Thursday, September 5, 2019
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:
>
> Hi everyone! Thanks for all the birthday wishes! This week has been really great!
>
> 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!
>
> 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!
>
> 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!
>
> 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!
>
> 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!
>
> 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!
>
> Love,
>
> Elder Tait
>
>
> Hi everyone! Thanks for all the birthday wishes! This week has been really great!
>
> 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!
>
> 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!
>
> 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!
>
> 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!
>
> 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!
>
> 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!
>
> Love,
>
> Elder Tait
>
Monday, September 2, 2019
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Missed this one from August 8th - Zone Conference, Exchanges and driving
Hey everyone! This week was really good! We had exchanges with the Rimouski, Quebec elders which was a lot of fun! I was with Elder Croft who's been out for about 6 months but has never served in English, so it was a big adjustment for him. It's weird being the more experienced missionary on exchanges these days! Lots of fun though! We met some really cool people while we were together and ended up having a really good surprise lesson! That night on the way home we picked up frostys and gave Elder Bonny his first ever frosty! This week we also had zone conference! Everyone in the zone came to Moncton and we had interviews with pres Low and a great zone conference! Elder Bonny and I gave a training about faith and it went well! We had a lot of good things going on last week, we started teaching 10 people which is super crazy and really exciting for us! Yesterday we traveled out to Charlottetown, PEI to go train at their district council it's always really fun to get to see other missionaries. The training and driving took up most of our day, but now we are in our area for the rest of the week so we should be able to have some good lessons with all of our friends and continue helping them grow closer to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ!
It's super crazy that this week will officially be 1 year as a missionary for me! Mission time is wack it's flown by! I've learned and grown so much in the last year it's insane, but awesome! Missions are hard work but such a great opportunity! I'm so thankful to be a part of God's work and to try and be an instrument in his hands! Have a great week everyone! Love you!
Love,
Elder Tait
Zone conference
Zone conference and the Ann of Green Gables hat
It's super crazy that this week will officially be 1 year as a missionary for me! Mission time is wack it's flown by! I've learned and grown so much in the last year it's insane, but awesome! Missions are hard work but such a great opportunity! I'm so thankful to be a part of God's work and to try and be an instrument in his hands! Have a great week everyone! Love you!
Love,
Elder Tait
Zone conference
Zone conference and the Ann of Green Gables hat
Another busy week
I did a lot of missionary work this week. It was fun ! I am looking forward to doing more missionary work this week. Love you all! 🙏🔴⚪
Love Elder Tait
Love Elder Tait
Elder Tait's mom here...
We talked to Elder Tait for a few minutes this week and he is doing really well.
It's transfer week and they had Elders coming from all directions to stay with them and then had to make a few trips to the airport and drive others to their new areas.
It was fun to hear him talk about the many memories over the past year and the many ways he has grown. He has some great goals as he moves into the second half of his mission. I was a little emotional as I listened to him and felt of his love for missionary work.
He received news from President Low, the one of the people he and his companion taught in his first area (Cornerbrook) was getting baptized this week.
Also, they are blessed to have a large teaching pool right now and have seen miracles as they pray for very specific things. I'm sure he will tell you more about all these things, but this week didn't have a lot of time, so just wanted to send a quick update of what we heard from him.
We talked to Elder Tait for a few minutes this week and he is doing really well.
It's transfer week and they had Elders coming from all directions to stay with them and then had to make a few trips to the airport and drive others to their new areas.
It was fun to hear him talk about the many memories over the past year and the many ways he has grown. He has some great goals as he moves into the second half of his mission. I was a little emotional as I listened to him and felt of his love for missionary work.
He received news from President Low, the one of the people he and his companion taught in his first area (Cornerbrook) was getting baptized this week.
Also, they are blessed to have a large teaching pool right now and have seen miracles as they pray for very specific things. I'm sure he will tell you more about all these things, but this week didn't have a lot of time, so just wanted to send a quick update of what we heard from him.
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