I wanted to change it up and not start off my emails by saying "Last week was great!" But I'll have to say it at some point I guess... Last week was GREAT! Started her off with the pday hike with our bearded friend which you all got the pics of last week... It was pretty sweet, but I'm sure it would have been way better if it was spring. The climate here is so confused.. Last year this time I was Dieppe where we were shoveling blizzards everyday and St John declared the state of emergency for having to much snow! This year we literally have trees starting to bud and grass turning green! today it's 10 degrees! So thats the weather forecast. Pretty awesome if you ask me.
We had some really cool things happen last week
1) We are now teaching three people... one is an 18 year old from Barbados who was taught a few months back but lost contact...When we sat down with him we talked about his experience and he said he knows the Book of Mormon is true, but he feels a loyalty to the church he joined about 6 months ago. So we are going back on Wednesday to talk a bit more, he seems pretty promising:)
2) The YSA's we are working with are all doing super good. One found a full time job out west for the next 4 months and came to church again for the 3rd time in a row, the other had doubts about the church and asked us for "the missionary pocket book of questions" or whatever it was... Which, MOM AND DAD, you sent me for christmas, I never read it, but he read it and it answered his questions and is fully in the boat now:) So thats pretty inspired, good job parents y'all are missionaries!
3) Yesterday while searching for an inactive member we were let in a door. We knocked expecting this member to answer but it was a younger guy, we asked if his name was brother so and so and he said, "Nope, want to come in?" It was epic. We talked to him and his girlfriend for about 45 minutes about different things they have seen in churches and the Book of Mormon. They had gone to the LDS church for 6 months a couple of years ago, but never got baptized. They sense have gone to many churches and didn't like any of them, but always liked the Mormon church. They have tons of friends from the church they remembered and wanted us to come back! It was a super tender mercy especially because Kentville had not found a new investigator for a couple of months, but last week we were able to find a few different people who wanted to learn:)
4) This one is nuts.. There is a member here by the name of Sister Tuddle. she had this book on her coffee table with two peoples names and a marriage date in December 2015.. So I looked through it and guess who was in the pictures.... THE CLARK FAMILY! You know the ones who live like 5 houses away from us? I was absolutely shocked.... I'm not sure exactly how they are related but the person getting married was the grand daughter or son of this sister here and somehow related to the Clarks? Pretty crazy stuff hahaha. so when you see the clarks tell them I saw a bunch of pictures of them at a wedding in December 2015
5) It was raining really hard one day, and it was really warm, so we went "meandering" in the rain, which is pretty much just walking around and knocking whatever you feel while you street contact. Surprising there were a lot of people walking in the rain hahaha... We met a lot of people and had a few people invite us back, including we knocked on a door of a potential that we have met probably 5 or 6 times in the past week.. He was like, "Again guys?" We definitively scored some points because people talked to us all day even though we were soaked and it was poring!
This upcoming week will be a good one, We have the Frenchies all going to the temple on Friday so I get to see my posterity again.. As well as we are going to Halifax for an exchange tomorrow, so there will be some pics..sorry this week there aren't any haha:)
Alma 41:10
Do not suppose, because it has been spoken concerning restoration, that ye shall be restored from sin to happiness. Behold, I say unto you, wickedness never was happiness.
Je vous aime tous,
Elder Argyle
