Week 27 - Happy Victoria Day

Up here in Canada, they always have all these random holidays..who knows why! I don't really know what on earth Victoria day is! But it was a fun day!  I don't have a lot of time to write as I have to get down to the city before 1:40 today. We have been go go goin all morning trying to get more things done that were impossible to do yesterday and then we won't even be back in Barrhead til Wednesday night...but then on Thursday we are up in Athabasca right away. Today will be Interviews with president campbell, then we will blitz an area in the city, and then we have some stake missionary meeting in the city tonight, then stay overnight, then off to zone conference in the morning! Oh the life and joys of missionary work! Kinda stinks though that our area will have to sort of suffer in a way over the next week due to all the meetings we will be at. I know what we will hear will help us in the area.

Anyways! It is really nice to have all that we do in regards to the media and web. We use a lot of the mormon messages with people! Please check these out if you have not already!

Of Things That Matter Most - http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/of-things-that-matter-most?lang=eng

In the Strength of the Lord - http://www.lds.org/liahona/2004/11/in-the-strength-of-the-lord?lang=eng

It would be nice if we had an Ipad that we could just have everything preloaded on there and share them more since some people don't quite have the resources we hope for, but that will probably happen someday! I do have an "I'm a Mormon" profile! You could look it up! You could always do one! It is an easy way to share your testimony, and really you never know who might come across it and it'll spark the interest!

Scouting for bear yesterday was sooo much fun! I wish I would have gotten more pictures!! But that is just how it goes sometimes! I will send them off next week when I get more time on the computer. We really just like drove around in the truck down different oil field roads and would spot em. We saw 3 yesterday in about an hour span! We were out looking for really about 4 hours or so.. It was so sweet though to actually see one! We talked to them again and they really want me to come back up after the mission and come get myself a bear!

No real news with any of our investigators. Last week we did find a new investigator! Guy named Merlin! No he doesn't have a beard or staff, but he is a pretty good guy. He didn't seem all into it, but he really wants to read the Book of Mormon. I hope that he does feel the spirit as he does that and it allows him to want to know more. I know that can happen! A lot of the rest of our investigators either we couldn't find a time to meet, or they had to cancel for some reason. Which is really frustrating when that type of stuff happens. This week seems like it could be more of the same with scheduling issues...but we will try and get something going with each of them.

I still haven't been able to go to the temple in Edmonton...and it is really frustrating. The "temple p-day" was last week but we didn't even know about it and probably couldn't have gone anyway because of appointments. I am going to ask President today when the next closest time is that I could go. I miss being able to attend..6 months is a rather long time it seems like. I know the blessings of the temple are so real, I want so many of these people to attend and get their lives into the order where they will be worthy to go...it just takes so much change for some people. Or in most cases, get rid of the lazy...

Well, like I said, I don’t have much time to write today but wanted to let you know that I am alive and well!  I'll talk to you next week!

Love you!

Elder McFall