This week was an interesting one but compared to last week it was like running around in Wonderland. First things first we did not get kidnapped this week. Second there are a lot more juicy details than there were last week.
Monday we volunteered at a funeral for a long time member who was the first convert ever in the Brandon ward I believe. Tons of support! So much that it doubled our sacrament meeting attendance. It was good to see lots of less active members in the church even if it is for a funeral. I exchanged with Elder Little that night and that was fun. Stewart-Little hahahahah. Best part is that he is 5'4. We taught a man named Sunil who is Hindu but he is interested. We will see what happens there. One crazy thing that happened was that we set a lesson with our recent convert Mickaela and she shows up with... a 6'2 Nigerian man! I am not racist but it caught me by surprise after last week. It is a good thing the Lord knows better than us because that was a definite tender mercy. The guys name is John and he and Mickaela are friends. He is a GREAT guy and helped us realize that there were two bad people that happened to be Nigerian but that Nigerians are not bad.
Speaking of last weeks encounter though we got to go do the photo lineup. It is not like the movies, the cop even said so. It was neat though, they took us in a room one by one and had 10 pictures on paper like the size of recipe cards. It was done by an officer who knew nothing about the case and had no clue who did the crime. He shows you one picture at a time and you say either it is or is not the man. You can see the picture as many times as you want but you cannot see two pictures at the same time. I was able to identify both of the suspects. I later learned that the police only had the two suspects. So they had a picture of Joseph and 9 distractors and a picture of Ookarudu and 9 distractors. After identifying them they said thanks without telling us if we were correct or if they believed that they had the right guy. Later that day we got called back in to see Constable Johnson who has been with us every step of the way. The craziest part of the whole thing is that we found out their names. It turns out "Joseph" who ended up standing up for us a very little bit at the end is actually named Ookarudu and that the unnamed man is Joseph. No clue why they changed names. They have the real Joseph in Prison and likely we will be back in Brandon to testify in court next summer. Crazy stuff!
Transfers are this week and the craziest thing is happening, Elder Olcott is leaving Brandon and I am staying. He has really loved Brandon but the whole kidnapping is scary and I guess the Lord needs him Elsewhere. I am sad but I an=m going to train Elder Wintle to be a new Zone Leader. Elder Wintle came ouyt with me and was trained by Elder Olcott. Elder Olcott is going to serve with Elder Quinton on the CTK First nation reservation. He is really sad but he will do great!
Love you all
Elder Stewart
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