So this week was quite the adventure! It all started on Christmas day! As I as Skyping my family Elder Griffin checked the weather and decided that for us to make it to Portage for the tourney we needed to leave that day. So we packed up and called the other Elders and hit the road. It was not a very nice drive. I drove and Elder Lee drove the other vehicle. On the way there it was blowing snow like crazy. Part way there there was a Semi-truck with two trailers that had tipped over and was in the ditch. We made it unscathed. We billeted with the Portage Elders that night which was nuts because there was like 12 of us in an apartment.
Monday we woke up to 18 inches of snow but it had all drifted and hardened. Long story short the highways closed and we were the only team that showed up for the tournament.... It was still fun because we got to ball with each other but the tourney did not happen. I don't want to be a downer but it was pretty disappointing. Certainly not worth taking a high school team to haha. We were fed by the member that organized the tournament that night and then the roads opened so we took off to Brandon for exchanges. I exchanged with Elder Ence who is a brand new ZL. That was fun to be back in Brandon. With the Christmas season not many people were in town but we taught one guy who i taught when I was there. At like 8:00 we got a call from Elder Wintel and Elder Griffin. They had gotten their car stuck because there was like 2 feet of snow everywhere. On the way to help them we also had to help 2 other people who were stuck. Earlier in the day we had helped others. We found so many people to teach by pushing them out. They are humbled and can't say no! We tried to push the Elders out but no luck. So we had to go to buy a tow rope... Canadian tire closed 12 minutes before we got there so we had to drive across town to go to walmart where we bought a heavy duty ratchet strap. Pulled them out! Might just have to start a tow truck business on the side!
Wednesday we woke up at 5:30am and hit the road for Winnipeg because we had MLC and we did not want to skype from Brandon. Did you know that you can pre-order subway?? That was breakfast as we came into Winnipeg. MLC was supposed to go for 2 hours. It took 5 because we were making the new CANWIN mission Inspired plan for 2017! It was so neat. We also taught a few lessons that week.
Friday we also had MLC in preparation for the ZTM's this week. It will be weird not to prepare a ZTM. How it usually works is that the assistants train the ZL's and the STL's in MLC and they model that training in their ZTM's. We related the new inspired plan to the Title of Liberty and the ZL's to the Moroni's in their zone. It was pretty good. It also went long and since President Craig was going on exchanges with the South Zone Leaders (One of which is Elder Quinton) he had to leave early so he made Elder Griffin and I in charge so we finished it up. Like a lot of things in life there is not much preparation, you just jump right in!
Saturday was a late night because we picked up 2 Elders from the bus depot around 10:30 that night and one stayed with us that night. Sunday was good! We had one investigator come to church. That night we had the departing missionaries dinner and testimony meeting. It was great! Sad to see these three go though. They are going 3 weeks early for school. The sister is from my MTC group so that shows how ancient I am. Scary stuff. Last night was late too because Elder Malin and Elder Nicholes Stayed with us and we had to do indicators so it was after 11:00. We woke up at 5:45 this morning to get headed to the airport. We dropped the missionaries off and then did our studies. No rest for the wicked! I LOVE IT!!
Love you all
Elder Stewart
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