We teach ESL on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and last night this 20-something year old guy who's super jacked and likes winking at people decided to say goodbye by giving everyone a kiss on the cheek, because "that's how they do it in Mexico." So. That was awesome! And a tad bit unexpected.
The biggest news from this week is that we got a NEW WHIP! We traded in our 2017 Toyota RAV4 for a 2020 Nissan Rogue! Fresh off the lot, baby! With 18 kilometers 😎. We are LOVING that remote start life.
We're trying to do better about being Spirit-led in our finding efforts because it tends to be SUPER difficult to find people to teach in our area, which mostly means driving to a street, praying, deciding it's not the right street, and repeating that 4-6 times or until we get it right. It's SUPER frustrating after about prayer number 3, but on Monday afternoon we were going through this process and we FINALLY got to a street we felt good about, so we started knocking doors and the first guy we talked to was like "we're not interested, but could you move your car? my wife is coming from costco and she's got a bad shoulder and she's gonna have to carry all the groceries in from the car." So that was super awesome. #miracle!! Our actual miracles on that street were meeting this black guy who was on the phone but told us we could come back on the weekend (#elect!) and accidentally tracted into this part-member family with these cute kids who we have not seen or been able to contact FOREVER! I had no idea that they lived on that street and so I was standing on the doorstep STUNNED and asked them how they were doing and if we could come back this week and they said YES! So we're gonna go hang out with them tomorrow! I'm super excited. I guess God knows that I'm too wimpy to go talk to them on my own, haha.
My favorite part of living in Calgary is that we get chinooks that raise the temperature from -30 to -5 in one day. I don't love that the pressure and temperature change gives me a MASSIVE headache and makes me feel like I'm going to die through all of church. Sometimes you just need to take a chinook nap! But sometimes you don't have time for that, so you just drink diet pepsi and try to power through it!
We volunteer at the retirement home in our neighborhood most weeks, and yesterday we got to sit in on the exercise class! It was mostly doing the "live long and prosper" sign from Star Trek to help your brain (which I CANNOT do with my left hand. it was super embarrassing.) and standing on one foot to practice balance and rocking from your toes onto your heels. We were like, wow, that was NOT an exercise class, and then our calves were sore at dinner. So maybe it was more my speed, haha.
At our dinner on Sunday night, these members of our ward had us go on the BYU relative finder and figure out everyone we're related to. Your girl is related to 37/44 US presidents and 17/17 latter-day saint prophets! Booyah! And some people who came over on the Mayflower, which I actually did NOT know. So that's kinda awesome!
1 Nephi 10:19 says "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old, and as well in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round." Don't forget to seek that personal revelation! Especially in preparation for general conference!
Love you! Talk to you next week!
Sister Willis
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