Hello Family,
It has been a pretty steady week for
us. It has been raining pretty hard for the past two days with more rain
coming tomorrow. But on Friday, it was really hot. I wore a
short-sleeved white shirt that day and on Saturday as well. It was
pretty hot outside before all the rain came. I had a bit of a rough day
on Friday as I had a hard time knowing I couldn't be there to support my
brother and all his hard work. My thoughts kept on drifting towards
home and I just wasn't very focused on missionary work but I did get through
it and was able to re-focus on Saturday. Anyway, so we found out about
transfers yesterday and I will be staying in Bridgewater for another 6
weeks with Elder McGuire. But Elder McGuire will be a district leader
this upcoming transfer. Throughout the week, I was getting the impression
from the spirit that I was staying and I also felt the Lord telling me
that he has more for me to accomplish here. So I know this was inspired
of the Lord and that he still needs me here in Bridgewater. There's
going to be sisters back in Bridgewater. Sister Hughes and a new missionary
from the MTC will be coming to Bridgewater on Thursday. Sister Hughes
has been out for a while and goes home in August. I've never met her so I
don't really know much about her.
I was sad to
learn of the passing of Elder Perry on Saturday night. It's interesting
because on that morning, we were reading a article on lds.org saying that he had thyroid cancer. Elder McGuire said he thinks he's
going to die soon. Lo and behold he was right as he passed away that
night. Elder Perry has been a valiant and dedicated apostle of the Lord.
He has done so much to build the kingdom of God here on the earth. My
prayers are with his family and his loved ones. The question is who
will fill the vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve now. So will they call a new apostle right
away or will they wait till next conference? I had assumed they would do
that right away but some of the members here said they sometimes wait till
next conference to do that.
So
I got a e-mail from Jeff Nelson from what seemed like right after Kylie
opened her mission call. saying that she is coming to my mission in
August. This didn't surprise me when I found out. When Jeff first told
me that Kylie was going on a mission, I had a feeling she was coming
here. So I saw that one coming. She will be a great addition to the
mission and I'm sure she will love it here in the Maritimes. That would
be pretty cool though if we served in the same area at one point. That
tends to happen in this mission with so many missionaries from Alberta.
Take Elder Willougby and
Elder Evanson for example. Hopefully we don't make each other homesick
when we see each other though. But when it comes down to it, I just have
to think of her as a regular sister missionary disregarding that I went
to school with her and know her personally. I am looking forward to
representing Stirling with her.
Wednesday, I was assigned to give the
doctrinal discussion for District Meeting. So I stayed up a while the
night before getting it ready. I did it on the fundamentals of the Book of
Mormon. With the big emphasis on the Book of Mormon lately, I found it to
be highly appropriate to give a doctrinal discussion on. It went pretty
well. I thought I could have asked more questions and gave more
references but that's okay. :)
Friday was a really
hot day. We weekly planned in the morning. Then we went tracting in the
afternoon with no such luck. We talked to a lot of people but none of
them were interested. After dinner, we attended ARP.
They were on Step 12 of the program - Service. It was neat attending that.
ARP isn't just for people who have
addictions. It's for everyone who has weaknesses and challenges that
they want to overcome.
Saturday, We visited a brother and taught him about Family History work. The missionaries
in the past never taught him about it so we thought we would. We're
trying to get him to go to the temple. Later we attended a baptism. It was a bit of a gong show given the fact that no one had
filled the font before the baptism. So we had to turn on the font and
wait for half an hour :P.
Have a good week!
Love,
Elder O'Brien
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