Transferred to the ROCK!

The votes are in America... and I've been transferred to......

Moncton from a tiny trail of Dieppe

Corner Brook Newfoundland! *cheers/claps/woops

It is 100% official... I am going to be a Newfy. I am no longer a French missionary, which is a bumber but I'll make sure to make time to keep time for the French language in studies. So this Thursday, I take a plane with another Elder and a sister to Newfoundland. Can't tell you how excited I am! 

This week however, was a fun one.. Our investigator decided he was going to stay Catholic, even though he doesn't believe in the church and gets upset if he is called Catholic. His concern he kept bringing up was that he wouldn't see where his 10% went if he payed tithing. More or less we believe that was a pretty lame surface concern but that's all he would really tell us after we answered all his questions. So we are back to level 1 of finding all the time haha.. which is still pretty fun except for the fact we are running really low on Book of Mormons and the next refill will be in 2 weeks... 

We did, however, teach quite a few less active lessons this week. In one in particular we read Alma 36 with a mom and her son who is 24. During the lesson you could see the scriptures having a massive affect on the son as he thought about the story of Alma and his conversion. The mom was very touched by the message and made comments throughout about how it's so nice to get back from work and sit down and relax and learn about God and Jesus Christ.

We also are assigned home teaching and we had a lesson yesterday talking about the early saints and what helped them cross the plains. We talked about Compassion, Hard work, and Optimism and I couldn't help but to share Elder Davis Cox's story. If you haven't read the first presidency message for this month, do so.. it is quite powerful if you let it be.  Also met a dog named Jango, but it was Django after the movie... but still!

 

Our funeral for elder Erickson (my trainer)

 

Je vous aime,

Elder cody Argyle

"Regarding one's testimony, remember, that which one willingly shares he keeps, while that which he selfishly keeps he loses..." - President Monson

Hockey with the Canadians

Last week right after emails we went and played street hockey with some members... So fun. My team lost big time because our goalie got discouraged and went to the play ground next door, but I scored 3 goals... on CANADIANS.

Last week was fun. We had a zone conference where I met President Pratt and Sister Pratt, they are definitely in the right place. I was asked to give a talk on our purpose as missionaries which even though it was only fiftyish missionaries I was nervous.

 

I spent the next few days with Elder Raveneau from Southern France. He is getting trained by my son Elder Portellano in Bathurst but I got a chance to be with him. It was really interesting. We taught a few lessons, but all of them turned out to be people lying in wait to bash which was a bit sad, but man oh man how blessed we are to have the knowledge we have let me just tell you. 

 

We had a really amazing lesson last week with our investigator couple. The boyfriend had an awesome change of heart. He said "It was stupid of me to say I would stay Catholic because my family is Catholic. If I get an answer I'd have to do the switch." This week we will be doing all we can to get them to come to church, hopefully something happens to 10 Catholic churchs down the street and they don't need their organist hahaha :) 

 

Something neat I noticed in my study last week. I remembered the scripture where Christ says he will destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days. Our bodies are temples, when he died and was resurrected, he did exactly what he had prophesied, and because of it we all will be "rebuilt" into immortality and eternal life as temples of God, each being consecrated to the work, just as temples today are solely used for the works of salvation. I will be studying more about consecration this next week. I'd encourage each of you as well:) 

We get transfer letters this week, and I will find out if Elder Darche and I will remain together in Dieppe for a 5th transfer. So if you were planning on sending something, you should wait:) 

 

pics: Elder Erickson (my trainer a year ago) and all the his grand kids 

Andrew (our investigator) lego bus.. super cool