Here's a quick rundown of the past week.
Wednesday we had a zone conference. It was very good, and we learned a lot. All the other missionaries in the mission received their smartphones, so the bulk of zone conference was setting those up and talking about how to responsibly use them in the best way to do missionary work. I have to say that as I've been using my phone the past couple weeks, it's increased my testimony that the Lord is definitely hastening His work.
On Thursday we taught a lesson to Mare. She's been going through a lot lately. I won't get into specifics, but she hasn't been able to maintain living the Word of Wisdom. It may take her some time to break some habits, but we're going to be patient with her and stick with it. She is awesome and she's trying her best, so we're confident she'll get to baptism eventually. Definitely remember her in your prayers please.
On a bummer note, our Indian couple dropped us because their family back in India didn't approve of them meeting with us 😐.
Saturday and Friday we had Skype lessons with Mare. Other than that we did a lot of finding, which felt really good. We found a couple of cool potential investigators, so hopefully we'll pick them up this week.
Sunday, Mare came to church and stayed for all three hours for the first time. She loved it too, so that was awesome! I gave a talk in sacrament meeting on parables, which was actually pretty fun to prepare and deliver. We also had a dinner appointment with the Drennan family, who are one of my favorite families ever. I'm best buds with the youngest Drennan boy, Colby. He's my brotha from anotha motha. Sister Drennan got Grandma Judy's brownie recipe from mom and made them for us. She did a really good job too. Tasted just like home :)
Monday, we did a lot of finding, and unfortunately, I got food poisoned from the local McDonalds, so that was not fun.
Anyway, I just want to testify that I know Christ's church was restored to the earth by the prophet Joseph Smith. I'm so lucky that I get to share this with the good ole people of Nova Scotia.
Love you all! Hope you had a good week.
Elder Haslam
