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Hey all,

 I’m super pumped about your call Boo! It’s going to be such a great experience for you!

 My week was pretty good, alothough it’s kinda boring to write about. We did lots of good contacting downtown. Had district council. Prepped zone conferences. Played basketball with nonmembers and got them into our English class, which is going well. Had a great time with General Conference, loved tons of the talks. Didn’t find anyone new yet, although we’ll see with the English class if we can start teaching someone. Monday we drove up to Moncton and I got to do some finding there. Stayed in a hotel for the night, which was super nice. Tuesday was a good zone conference and then drive back to Halifax. It was really nice to just chat with the Lows on the drive.  Today we went shopping and cleaned the car. Had a meeting about the English class. Going to the class later today. Tonight I’ll get to see Elder Olsen, he’s staying with us for zone conference. 

 We spend most of our time on proselytizing and teaching and working to find people. Definitely have plenty of time we do administrative stuff too though. It’s a good balance. 

 We still have two more zone conferences. One tomorrow for Nova Scotia. One on Saturday for Newfoundland. We’re training on area book, which kinda sucks. We made it a good training, but it still would have been nice to do something more inspiring. 

 I haven’t taken tons of photos. It’s hard to know what I will want in the future, mostly I have photos of people that I know or care about. I took one of the snow today. BTW we still have snow. We got a snow storm the other day. Before that Halifax had no snow. Moncton still had lots.

 Here’s one of my favorite quotes recently. It's from Elder Andersen, from a mission president seminar. He says, “Some may say that baptisms are not determined by the missionary because it is a moral choice that every investigator must make. There is truth in that statement, but there is also truth in this one: There is a power that can cause things to happen that need to happen. There is a spiritual force that can stir a mortal soul toward the spiritual, motivating deeper study into the Book of Mormon and more prayer with real intent. Faith is a power, and it can cause things to happen that need to happen. It can cause a soul who is good but dormant to awaken to God." 

 I love that one so much. I hear missionaries make the excuse of, “Oh they have agency, so we couldn’t do anything.” There’s so much missionaries can do! We’re here to exercise faith. The church could reach out to so many people by buying ads. But they don’t because there’s no faith in an ad. 

 Love you all so much! 




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