Well folks the weather has cooled down considerably on the
Island and it's a good thing too! It's rained for a couple of days which should
help out the fire fighters quite a bit. Though I can't stay too informed by the
news, we've been told by the ward members that there's been a lot of forest
fires in BC this year.
Teaching and finding has been pretty low this week.
President Burt has adjusted the way we find investigators. It used to be
easier, now it's harder but I like the idea. It's helping us learn how to
become better teachers. The way it used to work is that you could talk to
someone on their door step and if they said you could come back and say a
prayer with them, the person would become a new investigator. Now you need to
get the return appointment to go through to make it happen so it's more
challenging.
Dail has stopped meeting us again. Perhaps for a while. He
sent us a text explaining that one of his family members told him to "STAY
AWAY from the Mormons" so I guess we did all we could without being too
pushy. We'll keep on praying for him and he'll come around one day.
On Saturday we taught a homeless guy named Scott in the park
downtown. He listened but it didn't really seem like he was "buying"
what we were telling him. We gave him a Book of Mormon though and he said he
would read it.
The brightest part of the week was the fact that we found
Tanya! :) After over a transfer we dropped by her place and she was happy to
see us again. The north elders had a baptism going on that night so we invited
her to go to it. She did but for some reason she didn't come to church the next
day. She has been traveling all over the island so maybe she's worn out. We'll
be sure not to lose her this time!
Another miracle we received came this morning. We recieved a
call from a family called the Sternals who are members and moved from Ontario
to Ladysmith last week! This was huge news to us since it seems like little
happens there. We felt prompted to go there on Friday and spent the entire day
trying to contact less active members spending and finding without much success.
The Lord must of blessed us with putting the Sternal family in Ladysmith. Who
knows, maybe some other missionaries will be able to work with them and the handful
of other members to get a branch there one day!
That's the week! transfer calls are coming up. Within under
24 hours I could be told that I'm leaving Nanaimo. By the time you get my next
post, I may be some where else in the province. Stay tuned!
With Love from,
Elder Maclean Samis
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