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Give Away Give Away :)

Another week in the mission flying by!

So some good news all around with our investigators! I'll start in order from longest taught to most recent :)

Sammy: So we went in to see Sammy this week and got to the root of the problem with baptism... He is afraid his family will hate him! awwwwwwweeeee! The poor guy is so old and with his health going down hill, his family is all that he's got. I'm not sure how to help him through this little trial... my thoughts were along the lines of building up his faith and just helping him to realize the blessings that the Lord has in store for him. Sharing is caring so if anyone has any ideas on what we could share with Sammy send some love this way!

Mario: Well Mario has had a really, really, really tough week- just with personal stuff. He is in the process of separating from his wife and things took a turn for the worst this week due to a poor life choice on Marios part. It's interesting though to see how trials can trigger a desire to change/a reflection on your life. In this case this things worked out well for us because Mario is recognizing that his life is changing and that will make it easier for him to live some of the commandments. Despite what he went through this week, he still came out to church on sunday! He wasn't going to, but when I told him that I was going to be speaking and that I needed his support He told me he would be there without a doubt. And he was :) After sacrament meeting he said he needed to head out, but we got to talk to him for a little in the parking lot and he mentioned how the timing of everything in his life has been "weird". Let me tell expand a little for you

1. The day he gets out of the hospital is the first time we meet. I approached him on the street and told him I could help him figure out if there was a life after death. 

2. Wednesday night I call Mario and find out he has had a really tough day. I advise him to read his Book of Mormon to de-stress instead of what he tells me he normally does 

3. I call Mario Friday right after something else big happens (I'm being vague because, well this isnt my stuff to be sharing) 

It was a heart warming experience to see Mario describe how much we have impacted his life, and how us meeting was not just by chance. I can only hope that he remembers this and can see how much God wants to help him right now.

Sam: Oh Sam, how I LOVE her! Teaching her is just such a treat because she actively participates in the discussion AND she agrees with everything we teach (I love it when people agree with me haha). There isnt much more on Sam, she is doing great and came out to a relief society activity on friday. She is super social and made a ton of new friends and said she had an amazing time! Now we just have to get the rest of her kids and husband in on the discussions and we will be golden haha.

Looking down on Gotham City (they filmed batman down there!) 

This week we got to go on exchanges with our sister training leaders! This time I stayed in Oakville with Sister Arksey and Sister Rogers went to Brampton with Sister Tofua. It was yet another spiritually uplifting experience and Sister Arksey and I had maybe a little too much fun ;) Pretty much all the appointments I had made fell through so Arksey and I did a lot of tracting and OYM (talking with people on the street). It was a lot of fun though and I learned a ton from Sister Arksey. She asks for referrals from EVERYONE and I can see why because we ended up getting 3 referrals from random strangers on the street. Score! At the end of the day the person you exchange with gives you something they think you need to work on. Sister Arksey told me she didn't normally invite missionaries to do this, but she felt like it would really help me to "fulfill leadership positions in the mission...". She told me to go that extra step and become even more consecrated, so to do things like not taking the allotted hour breaks for eating, to walk with more purpose etc.... I took her up on her challenge and Sister Rogers and I have seen the blessings! Thursday we only took 20 min to eat and then headed out to OYM and we got 2 appointments and one of them turned into a new investigator! 

I guess the moral of the story is the more you give to God, the more he blesses you

Ok so this is up on a hill and it is a GIANT cross that lights up at night... SO creepy! 

Scripture of the Week: Matthew 10: 39 

"He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." 

Line of the week: Out tracting with Sister Arksey and we meet a 14 year old with a British Accent. I have no idea what I was thinking, but the girl and Sister Arksey had a good laugh and she took a Book of Mormon 

Me: "Oh my goodness I love your accent!"

Girl: "Thanks!!"

Me: "I swear I could close my eyes and I feel like I'm at Hogwarts!"

A Haiku for You:

hope given

my Redeemer lives 

tell the world 

Sister Hall

Elder Murdock and Burgason with our turtle named Wilford 

This is our district! We went on a hike to a waterfall... this is called the Devils Punchbowl...hahah!