Email from June 20, 2011

June is about over.. That is weird!

This was a really good week. We finally were able to stay in our area for almost the whole week. As a result, we were finally were able to teach 20 lessons! With that being our goal every week, it has been frustrating in BC for it, there was never enough time for it. But no worries, now we are over the hump and will be able to keep that up!

We taught a lot of investigators this week. That was awesome. It is always good to get in with them. Our baptism this Saturday, the 25th, Is still good to go. We taught her the rest of everything yesterday, and now we just have the baptismal Interview on Thursday then the baptism.. We are going to just try to stay over night up there so we don't have to drive back and forth so many times. We are going to start hitching rides up there as well! It will save a lot of money on the gas card.

We had some awesome lessons with another investigator (Elizabeth) We taught her twice and she is closer and closer to being baptized. We teach her again tomorrow and we are still going to focus on this Saturday to be baptized. So that would be two this weekend hopefully. We continue to invite her to be baptized but she just really wants to pray about it and make sure. So we continue to commit her to do that but she keeps not doing that... She said, herself on Saturday night, that she would pray to know that night. So we haven't heard from her because she went to church in a branch more west. But we will talk to her tonight, then teach her tomorrow. So we are praying that she prayed. Because if she did, she received her answer. She knows she will. She has such strong faith. It is awesome..

This weeks weather has been terrible. Rain, Rain, and More Rain.. Today is the first day that the sun has been shining. It has been ridiculous. It should be a little warmer this week, supposed to hit 27 degrees Celsius. Which is hot. Probably like 80 something F. So definitely getting up there. But I am going to guess that it won't last.... It is Canada, anything is possible. I wouldn't be surprised to see snow this week.

So The Canadian Post Office is on Strike. So we can't send any letters or receive any. It has been like this for two weeks, and will continue for hopefully just this week. The govt. is stepping in so hopefully some action will take place. It is ok though, cause we never get any mail in BC anyways. We have to wait for like three weeks before we get it. So it isn't like it even effected us. By the time that we get our mail, it will for sure be done, and I probably still won't have anything! haha

Well I decided that I don't have anything else to say.. So I will talk to you once again next week. Which will be, by the way, my 20 month mark.....

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Elder T. Dastrup