Season 6 episode 10 keeping the grind and rip Newfoundland

 Yes and not a whole lot to report on. We've just been keeping up the grind and a lot of contacting with a lot of member lessons and getting to know them building their trust and trying to give referrals. We've had close to 3-4 lessons a day which is super awesome and then mix it up with organizing stuff for the zone and meetings, we've got our hands full!

We've also received some unfortunate news and because of the increase of cases the area of Newfoundland will be closing temporarily So while the missionaries are kind of bummed about, they'll be all coming here to Nova Scotia! So we're very excited to have them here and we'll definitely do our best to help lift them up and get them busy!

We also had our MLC which was very good. We discussed a lot about duties of zone leadership and then how we can help with motivation and enthusiasm as we move into the Christmas season and potential home sickness, with covid still going on. 

And small update on covid, its actually getting worse. Woo ho. So a couple things happend. First that our first ever zone conference is canceled and will be over zoom :(. The next is that the Atlantic bubble popped. So if you travel outside the province you have to self quarantine for 2 weeks. And with this new information, president Low felt impressed to take out the missionaries serving in Newfoundland. Which is a huge bummer and yeah, many are upset about it, but they know and recognize its need. And they are coming here to nova Scotia!

So yeah. Zone conference this week, and helping the other missionaries get settled in formerly closed areas that will be happening tomorrow! 

Sorry it's a little shorter, we had a district pday and I'll attach some pictures! 

Love you all remember to read your scriptures and to pray! 

Elder Dahl 2.0
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada

Season 6 Episode 8: let get this bread

 Yeah so elder Fife headed home this last week, and now elder Penner is my companion, and he is an absolute stud of a missionary. 

Because this week has been an absolute grind and here's why!

We started with a whole bunch of area book calling and let's just say that many people have been prepared for the random calls that we gave them over the course of the last couple nights. At first we started calling formers and we didn't have a whole lot there although we did find two potential people to give returned calls to. Then we started calling random members because we don't know a whole lot of them. And we ended up calling to less active ladies who had been pondering on whether or not to call the missionaries and go back to church. 

We have had many lessons with other members and are slowly getting referrals from them including a family that has been asking one of the families of the ward questions about Joseph Smith and the church! So we're just waiting for those normal and natural interactions to turn into a teaching opportunity for us. Then there's a handful of other young couples that have co-workers and classmates that have also been asking them questions. It's so cool to see how the Lord is preparing people even if we're not teaching people. Additionally along with balancing the area we've also had a lot of focus on the zone and how to unify it. This transfer we will be blessed to have an in-person Zone conference and this particular conference will be the Christmas Zone conference which I am so so excited for! I believe that this will be an excellent way to unify the zone. 

Additionally we've been calling each team in the zone rather than just District leaders to get to know them and to answer any questions they have. And then of course there's the other thing to throw into the midst which is helping the Facebook page and right now it's kind of struggling, but with light the world coming up it's going to get pretty sweet!

Something that I've done with my studies recently since I finished my journal Edition Book of Mormon is doing what president Nelson did which is read the references in the top of a guide relating to Jesus Christ. I really enjoyed this and I've been able to finish the section on Jesus Christ, Redeemer and Jesus Christ, advocate it's so incredible to read how much Jesus Christ has truly done for each of us. One other thing that I've noticed is the Bible does a good job at describing what a redeemer and Advocate is but The Book of Mormon stresses about having faith in it more than the Bible says about it, so that was a fun pattern. Insure my Studies have been very uplifting and I've been able to learn more about Jesus Christ role and our Salvation as well as the choice that is up to us to accept it.

I'm also super pumped to be able to have all these exchanges with so many Elders as well. Overall I'm very excited for this transfer!

Anyways sorry this one's a little bit shorter I do love you all and hope you have an excellent week! Please remember to read your scriptures and to pray and also to check out the new light the world stuff and what -president Nelson is going to share with us this Friday... I think

Until next time!!

Elder Dahl 2.0
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada

Season 6 Episode 7: Sydney Trip

 Sisters and brothers. What a week. Having monday pday last week made this one feel a little long, but it was a great one nonetheless! 

