Seven Hour Road Trip

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Currently elder Allsop and I are driving 7 hours to a nice little city in New Brunswick.. We will be opening Edmundston next transfer :) we are driving down for the next three days to find an apartment, meet with the stake president to help organize a place for church to be held .. It's going to be crazy! It's a French community as well, so elder Allsop will practice listening for a. Few days hahaha .. Now we are driving back to Halifax because I left my passport.. Good thing we only drove 15 min hahaha.. I haven't changed in that area.. We need our passports because we will be sleeping at a members home in Maine tonight.. 

Last week was awesome though... One fun experience we had was street contacting in downtown Halifax.. We ran into a massive wedding group and one of the families approached us and I was thinking, this has to be members... Actually Catholics from the states.. But they were pumped to see us. The husband works in the FBI and started recruiting us hahaha.. He said, "you do something that is very hard as Mormons, you preform non confrontational interviews. That's what the FBI is all about.. " and he went on for like 15 minutes giving us all the pre requisites and telling us what to do to get a job there Hahahaha.. Turns out 30% of the fbi is Mormon... :0 

We had our MLC in Moncton last week and that was sweet.. Our training was on "counselling together" it went awesome. Everybody seemed pretty excited after all the trainings.. I did have a freak out sesh on Friday though when I realized that spenny was home.. We took a "creme en Diego" (breather) so I could vent about it Hahahaha ..We also sung the French national anthem because our mission covers a French island, so that was neat...

Ivebeen reading a lot of talks and re reading the Book of Mormon, some cool things I've found were:s

"A third principle is this: we must counter the natural man’s tendency to procrastinate, to put off, or to give up." - Randall k Bennet 

I've never recognized that the "natural man" was not just the sinful man but the tendency we have to follow the path of least resistance

Second thing in 2nephi 4.. 
"28 Éveille-toi, mon âme! Ne languis plus dans le péché." 
"Awake my soul, no longer droop in sin"

In English the word droop is used which I had thought would be to be lazy or relaxed.. French languish is used which is to attend to with impatience, or to not focus your energy on it.. What I learned from the verse was 1) don't be patient with sin and don't be impatient with yourself 2) put more effort and energy into fighting against it

I love my mission! The last few weeks are getting harder that's for sure, but the harder the better :) I love you all, Canada rocks! :) 

Elder Argyle