We're trying our best to find the elect!

Hello Everyone!

  Well this week was a pretty good one. A lot of our investigators dropped us (the not so good part) But we did gain one new investigator who we committed to baptism in a few weeks. The lesson was great, you could tell he was feeling the spirit big time! He's from Africa.  With finals and everything going on it's been pretty slow in the YSA. Our most progressing investigator (Derick, the one with a muslim mother and hindu father) came to church yesterday and it went REALLY well! His baptismal date is on the 16th BUT we were walking with him down the hallway and he said something and then said, "and i'm 33, so blah blah..." NOOO!!! His dad had told us he was 27. So we have to hand him over to the elders in the family ward :( We were so bummed! He even signed up on our dinner calendar! go fig. So things have been changing a lot with the people we're working with. But we know there are people in this area (under the age of 39..) who ARE prepared! Who are the elect! We're just trying to find them.

   This week our district had our district meeting at Pres. Olsen's house. They fed us a big breakfast, hooked us up. He's in the mission presidency so that was neat. Then a less active in the branch invited us to the Mandarin (a popular buffet) that he works at, and then a couple hours after that we had a dinner appt and we went to our fav indian restaurant. We were stuffed to the rafters. We're very grateful for memebers! haha

 Ya! It's been pretty cold this week! It snowed a good amount on Friday but it rained yesterday and killed all the snow. The weather is supposed to be pretty mild the next few days...over 10*C. Today i'm not even wearing tights! You can call me a brave soul.

   Transfers are indeed coming up! Calls are Sunday. This week President Scott called our zone leaders and requested that I do a couple days exchange up to Owen Sound. That made me kinda nervous. haha I'm not sure why but i'm excited! I'll be doing that Wed afternoon drive up/all day Thurs/Fri coming back. There are a bunch of new sisters coming in january. 10 english speaking, a few spanish...so things will switch up a lot soon! I'm sure it'll start this transfer! Sister Scott said that President gets emails whenever someone gets their call to our mission and after conference one night it kept beeping and that most of them were sisters. haha lots of changes!

   We didn't get to watch the 1st presy message last night. It didn't start until 8pm and you could only go if you had legit investigators going. I'm sure it was good though!

   We had a funny experience this week. Our zone leaders were moving apts in their complex and our district went over and helped them out. Their superintendent saw us helping and after we left said, "So you guys have a couple of girls moving in with you, eh?!" hahaha I guess just some of their many wives... ;)

Well that pretty much sums up the week. This next week should be interesting! Thanks for the prayers :) We're trying our best to find the elect! . . . and then pass them on to the elders ;)

Love Sister Messer