So passes another week in the Canada, Vancouver Mission. The
weather continues to be cold and mostly wet. The week was a little
disappointing in terms of teaching. There's Jignesh of course who is
progressing fast enough to the point that we are considering moving his
baptismal date to the end of November! He has a solid friend in the ward now,
Brother J. who says he would be honored to be the one to baptize
him!
The main event that have been going on in the
life on Elder Samis lately is the fact that I'm forcing myself to do something I never
thought would interest me a whole lot: Singing in public! This
past Saturday was the "Poco's Got Talent" party at the
church. Elder Okamoto and I sang the youth song "I Can Do All
things." Its a nice tune, one about relying on the Savior. Elder
Okamoto loves singing. He was in choir for 9 years back home so it's no secret
to why he volunteered to do it.
I can't sing well, but I do like singing. In the days before
my mission I loved singing along to my favorite songs, like almost every
young adult you can think of do. I basically forced myself to join Elder Okamoto, and
after a couple days of practicing, we performed. I sang the first verse of
the song and it sounded alright, though there were a few members who said
that I looked deathly nervous on the stage... So I probably did. I hate
being in the spotlight.
Then the next day my companion decided it would be fun
to sing in the ward choir after church. I did that too. I was a tenor and I had
a pretty tough time trying to figure out what my notes were as we sang the
hymn, "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing." After
that number we sang "The First Noel." which we
will be singing the Sunday before Christmas.
But wait, there's more! Last night while we traveled
to the Surrey Stake Priesthood Meeting, one of the senior sisters from the
mission office called us and asked if we would like to sing in the
upcoming zone conference this Saturday. Elder Okamoto wanted to of
course, so following the example of my companion, I decided to do the
same... Maybe one day I'll learn how to sing parts. We shall
see. Speaking of which, Elder Teh of the seventy will be speaking during
that meeting so I guess the pressure will really be on. Thank goodness there
will be 24 missionaries singing in the choir!
So, there are a few fun little stories about how I'm learning
how to sing in the twilight hours of my mission. I did sing
a couple times with Elder Lamb when I was in Abbotsford too. Oddly enough I believe it was around this time last year that I was doing so.
In short, Jignesh continues to look real solid, I've been
singing a lot, and we have had a couple of really good potentials
surface. We'll see how that goes. thank you for your thoughts and
prayers throughout my mission. May the Lord bless you as we near winter's
wrath. Cheers!
Elder Maclean Samis
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