I would love to tell you all the miracles that we've been experiencing but they're not the missionary miracles you'd expect, like we found a new person or lessons are amazing, though there was little of that haha

These miracles are what elder Bednar called the tender mercies of the Lord. 

I finished the book of Mormon today. And I really wanted to have a profound experience in getting an answer to my prayer about the truthfulness of the book of Mormon. And as I finished chapter 10, I stopped. And got on my knees and prayed. The prayer went something like this

Dear Heavenly Father, I just read the book of Mormon. And I am praying with real intent, sincerity of heart and faith is Jesus Christ. Is the book of Mormon true? 

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Nothing. Come on now, I know you'll give me an answer

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You already know its true. 

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Yeah but I want to feel it

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Remember your experiences you've had? Or the feelings you get from your patriarical blessing?

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Yeah

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And how about the call you had at home and the joy your younger brother and sister had when they got their blessings? 

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Ok, you got me. It's true. Thank you.

In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

It was such an incredible experience. It was a good couple minutes before I started having these thoughts in my head. Maybe I was a little impatient haha. But after my prayer I felt peace. I had no negative feelings what so ever. I also felt happy, and there is no way that such peace and joy as I have felt and seen in close family members could be because of something fake. Like I think of the times I went to roaring springs (for those of you idahoans) and I felt happiness there it was fun! But this joy can't be simulated by worldly things its just a little bit different then worldly joy. The difference is that this Joy comes from God and it lasts forever. It's really neat. 

But yeah that was the highlight of this week we did a lot of misc. Stuff to help with mission logistics including but not limited to;

Un installing a tiwi or four. That was fun haha. Theres this glue that you have to cut or carefully scrape off and fortunately a pocket knife works wonders on that hehehe.

Additionally selling cars. That's a fun process haha.

Forewarning, The spirit may not be as present while reading below haha

But the biggest thing this week was probably our trip to Sydney nova Scotia. It's a good old 4 and a half hour drive from Halifax and the reason we were going was because in Newfoundland, the church is selling the cars the missionaries are currently using and giving them brand new ones. So we had the privilege of driving them up to the ferry in Sydney. (Its the closest one haha) while we were up there we also had assignment to move one of the apartments into another apartment because the mission was closing one of them. So we had planned to have it done in 2 days, drive up there, stay the night, deliver the cars to the ferry, move the appartment, and then head home. 

Let's just say that everything that could go wrong, did. 

We planned to leave Halifax at 3, get us there by 7:30 -8ish to get things situated, but one of the missionaries forgot their tiwi card so we had to take a trip back. Additionally, one of the car batteries was dead. So we got there around 9:30. And to our astonishment, the keys we had wouldn't unlock the door to the missionaries apt. So after finding the landlords place, they gave us the senior couples apt. keys and what they thought were the elders apt keys. So we got back to the elders apt, to find that it didnt work either. So we went to the senior couple apt, keys worked, and ...

There was one bed and a couch. 

2 blankets

So here is us,  4 elders.

No one claimed the bed so I was fortunate there,  but I ended up using one of the curtains as a blanket. It worked so yeah, but the elders sleeping on the floor didn't have the greatest time haha.

Needless to say, it was a fun night.

Morning came pretty slow and we learned that there was no hot water, and none of us knew anything about how to turn it on, so we just didnt shower haha

Then we had to get the cars to the ferry at 8, so we got dressed and started driving over. We assumed it wouldn't take long and we'd have breakfast later, So 2 of the elders took the 2 new cars to the ferry. I went with another elder to wait for them to pass through. 

And we waited

And waited

And waited

2 hours go by. I message them. They think they are going soon, I tell them that we are going to a nearby beach (which we did and it was way fun

Got a lot of sea glass and other cool rocks) and spent 2 hours there *me constantly checking my phone for a notification to see if they are done* didnt get one, so we walked back and waited.

And waited a little more. 

