This week was another really great week!!!
So Monday we received a call from Brother Burgess, a member in our ward. Him and his wife feed us once a month and they are the ones who let us use their computers to skype on christmas and mothers day. He is also in the temple presidency here. They are great. Anyways, both of their mothers are living with them and both of them are nonmembers. They are the sweetest ladies. Most of the time when we go they leave the table right before we share our message so they havent been too interested in the gospel. Anyway, so he called us and said that his mom wants us to teach her!!! I was in shock. I just kept telling sister jackson "I can't believe this is happening, It's too good to be true." But a few days later we went over and it is totally true!!! She wants to get baptized so that she can be sealed to her family. Her and her son are the only ones left! It was the most powerful lesson and she is the sweetest lady. She is 88 almost 89! It's never too late to accept the gospel. She is set to be baptized on the 15 of June. Right after transfers so I am praying that I will get to be here for it. Pray for her too!! Lil is her name! I love her so much!! It was all I could've asked for my birthday so it was the greatest gift ever!!
We also started teaching a girl going to the university who is dating a member. She has been to church a few times and is really opening to learning. So pray for karen too:)
And last but not least pray for Joyce. She is pretty accepting of the book of mormon and we were able to have a couple more good lessons with her!
A couple other interesting facts that we have discovered this week.. The days are getting to be super long!! It doesnt get dark until like 9:30 and it's bright outside by 4:30. It is crazy! When we go outside to exercise in the morning it feels like its in the middle of the day and by the time we go home it still feels like 6. Super weird!
Someone told us this week that Regina has the highest crime rates in Canada.. So that's exciting!
We were walking down the street one day and there was a girl walking towards us. I told sister jackson we were going to talk to her and when I started approaching her you could tell she was trying to avoid us.. all of the sudden sister jackson tripped and that caught her attention. She asked if she was okay and then we were able to talk to her. So that is our knew street contacting tactic. We are just going to trip so people will talk to us hahah.
There was a church sign we saw that said "7 days without prayer makes one weak." I thought that was clever...
On saturday there was a Relief Society activity/devotional that we were able to go to. It was on the talk from october conference caled "Turn on Your light" by sister eubanks. There was a speaker for each of the points. It was really good! Sister Burgess talked about the last one of Being happy. She talked about the hymn "there is sunshine in my soul today" and how you could said "sonshine" to represent the light of christ that is in all of us. That is truly what makes us and other the happiest. I loved that! So this week I hope you will all have Sonshine in your heart and let that light shine for others!! Be an example to all those around you and you can change lives:) Love you all!!
Happy Birthday to me.. thanks to the family for the banner and sign!!
Ultimate frisbee with all the city missionaries!
This is how light it is at 9:00..
I love regina sign again.. It was by the city hall where we had to pay our parking ticket so we took another picture!
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