Ok so my P-days are Tuesdays and I'm only aloud 2 hours to read and write so if I don't respond to you I'm sorry and I'll try to get you next week haha.
Anyway happy new years! I was in the MTC on new years so nothing really happened not gonna lie. (Insert last email here) and now I'm in Canada! We ended up getting out of immigration and security around 11 and then went to the mission home in Halifax we had some awesome home made taco soup which was heavenly compared to the last few meals we had haha. But by the time we got to bed it was like 12:30 and being obedient missionaries woke up at 6:30 prepped for the day and looked upstairs to see no lights on so we just chilled in the bedroom for another half hour RIP. But it was all good! The next day after the mission orientation the presidents assistance took us shopping for boots and coats and to get out drivers licenses and anything else we needed and honestly it took the whole day and I was itching to go out! I did talk to someone while waiting at the Canadian DMV and he was a base ball player for nova scotia! I didn't get his name but he looked really old and I may have offended him a little because I asked if he coached and he was like "no I play" so \_(0.0)_/. But then after that i got a really nice coat and i went to buy it and my capEd card wouldn't work. Its probably because I was out of state let along county, but I was able to withdraw some cash from a Canadian ATM without a problem so yee.
Then that night we got our assignments and I got assigned to Truro, Nova Scotia! The next day we got to the mission office. And went on our way. We meet with the other missionaries in the area a total of maybe 20 (but 6 of them were on there way home) and I met my trainer Elder Robinson! He is a really cool guy and he's been out for a little over 6 months so he's still a little new. Plus they put us in a new area were we no no one, but there was a senior couple, the lewis's and they helped us out a lot! Over the next few days we met with a recently baptized person named Trish (who was confirmed and given the holy ghost this last Sunday by us and the bishop (awe yeaaaaaahhh)) and her husband Mattew who isn't baptized...yet haha. But they are so awesome! Matt reminds me a lot of Mr Smith from Renaissance. He's got that lumberjack build and beard and he is a really nice guy! And the entire confirmation experience was so amazing and brother moses (who I'll talk a out later) gave the confirmation. The next few days we met with some of the older members (before I continue there were sister missionaries here for the past year and the entire branch was somewhat shocked at receiving Elders) that being said our apartment was really well cleaned and organized and it had a lot of stuff to (the sisters that left were on there way back home so they left some stuff for us and food as well thanks so much!)
But back to the members, the sisters did amazing reactivating and finding the women in the ward all above the age of 50ish maybe 40 and this became a concern because we would have to have a 3rd priesthood to visit them. But we got permission from president low to visit them like the sisters did so thats a blessing. They are all super nice (at least the ones we've meet haha) that being said, there are a lot of men that have been wanting to do missionary work but couldn't because there were sisters so that opens up a lot of opportunity! We are over a single branch of around 30 (from sundays sacrament meeting) but there are lots of inactive members and if they all came, the branch would be a ward no doubt. So that's one of my goals is to reactivate lots of people! One thing that I was and am worried about is that the people here talk. A lot. Something about being from here makes people chatty and go off on tangents repeatedly. One example was we invited the branch clerk elder irqheart to visit with an elderly lady (sister Folland) and he just talked and talked went on a tangent paused and then went on another tangent haha. And the same goes for everyone we had met so far haha. It's good to talk with members but not when you are talking for 2 hours at a dinner appointment (different story) it can get in the way of finding time that's all haha.
But I love it here! It has snowed every morning since I got here and I've been told that in the summer it gets so hot and humid, and bugs are everywhere so yay. One last thing is there is a member named Brother Moses. (Yup like the prophet) and he is part of a ward in Dartmouth but he travels 1 hour to be a branch leader here. And he is an absolute champ. be is amazing like picture bishop Stafford, brother keeley, bill Shaffer, and brother shaw (and a few other youth leaders maybe that guy brother Romney) and brother moses is him. He works hard and effectively and loves to work with missionaries. He know how to really compliment people. We bore our testimony and introduced ourselves on Sunday which was an awesome experience and he came up to us and asked "why are you so good?" Me being new and Elder Robinson fresh to the area were speechless really. He said a few other things that were real esteem boosters and he wanted to get to know us and our families. He's like another president Low but I can see him more often haha. He really is great and I'm so happy we can work with him.
Also the 2 hour Sunday threw me off like Cuz I was in the MTC for the last few sacrament meetings and going back to church and it being shorter confused me like I knew it happened, but it was quick! One other neat thing was when be bore our testimony and told a little about us, (one of the older sisters (sister Redford amazing lady)we visited brought this to my attention) more men came up and bore their testimonies. Sister Redford told us that that was never the case (just because the branch has a higher female population) so we have got a good priesthood body! I know that's a lot sorry but it was just so good! Also sorry again for any typos or confusing sentences i have to write quick haha.
One last experience was my first day finding! The first door we knocked a guy opened up and we introduced ourselves and he somewhat interrupted and said "you came to the wrong house" and closed the door. It was pretty similar for the rest of the night unfortunately. But we did find a jehovah witness (first time meeting one honestly) and he was a cool guy disagreed with us but I mean what can you do? And wanting to get out of the situation we were leaving and he asked "are you sure you got the right doctrine? And looked at him and said absolutely. I kinda wish I said "yes that's why I'm here!" Oh well probably shook him still haha. The second time was better though! And we found a black preacher (like think stereotypical black preacher. That's him)for a church down the road and was happy to see us because he loves Jesus and the bible. But I got to hear some false / confused doctrine from him I'd love to teach him but he'd be tricky haha. We also found a elderly lady who had recently lost some of her friends and we talked for easily 20 minutes and left her with a card so hopefully she'll look into it! But yeah! Awesome experiences so far! One last one promise. we knocked (the door is surrounded by windows) we see her look at us (we wave) she walks past the door up her stairs and look through a window to the right and wave "no." Haha that was the most awkward and funny thing that's happened so far. Now that could have been 2 people but someone walked past the door and a person did wave "no" so that was really funny!
In the future I'll try to keep them shorter sorry haha but it's all just so good!
Love all of you!
Elder Dahl 2.0
Cananda, Halifax.
Cananda, Halifax.
Truro.
Video from their flight to Canada: https://youtu.be/oRezxsWYWE0
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