WInnipeg District

Winnipeg District June 2017- President & Sister Craig

To answer Brian's questions:   No I do not walk alot, probably should though.  I haven't had to eat anything nasty in a while, so that has been nice.  Yes I see Elder Black quite a bit, probably once a day or so, he lives in the same building as I do.  There are more people here in the ward then in Melfort for sure.  No we don't get to play sports much right now.  My new companion is a great guy! I actually haven't eaten much mac & cheese in a while so no I am not sick of it yet and sorry, NO we don't Dab, lol.

Arrived in Winnipeg

Hello Family,

Nothing really crazy happened this entire week, I have been moved into Winnipeg, the most strangely designed city I've ever seen in my life, it was like they let kids draw lines on a giant piece of paper and then they build the roads according to the lines. The streets all have names not numbers so it makes it super hard to find where you are trying to go.

The drive to Winnipeg was pretty long and super flat, there really is not much scenery to look at. Our apartment is pretty nice and has lots of room in it. My new companion Elder Gregson, is cousins with the other Gregson, he is cool. He went home from his mission for a while, but he came back out for the last 8 months and is now serving with me. He is the district leader and we have 4 sisters and the assistants in our district.  There are like 60 people in the ward, we have a huge building but like no members to fill it, its honestly bigger than our stake center probably.

Bye for now. 

Elder Sheen

Transfer time

May 29, 2017

So, today I found out that I'm being moved to Winnipeg, just in time for the heat! haha. I will be pretty close to Elder Black and the Spanish district, and we will be able to go on exchanges every so often. I will be in a ward. I don't know how many people but it is a ward so they might have a gym. It is supposed to be pretty humid and warm in Winnipeg, that's gonna be rough, especially cause we cant go swimming or anything!

This week was not too crazy. We had a couple lessons throughout the week with our less active and on Sunday he passed the sacrament! Me and our new priest blessed the sacrament and we had a good lesson with him in gospel principles and we taught him about agency and a couple Christ-like attributes. That was good for him as he has been struggling hard with a lot of things and being patient with others.

We had a lot of service this week and we had a lot to do at the salvation army. I found one of my childhood dream toys, a Darth maul light saber, you know the one with light saber on both sides, I really wanted it, haha, but couldn't have it-- and now that i'm going to Winnipeg I will never see it... haha. that day was pretty hectic.

On Wednesday, I got to go on exchanges with Elder Bateman, we played some basketball and then we had a lesson with our less active . We stayed the night in Prince Albert.

Thursday, we had interviews, and then after that we came back to Melfort and we were supposed to haul bags of recycled bags into a semi, but we were too late and so the staff did it all by themselves. We had family history that  night and even had some non members show up to it which was nice, at least I think they were non members.

Friday was pretty fun, we had a young men's activity where we had a hot dog roast over a bonfire, three of them actually, we had a lot of fires going and I thought they were going to go out of control.

Not much happened on Saturday. Sunday was an average day, a member from the branch was in the hospital so we went and visited her and gave her a blessing. We also brought dinner to the family that night and visited with the boys and shared some funny scriptures from proverbs like proverbs 23: 13-14. "beat your kids" haha

thats the week in a wrap

Have you learned anything about the seniors that live at the old folks home? Stories they have shared of their life
Have you come across a scriptures this week that left an impression with you?
Have you started the Book of mormon again yet?
Did you get the Journal and gifts we sent yet? It is supposed to arrive May 31
When is your next transfer day? It seems like it is coming up
Have you fed any chickens there?
Tell us something interesting that happened this week for you
Do you have bikes if you wanted to use them? or tennis or badminton rackets if you wanted to use them on P Day?
Get any new ties?

1. not really, they don't talk all that much

2. I will think about it

3. I started like may 10th and now i'm in Alma

4. they supposedly showed up today? i will check

5. Today!

6. no.

7. i got to hold a baby chicken

8. we do not have bikes, and no tennis or badminton

9. nope

Love

Elder Sheen

Beautiful Sunsets Here

Sunset in Melfort Saskatchewan   Elder Romeril & Elder Sheen 

May 22, 2017

Hello, Wednesday was a very special day for one of the members here, it was Verna Clark's 100th birthday on the 16th and on Saturday we had a party for her and a bunch of people showed up and we had cake and someone sang for her and played the accordion, it was super cool. It was not just your average accordion but it was super nice and made out of some expensive materials. She even came to church this Sunday even though she is at the old folks home. She is super nice and loves to talk with everyone

We didn't do much this week.We tried to teach a less active named Simone but she was not able to meet all week, and our other less active, he is still smoking (or so i believe) but being super defensive that he has stopped whenever we or anyone else confronts him. We had family history class and had a few people show up to do it which was nice, including him, he has found a bunch of names and has started growing his family tree.

On Sunday we went out to see the Charbennous, we had hot dogs and marshmallows around a fire which was fun to do and we (Elder Romeril) taught them a lesson about getting in the wheelbarrow, the guy that uses the tightrope across Niagara falls and asks someone to get in with him and no one wants too cause it is scary, that composed most of our week.

