Zone Conference, traveling, teaching and blessings. Another great and busy week...

Hey everyone! We've been crazy busy, so it was a super quick week! We're teaching a lot of people right now in our area and we also had zone conference this week, so we had to get travel plans and everyone settled in for that. The day before zone conference one of the missionaries had to go to the hospital for an emergency appendix surgery, so that was a curveball in our travel plans for them. The surgery was successful and all is well now, haha. That was a crazy call though!
Everyone in the zone came to Moncton Thursday night for interviews with President Low. We took a couple elders out with us and worked with them for the night. Me and the elder I was with did a family history booth downtown and then went to a Bible study. The Bible study fell through so we went and visited a lady we are teaching. While we were walking there we met Eric. He's so cool! He's from Rowanda and was super excited to meet us and to hear about The Book of Mormon. He ended up coming to church with us on Sunday! Thursday night we had 6 other elders stay with us at our apartment, which was super fun!

Friday we had a great zone conference, we talked a lot about planning and having a vision and learned a lot of great things! After the conference we took the Lows to the airport and then had a sports night at the church and also watched the new Book of Mormon videos!

On Saturday we had 5 lessons fall through, so we spent most of the day on our backup plans. We had lots of great laughs all day, mostly because we were so tired, so everything was hilarious to us. That night I was writing in my journal and when I finished I had written about the same day twice in a row haha!

Sunday was good. We had 4 people we are teaching come to church. That was really exciting! Later we had a really good lesson with Eric. He is so prepared for the gospel!

Yesterday we drove a couple hours to Fredericton, visited a district council there and then came back. We had a great tender mercy. One of the sisters gave us some chick fil a sauce, so we stopped at KFC on the way back and used the sauce. It was so good! We got back for the evening and had another good lesson with Eric. We taught him the Plan of Salvation and he wasn't sure about some things, but we were able to read some good scriptures and he really liked them. Then we visited Rémi and Angelina and their family. We are trying to teach them English. They were watching some Swahili to English videos on YouTube and then Rémi handed me the remote and pointed to the TV "English video" so I put on an English video. I put on the primary song "A Child's Prayer" with the lyrics and Rémi sang along with it! haha it was a great time!

Everything is going great here! We keep finding lots of cool people and are teaching and traveling a lot! Lots of fun! Have a great week everyone!

Love,

Elder Tait

You Might Be Doing it Wrong...

Hey Everyone! This week has been good for us out here in good old Moncton! This week we got to have exchanges in our area with the Miramichi elders. I was with Elder Calheiros from France. We had a great time working together and had lots of laughs because of the little language barrier. We were able to have a good lesson with one of the people we were teaching, she was really distraught and confused and was really struggling with prayer. We taught about prayer and it went really well. We were able to answer her questions and resolve her concerns with the scriptures! Overall it was a great exchange and it was awesome to work with and learn from Elder Calheiros. After exchanges ended Elder Bonny and I went to another lesson we had. We knew that us and the guy had some differing opinions and we were holding each other accountable to teach with love and not argue with him. It was an interesting lesson. The guy has read the entire Book of Mormon, but refuses to pray about it to ask God if it's true. We talked to him about how we can find truth and testified of the answers that come to sincere prayers, but he still refuses to pray about it. It was sad and kind of frustrating, but Elder Bonny and I were both able to feel the spirit while testifying to him so hopefully someday he will remember something from that lesson and pray about it. We also got to do some service this week which was pretty fun. We helped out with a food drive where we would go door to door collecting food, Elder Bonny and I were right in our element going from house to house haha! We also got to help out with a member who had 40 trees fall down in his yard after the storm that came through last week. It's always super fun to be able to serve and help out other people!
Our mission has been focusing a lot on planning lately and how we should be doing it. It's been crazy to learn that our planning sessions haven't been like they should be. As we've applied what we've learned planning has been much better for me. I'm not a fan of the mornings anyway, but I really didn't like doing daily planning every morning. Now I'm still pretty tired in the morning, but planning is so much better because we are doing it right. That's something that I've seen a few times on my mission. When I think I don't like something, most of the time it's because I'm doing it wrong. If you aren't enjoying something in your life, then try to see what you can do differently because most of the time you aren't doing it completely right. I'm thankful for all the great experiences and the learning I get to do as a missionary! Have a great week everyone! Love you!

Love, Elder Tait

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Re: Starting a New Transfer, Feelin' Like a Missionary Mom, Great Things Happening...

> On Sep 5, 2019, at 3:59 PM, Sheri Tait <sheri@7taits.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone! Thanks for all the birthday wishes! This week has been really great!
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> On Wednesday night we had a few Elders sleep over and Thursday morning Elder Bonny and I got to wake up at 4:30 to take the first Elder to the airport. After we got him sent off we went back home and rested until the next Elder needed to leave, we took him to the airport and sent him off. It was sad to see them go, I felt like a missionary mom sending my sons off haha! We continued sending and receiving missionaries throughout the day so we were back and forth between Little Ceasars and the bus station. Eventually we got everyone sent off safely and were able to have a lesson with a lady we recently started teaching. She has many questions so the lesson had a wide variety of principles, but we tried to keep it simple and it worked out well. Later we got to have dinner with our Bishop and got to correlate with him and then had a lesson with a new couple later that night!
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> Friday was a whole lot of planning for us and getting everything figured out for this transfer. That night we tried to stop by this couple we are teaching. We had been out of contact for a few days and unable to reach them. The buzzer for their apartment doesn't work and we haven't been able to reach them over the phone, so we had no way to contact them. We had been praying to get in contact with them all day. We showed up to their apartment and we talked to this guy outside who was very uninterested, but as he was walking away he offered to let us in the building. That was a big surprise, because people here never let us into apartment buildings. We were able to go in and knock on the apartment of the people we are teaching. They let us in and we were able to sit down and talk with them for awhile and get back in contact!
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> We did a big service on Saturday to fix the deck of a sister in the ward. It was a lot of fun, except for when we got attacked by hornets - haha good times! Later, we had a lesson with Barbara one of the ladies we are teaching. She told us her experience about how she was having a horrible day and was about to slip back into her old habits after years of being clean, and she decided to pick up the Book of Mormon and started to read. She said after that she was able to feel good for the first time that day and she received the strength to resist temptation. So cool! Later that night we also had a lesson with Remi and Angelina, a family we are teaching. Next time we go we have someone skyping in that speaks Swahili so it will be a lot easier for them to understand!
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> Sunday was good! We had church, did some finding, had a lesson and sorted through 30 boxes of pass along cards that just got delivered to us for the zone. That took awhile, but it's good to have it done!
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> Yesterday we had our calls with all the district leaders and then our call with President Low. We were also able to go help clean the yard of a family that just cut down a giant tree. We were there for a couple hours and only made a small dent, but we plan to go back later this week to finish off the tree. Later we had a lesson with a guy we are teaching named Joel, he has a really good understanding of the Bible and believes the same things as we do just from reading the Bible. He is excited to read the Book of Mormon to answer some other questions he has. We finished the night by stopping at Dairy Queen for some blizzards!
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> Another great week! This transfer is a couple weeks longer than normal so we should be able to get a long of good work done! Have a great week and don't forget to pray!
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> Love,
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> Elder Tait
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Happy 20th Elder Tait!!