Do You Wanna Teach A Snowman?

Heyo everybody,

This week was a roller coaster. It was a really fun one though, even better than lagoon. So we have 6 investigators... WOO WOO! which is nuts because just a few weeks ago... 0.

So, the Bathurst area is still really wierd and confusing because sometimes you speak english... and others french and sometimes you speak both in the same conversation hahaha..

Fun stuff.... But lots of funny experiences. We had zone conference this week and we got to make the 3 hour voyage all the way down to Moncton. We listened to a lot of motab. It was great. I would have never thought ever in my life that you can get just absolutely amped by a choir but you can. especially the song, "Call of the Champions." It's the Bathurst district theme song. So the neat thing about this drive is that there was this insane fog, like can't see farther than 10 feet in front of the truck fog. This is dangerous stuff. Canada isn't full of big cities everywhere, it's just trees and moose. Literally. And if you hit a moose your entire car/truck/trailer/camper/tank is crushed. LITERALLY. I saw a camper that hit a moose and it looked like an explosion on the side of the road... the moose was dead but he didn't explode he just was kind of there next to the explosion. So yeah that was really sketchy driving through woods not knowing if there was a 2000 lb moose in front of you.

Another day(Saturday) we went up to a place called Belledune. It's basically a highway with houses on the side. We knocked all day with no luck and the last house we knocked (of course) was this guy who works in Labrador ( just north and just snow). He talked to us for about a half hour about how he has already read the Book of Mormon and all this stuff. He wasn't interested at all.  But then he offered us a ride back to our truck a few miles back which was weird and awesome. Later that night we knocked into 2 guys: Father and son. The father just lost his wife last week (71 years old) and the son is like 40ish. They let us in and talked about the catholic beliefs for 15 minutes and then something just sort of switched. We gave them really simplified versions and pieces of each of the 3 lessons and they became super open and they agreed with ever single principle. It was amazing. So we will be seeing them Tomorrow:)

NOW, something great. One of our investigators, came to church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have taught her for just a week and she came! She brought her 10 year old son and the branch just did incredible. They were talking to her and including her the whole time it was amazing. That is the first investigator that the branch has had attend church in months!!!! WOOOOO. Yeah we are stoked about that.

 

Matthew 10:16

Christ when he is talking to the apostles about sending them off to work... pretty cool, he didn't say go and you will be successful and baptize 9,204,892 people.

 

"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves"

Je vous aime tous! passez un bonne semain! oh yeah.. forgot to take pics this week cuz it's cold so here is an emailing selfie. Don't mind the clothes, we didn't have time to change out of our service stuff.

Elder Argyle

New address:

1153 Victoria St

Bathurst, New Brunswick

E2A3K1

When in Canada...do as the French do!

Bonjour ma famille et mes amies!

Well. This week was just a good one, is all I can say... just incredible. It went really quick too. It like feels like just one day. To start it off my new comp is Elder Portellano and he is from Marseilles in France. He is very stylish hahaha. He is super cool. He had seen snow once in his life until he came here and now it's every day hahahaha. 

So Thursday we woke up at 5:00 AM to go pick up all the new missionaries in Moncton at 9:00. The Bathurst District recieved 3, all native French. One from Quebec (Elder Darche) one from Belgium (Elder Snickers) and France (Elder Portellano) Elder Darche speaks English and French but the others just French. It's awesome. Elder Snickers looks like a movie star and dresses like one too and Elder Portellano is the fashion king and there will be a pic of him here... Super cool guys:)

So we got another foot of snow here:) YAY WINTER. Elder Portellano and I drive a 2014 Chevy Silverado *vroom vroooooom* It's a beast. I forgot our new address though... 

Cool experience happened Friday... So in the morning I trained Elder Portellano on the importance of talking to literally everyone, at the store while you're shopping, walking in between houses and all that... and that night he talked to the cashier who is now a new investigator! and progressing! We met with him Saturday, Sunday and now we will be meeting tomorrow as well! He is super cool, from the Congo and speaks the coolest sounding French in the world. So needless to say I am proud of (Elder Portellano). Also, the other French elders just left me a t-shirt that is handed down through the ages.. It has names, dates and all the names of the missionaries.  

This week has been great, really cold but super fun. We have found a couple people we are teaching and we just cleaned the Baptismal Font yesterday to get everyone ready! Just to put in perspective how long its been since there has been a baptism here.... there was 3 spiders and all their webs :) so the font is ready and so are the investigators! We will be inviting the guy from the Congo, tomorrow so we will see how it goes:) My scriptures for ya today are in Jacob 6. It talks about the vineyard and the servant and the master working to bring forth good fruit. Eventually all the trees go bad and bring forth bad fruit and in Vrs 48 the servant realized that it was because the branches grew faster than the roots. AKA the trees didn't have a strong foundation. You can't expect anything to last if you don't build it on top of something that'll last! love you all have a great week because I know that I will!

 love,

Elder Argyle 

Transfer - Hey I'm Training with a Dart!

Well the news came in at about 9:03 yesterday. I am transferred. to a different appartment in Bathurst hahaha. So we are getting 3 new missionaries in our district! We will now have 4 elders in Bathurst and I will be TRAINING!!!!! My first child:) <3 I don't know where he is from as of now.. but its either France, Belgium or Quebec. I don't know my new address yet but if you already sent stuff its fine. Elder Fortier can give me the mail we will see each other like 5 times a week. So Funny thing for this week. Elder Colette is our new District leader. HE WENT TO DAVIS HIGH hahahahahahahahaha. He graduated in 2013. Funny eh?

Both of our investigators dropped us this week, one because he will be too busy with work, coaching wrestling, and now commentating hockey games.. :( but he wants us to go on bike rides with him and go to wrestling practices and help out so maybe when hockey season is over he will become an investigator again who knows.

 

Saturday we had something interesting happen. So we give out these mormon.org cards to lots of people and they have our number on them and people will call us if they need help with anything.. SO we got a random call from a guy I met on a road in downtown Bathurst. He is an atheist but for some reason he loves us. So he called us to help him clean his gutters on his house which took like 30 minutes and they he bought me and Elder Fortier lobsters. He fed us flippin lobsters! they were so good. And he told us that if we ever run out of food or if we are in the area to come over and eat dinner with him. Pretty neato.

This week we will be volunteering for the local TV provider business. We may be camera men for an hour. How cool would that be?  Also, we have been told that the local high schools need some basketball coaches to help out with the team. We are thinking about helping them out too even though I have played about 0 years of basketball.

 

 

Well well, this week it snowed. Yep I really am in Canada. We have about a foot of snow as of this morning and we lost power in Beresford (where we live) The storms here are phenomenal. We were up in Pointe Verte during it which is an ocean side french village... the waves where just massive and snow was stinging our faces because it was super windy. Nobody opens the door when its cold hahaha they just wave at you.. its funny. We also met a guy up there who spoke to us in English until he found out we were missionaries and then was like, I dont speak english. So we spoke French and then he was embarrassed hahaha...

A really cool thing that happened this week... I have been looking for these two guys from France who were in the area book. They are soccer players from France.. So 6 weeks went by unable to make contact and just a few days ago we knocked on one of their houses! His wife and kids answered and told us to come back but let them know so they can get the other guy to be there too! YAY.

So Canada is fun. Super cold - yes and I have lots of pictures. Enjoy. love you all

D&C 88:63-64

in other words.. The more you give the more you get.

je t'aime

Elder Argyle