Elder Sheens family has layover at Winnipeg Airport

So close, yet so far away!

Hello,

This week wasn't too crazy, we didn't do much again, there is not much to do around here. We are going to start re-tracting the areas we had previously tracted and hopefully someone else will answer the door this time. It snowed today, so that was pretty depressing. I started to see some green grass in some places so I was getting excited but then BAM, snow. I got a but tonne of lego from the salvation army, someone donated a big box so of course I made sure I got that, haha I'm trying to build a temple but its hard. We have been meeting with a less active that moved here, we meet on Tuesday and Thursday at 7, and its just a venting out session for him so its kind of annoying. We have been trying to do the stop smoking program with him but I don't think he is doing very good at it. I don't know where he is at, but he says that he has been good for 5 days. So that is amazing and  we will see where that goes. We played basketball on Friday and we had like 11 people so we played full court basketball so a lot of running. We had dinner at the Charbennous (shar-ben-os) and I traded some ties. We contacted a media referral out in Nipawin and he was pretty cool. He had a lot of questions about what we are all about so we answered all of that. 

Questions.

1. How is the bag sewing holding up?

2. Did you get the pillowcase package from the Young women ever?

3. It snowed here again Friday!! how about you? Today is very cloudy and rainy

4. How is your memorizing of the lessons going?

5. Do you have a early morning branch council on sundays? 

6. What time is church?

7. Have you seen any northern lights yet? they maybe come out really late?

8. What have you learned from Elder Romeril this week?

9. What is one miracle you had this week?

10. What is one blessing you are grateful for?

11. What is something the Lord taught you this week through prayer and reading the scriptures?

12. What is something a member taught you this week and how is it going to help other members?

13. What is something a non-member taught you this week and how is it going to help other non-members?

14. What is something you learned this week. . . just about anything?

15.  Have you had any funny stories this week?

1. It seems to be holding but I wanted to get it hardcore sewn but I forgot to mention that so it should hold for a while.

2. No, not yet at least. We have a Zone conference soon so maybe then. I got my shirts though.

3. It snowed here today, usually not warmer than 10 degree's

4. Not so well, I get very frustrated.

5. We have branch council monthly after church and a huddle every week that isn't branch council.

6 church is 10:00- 1:00

7. no  I still havent seen them even though this town is called the city of the nothern lights

8. nothing really, just been another week.

9. we contacted our refferal from a month ago and he was questionable but it was a nice trip.

10. pop

11. idk I finished the book of Mormon and ive been reading the bible, confusing but I need to know it

12. idk... nothing i can think of.

13. umm... nothing i can remember

14. I miss having tools all the time!

15. Brother prete got bells palsy in the left side of his face so Elder romeril told him he would be ALL RIGHT! ha...

this week was long,  nothing crazy to report

Love you, Elder Sheen

Riding one of our less active investigators scooters, and he thought it wouldnt drive! haha

Hello Family

This week seemed like a year! i was starting to wonder if i missed a week of emailing cause it felt soo long. We had transfers last week and i stayed here but i still got moved around a ton.  Prince Albert had a baptism this weekend but one of the elders was being transferred right before it happened (he does not have a licence) so i had to drive the Elder to Saskatoon so he could get transferred out to kindersley, which actually goes into Alberta. Anyways, so i drove to Saskatoon and Elder Romeril stayed in Prince Albert to do the baptismal interviews. I had to drive all the way to the church and down to Regina so i could accompany a missionary who was going home cause he was done his mission. i had to do this because there were two sisters and 3 elders so they needed another elder to drive all three cars we needed to get to winnipeg, so I got to travel with the trunkiest (trunky is a term we use for missionaries who want to got home) missionary ever, so im pretty trunky now. Anyways I stayed the night in Regina with Elder Burnett and we did some crap, I got chased by a dog that day too out of a guys yard so I have been chased (it was a pit bull to so i was out of there) lucky for the fence, the man was super nice too. I also got sworn at for the first time there too. I stayed there till Friday and drove back to Saskatoon with Ryan Blacks trainer Elder Bateman and he is in Prince Albert so he is in my district. He talked about how Elder Black said I always got pops so I made sure to buy a pop to prove it to him.

i had to give a talk on Sunday and it was pretty bad cause I didn't have anytime to prepare, I had like 4 pages of stuff and it took like 5 mins so that was pretty bad. Elder Romeril spoke and his was really good.

1. Did you have a meal with someone for easter?
2. Have you done any service or met anyone new this week?
3. Did you talk to the pizza lady?
4. How are you doing with cleaning apartment,laundry and cooking?
5. Have you been chased by any dogs yet?
6. Why is sydni so weird ? Hahaha

1.We ate with the Frocs on Sunday and taught them a lesson

2. Nope!

3. Nope!

4. Decent enough.

5. Yes in Regina one dog chased me and Elder Burnett

6. idk cause.

so good week i guess, if i just keep saying that maybe it will happen!

Have fun in Florida, dont get bit by too many poisonous things or die that would be bad. i like the sheen crew t shirts, cool. make sure you get me a alligator head or something cool.

