Missionary Letter #72

It seems every time we travel the weather decides to send down a ton of snow.

Which segways nicely into this story. We met a guy this week up in Kirkland Lake that is super interested in the gospel. Young guy, probably early thirties or late twenties. The reason it segways so nicely is because he's a snowplow driver. Usually when dealing with a job you ask about set hours and when they would be free. In his case we have to know when it will snow or not.

Which is why I am SUPER HAPPY we got smart phones. It's a super handy tool to have, (even though I must admit I use it very frequently, the T9 version of typing is still ingrained into me, it'll take a bit to get rid of that)

Besides that we visited a members home and had high tea for the first time. (Herbal tea, we made sure to check) the family that fed us are British and so they usually prepare classic dishes like Yorkshire pudding and such (super good btw)

Hope all'yall have a great week

Elder Wolford



steven.wolford@myldsmail.net

Missionary Letter #71

I've decided two things

1. I've decided that I've become immune to long drives.  I realized that when they told us we'd have to drive eight hours to zone conference and I wasn't bugged by that.

2. I've decided that because of that I need to reevaluate some things

This past week we got to head up to Kirkland Lake, (an area about two hours away from our own) and work up there for a bit, the members are great up there but the problem is that because it's so far away from the chapel that not a lot of people come to church. The funny thing is that both of our solid investigators happen to be from Kirkland lake, and both of them were found by working through those members that don't come to church very frequently.

Working with members has been the most effective up here, that certainly doesn't limit other things but a friend introducing the gospel to someone is very personal and very effective.

Besides that, we've had to host a few of the other missionary companionships in our apartment while they go to and from exchanges. Which is fun, I thought I'd never get to see other human beings around here in the north but I have been pleasantly mistaken.

Loves

Elder Wolford

steven.wolford@myldsmail.net

Missionary Letter #70

We had a busy week this week. We had a district meeting in Rouyn-Noranda on Wednesday which is a bit of a drive, but totally worth it because we get to see other  missionaries that are not skype projections.

While the temperatures fluctuate we stopped by a members home and had dinner. In this branch Sacrament Meeting is only about 45 minutes. Which means only one talk which happened that week to be the member we were eating with. So afterwards we share a spiritual thought with them and I picked Mosiah 4:19 (Elder Holland spends a whole talk on this, which is why I picked it)

In that Sacrament meeting the member gives her talk starting with "The Missionaries were at our house this past week"

This Sacrament meeting was a special one for us, because we got an investigator to come, which meant that we needed to know how she would like it, so when she starts telling a story about us my first reaction was---

RED ALERT ELDER WOLFORD! PAY ATTENTION!

"And they shared a spiritual thought which I thought was very nice, so I wrote a talk about it"

HOORAY!!!

It worked out very well because we had an investigator at church this week for her first time. The talk was wonderful and because of that the investigator had a great time and wants to come back next week.

HOORAY!!!

The moral of the story is that you can never predict what might happen from a small and simple thing. If it's good it can lead to great, which is exactly what happened.

Loves you all, hope you're week is warm and bright

Elder Wolford


steven.wolford@myldsmail.net

Missionary Letter #69

We froze this week.

I don't mean that it got down to a laughable negative thirty. With windchill (we calculated) it got to around -55 degrees Celsius. There's a certain point in a missionaries life where you stop measuring temperatures and everything is just 'really cold'

We hit that moment.

Despite that however we managed to press forward undaunted.... Ok maybe slightly daunted by the cold. That day when it got the worst was an exchange, and I was with my good friend Elder Hunter. In the morning he asked if we wanted to go out and knock doors. We thought about it and decided that that probably wouldn't be the best idea.

Meanwhile my companion went out contacting during the worst of it. We make fun of how the new missionary leading the area almost killed my companion.

It's warmed up now, which has been a blessing to our fingers and earlobes.

Talk to you next week :)

Loves

Elder Wolford

steven.wolford@myldsmail.net

Missionary Letter #68

Seems like every time I start to get the grip on writing down the correct year it changes.

2018 has come in guns a-blazing. We've been through the ringer because this last week was transfers and because of Christmas and then New Years both P-Days have been on Wednesday (sorry mom, I promise I didn't know) So we've had to change our schedule up in order to accommodate our week. Nothing to major, just means that when we go outside to contact and nobodies there (I lovingly refer to New Years up here as Happy Hangover Day) we have to think of some different things.

Caroling, oh yes, we went caroling after Christmas, why? Because we were with a bunch of other missionaries right after Christmas and we thought since people still had their lights up that that meant caroling was a-ok The RESULTS..

Went really well, we were in Quebec whilst we caroled and so singing in English had mixed results. Meaning that some people loved it and others just had that confused look on their face. Luckily we had a French Elder there to help and that made it all the better.

Anyways besides that, as per normal this season it's cold...

Really cold, the President just told that we shouldn't be out over twenty minutes during past negative thirty. Something about how when it reaches a certain temperature certain extremities start falling off.   But whatever

Loves

Elder Wolford

steven.wolford@myldsmail.net