Such a crazy week! Though it's nothing out of the ordinary! Tuesday we had our zone training meeting and last transfers our zone got bigger so we have 16 elders and 7 sisters. Such a big zone! Then that night I got to try some Croatian pancakes. :) Which are pretty much like crepes and are so delicious! We help out at the English Learning Class and we have a few Croatians that take that class, that's how we know some Croatians hear in Canada. :) hahah Then on Wednesday we were invited over to this Hungarian family's house. They are investigators and the elders have been working a bit with them but I finally got to meet them on Canada day and they wanted to get to know me better and my new companions. While we were there we played a Hungarian memory game with their two kids as they laughed at us as we tried to sound out those Hungarian words! haha Being with this Hungarian family made me think of Jordan and made me grateful that I don't have to learn Hungarian. :) haha They loved us so much that they called us the next day and invited us back over this Wednesday because we didn't spend as much time with them as they liked! haha It's nice having people chase after us instead of us chasing after them! hahah Earlier that day on Wednesday I got to go out to lunch with the amazing Kendra and Doug Tanner and they're adorable girls. :) Loved spending time with them and seeing familiar faces from home! Shout out to my Sierra Vista ward at home, love and miss you all!! :)
On Thursday for our district finding activity we went singing down main street again. We actually got a lot of people to stop and let us sing them a song! One guy wouldn't let us sing to him though because he worships satan...haha and the other guy said he was in a rush to get high....haha But we met this girl Martha who is from a colony (not Amish but I don't know how to spell it...Heridite? lol) but anyway she invited us to her colony one time to sing hymns with them! They don't normally talk to us so it was exciting to be able to talk to her.
We have been so busy teaching our investigators and less actives that we have to go on splits a lot to get all of this done! We had a lesson with Jody Manyfingers, our investigator who is now getting baptized on July 26! :) She is a native that's married to a less active who is starting to come back now but she isn't a member. The few times I've been able to teach Jody I've been able to see her progression and her testimony strengthen and it's the coolest thing. She has been struggling with not drinking coffee but she texted us yesterday and told us she hasn't had the desire to drink it! I have a testimony that prayers truly do work! So happy!! Then on Friday the Chinook Lodge (retirement home) fed us lunch to thank us for all the times we came to sing to them. They even had a little ceremony and had us each come up and get a rose as all the old people clapped for us hahah so cute!
Saturday we had Manny's Baptism! We started off that day helping clean out a barn full of garbage and dead animals for Lisa and Manny haha and then we had the baptism! Manny's baptism was the coolest thing ever. The spirit was so strong there. I loved seeing the smile on Manny's face and see how happy he was to be getting baptized. Then on Sunday he received the Holy Ghost and he and his wife, Lisa, bore their testimony which was so powerful. I am just so grateful that I got to be apart of this!
I love this gospel so much. I am so grateful to be here in Alberta doing the Lord's work!! Love you all! Have a great week!!
Love,
Sister O'Dell
Hiking in Waterton last week! Representing Arizona!
Manny's Baptism
Manny's Baptism
A bear that Sister O'Dell saw in Waterton!
Sister O'Dell and her ward mission leader, Brother Prete, and his wife.
Sister O'Dell and her companions with the roses from the elderly people.
The Tanners back from Sister O'Dell's home ward visited her and took her to lunch while on their trip to Canada!
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