was a little crazy but it all worked out! That night we went out to check the railroad tracks. We had left a dime on it and we went out to find it! That was really neat! It got squished by the train real well! If that is illegal please keep this off of the blog and let me know but that was pretty neat!
Sunday was a good day! Sundays fly by like crazy but we found a guy named Joshua and set a date with him. We will see what happens!
Love you all Elder Stewart
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