I'm tired. If only I could leave this week's message at that but I can't because I love you guys.
It's been a better week then last, results wise. Elder Lawlor
and I went on an exchange with the assistants on Tuesday. Elder Lawlor went with Elder
Lewis and I was placed with one of my old MTC buddies, Elder
Cottingham. I had a great trip with him. We've both noticed immense changes in
each other since that time over 16 months ago when we were in the MTC together. Gosh, we've
been out that long? We found and dropped by a few former investigators. Elder
Cottingham being the monster of a missionary that he is managed to find a couple of YSA
people and set baptismal dates with them almost as soon as he met them! He sent
there info to the YSA Langley ward Elders who will be teaching them.
What happened the next day? Another exchange - this time with
the zone leaders. I went to Delta with Elder Hall and we saw some good success
there. We talked to a really cool Vietnamese lady named Jeana who was really
into the idea of the Book of Mormon. Her English was pretty much perfect. She
agreed to read it and she has a return appointment for next week. Elder Lawlor
and Elder Green found a miracle of a man named Jonathan who we saw the very
next day. We taught him at the church employment center since he's been looking
for work. We taught him about baptism along with the word of wisdom and set a baptismal date for July 7th!
Elder Lewis and Elder Lawlor taught Levi, the man who came
to church with the Cardwell family, and his wife Sonya. Both of them are from
Taiwan and will only be in Canada for another 6 months so it's likely they will
be passed on to the Chinese Missionaries in Richmond. Elder Lawlor knows how to
write Mandarin so he did most of the teaching with characters on a piece of
paper defining words. They understood baptism and they have a date for July
7th!
Last Saturday Elder Lawlor and I found a young woman named
Keara while tracting. She's been a strict atheist much of her life and only went
to a church with her friend back when she was younger. When Elder Green and
Elder Lawlor taught her on the exchange she seemed to feel the spirit quite
strongly.
Towards the end, our week became exceedingly sore. Our car
was taken away from us on Wednesday since there are some missionaries in Kelowna
that need a car real bad so now we're on transit. Our
bus passes costed a whopping 91 dollars and thank goodness the church
filled our cards and allowed us to purchase them. So now we're off in the
scorching heat sweating like crazy doing missionary work. It's been quite the
experience really. It can only get better though as we now have a pretty good
looking teaching pool mainly a result of our exchanges which proved to be our
little "breath of life." Perhaps the storm of struggle is finally
lifting and now we can press forward. Have an awesome week!
Elder Maclean Samis
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