This week was a great one! We had zone conference in St John's so we got to fly again! Because of snow we had to spend an extra day there and it was a blast! Here's how the week went down
Tuesday- we spent a long time shopping for Christmas presents. After we finished shopping we went to the church and played a board game with Gillian. It was a sports trivia game so I won. That night we watched the Christmas devotional with the young men and the rest of the branch.
Wednesday- we spent the morning cleaning the church with the Shenfields and then they took us to lunch. After lunch we went knocking for awhile and nobody was home. That night we were supposed to have a lesson at the church but we waited and waited and the guy never showed up. It was kind of a rough day.
Thursday- we got to fly to zone conference again! We were on one of the tiny planes again but there was no wind this time so it was less sketchy. We got to St John's and hung out with the senior couples for like an hour until the other missionaries in the zone got there for dinner. After dinner we all went out and worked in St Johns. It was a blizzard and St John's streets are super confusing, so driving was interesting.
Friday- today was a party! Because of the blizzard president Low's flight got cancelled so we had to move zone conference from Friday to Saturday. That meant we had an entire day with 8 elders together! In the morning we shoveled snow. There was lots of snow so we decided to bury one companionship's car. It was fun to watch people's faces as they drove by. Next we did weekly planning and then made some pancakes for lunch. After lunch we did a huge comp study and then had to go uncover the car. At first we tried to just uncover the back and have them climb in through the trunk and back up, but the car couldn't move. Eventually we had to take off all of the snow so it could move. After we cleared the car we all got shovels and went around helping people clear their driveways. After that we had pizza with the senior couples and then split up into our districts and went to an event where a bunch of boats were decorated with lights for Christmas. It was the 20th anniversary so they also had fireworks. It wasn't as cool as the pictures on the ad but it was still super fun. When we got back to the apartment Elder Groneman and I decided to dive into the huge snow piles. It was a super fun day!
Saturday- we got up and went to the church. We had our interviews with President Low and then had Zone Conference/ Christmas party. It was a good time and the Lows did a really funny puppet show in the talent show. We went straight to the airport from zone conference and waited for our flight. Our plane got delayed for 2 hours because of maintenance so we hung out in the airport and had a video chat lesson with Brianna.
Sunday- it was a good routine Sunday. We had church, lunch, sang and talked at the senior center and then had comp study and zoomed with the Whites. We had dinner with the Sheppards and then went knocking for the rest of the night.
Monday- we did call ins to start the day and then helped out with an open door soup service at another church. The guy that told us he was God last Monday was there eating soup so he talked to us for awhile again. Haha he is a funny old man! Later we taught Harold and Stephanie the couple that we found and then baked a cake for Hayley for her birthday. Hayley, Harold and Stephanie all came to FHE and we celebrated Hayley's birthday with cake and ice cream. It was a great night!
This weekend in St John's was the funnest part of my mission so far! It was a great time being in a missionary frat house for a couple days! 😂 I hope you all have a great week this week!
Love Elder Tait
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