Hey everyone! Things are going well here and we are so close to meeting with a bunch of people! "I can't I have exams" has been the quote of the week. Hopefully after exams people will want to rejuvenate their souls with the gospel.
Tuesday- we went and got some music from the computer at the church and then bused to the Bedford elders apartment and did our laundry. We spent awhile there hanging out and then went to Walmart. We got groceries and then that was it for p day. Pday is so short when you gotta bus everywhere! That night we did some bus contacting
Wednesday- we bused to the church in the morning and picked up our laundry from the other elders. Later in the day we took a long bus ride to the mission office and had our interviews with President Low. We bused through the ghetto of Dartmouth and I tried to talk to this guy, he told me we were in the hood so I shouldn't talk to anyone so I just kept talking with him.
Thursday- Zone Conference! Zone conference was good and there were a bunch of good trainings given. We took a long bus ride home and ate dinner. Later that night we met with a member. We pulled out this box of random stuff from the primary room and taught him the restoration using the props. It was pretty fun and he was able to think of a friend that he can help out. We had some pretty good props in the lesson I think my favorite was using play dough talking about how we the gospel helps us shape our lives in order to succeed and be happy.
Friday- It was a full day. We had weekly planning and then went straight to service at the food bank. There was some extra orange juice that we took out into the lobby where people were waiting and we got mauled. It was scary! They all wanted those cartons of orange juice! After dinner we had correlation and then institute. It was the last class of the winter semester so no more institute this transfer sad day.
Saturday- We went to the church in the morning and did some digital finding, there was a family ward Easter breakfast going on so we were treated to some leftover pancakes and sausage #blessed then we went and did some street contacting and talked to this Philosopher guy for a really long time about many things, especially absolute truth and relative truth. He thought he was going to destroy our belief in God when he asked us "if God is real why would there be people who never hear about him and then go straight to hell?" We agreed with him that it would be dumb so then we taught him a little bit about the plan of salvation. The gospel makes so much sense! He said he'll read the BoM and text us if he's interested. Hopefully he actually reads! The rest of the day was a lot of finding.
Sunday- We started off with branch council and then had church. Nobody we invited came to church this week because of finals. Finals is wrecking us at the moment, nobody is available to do anything but study. After church we had a little linger longer and sang to Elder Strong for his b-day! Then we did comp study and did service at the soup kitchen. That night we went to pick something up at the church but it wasn't there, it turned out to be perfect timing because there was a random dude outside the church who had come and was looking for a missionary who served here awhile back. We let him in and gave him a quick church tour and then rode the bus downtown with him. Miracle! Then we street contacted for the rest of the night.
Monday- it was pouring rain all day today so we bus contacted for awhile. Later we planned an Easter booth with the rest of the district and then some members took us to dinner for Elder Strong's b day. I had a fried chicken and waffle sandwich. Halifax has some good restaurants! For FHE we did karaoke and it was a blast!
We had some fun stuff this week! Zone conference was awesome and karaoke for FHE was hilarious. Elder Strong is officially 19 so we won't get kicked out of the sports bar now! Have a great week everyone! Good luck on exams!
Love, Elder Tait
