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| Thanks to Audrey Francesconi for the photos of my favorite Elder mid service project on Saturday! |
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| Elder Nelson |
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| Elder Nelson and the fall leaves |
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| Elder Martinez |
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| Elder Smith |
Well it has been an interesting week, this week has seen the passing of Canadian Thanksgiving and Skills and Interviews with President Shields. It has been a great first week since conference and a beautiful first week of October. Happy Birthday to MJ and Grammy last week sorry that it is a little late however time did not permit last week. I do love you though and I hope to get a package off in the next week or two with your present in it.
Other than that this week was great. We ate so much food it was almost criminal, participated in the Annual Cambridge ward Turkey Bowl, and celebrated Thanksgiving a month and a half early. That might just be one of the weirdest parts about Canada is that Thanksgiving is so off. For all of us it feels like a normal day however for all of our investigators and members it is a sacred day and all they care about is whether or not you have somewhere to eat that night but they don't really want you at their house at any other time during the day. We ended up baking cookies yesterday and just delivering them to families in the stake as a way to say thank you to them for all the wonderful things that they do for us.
That is something that I have really grown to appreciate as of late is the amount of blessings that we receive and how much an attitude of Gratitude really can bless our lives and change us fundamentally. When we are grateful we are happier, we sleep better, and we are more in tune with the spirit and the will of the Lord. All in all it is just so much better to be grateful.
Other things that happened this week was that we had Interviews with President and Sister Shields. I love them so much. We spent most of the interview just talking about the area and trying to figure out how to make it so that language work can be more streamlined in the mission. The other thing that we figured out was we finally got cleared to get a phone that can type in Portuguese we are super excited about that. Other than that it has been a pretty normal week.
questions
1. What did you do to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving?
We had three dinner appointments and I probably gained like 10 pounds again
2. What are three things you have in common with your companions?
We are missionaries, we are males, and we are wearing white shirts
3. How were your lessons this week?
we had a few and they were all pretty good. Trying to get weeks that don't have major holidays or events.
4. How are your ESL classes?
suffering again I am trying to work on that.
5. What are you looking forward to this week?
We get to meet with a couple pretty cool people and we are helping our returning member prepare for the melchezidick preisthood
6. What are your plans for pday?
We did a lot of cleaning.
7. What was the best thing that happened to you last week?
Interviews and got a really nice blackberry
8. How are your investigators? Anyone at church this week?
A came and we got to meet with the zi's again
9. Have you had to speak or sing in church lately? If so tell us your topic etc.
We spoke in church a few weeks ago and we were asked to bear our testimonies on the book of Mormon and how it has influenced our lives,
10. What was one of your adventures in Missionary Work this week? Anything out of the norm, funny or silly that happened to you?
well this happened and we saw a guy riding his jazzy down the street as if it was a horse. Also Elder Nelson ate a raw egg when we had dinner with a Romanian member. She was cool she survived the Romanian Revolution in the nineties.
well that is about it,
Loves,
Elder Smith
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