Friday, February 20, 2015

Words from Elder Jake Zieler in Canada


 
This week has been a good one.
It is also transfer week, so we'll see if i'm staying on Vancouver island, or going somewhere else. My personal prediction is, I think I'll be leaving and my companion will stay, even though he's been here longer than i have. But I guess we'll see what happens.
    As far as the teaching goes, its going. We've been working hard knocking on a lot of doors and talking to as many people as we can, but we're seeing little results. But with that being said, i learned a good lesson this past week. There are a lot of things in this life that we can control from the choices we make because of our agency, but we can't control other peoples agency. That would just make life too easy Haha. So long story short, I learned that we just need to focus on the things that WE can control from our own choices, then to have enough hope and faith that the Lord will take care of the rest.
    We've been teaching this lady named Marilynn and she has been struggling with health issues for a really long time now. She has a baptismal date for February 28th and because of her health, she has a hard time with her eyesight, so we've been going to her house twice a week to read from the Book of Mormon with her and explain what's going on. I think it has helped me as much as it has her.
    The weather has been way to good to us. today was sunny and about 60 degrees with a slight breeze. We couldn't pass up the opportunity to go back to the driving range again:) We also went to a park called Stamp Falls. There is a couple of huge rivers that run right through town here and one of them is the stamp river. Everyday, enough water runs from the Stamp River into the ocean to supply the city of Phoenix for an entire year! Crazy.
     Well I hope everyone who is in SJ enjoys the wind;) and i hope everyone has a great week! I'll let you know if I'll be staying here in Port Alberni or if i'll get transferred up North to the snow!!
<3 - Elder Z
This week has been a good one.
It is also transfer week, so we'll see if i'm staying on Vancouver island, or going somewhere else. My personal prediction is, I think I'll be leaving and my companion will stay, even though he's been here longer than i have. But I guess we'll see what happens.
    As far as the teaching goes, its going. We've been working hard knocking on a lot of doors and talking to as many people as we can, but we're seeing little results. But with that being said, i learned a good lesson this past week. There are a lot of things in this life that we can control from the choices we make because of our agency, but we can't control other peoples agency. That would just make life too easy Haha. So long story short, I learned that we just need to focus on the things that WE can control from our own choices, then to have enough hope and faith that the Lord will take care of the rest.
    We've been teaching this lady named Marilynn and she has been struggling with health issues for a really long time now. She has a baptismal date for February 28th and because of her health, she has a hard time with her eyesight, so we've been going to her house twice a week to read from the Book of Mormon with her and explain what's going on. I think it has helped me as much as it has her.
    The weather has been way to good to us. today was sunny and about 60 degrees with a slight breeze. We couldn't pass up the opportunity to go back to the driving range again:) We also went to a park called Stamp Falls. There is a couple of huge rivers that run right through town here and one of them is the stamp river. Everyday, enough water runs from the Stamp River into the ocean to supply the city of Phoenix for an entire year! Crazy.
     Well I hope everyone who is in SJ enjoys the wind;) and i hope everyone has a great week! I'll let you know if I'll be staying here in Port Alberni or if i'll get transferred up North to the snow!!
<3 - Elder Z

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