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