Then when they finally got through, we were all starving and by then it was about 2 or 3 o'clock. So we went to one of the top stared restaurants, and had a super good burger. Then we started to move the stuff in the senior apartment to the elders apartment, assuming, because there was almost nothing there, that they were getting rid of that one. Additionally with the key predicament, we decided to try every key we had, i picked one, tried the first key. And it worked. Nice. So we started, and we had one rogue to do it, but we got it done in about 3 hours, everything moved. And now we are sitting at about 6 o'clock with 4 and a half hour drive ahead of us, pretty tired and not really wanting to, so we called president and told us the status, and we haven't had dinner and he told us to have dinner, but to get on the road. So ae planned to do that, so as we we were returning the keys to the land lord, we told her that everything got moved ok from the senior apt to the elders apt. She thanked us but then said, oh, I thought it was the other way around. Huh maybe it's just me. So we left. Hoping that she thought wrong. But then spirit told us that we should call the housing elders, and learned that we moved the wrong apartment. 

So yeah.

We called president again, told him the situation, and he gave us the go ahead to stay another day to finish moving the apartment. So we went to a nice sea food place for dinner, then drove back to the elders apartment, and began the process of using our rogue to move all this stuff. We called elder wentzell, the vehicle coordinator (basically the logistics man for the Atlantic side) and he was generous enough to get us a uhaul! So he told us that we could pick one up at 9 the next morning. So that was a blessing. 

Fortunately we slept a lot better in the elders apt, with 5 mattresses, 2 couches etc. Plenty of blankets towles warm water etc. That was a good night! So we got up ready, and then went to a beach till it was time to get the uhaul. It was pretty nice haha. Then the grind. We managed to miraculously fit everything into the uhaul as well as our one rouge so that was good. Went to a pizza place on the way home and made it back home around 7.

That was an adventure, and quite the journal entry haha

Thought you might enjoy that story

Love you all and hope this weeks a good one for you! 

Elder Dahl 2.0
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada

Pics:

The district!

Photos of Sydney 

Some dang good sea food chowder

Moving with a rouge yeet

A massive violin

More pics!

Season 6 Episode 6: Truro Trip and More Exchanges

 This week flew by! 

Here are a few of the highlights!

Thursday we had exchanges with the sackville elders which went super great! We got to spend a couple hours with Elder Wu and Elder Edstrom! I have great love and charity for these wonderful elders. I've had the privilege to serve along side them in districts and companionships. Both are incredible spirit lead missionaries. It's kinda fun they've got the most different personalities as well as cultures, but inspiration brought them together and they are quite the team! Then once they left, about 20 minutes later the moncton elders came in, and so we got to have an overnight exchange with Elder Madsen and Elder Barrett! Of which I was companions with both of them and it was quite the exchange! They are covering 6 areas because they are 2 of the 5 missionaries in all of New Brunswick. We got word from president Low and Spragg that cordinations should be happening in every area/ward/branch and that the elders quorum and relief society should each have a representative present. So we let them know, and they have all the more work to do now haha but they are both solid and amazing elders so they'll get r' done. 

Then friday we moved the truro apartment out which was both nostalgic and kinda sad. We moved one set of furniture to the next until everything was cleaned out. But it was good missionaries will be back some day! 

Then the rest of the days getting set for future activities!

Then this Sunday we had another great in person church service, the 2nd one, and it was a testimony meeting as I'm sure it was for the rest of yall, and man, in person church is just so great. 

Then If we could hear enough testimonies, we also heard the departing missionaries testimonies as well for the regular sunday night devotionals that president Low does! And not to brag or anything, but our mission makes the best missionaries. I'm proabaly biased. But there were some great testimonies. 

And no it's not quite transfer week, this transfer is 7 weeks because the arriving missionaries got bumped back a week. 

So we'll find out transfer news this Saturday! I already know I'm getting a new comp since my current companion is going home, and I'll proabaly get Elder Penner, and if so I'm so hyped. He's an amazing elder. But we shall see! 

Also since this transfer is a little longer, the next one will be 5 weeks! 

The work is going and miracles are around the corner! I love it,  it's the best. Especially when its burger week (check pics)

This week we've got a handful of mission conferences so that's why pday is today haha!

Anyways, love you all. Please do read your scriptures today and tomorrow, and the next day. Also be sure to pray. It's good for you. 

Elder Dahl 2.0
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada