Cheers to a Canadian Crazy Christmas!

Cheers to a Canadian Christmas

That describes the next few weeks for us here... and last week. Last week was awesome. Monday night we got permission to bring Steven out with us to do some missionary work. We went to a family home evening, contacted a media referral and taught him then returned to the university and taught Steven there. Good way to start the week off on Pday! Tuesday we woke up bright and early and traveled down to Moncton for the New Brunswick Christmas Conference. I got to see most of my French posterity, minus Elder Darche and Elder Portellano who are out in Nova Scotia.. That was nice. We took a French picture.. you'll get it dont worry. The devo was awesome though, it was tons of music, testimonies, talks and a really unique talent show. We performed the missionary version of "the candy man can" but it's "the president can."  It was pretty lame because we had about 1 minute to get it all prepared. Wednesday we were visiting Woodstock and Houlton (Half in Canada and other half USA) It is always a joy to see those American flags and faster driving speeds, but man Canada definitely has nicer drivers hahaha.

Holiday Leg Warmers

We had a couple cool experiences down there. One was we had to take their car to get its tires changed so we walked to the local McDonald's to call some potentials and this guy sat by us and we ended up teaching him. He was just firing out questions and it was awesome. 

 

Thursday we were in Fredericton. We met up with Yan, who is doing awesome by the way. We taught him more about Jesus Christ's life and the Christ-like attributes which was awesome.. He was absolutely amazed with the miracle of Christ healing the man born blind. It was cool. We used a few of the Bible videos to do it.


We are teaching two other people who are working towards Jan 30 to be baptized. We need to get them to church is the only problem which should be solved now:)


Two Funny stories for the week for ya...

My Comp with Epic Hot Chocolate Spill

Numero 1: Saturday a huge gust of wind came and blew over our 5 gallons of hot chocolate for our stand... it was crappy but very funny too... Who knew wind could be so strong!

Numero 2: I got super pumped up for missionary work this week last night as I was watching the Joseph Smith movie. I especially noticed his example that he set through tribulation. He was tarred and feathered, his kids died, he was thrown in jail on a regular basis, his own friends would betray him, and he would witness all the persecution. What amazed me in watching it was how he never doubted. I was reading in Alma 17 as well where it talks about the afflictions of the sons of mosiah and alma..

"Yet ye shall be patient in long-suffering and afflictions, that ye may show forth good examples unto them in me, and I will make an instrument of thee in my hands unto the salvation of many souls."

 

 

Sometimes we go through hardships and trials to set an example for someone else. Those early saints sure set a good example for each of us, and one that is used to defend the church and strengthen our faith. I promise this turns into a funny story. So, I got super amped up about all this stuff and I knew what I needed to do to help the zone and I just ranted for like an hour or so. Elder Allsop was trying to go to bed and he tried to keep up and not be mean and fall asleep but after 45 min or so he fell asleep, I had talked my comp to sleep hahahahahahahaha. Pretty awesome. 

Feelin' Festive

This next week will be nuts. We will be in our area working for only one day.... keep us in your prayers! It helps:) May the force be with you.

Last thing, A member asked a missionary to go visit the Edmonston and area around it members.. so the missionary called president to see if it'd be ok and president said, "I want Elder Argyle to be there." I even talked to president about it. I'm like 110% sure that I will be opening it soon:) maybe in 1 or 2 transfers is my guess:)

Je Vous Aime Tous!

Elder ARgyle