Dear Family,
It
has been an eventful week. It all started on Tuesday when Elder McGuire
got in a couple of heated arguments with some people finding. It didn't
help that those people were disrespecting us and calling us hypocrites.
One guy told us that we haven't repented and that we don't share a
message about Jesus Christ and that we believe in fairy tales. Elder
McGuire was getting frustrated and had enough. We finally just walked
away. Cooler
heads prevailed. This frustration was an accumulation of frustration
built up for almost 2 years. We meet a lot of rude people on our
missions but some days you just get tired of it.
On Thursday we got a call from a member in Ontario who sounded very distraught. He
asked us to visit him. We thought he was from Sackville at the time. We
asked him where he lived and he said Brampton then we're like "Uhh.. we're
in Nova Scotia we can't really come fly to Ontario to visit you." We
told him we'd track down the missionaries in Brampton and have them
visit him. So we located the Brampton Elders and we actually called them
on the phone and told them to go visit this guy. It was so weird to
talk to missionaries from another mission. After
we got off the phone with the Toronto missionaries I realized that at
any given time we have the capacity to locate any missionaries around the world and call them. I could very easily find out what
Chris's phone number is and call him.
It made
me grateful that our Church is a worldwide church. Missionary work is
the same work regardless of if you're in Nova Scotia, Texas, or Alberta.
It's the same work of salvation. The gospel is also the same gospel
regardless of where you go. Above all we all have the same loving Heavenly Father. It reminds me of a scripture: 2 Nephi 27:23 - "For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and I work not among the children of men save it be according to their faith."
Last
weekend we agreed to help a less active that we work with move into
Halifax to live with his girlfriend. We didn't think of anything of it
at the time.
On Thursday we got a call from the Elder's Quorum President and he basically said
"Now wait a second here.. there's something sticky about this. We're
helping him move to another apartment so that he can live common-law..
so in essence we're helping him break a commandment." After we got
off the phone we made various phone calls to get various opinions. Our
hold up from not helping him move was we were actively working with him
and we already told him we would help him move. Plus we didn't want to
ruin the relationship. Finally we called the mission president and he told us that we shouldn't
help him move. But it wasn't for the reason we expected. He told us
that in the missionary handbook it says that missionaries are not to
replace the efforts of the Melchizedek Priesthood function.
This Sunday,
The New Brunswick Stake and the Nova Scotia will gather together in
Sackville, New Brunswick at Mount Allison University to hear from Elder
Renlund of the Quorum Of The Twelve Apostles and Elder Gong of The
Presidency Of The Seventy. We will be traveling via transfer van
on Sunday morning for 2 hours to be there. All of the missionaries in Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, and PEI will be traveling there as well.
It is interesting that you also have a multi-stake conference
in 2 weeks with some apostles and general authorities.
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