We had some ups and downs this week. But overall it was really good. We started the week off pretty slow but we had a super good couple of days. Then Elder Leyton got a stomach bug that was hard to work around for a few days but we finished off the week with a super cool experience.
So here are some of the cool stories.
The Hatches got a referral and they are hoping she is interested and if she is they will probably have us teach her. She is a member's friend and she is not doing so good so she agreed to meet with the Hatches. Malik and Lisa are both sick still. We are planning a movie night at the church and so we are trying to invite everyone. We aren't going to be watching a church movie so hopefully people will come. Elder Leyton was sick for a lot a the week so it was hard to work around that.
I tracted one house in the last week, but me and Elder Olson tracted this whole street probably about 6 weeks ago. We had 4th floor-last floor vibes about the street and at the last house there was a friend or someone in the driveway with an ATV and me and Elder Olson both hunt and ride ATV a lot so we were trying to talk to him about that but he just looked at our name tags and wanted nothing to do with us. We literally didn't even say anything about religion to the guy. Anyways. Friday I got the feeling to go back and tract that house. I decided to just drop by on our way out of Carlton Place which is a town about 30 minutes away from Smitty. We stopped on our way out and we got there and no one was home. He has two St Bernard's though. And one legit looked like the beast from Sandlot. Anyways we are about to leave and the guy pulls up into his driveway. He isn't religious but he is really interested. It was super cool cause he was only going to be home for like 5 minutes then he was going to leave again.
The other cool story was we dropped by a less active/part member family. She is from Alberta and I'm pretty sure she has never been to church here. Her mom is super active though so her mom came here and got her records moved. Anyways we went over there and she and her husband let us in and we awkwardly talked for like ten minutes then we asked if we could come back and share a message. They both looked at each other and said sure. And then they invited us for supper (which is a weird word for Canadians to call dinner). It was pretty cool experience.
Smiths Falls branch really needs some help so we are really doing our best to try and bring people to this branch whether it is through reactivations or new members. We are really trying our best and working hard. But it is really hard sometimes cause there is a lot of normal missionary stuff that really isn't effective at all. So we have been praying a lot lately for the Lord to guide us to the prepared people in this area. We know that there are prepared people out here, we just need to find them.
I hope everyone has a fantastic week!
Loves,
Elder Talbot
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