Hey everyone hope you are all doing well! This week was crazy but really fun! We spent a lot of time out of our area this week with new missionary conference and exchanges. All the travel and things going on make the weeks go by fast! Thankfully our plane to Halifax was bigger than to st John's. It's getting colder and starting to snow instead of rain. It's so humid that when it's under freezing temperature there's little ice balls in the air.
Tuesday- for pday we had another lazy day where we mostly just napped and cleaned up a little bit. Later we went to the mall and looked around and I bought some postcards. On our way out we walked past Boston Pizza. The Jazz vs Raptors game was on at Boston Pizza, so I watched through the window for a little bit. That was amazing! We got groceries after that and then emailed. That night we had young men's. We went to the Butt's house and played a game with them it was super fun.
Wednesday- we had district council over zoom (zoom is pretty much the same thing as skype) in the morning. We knew we had New Missionary Conference on Thursday, but at this point we still didn't have our travel plans so we weren't sure what we were doing. We did lunch and comp study and then finally got our flight info, so we could plan the rest of our day. We went and tried to find a soup kitchen to help at or any kind of service we can do. Then later we were going to have zoom a lesson with Matthew but he didn't get on.
Thursday 11/8/18 - today was an awesome day! We woke up at 3:30 am, got ready and drove to the airport. Our flight left around 6:00. We got to Halifax and went to the church for the conference. It was sick to see all the new missionaries! I got to see my MTC companion elder Atkins, so that was pretty cool. He's a stud. We had lots of great trainings and I learned a lot. In the afternoon we all got to go to the temple. It was awesome! Later after the temple we had interviews with President Low and then went on an exchange with the Cole Harbour elders. That night we slept at their apartment which is where Lindsey lived when she served in Cole Harbour! It was a really spiritual day!
Friday- we got up and got ready and then went to the mission office. We waited there for awhile and then the APs took us to the airport. We flew back to Deer Lake and from there we went to Grand Falls on exchanges. We got to Grand Falls and I went knocking with Elder Jones for awhile and then we did a Book of Mormon read with 2 of their members which is half of their little group.
Saturday- in the morning Elder Jones and I went knocking again with no success. We met back at the apartment and had lunch and comp study with the other two. After that elder Benson and I went and did some more knocking. We met these two guys, they wanted us to climb on the roof and help them fix the chimney, but when we tried they said they were kidding so then we just talked for a little bit. They had some great thoughts and are really funny. After dinner Elder Call and I drove back to Corner Brook. It was snowing pretty hard so it took extra long, but we made it.
Sunday- church was good on Sunday. We didn't have to teach any of the lessons this time. That was kinda nice. After church we had lunch with the Butts again. This time sister Butt gave us some Turkish food. We had this thing called yogurt soup. It was interesting to say the least, hot yogurt with rice and chicken bouillon cubes for flavor. I had to psych myself up for every bite. Not my favorite thing I've eaten haha. After lunch we went to the seniors home and did our hymns and talks. After that we met with the Whites over zoom. That night we went knocking in the snow. Knocking in the snow is better than in the rain, at least for now. After that we went to teach a first lesson with a guy, but he wasn't home or just didn't answer so we did digital finding instead. At 9 we played pong with some unsweetened prune nectar that we found in the back of the fridge. I won because Elder Call quit after throwing up. Moral of the story prune juice does not taste good.
Monday- in the morning we had call ins and then did weekly planning we missed on Friday. Later we did comp study and had a ZLC about how we can use the things we learned at zone conference to help the zone. That night we had FHE. Brianna came and brought 2 people! We played minute to win it games and everyone got into, it so they were really fun!
The highlight of the week was flying to Halifax for the New Missionary Conference. That day was full of spiritual experiences and one of the best days of my mission so far! We've got one more trip to Halifax this week so it's gonna be another unusual week! Have a great week everyone! Love you all!
Elder Tait
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