This week was crazy! We had the opportunity to go through the area book more thoroughly. The area book is like the map of all the areas and it has records of those who have met with people in the past and their contact info so that when new missionaries come in they can continue to teach people. The area book here was in the form of 500 papers all over the floor instead of a neatly organized binder. It made for a lot of organizing and finding addresses on the street. I have spent so much time looking at the Regina map I could probably draw the whole thing haha. It was worth all of the time though because we were able to stop by a bunch of the people on these papers who had had contact with missionaries in the past and because of it we were able to find 10 new people to teach! That is way more than I had ever found in the past in one week!
On Monday we had a Family Home Evening with Anthony and his family (Anthony is getting baptized on February 6th). We got fed by some members this week as well which adds a major bonus! We were also able to teach some members of the ward who recently have been unable to make it to Sacrament meeting so it is very good to teach and get to know them.
On Wednesday there was a worldwide missionary training session broadcasted from Utah. Elders Niel L Anderson, David A Bednar and Dallin H Oaks all spoke and gave training. The meeting was so good and uplifting and it really worked because this week we were able to teach so many people! On Saturday we taught a guy named Tony and his kids. We taught an object lesson with a soup can where the scriptures are the protectors. Tony took my bible after and very literally made the scriptures the "armour against evil". He slapped his daughter on the arm and asked if it hurt and she said "Yeah" Then the took the scriptures and put them against her arm and slapped the scriptures and asked again"now did it hurt?". She said "no" and then he started preaching about how with the scriptures as our Armour nothing can hurt us! It was so funny but so good to have him teach his kids! He really likes us and our church and he even came to Saturday night basketball at the church where we host a game and have investigators of the church and less active members come play with us! He brought his whole fam and they loved it! He was a highlight of the week.
Elder Kiriaka and I are getting along great and we are working so hard. One of the things we learned on Wednesday is that many return missionaries regret not working their very hardest and as a companionship we set a goal that at the end of the transfer we would not have to regret not wrking hard so we are working as hard as possible.
Regina is starting to feel more like home so that is nice!
Love you all
Elder Stewart
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