Email from February 7th, 2011

Yo

What up family. Here I am once again on Monday. Minutes seem to go by slow, yet weeks seem to fly! It is amazing how time works when you are on your mission. Gotta love it! Twice this week it has snowed about 10 inches. It has been awesome. Early on in the week it did, then it got about 12 above zero and it ALL melted.
Now again today it snowed a ton. Gotta love driving in the snow. It is also back down to about 20 below zero. Got to love Calgary! The weather is about predictable and Devins attitude! :) Just kiddin D Bone. But seriously, Calgary's motto is, if you don't like the weather in Calgary, just wait ten minutes. True statement.

So this week was a pretty good week, besides all of the awesome snow!

We were able to meet with our new investigators (Stephanie and her son Blake) quite often this week. It started off so amazing. They accepted dates to be baptized of February 19th. There will be a lot of work to do before that if that is the case. We have gone through the stop smoking program twice and they are doing pretty good. The joy of service as a missionary :) Come Sunday, they called us at 8 in the morning and Blake was sick. So we went and gave him a blessing. But we couldn't get them to come to church. So that means we have to push back the baptismal date until they come to church twice. We went and taught them after church, and things didn't seem to be going as good. Blake wasn't near as sure about baptism. We just need to go over and teach about the book of mormon. They are both really good people trying to get on the right path. But there are lots of issues set in the path. bummer. But we will work through them.

We also picked up another investigator, Leslie on saturday. She believes a lot of it. But didn't accept a date. We will continue to work with her eh.

Me and Elder Oliver are doing pretty good. If he gets his visa today or tomorrow or wednesday, then he would get shipped immediately to the MTC. If not, He will have to be here another six weeks. So we will see what happens. He will probably be here another transfer.

Mom the next transfer day is February 23rd. So in two weeks! If Elder Oliver stays I think I will be transferred. But I don't know.

Go Packers! We were getting updates through out the game from a member that would text us. It was funny. They are huge steelers fans so I was loving being on the good guys team! Now the only thing left that I will have to miss that I care about is the NBA finals.. To bad so sad!!!!! Jazz are going to win it all probably...

well I am going to go eat and do everything else that we are going to do today, probably play football or something. All is well in Zion

Love you all and miss you.

Thanks for all the good emails today! Good day :)

Love Elder Dastrup