A Sister in Canada: Week 18: Visiting Teaching & Funeral Potatoes

Chinook Sunset

Sunset Selfie!

Miracle week! We saw the hand of God SO MANY TIMES this week! On Friday morning, we were tracting houses (missionary speak for knocking on doors), and a man opened his door and counted us! "One, two, three, yep!" We offered him a Book of Mormon and he told us that three BOY missionaries already gave him one, so we just gave him our card and told him to call us if he ever wanted to learn more. When we were on the next doorstep over, he peeked his head out the door and asked if we had copies of the King James version of the Bible, because there was a picture on the pass-along card we gave him! We said of course, and he asked how much one would cost, and we told him it would be free and that we'd love to drop one off to him! So we did (when he was finally home, haha)! We love spreading the Word^TM!

Timmy's hot coco!

On Saturday, we were going through a list of people in our area who said they might be interested in learning more about Jesus Christ and following up on them. We knocked on one lady's door and the person we were looking for had moved out, but a young couple with a baby girl had moved in! We told them we're missionaries and they told us they've been looking for a church to start going to, and I nearly cried. OBVIOUSLY, we told them where and when our church service is, so we'll see if they show up! We stopped by lots of people who didn't answer the door, but the two people who did open up scheduled appointments for us to come back and teach them more! It was a great time! Other minor miracles of the day were that I found wool socks in the back of the car to cover my exposed ankles (it was SO COLD. Like -9 degrees Celsius, which is 16ish degrees Fahrenheit. But it got down to -18 yesterday! And on Friday there was a wind warning for the city of Calgary and I had to struggle against the wind to keep our car between the lines on the freeway. Crazy!). AND we went to Tim Horton's to get hot chocolate and we found these super cute Alberta mugs! Which OBVIOUSLY we bought! Love it! We also had dinner with a member of our church who had been baptized a little over a year ago, and we taught her more about the temple, and she's super excited! We had a great time!

A GIANT lap dog.

We had dinner with a family on Thursday night, and their parents asked us if we could share a message about the Godhead for their little kids, so I spent the longest time looking through old Friend magazines to try to find something cute to do with them and we finally found this cute little rhyme about Heavenly Father, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost, and we taught it to them and made them sing I Am A Child of God with us. It was so good! I love kids! Not holding babies is for SURE the hardest mission rule, especially because our ward has SO many babies. A two year old boy hugged me around the legs last night and I almost cried! I love teaching kids! We did the cup activity for the restoration for an eight-year-old girl who's preparing to be baptized, where you stack all the elements of Christ's church and you pull out the priesthood and it comes crashing down. She was super smart and already knew everything, haha. Which is the best kind of lesson to teach.

Vermicelli for Sis. Fetter's B-day!

We've been teaching our friend David every few days for the last week. He's in his early sixties and watched part of general conference and decided that he wants what we have in his life! Which is awesome! We're teaching him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ today, and we're going to ask him if he wants to be baptized! Crazy times! He does call us his "beautiful girls" and likes to take pictures of us and give us things, which is ... a little uncomfy ... but then he always brings it right back to how he loves to learn about Jesus! So! All good!

On Monday morning, we had a meeting with our mission president and all the missionaries in Calgary. Besides telling us to share a confidential document with everyone in our wards, he also said that "before now, all the relief society has done is visiting teaching and funeral potatoes! Unless they've served a mission, they've never done missionary work in their life!" I was SO UPSET! Women are baller member missionaries! Anyway, it ended up being okay because his wife got him back and we got Costco poutine afterwards, which is apparently the best poutine in Calgary. Love Canada!

I have no comment on the new Book of Mormon video, other than adult Nephi makes me uncomfortable. I just can't with the hair. And Nephi coming out of nowhere to shock his brothers while they're just chilling does not seem like his finest moment, but whatever. I wasn't the director.

In 2 Nephi 2:4, Lehi teaches his son Jacob that "the way is prepared from the fall of man, and salvation is free." In John 14:6, Jesus Christ says, "I am the way, the truth, and the light." Christ is the Way that was prepared for us from the beginning! It's so cool to get to teach people that God loves us and has a plan for us! I know that Christ really is the only way back to our heavenly home! And that He loves us dearly! Which is SUCH good news!

I love you! Have a happy halloween and don't forget to start listening to Christmas music on Friday!

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Sister Willis