Love,

Elder Sheen

Hello,

This week we had the food and bottle drive and it was alright. We had 22 missionaries that came from our zone to help with it and they were staying with random people throughout the community and we call it billets. So these people stayed with billets and we were supposed to as well but one of the sisters billets didn't show so they took ours and we stayed at our apartment. We then proceeded to continue the bottle drive on Saturday which me and Elder Romeril and the zone leaders had the biggest areas to do and it took us from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm of walking door to door and collecting bottles.  We got a fair amount of food and bottles and a good amount of cash donations apparently, i don't know the exact amount of money that we got but anyways it was a good amount of donations we received. Elder Romeril interviewed the elders to see if we had anyone interested or if anyone  wanted to know more about anything and we didn't have anything so that sucked. 

We had our only investigator drop us this week, they seemed pretty good to start off but she fell away.Her name is Carmen she has lunched us a couple of times so I don't think she really wants to hear anything more about us but she likes that we are interested in saving her soul. 

I didn't do much this week, Elder Romeril was busy leading the bottle drive and such but I wasn't able to do much so I did a lot of cleaning and carrying the food from the kitchen to the dining area but the sight and sound rule makes stuff super hard out here. We had transfers today, me and Elder Romeril are staying together, Elder Howes and Elder Low are the companionship in Prince Albert and Elder Howe's is going to Kindersly district. They have a baptism that they got for this Saturday so that stinks for Elder Howes, but Elder low is at 18 months and has not had a baptism yet so President kept him there for that, so that is good for him. Elder Howe's has more time left so he got shipped out of there. I also got to have my interview with president and it went well. I made sure to offer suggestion's and to not complain. What really bothers me is that everyone says that you have to figure these things out for yourself, just imagine how progressed the work would be if missionaries shared the tools and techniques they use and used and they were specific with it too. i don't know why everything is so secretive, like just share what works! 

--Did you get our package? it says it was delivered?

—Did you get the email about Tara at the Pizza Place?
—Did you play basketball this week?
—Where were you when you were singing with your zone?
—How did the bottle drive go?
—Tell us about you and Elder Romeril
—Do you want a puzzle?

1. I did get the package, all my photo's are now stored and I hung some up too!

2. Yah I got the email, we will try later.

3. We did, we had eight people there and it was fun. 

4. We were in the Melfort chapel

5. It went well, i talked a lot about it in the letter 

6. We get along, but I am annoying him I think

7.  No thanks, I have no time cause i gotta study and learn so i can actually teach 

Have a good week, play games, do whatever you guys do, eat cookies and get fat.

Love,

Elder Sheen

Watching General Conference at church building

Who needs a couch?

Doing Drywall at the Prete's with Elder Romeril

PD Day nerf gun collection--also have a dart board which has ended in a few stabbing wounds, haha.

Original keys to the Cardston Temple found at the Prince Albert Building

Fat Cat, Moma of the Prete family-- she sticks out her tongue when you pet her

Hello Family,

This week was pretty hard on me emotionally.  We are pretty isolated here, which is so incredibly tough. We have two in person district meetings a whole transfer and that's cause we are so far apart. Our area is bigger than all my friends MISSIONS (not combined) its freaking crazy! and we have the same amount of missionaries. Its really discouraging listening to all the things my friends get to do and the places and the scenery and the cool places they get to go on P-DAY. We have nothing here. General Conference was good, I really enjoyed Elder Hollands talk on the choir of god and how we are all unique and special and the loss of even one voice affects the choir. This is true! My favorite quote was “God hears the songs we cannot sing" that is one I really like because I have a hard time expressing my feelings and my struggles so its comforting to know that someone listens.

Nothing cool happened this week. It's hard, i'm trying to adjust to the area but I feel like I should be doing so much better, according to preach my gospel we are doing OK. I don't want to lower expectations but things just don't happen here. All I want to do is be successful.  I don't think you guys really know how lucky you are to live where you are. It is literally the most perfect in probably most of Canada. The amount of church and members and support is crazy, like honestly Lethbridge is the prime location, you don't realize how lucky you are till you drive 4 hours east to Swift Current and there is 30 members, and people are just struggling in life,  it boggles my mind.

Anyways, Im trying to stay more positive and be happier cause this has been a really, really hard 3 months, lots of disappointments, very few good things so far.  Ok, I better answer your questions:

1. What did you like about conference? 

2. How did it go with the online referrals you drove to?

3. Find anything interesting this week at Salvation Army?

4. Because I am in dentist mode this week-- Are you taking care of your teeth and flossing? 

5. Are you getting enough sleep now? 

6. How is your exercise going?  what are you doing?

7. Have you had to talk in church in Melfort?

8. Who is the bishop? What is he like? 

1. I talked about it up top

2.they both dropped us

3.we got a Nerf gun

4.yes

5.sorta

6.its going good, we do alot of programs we got off the internet.

7. no not yet

8. Branch president Froc, he is cool. There is only like 8 wards in the MISSION, so not many bishops.

Just keep on living. Hope you guys are having a great time-- love you all.

Love,

Elder Sheen