Looks very cold in kanata aka Canada. But it's okay because it was cold this week here as well. It rained!!!!!!!!! Hallelujah!!! It's only rained twice since I've been here and it's the "rainy" season hahaha no that's not very funny. Before this rain we were declared to be back in a droubt...
This week Elder Pilling rides the city Bus, rides daisy A lot (my new bike) and is blessed tremendously!
Let's try to make this as interesting as possible shall we? Ok. Tuesday Elder Goodman and I rode the bus in search for different finding opportunities. We got on the bus and it was full! We were so excited! There was a member on the bus and we started talking with her. We thought this was perfect because now everyone is gonna be somewhat interested in who we are. However the bus stops at the first stop and everyone but like 3 people get off! And the people who stayed on all spoke spanish:/ it was truly sad...We did however ride the bus to district meeting in hopes of being able to talk to someone! But it was empty... at least we didn't have to bike (it was raining).
Here's a quick review on daisy. She's a beaut of a bike! The bars don't have grips so they get really cold when it's cold out, the rear wheel is extraordinarily out of true but makes me laugh every time I ride it so it's all worth it. The gear is quite stiff tho so I'm outta the saddle a lot lol🚴♂️
Back to spirituality👨💼👍let's start off with my favourite blessing of the week! So last week I went on a 2 hour blitz with one of my zone leaders Elder Kopaunik and we did some finding together. One of the guys we found was Todd. We were so busy we couldn't go by his place for over a week but when we did have the chance it was amazing! He is in his 60's and looking to retire. He realized that he doesn't belong to anything and wants to belong to the LDS church! He grew up with Mormons and loves our standards. He has 1 concern and that is he doesn't believe Christ came and visited the Americas. But he believes Joseph Smith was a prophet and that the Book Of Mormon is the word of God. He truly has been prepared by the Lord! Even writing this I can't believe it. He is so ready! And he wants to get involved in doing service for the church asap. Wow. He is amazing and the Lord has truly blessed us with guiding us to him. He is a special man☺
I'm excited to be able to help him come to Christ and the true gospel.
Ok so since we have a lot of Spanish speaking people I am trying to learn Spanish via Dualingo. It's an app that is supposed to help me speak spanish. So far I know boy, girl, man, woman, milk, eat, bread, rice, water, he, she, I, I am, fish, chicken, ok I know a lot of words and this will take forever to write out. I try and speak to the Hermanas in Spanish but they just laugh because of my terrible accent. I also talk to Nancy and her friend Maria, but it doesn't go very well lol. We actually had dinner with Nancy LA, George investigator, and Nancy's friend Maria. We had pizza and tortitas (which is potato and Mexican cheese squashed into a pancake type thing and fried), we taught a great lesson and George has progressed so so so much since I first got here. When I first got here he would open the door and say "Nancy isn't here" and close the door. Now he says "Nancy isn't here but come on in!" Only took 4 months hahahaha
Oh we went to tractor supply co last P day because we were bored and we ran into an 85 yr old man named Morris and Morris is an interesting character! We did service for him on Thursday. He has 11 Arabian horses and so we cleaned out there stalls. He has some stories that's for sure! He told us he made millions because he was the master engineer behind Cummins transmissions. Who knows. He is very spiritual though, he lives by one saying, "God only gives you one breath at a time and you better thank him for every one because you never know which one will be your last." And he has a prayer he says every morning and night which was actually very cool. Well that's Morris for yah. Probably useless information for you all but oh well.
We had a lesson with a guy the YSA sisters met and it was whack. He said he believed he is a God because he could end our lives whenever he wanted... He was staring right at Elder Goodman when he said that, a little odd. It will be interesting to see what he's all about.
I don't even know what is considered "interesting" so I just write whatever I think and hope that yalls can stay somewhat interested through this email.
Oh, what's with snails? They were literally everywhere. I kept stepping on them (by accident) and then I felt bad so I started moving them from the middle of the sidewalk to the other side. Hopefully they appreciated it.
Oh my goodness I almost forgot. So we had dinner with the greatest people ever (I have a lot of greatest people) and they gave us a whack ton of food! Like delicious yogurts, and purple carrots, and all sorts of deliciousness. Really super awesome!!!
I'm getting bored of this so I'm gonna end here😢 I know it's so sad! But it is what it is.
Love you all! Even if you are really mean.
Elder Joseph
Sent from blue skies
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