Sorry I haven't been too good about writing things for the
blog lately... it has been an interesting past couple of weeks! This week was definitely
a rough one... yes it is true it’s not always easy and happy and fun to be a
missionary haha but don’t worry even with the past couple of weeks I still love
being able to serve and I wouldn’t change or trade any of it for anything else
in the world.
The past little while my companion has really been struggling.
He was brand new and he had some depression and other issues that he was trying
to deal with. He also didn’t really want to be on a mission and was forced to
come out. He was such a good person, we got along great and we had a good time
together but he was having a hard time. The past few weeks he had really been
talking with the Mission President and he finally decided this week that he
needed to go home. On Friday he caught the bus to Winnipeg and then he flew
home today. I am really sad to see him go. He was great... my only mission son.
I always really wanted to train and have that experience and it was sure
interesting, but again I wouldn’t change it! I for sure learned a lot from that
experience though, I learned how to listen and really pay attention to the
spirit in trying to help another person. It is so important for us to listen to
other people. It shows that we love them and care about them and it gives us
the opportunity to really get to know a person. Always listen to people and
help them to know that you care.
I did get a new companion this week his name is Elder Whetman. He has been out for about 5 months. He is a little be different but hopefully
we will have a good experience together.... it’s kind of funny cause I have
been praying to be more charitable and patient and I have been asking for
opportunities to develop those attributes and let’s just say with this new
companion of mine I will have plenty of opportunity for that haha! I’m telling you
be careful for what you pray for because God does answer prayers!!!
Flin Flon is still a great place, I love it here. We are
working with a couple of people and lately our less actives have actually
really been progressing and doing well so that is good news! One of my favorite
things on my mission so far is watching a less active family return to activity
in the church, you can just see the difference it makes!
Lately it has been really sunny and warm outside so that has
been really nice too, we are able to go to bbqs and walk around. We are going
to start doing some sports nights and different things so that will be great...
I love the nice weather, it always makes missionary work 10 times better. We got to eat and try some duck and duck soup this week as
well.... it was alright haha. They also made us fried bannock which is super
good. The native peoples love their bannock!
Funny story of the week, yesterday we walked with a bunch of
kids to church. They were all little native kids and they all wanted to come to
church so we walked all of them there. Of course their parents didn’t come so
it was chaos haha. They are all members and their parents are less actives so
they have been before but man it was nuts! It definitely prepared me to one day
have kids and deal with them at church haha! We were all over the place with
those kids trying to get them to sit down and be quiet... craziness and of
course you can’t hold them or really do anything as a missionary so it was a
challenge but we survived and they all had a good time so it was worth
it!
Other than that things have been going good. lately I have
really began to realize that life and each of the situations that we are in are
only what we make of them. They can be terrible awful and depressing or we can
choose to be happy we can choose to see the good and realize the blessings we
have been given. I can tell you that it’s so much better when we choose to be
happy and see the good, it’s definitely hard but it’s so much better!
I hope you all have a great week, I love and miss you all!
Elder Farnsworth
Bye Bye my son.
Kids playground - construction site.
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