Hi Family & Friends,

This week has been pretty rough, but it had some benefits to it as well. I have almost ran out of money haha, because I buy food even though I don't really need it. Having two apartments is hard because we have to take food from each of the apartments each week so I don't die, and I have to pack a ton of stuff back and forth so I have everything I need and I always forget something. Life is going by super slow and we haven't done a lot of REAL missionary work right now. I want to try and get my companion out and about more, we sorta get along but I don’t know.  We had a lesson with an investigator this week named Brad, he wants to get baptized but doesn't want to set a date yet.  He had brought his friend and his sister to the lesson which we had in the library/rec centre, it went well for not having prepared very long. I have been playing a few piano songs on the little piano we have but its too small to play most of the songs. We have a baptismal date for the 25th of March and the investigator (Alicia) attended church this Sunday which was awesome, and she said she wanted to come again which is sweet. We also had a joint Weyburn/Estevan Church meeting with a potluck afterwords, and we got most of the leftover food which was nice. We haven't had a lesson with her in a while but I hope we can meet with her once every other day. That's one thing i'd like to improve on is actually meeting with people rather than messing around, but I find this hard with my companion.  We had exchanges this week and I went with Elder Shaw, he was a huge uplifter for me and actually talked with me, it was super nice. We had walked by a building that had a bunch of plants or something Green all over the floor next to the window and I thought "eh thats kinda cool/weird?" and not a half hour later we knocked on a door of a man named Rodney, he said he knew who we were cause of president Regnier and we said if he ever needed help to call us up and I gave him a pass along card with our number on it. So he goes "you free now?" and we said yes, so we hopped in his car and drove, guess where, to the building with all the plants in it, we helped him plant something like 500 trees with his 2 penny tree system, he thought of it one day and it was super fun to learn all about how it works and what he does. So I'm hoping after a little bit of service doing that we can get a lesson in and maybe his family cause he has a largeish family.

We also had a fun time helping Brother Woodruff lay some carpet tiles in his office, I forgot my camera so i dont have photos but I will take some when he gets back from a vacation. I think that service is the #1 way to do missionary work. I have started to get into the book of Alma and I cant wait to read about the sons of mosiah, and how they do it. I feel my companion is kinda lazy and I'm trying hard to not let it wear off on me. I'm going to start being less of a friend and more of a missionary, less doing what makes my companion happy and do more of what makes the lord happy. Good week, I think, all together though. I still sometimes feel like a failure after all the things I read, the invitations I give and all the stuff I try to do, to be more Christlike. I feel like my biggest challenge is being away from all you guys,  anyways enough whining for today.

I really enjoy going on Facebook cause it allows me to wind down and relax a bit more each day. Its nice to see what other missionaries are doing and how their missions are doing. I have been writing in my journal everyday and im going to need a lot more if I continue to write as much as I do, so next package you guys send out can you send one or two more of those journals I got, preferably not a blue one. I always make sure I take the family photos with me wherever I go, can you send me all the photos off my phone, so then i can print them off. Also can you send a USB or a similar thing so I can save all my photos to it. It's hard to take photos cause there is not much to take photos of around here. I try to take as many as I can, but my companion isnt really a photo guy. 

Questions from this week,

1. Where do you do laundry?

2. What fast food restaurants are in your area? 

3. How was district meeting?

4. What have you done for fun on PD day? 

5. Take and Send some pictures!!!!

1. we do laundry at the Estevan apartment, which is super nice cause it saves on money big time.

2. we have a KFC- all you can eat buffet- only one in Canada! we went there for our district meeting lunch, we have a McDonalds, A&W and subways.

3. district meeting was fine

4.we dont do much, we played games with members last week but not today.

5. I will, like I said there isn't much to take photos of here

Questions from last week that I forgot to answer,

What have you learned about your companion this week?
How many days do you spend in Weyburn and Estevan? Switch weekly?
Have you been fed this week?
Do you water your plants? or are they fake?
Where have you done service?
How was church this week?  any yw there?

1. not much, kinda weird

2.we try to split it but we spend 75% of the time in Weyburn but we try to switch weekly

3.yes by the Morseittes and the Woodruffs.

4. we dont have plants in the Weyburn apartment but i want to try and start a garden or something, Estevan has a rubber tree that gets watered twice a month.

5. at the food bank and at Rodney tree place now, we haven't gone to the commerce place yet to see what we can do.

6. church was fantastic, we had an investigator come and she really enjoyed it. We also had a potluck which was awesome.

I am having momentary bursts of fun here and there, trying to see the positive in everything and trying to be more like me and less nervous and shy, miss you guys and cant wait to hear from you guys. LOVE YOU soooooooooo much.   Mittens too i guess...XOXO

Love

Elder Sheen