Season 5 Episode 4: reap while the day lasts

This last week was another one of those crazy, awesome, stressful weeks where days are just full and busy and blessings are just raining from heaven.  

so here's a rundown of the situation 

we are in a trio there is me, elder noad and Elder edstrom (who was with us until his next companion gets to the field (which ended up being yesterday) so tuesday (last pday) we had a stellar lesson because earlier that day we got word that the government is allowing 3 household to meet together which is perfect for baptisms because it can be the missionaries, the person who wants to be baptised, and then the bishop or stake pres. to oversee it so, we told Irish about the news and he was like so what day will it be? and we were like how about saturday? and we were like perfect! so fortunately we had ward council right after our lesson with him and informed the ward council and got that ball rolling. over the course of the next few days we also had many lessons some from greenfield and others from Lasalle, and unfortunately ended up procrastinating the plans for the baptism till thursday and finalized them friday haha. and so many miracles went into it so here are a few.

Irish would need a ride because his sight isn't the best so he doesn't drive a lot and when he does he doesn't like going very far, and the stake president's house was about 30 minutes away so he would need a ride and as we brought up the concern with our wonderful ward mission leader he just volunteered so there's miracle one

The second was that everyone was there on time and situated, including the zoom call. and here's the fun part, (also don't go sharing this either) but with the 3 household limit the plan was to have out elders quorum president watch the baptism via zoom in his car, but he just stayed and watch the whole thing haha. then just before we started the zoom call to allow the ward to watch, the bishop calls and asks us how many peopel are there, i say we have us three, Irish, Vincent (EQ pres) and then president Glowa and his wife. and he says, perfect ill be there in 5 minutes. so here we are a couple minutes later with 5 households haha but pres. Glowa was chill with it and it went so well. 

here's the other cool miracle part, and that is with the covid restrictions the church allowed the ordinances of comfimation and ordination to the aaronic priesthood to occur inthe same day, and since we were in a trio, it worked perfectly! i was able to perform the baptism in president Glowa's pool (which during his talk on baptism he referred to as "the waters of Glowa" like the waters of mormon that was legendary) Elder noad was able to perform the confirmation and the elder edstrom was able to perform the oridiantion of the aaronic priesthood. and it was so cool to be able to experience this moment of history. It was also inspiring that everyone who came did because everyone was able to participate in a marvelous way, the bishop had some amazing words to share and the stake president just did everything flawlessly as he conducted and transitioned. then those who watched loved it.

Then the other miracle was that we filled out the entire baptismal form just after.

Then when we went to the mission office to drop off elder Edstrom so he could return to his area, we turned in the form and discovered that Irish was the first baptism in Quebec since covid started! so that was supeer neat. it was super sad seeing elder edstrom go because he's he's super funny and helped the work in lasalle keep moving all while carrying his area of greenfield with him haha. so now its just Elder Noad and i for now! 

We also discovered an amazing place called chocolat favoris. some of the best ice cream and chocolate i've had (aside from toblerones) 

many other things are happening, im kinda running out of time though, so thank you yall are the best, remember that! also remember to read your scriptures and to pray because it's just the best. much prayer was sent to make sure this baptism happened.

Elder Dahl 2.0
LaSalle, Montréal
Canada

1 cool wall art

2 the baptism! 

3 a really good bagel shop

4 chocolat favoris

5 a hot dog shop were I had an awesome pita