hey mom, sorry the letters a little later than usual, weve been doing things today and we just got on. Haha thats funny that you know who elder Richins is, i went on an exchange with him like 3 weeks ago probably. He was my zone leader. Hes such a great guy. I would love to serve with him one day. So my companion is elder cahoon and hes lives right by mountain ridge jr high in Highland. he went to Lone Peak just like half of all the missionaries here. haha jk. But Steinbach has been Amazing! I got here the first day and just fell in love with the area, its so good. theres like 13,000 people here and theyre all so nice. its very religious, all the people we teach are very good. haha but its super flat out here. its definitely in the plains, but i think its so beautiful. weve met tons of french canadians. there are 2 french communities just right by us. And weve been doing lots of farm work type things, its honestly been so good lately. Im not gonna lie, this place is the best. Oh and we have to drive into winnipeg to go to church cause the ward that steinbach is a part of in winnipeg would die if they were taken out of it. The whole bishopric lives in Steinbach. But we have church in the other elders apartment for our investigators. we have this family from the congo that are such good people and they love us and the church alot, haha he looks like Kanye West too! its fun, the two other elders in Steinbach are both from st george. Elder simister went to Desert Hills and says that he knows who Clay is, but hes 2 years older. 

Hey everyone, its been kind of a crazy week, but ive got some news

Im getting transferred to Steinbach, Manitoba!!

Its like an hour south of winnipeg, its  a farming community, and there are tons of mennonites and huddarites (theyre similar to amish, but they use electricity) so it will be a great experience and im so excited, ill send you guys  a picture when i get there cause it is SO FLAT!! I'm going to miss kenora but i'm excited for new experiences. Steinbach is super religious and the people there are very passionate about their religion. So im leaving to Winnipeg on thursday and ill be in steinbach the same day.

 4th of july sounded really fun, we didnt do much for the 4th, i misss doing all of those fun things for the 4th, its ok we'll do them when i get back. Im just glad you guys had a fun time, i wore my american flag tie for the 4th and repped it proudly. it was good doing my prideful american thing.

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.:)