It's a sign!

What a miraculous week! James (one of our awesome investigators) came to church, which is 2 weeks in a row! He walked 20 minutes in the freezing cold to get to church. He stayed for all 3 hours of church and even participated in class! Goodness he is amazing.

"^_Brightly^_ ^_Beams^_ ^_Our^_ ^_Fathers^_ ^_Mercy^_!"

My companion loves this song and sings it on the daily and I thought it fit our week just perfectly!

Because we opened up the area, we had a completely blank area book to start with. We have been trying so hard to find people to teach in every way possible. I sure love tracting, don't get me wrong, but I also love teaching! Me and my wonderful companion were tracting and we were trying to follow the spirit with every door that we knocked on. One sir told us that we shouldn't be knocking on these houses because they were recovery homes. We got nervous because we had felt prompted to go here! We went and asked someone who was out walking and he laughed and said, "These are regular homes, with regular people!" We laughed and kept tracting, glad to know that normal people were living in these houses. We then came to one door and this guy answered! He had a heavy metal band on his shirt so I told him I thought his shirt was cool and then started talking about how we are able to grow closer to God through prayer and then the spirit took over! He told us he had been in prison and found God there and would love to have us come teach him more! We have to pass him over to the Elders because he wasn't YSA, but I know we were led to him!

Dare To Be A Mormon -Thomas S. Monson

We had Zone Conference this week whoot whoot. Every zone conference we are asked to write 2 talks, then at zone conference President chooses an Elder and a Sister to speak. I thought that since I was asked to give the closing prayer I wouldn't get called on for a talk but unfortunately I was wrong. It was also the biggest zone conference they have had in the mission because a bunch of zones were combined and more than half the missionaries were there! Luckily, I got to talk about the Book of Mormon, one of my favorite things to talk about so it was alright:)

Homeless, Phoneless, & Carless - Welcome to the City!

When we drove in for transfers and I met my companion, we were given the news that we didn't have a home, a phone, or a car whoot whoot! It was a rough start to the week but we now have a cute house, a truck, and a flip phone. It doesn't get better than that:)

Opening an area has been quite the experience but let me tell you, we have seen SO many miracles! Some of the miracles:

Going to Grandma's 🏡

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Sooo transfer calls this week! I am leaving my lovely (freaking cold) home in Fort McMurray and going to Grandma's:) my new companion will be one of my trainers trainer so it will be super duper fun!