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
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!
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