So this week has already been ridiculous. My mission president called us sunday night and told us we had to go to Minnesota to help people with the flooding down there. So for 3 days we sand bagged forever. But it was a super fun experience. Plus. . . . . I got to to America!!!!  We got the call sunday night to go and help out in international falls, minnesota cause there was tons of flooding,  But im back now so I im good now. The flooding was crazy, the water was up to our waist! it was so tiring! But it was fun, we got to hang out with a ton of missionaries and have fun while we were doing it. We filled sandbags for like 12 hours everyday and stacked them.

 

  We were able to have a baptism this past saturday! IT WAS TRULY AMAZING!! Its been so good seeing him make this progress and to continue to make progress. Other than that this week has been pretty slow

 

 So this has been a pretty busy week, we did tons of stuff. On wednesday we had ZTM in International Falls, Minnesota. So I got to go to America this week, It was awesome, it was like 10 degrees warmer and we went to K-Mart and bought all American food, and its warmed up like crazy this week, it got up to 20 celsius which is like 70 and it was so nice, we chopped wood for this guy and I was wearing shorts, Oh and I seriously cut this huge stump in half, i have a video to prove it

I met an Apostle!!!

So this week was Crazy. I got to meet D. Todd Christofferson!!! I shook his hand and  i told him I was from Pleasant Grove, He said "I lived in Pleasant Grove, Its a really nice place" In my head i was like "thats for darn sure" haha jk but just so you know, an apostle of the lord told me first hand that Pleasant Grove is a really nice Place.

So to get to the apostle we had to drive 10 hours to Regina, Saskatchewan (the promised land of our mission) to hear him, it was also our transfer meeting, and im still staying in Kenora till may 30th. So the drive was awful but it was so worth it! 

We got home in time to make it to church, my companion spoke in sacrament, it was also his birthday, so the branch president had us over for cake and Ice cream. I guess you could say it was a good week.

 And heres a picture of our entire mission, if you can find me then youre down

Not to much to say for this week, its warmed up quite a bit so weve been able to walk around much more. the daylight is already going to about 8:30. Ive heard in the summer the sun stays up until about 10 so that will be nice, but alot of the snow has melted and there not too much left, we met this guy from layton that lives in this super nice house, his just moved and hes planning on coming to church soon. And we also met this kid who is interested and were teaching him today, which is good. But other than that not too much this past week,

This week we're going to Regina to hear from D. Todd Christofferson, which is going to be an awesome experience, but we have to drive like 13 hours to get there so hopefully ill survive that!

Letter from April 7, 2014

 So God has a sense of humor cause on April fools it snowed 2 and a half feet! it was so deep that school was canceled. We spent the entire day shoveling people out of their house, but the day after it was so hot (40) that all the snow melted and there were seriously lakes on the road, the rest of this week has been so hot. And im definitely getting used to the cold cause 45 is freakin hot now. Its supposed to get to 50 today and im going to die of heat.

Hey everyone how's it going? Ive been having alot of fun up here in Ontario, there has been alot going on this week that I cant remember but ill try to remember as much as I can. So this week has been very cold, saturday got down to -30 C and we were outside walking and it was really cold, The people here told me that they've never seen the winter go this long so its given me a little more reassurance that it will warm up here one day. And they all say that it gets "hot" but its hard to believe them sometimes haha jk.

Ive done alot of fun things this week, we went snowshoeing for a little while which was fun, and we visited a family that lives about an hour away in a native reservation and they had the nicest house (for kenora standards) they had tons of stuffed bald eagles, which was a little shocking but its Canada. . .  anything goes up here. But they live right on a lake and have lots of nice toys. 

There are so many bald eagles and deer that just hang out here, ive seen probably like 25 bald eagles since ive been here, and hundreds of deer, the deer are everywhere here, they walk around the city on the sidewalks and stuff, i got a picture of one like 5 feet from me. 

And I finally got to try poutine, poutine is and extremely canadian food, its fries and gravy and cheese curds and its amazing. 

Weve done lots of teaching this week and have some really strong investigators.

thanks everyone for the support, I'd love to hear from you.:)

Hey everyone hows it going? this week has been really good! Canada is being really good to me. We taught alot of good lessons this week, alot of the people we teach are Natives (native americans) there are tons of them up here! But theyre always very nice people. Everyone weve met have been really nice, iguess its a Canadian thing. Oh yeah im on Facebook now! Im not really sure what im supposed to do on it other than share nice things to the members of my branch, apparently you can teach 2 gospel principles and it counts a lesson on it which is just weird to me. It seems like an easy way to get good indicators, but who am i to say anything. 

So this past friday we had a baptism for a lady named raquel. The sister taught but we did help on a couple of lessons, we also have another investigator named tyson who has a date but he just needs to quit smoking. We have many investigators that were working on right now.

Haha Im in a Choir! its called Kenora G-Clef. and we're the only people in the choir who are younger than probably 60 years, its been really fun though, they are all super nice and funny and are fairly open to our church. 

The weather here has been really up and down this past week, at the beginning of the week it was really warm, it got up to like 40 degrees fahrenheit and all the snow was melting really fast, but then it starting getting cold again and sunday morning it was -22 degrees fahrenheit. and a word of wisdom, dont breathe through your nose at that temperature cause your nostrils freeze and they dont thaw out that fast! and it snowed last night 8 CM. So I hope everyone is a little more grateful for their weather right now. but anyways i love you all and let me know how youre doing :) 

Hey everyone I made it to the great white north!! And ill tell you one thing it is definitely white!! There is literally about 5 feet of snow on the ground right now. And it is cold. Saturday morning we were our at a winter carnival it was -25 celsius which is about -13 fahrenheit. but its not too bad. They said just last week it was -40. So My first area that ive been assigned is Kenora Ontario. Its about 2 hours east of winnipeg, its very different though. There are lots of hills and lakes, its a resort town. But not in the winter, its famous for boating and stuff. And my companion is named Elder Jones. Hes from Sandy and went to Brighton High School. Hes super cool and im probably gonna be his last companion cause he leaves in may. Canada has been super cool so far though. Its not too much different but there are definitely some differences. I love it so far, the people are super nice and they all have really thick accents too. Like it sounds like a different language sometimes.