This was a good week!
Wednesday, we had district meeting in Greenwood, and right after we drove to Halifax for our exchange with Elder Ipson and Elder Cox. That was a blast! We did a bit a finding and taught a couple lessons to some less actives and recent converts.
Thursday, Elder Ipson and I went street contacting in downtown Halifax all morning, and it was so much fun! We met some awesome people too!! It was a little sad too though because that might be the last time we do missionary work together on our missions 😢😢😢. Guess we'll have to see what happens on that front. Later, we drove back to Kentville and had a lesson with Mare. She's doing soooooo well! She basically put her self on date for March 10th. That's her goal! She just needs to quit smoking and she'll be golden!! We're just hoping that is enough time for her. We don't want to rush anything. We'll see if she makes it though!! She's making soooooo many changes in her life. It's insane to see how much she's changed in the last 3 weeks.
Friday we taught a lesson to a recent convert/less active couple named the Keddys who are working to go to the temple for the first time. They're so funny. Brother Keddy will just blurt out in the middle of our lessons and say, "I'm proud to be a Mormon!" and give us a thumbs up. He'll do it no matter what we're talking about. We also had another lesson with Mare that day.
Saturday was also a pretty good day. We picked up a new investigator! Her name is Brenda. No kidding, she's like 4 feet tall. We taught her about how she can build her faith because she's not been feeling happy lately. It went well! Then later that night we had a ward movie night. We watched the Incredibles and it was LEGIT. We had 50+ people there and there were quite a few non members too! Mare came as well. She actually ditched a party she was invited to to come to the movie night instead. She started to go cold turkey from smoking on Saturday, so hopefully she can do it!
Sunday, Mare came to church again and loved it. She also came to dinner with us at the Morrisons after our meetings. They helped us teach her the law of tithing, which she accepted wholeheartedly. She's actually excited to start paying her tithing!! It was an awesome Sabbath day.
Monday, we spent a lot of time doing call ins and putting our area book into our phones. We were in the apartment for a long time, and it was gross and boring. But we got to teach Mare and get her set for baptism too.
It was a good week. Hope your week was as good as mine.
Go Jazz! And happy birthday wishes to grandpa, Alexis, and dad!!!!!!! 😁
Love you all.
Elder Haslam
