10/25/2010

Hey! how's it going?

Things in Calgary are great! i'm excited to be here again. Edworthy Park YSA is awesome. its fun that is for sure. We're over a whole stake. It covers all of downtown Calgary and a bunch of outskirt areas bordering downtown. Its funny going from a city of 10,000 to a city of 1 million. all overnight hahaha. Quite an experience.

My companion, Elder Truman is a sweet kid. I'm so lucky haha. He is from Las Vegas. He has been out about 4 months. Serving in a YSA ward is really different than i thought i'd be like, but its good.

Ian is getting baptized on November 13th! i'm so excited to be there!

We set a goal to baptize 3 people this transfer so please keep this in your prayers! we had a baptism last Saturday! her name is Kati! she has been meeting with missionaries for 3 weeks! Golden Contact! We will be teaching her sister this week hopefully! it'd be nice.

Well, thanks so much for everything. I hope all of you will write me!

Love you!,
Elder Norman

Elder Chet Norman
7044 Farrell Road SE
Calgary, AB T2H 0T2
Canada

I'm getting transferred!!!

HEY!
sorry i don't have much time to email. things are good. Happy b-day mak!

we got 24 lessons! woohoo thanks for your prayers.

Well i'm gettting transfered to the Calgary South Zone again! for the 3rd time! Woohoo. i'll be in the same zone that the Knights live in!

I am now a District Leader. It'll be interesting. I"m excited though! sorry i don't have time but thanks for everythign!

LOve you!
Elder Norman

Elder Chet Norman
7044 Farrell Rd Se
Calgary, AB T2H 0T2

HAPPY CANADIAN THANKSGIVING! 10/11/10

HAPPY CANADIAN THANKSGIVING!

How are things? It was quite the week. It was pretty quite and slow but we managed.

Last Wednesday it was pretty cool. I've been thinking about the training that Elder Gulbrandsen and Elder Meyers (assistants) gave us about talking to everyone and we were leaving the church after making some photocopies and near where our truck was parked there was a young man named Curtis sitting on a rock. As i saw him my first impression was to talk to him, so i did. I asked him if he knew anything about our church at all? and he said, no but taht he is looking for a Youth group to join! i told him we had one and he was pretty excited to go. We called him today and told him that its on Tuesday and 6 and they're playing capture the flag! he seem excited so hopefully we can begin teaching him really soon. Sandy has been sick so we haven't been able to meet with her.

We had about 55 people at church yesterday. It was nice. David and Sister Wilson had us over for thanksgiving dinner. it was awesome! wow turkey is amazing haha.

We did alot of service this week. We volunteered at Salvation Army thrift shop, Kootenay Christian Fellowship Soup Kitchen, split wood for Norman (our investigator), for the Astles, and for the Stroms. It is very exhausting! ahh. it's nice to have a break. haha I prefer teaching than service but sometimes that's what it takes.

We set a goal to get 22 lessons this week. We only got 15 this past week so we're working hard to get it. It quite challenging and discouraging at times being in a small branch of 20 or so active familes getting them involved in missionary work. Many of them don't try very hard to share the gospel which is quite sad. I'd think if someone really cared about someone else they'd share the gospel but often we pre-determine that someone isn't interested thus not even wasting a breathe. Share the gospel! its so easy you can even just send a Mormon Message!

This week will be great i'm sure!

Love, Elder Norman

October 5th 2010

Hey,
How are things? Well this past week has been very full of driving and meetings ha ha. Elder Bleazard, Elder Peterson, Elder Hass, Elder Stapley, and I went to Lethbridge for a 3 day leadership training meeting. It was great. The MTC has just started a new curriculum, which we were trained on. It was very helpful and gave me a lot of insight for our investigators. I couldn't wait to get back to Nelson after having driven 14 hours both ways. It takes a lot out of you. We had interviews yesterday in Cranbrook so we drove in Sunday after conference and got back last night. I really enjoyed Interviews. I was able to talk to President Archibald about some of our "Eternal" investigators and what we could do to address there concerns.
The night we got back from Lethbridge, while we were planning i heard a loud noise. Sounded like a girl yelling so i opened the window to our apartment and hear a pack of coyotes so i talked back to them for about 3-4 minutes. It was pretty cool.
I'm glad to hear the Knights are doing good. I can't believe they want to wait for me to get transferred back to Calgary so i can baptize Ian. ha ha, i really wonder what made him decide to get baptized? However I'm grateful that he is wanting to be baptized and receive the blessings he needs. They're awesome.
Nelson is still the same. We haven't been able to teach Sandy for the last bit. I hope she hasn't turned cold on us. We are meeting with her tomorrow so pray that things will go well. All our other investigators pretty much dropped us. :( Things are tough but we're going to do all we can plus some more to find those the lord has prepared!
Conference was amazing! i really enjoyed it. It was cool to see Elder Zivic since i got to meet with him at Mission Tour 2 weeks ago and also Elder Jensen and Elder Bednar when we met them last year. It seems that it is more and more exciting each time! It is like going to a candy shop ha ha.
Elder Dodge and I saw to bears hanging out in a tree off the highway i got some photos I'll send to you.
Love yoU!
Elder Norman!

p.s. don't send any mail to the nelson BC address. Send all mail to the Mission Office