First Week with Elder Low

This week was a slow one but it was good! I had always been told that when a new missionary enters an area it takes a couple weeks for things to get back to normal. I thought that it wouldn't be true for us but I was wrong. We had so many lessons scheduled for this week but so many of them just didn't work out in the end. It was humbling so I think it was a good week! Elder Low is doing a great job here in Thompson! He is doing really well with keeping his spirits high and he is quite confident in lessons which is something I struggled with at the beginning so that is great to see. 

It got really cold this week and I think it is safe to say we are in Winter here in Thompson! We have had about 6-8 inches of snow now, though not all of it has stuck around. It is below zero everyday essentially as well so I think I am in for a long winter! On Tuesday we drove out to Nelson House and the roads were still just dirt and stuff but they were dry. On the way back we were in a blizzard so we couldn't go very fast. While we were in Nelson House we taught a great lesson to a Recent Convert! Her name is Shelby and she shows so much excitement about missionary work. She is going to be teaching 2 lessons with us this week as long as all goes as planned! On Wednesday we had a district meeting but since some of the members in our district are in Flin Flon and others are in dauphin we don't get to actually meet so we Skype. The internet here is mediocre at best and the same goes for the other locations. We could not get a 3-way Skype going so it was a bit of a tough meeting! On Friday we had a real adventure! We got to go visit a family in our branch who lives in a place called Cross lake which is a reserve about 4 hours south west of Thompson! Elder Low Elder Burkman and I went there in the morning! We were really scared about driving on that road but it ended up being very nice! When we were at the house we taught a lesson to the kids on the Sabbath day! It is really neat to see and hear the testimonies of that family because they live too far away to make it to church every week and they don't have reliable internet so they can't tune in but they still just have the strongest of testimonies! I had the opportunity to give the mother a blessing because she had surgery last week. The drive home was fun because it is dark at like 7 here so we were in the dark most of the way home!

It was Stake Conference yesterday and we had it broadcast to our building! Elder Stacy of the 70 was in Winnipeg and he related the relationship we can have with our earthly fathers where we ask them for help if we need anything to the relationship we should have with our Heavenly Father. He testified that the communication with our heavenly father can be just as clear as with our Earthly Father. 

Have a Great week!

Elder Stewart

Moose antlers at Cross Lake

Cross Lake