Week 32 - Bonjour!

That is just about all the French I know so far, I am working on it though! How is everyone doing down there in the beautiful U.S.A? It was for sure weird leaving behind the old area of Barrhead and coming down here to Rocky Mountain House. It was even more weird to see President and Sister Campbell at their last transfer meeting just this last week. It'll be interesting to see what changes with the new mission president's arrival just this week. I definitely have a lot of memories from the Barrhead area, lots of friendships I was able to make, but now we are moving along. Rocky Mountain house is a nice area, I think so at least. It is down in the more southern part of our mission, and actually close to the mountains like I said. I can actually see the mountains from the town! There are only around 3000 more people than Barrhead, but it feels much, much bigger! The ward isn't a ton bigger, but definitely can tell the difference.

The work here is going pretty well I would say. Just recently they got an investigator on date. Her name is Alanna. The date right now is Aug. 24, we can move it up though as she works on getting work off. She said she talked to her managers and they said not this, but next week she should have it off. Hopefully that will follow through. We have another investigator who actually lives out in the woods! It's pretty cool! We went there to go see her and meet her, and let me first say it's like a mile walk on a dirt path, but she wasn't home. Oh well! On the walk back though it just started to pour! It was crazy! Good times though. We went to go visit her the other day, but because all of the rain the river had overflowed all the way up to her place. Which initially is like 75 yards or something away from the edge of the river bank, not just where the water is. We tried to make it just by following game trails through the thick of it, but we ended up just turning back realizing that it was not going to work! We will try again tomorrow! That day we went to go see her though we did see her like live-in partner, Jack. Oh, her name is Mary by the way! And anyways we saw him just sitting down there by the river. So I literally have talked to someone, while sitting next to a bridge, down by the river now!

We have an investigator who is from Africa, his name is Kambo! He is a tough one. He asks some tough questions, but for some reason I love those types. We taught him the one time, and he has the hardest time with the Spirit World. We will be teaching him again tonight, so hopefully we can make some progress. It's been like this same problem for the last year.. we shall see!

One really cool thing since being here is we have this less-active guy is actually deaf. At first when I heard that I was overwhelmed. Like what am I going to do! So you know what I did, I started to learn sign language. I study every morning for like 15 mins before personal study. I can now say basic things, and can say a really basic prayer, along with the alphabet and stuff of course. It is hard, but it seems like the right thing to do! He is a super awesome guy though!

Oh, I have now tried something new again. Mountain Sheep! One of the members up here hunts a ton, and so he fed us some mountain sheep the other day. I told him it is his responsibility to keep me full of wild game now. I also have some bear Jerky that Bro. Swan gave me back up in Barrhead! It's actually pretty good!

Yesterday, my first Sunday was sweet! I got on a good start it seems like in the ward. The rumor about the bishop was he was super hard to befriend, and kinda a quiet guy. But at church and everything he came up to me introduced himself with a big smile on his face, but before that imitated this golf swing! It was hilarious! Apparently word got around before I was here that I love to golf! We had supper with the Bishop and his family yesterday and it was awesome! So maybe we have turned a new leaf there! 

Last night we had quite the experience too as we had two suppers. Our ward mission leader and his wife are from the Philippines, they are hilarious! Well, they took us out to their friends place where we had some Pilipino food, It's called panchit! It's basically stirfry, and then like a few other things. We well talked about the gospel and they are super interested and want to come to church next week! So we will see how that goes! The Duran's, our ward mission leader, said they are going to cook me goat in July, along with Belout, which is a half developed chicken fetus..so we will see how that goes!

Life is good though! I am loving it! Today is actually blue skies too! I hope all is well with you! I love you all!

Love, Elder McFall

Welcome to Rocky Mountain House!

President and Sister Campbell at our last transfer meeting! They will be missed!

This is Elder Simmons, actually from Lehi! He is one of my pals up here for sure!

Probably the coolest pumpjack ever. It is right off one of the highways leaving town.

This is actually back up in Barrhead. It's like 20 yards into the bush! We were tracting up in here for like half a day in this subdivision.