It has been a pretty uneventful week
here in Nova Scotia. We did get another
snow storm on Friday though. By Saturday afternoon all the roads
were plowed. So people didn't really have any excuse why they couldn't
come to Church yesterday.
Our ward mission
leader's house burned down last Monday. His wife was getting their kids
ready for school and when they went into the garage there was a big hole
in their garage and there was smoke everywhere. They don't know what
the cause was for the fire. Now they are currently residing in a hotel
for the time being. We usually have correlation at his house and we
joked about having correlation in his hotel room. It would be a funny mission story to tell when I got
home. But we decided having correlation in a hotel room with 5
missionaries and him, his wife, and their 5 kids probably wouldn't be
the wisest thing to do so we are having correlation at the Church
instead. You'd think that they are pretty shaken by all this but they
are being champs about the whole situation. They didn't seem phased that
their house burned down and will probably have to get a new one. They
are being really upbeat about the whole thing.
This Sunday
is TL day (Transfer letters). Transfers will take place next week. This
transfer letter will be very significant for me and it will impact the
rest of my mission a great deal. If I stay here another transfer then I
will likely have only 1 more area. If I get transferred then I have 1 or
2 areas left. But I am on the chomping block this week. I know when I
got transferred back here that I would only be back for a shorter amount
of time. Over the span of the last 9 transfers, 6 of those have been in
Bridgewater. I have been here for almost a total of 9 months. That's a
long time! That's almost half my mission in one area. I feel like I have
done almost I can in this area and I have exhausted a lot of work here.
If I leave next week I will be sad to leave again but I will leave
knowing I've done what I got sent back here to do. It has been such a
joy to serve here.
On Monday and Tuesday we
went on an exchange with the Sackville Elders. We saw a less active family that evening and they have two
daughters that don't have a lot of gospel knowledge. But the mom and the
brother know quite a bit about the gospel. So we taught them the
Restoration and committed them to read their scriptures every day.
On Thursday President Pratt came
down to Bridgewater and gave a training on member missionaries to the
bishopric, the ward mission leader, us, and the ward missionaries. In
the training President Pratt stated that members aren't doing a good
enough job at doing member missionary work. He said that they need to do
better. He talked about implementing Pray, Look, Speak, and Invite and about having
the missionaries work with selected families and teach them those
principles and help them overcome their fears. We will meet them weekly
until they become a reliable source for referrals.
Saturday, nobody was on the
streets, nobody was answering their door, nobody was answering their
phone. It was just one of those days. But we were able to meet with one
of our less actives that we haven't seen in a long time.
Have a good week!
Love,
Elder O'Brien (the older)
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