QUESTIONS:

1. Have you made any ties skinny yet? 

2. Did you celebrate with your $50?

3. Do you buy chocolate milk there?

4. Do any of the members live on farms and have you been invited there?

5.Do you want me to send your journal now?

6. Have you tried playing tennis or badminton? Karri stewart said they sent rackets to Elder Stewart to play with— and snow shoes in the winter

7.Do you have any particular scriptures or thoughts that have reached out to you this week?

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1. no

2. not really we just got a few things here and there

3. no

4. most of them live on farms so that's really where we go

5. yes please ASAP

6.no but we play a weird form of it at Parkland (old folks home)

7. Mosiah 3:19 i think... the natural man is a enemy to god 

cool week for activities i would say -Love, Elder Sheen

At Parkland Old Folks Home FHE Night

Service at the Salvation Army-Selfie stick!

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Apartment in Melfort

Fun at the farm

May 15, 2017

Sure was nice to talk to everyone yesterday! The crazy storm that came through went by quickly. This week was really crazy, a lot happened but it still seemed like it took forever to get to today. We did Family home evening on Monday night and gave the sacrament to the people in Parkland (old folks home) and that took up most of the evening. On Tuesday we went up to Nipawin to see a man named Travis, who is our only kinda sorta investigator, he is a hour and 15-20 minutes away from us so it is hard for us to get out there. That was my first actual member present lesson so far on my mission. We visited a less active named Brother Gwin that also lives in Nipawin, he is a Electrician, him and his wife moved there a couple years ago from the states. we also taught Nathan this week twice. I got to play Balloon tennis at the old folks home on Wednesday, we usually go there twice a week to play bingo and to help with balloon tennis, i like playing bingo a lot more than balloon tennis. We got to play basketball this week, and did some more volunteering at the salvation army. The Relief society had a mothers day party on Thursday, and we set up chairs and tables for them and got a meal and cake out of it. we did Family history and we had 4 people show up for it. More basketball this week and that's all that really happened till Saturday. 

Saturday was a lot of service and cleaning. we had the church building cleanup in the morning and we did some hedge trimming and lots of general cleaning like windows floors bathrooms and other things in and around the church. the Stake president had to come in to a meeting that we were holding over a issue in and involving a member of the branch and some things that the individual has done. the individual has been accused and caught on tape involving some inappropriate and pedophile actions, the members of the branch are very concerned for their children so we held a meeting to discuss them and the branch president being there was the best part as he was controlling anger and people tendencies to just start yelling. probably the only reason that everything went according to plan. 

We Helped another Less active in the branch named sister Praski do some concrete work in her basement and we came to the church afterwords and a lady called the church asking if she could come and pray so we said she could and we just talked with her for a little and she said she wanted to come to church but she never came so we are trying to get in and meet with her again if possible.

QUESTIONS:

1. Did you get any hail damage on the car during the storm?
2. Are you still playing the piano a little?
3. How is it going learning the lessons?
4. Can you write a thank you note to the young women for their letters and pillowcase? I think they asked you questions?
5. Will you have bikes as it gets warmer?
6.  What blessings did you see in your life this week?

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1. No

2. No

3. Not very well as we are not supposed to memorize them but rather "teach people not lessons"

4. yah Physical copy or a email

5. No. Probably not

6. we had a person come to us basically, and hopefully we can get her baptized

Love, Elder Sheen

Short sleeve shirts are OUT! 

Hi,

This week we didn't have much that happened out of the normal. We tried to sign up as Clergy to talk to people at the hospital, so it took about a hour to do all the paperwork and then we found out that we need a criminal record check... we cant get one cause we are not citizen's of Melfort, so that was a waste of a hour and a half. We then tried going through most of the finding ideas in the planner and they all backfired. We did go to the salvation army this week again and helped do some heavy lifting and some sorting of clothes. Now that Khris is bed ridden for the next 2 months or so, we are going to try and help out a lot more than we usually do. We visited a less active single mother in our branch that has been struggling, we got her food from the food bank and taught her the restoration lesson. We had Brother and Sister Prete come with us to that so Sister Prete could distract the two children so we could actually teach her the lesson. We are still continuing to meet with Nathan the less active in the branch. We still meet with him every Tuesday and Thursday. We have a lady that we thought would be good but she is just using us now, the other day she called us to bring sandwiches over for like the third time. I don't think we will be visiting her again for a while. We are just teaching less actives now.  We went to the food bank this week too and did some food hampers. Brother Prete lost his iPad in Saskatoon when he was there at the church so we tried to help him with find my iPhone but we could not find it so we just had lunch instead. We then taught Nathan again and forgot we had dinner with the Vera's so we rushed over there and then rushed to Saskatoon for zone conference the next day. We sang happy birthday to Elder Stewart and hung out for a little and then went to bed. We got to eat breakfast with the President and the Assistants on Friday morning. I got your pillowcase and all the letters from the young women and activity days girls and I gave a talk in the Zone conference and it went well I thought.

We got TiWi's installed in our cars so now they track all that we do. remember the car at Hawaii that the elders drove, kinda like that. We have to sign in every time when we drive. Its not too bad though, I thought it would be a lot more sensitive but its not bad.

Our Skype computer went out on us and the ones we email on don't let us use Skype so we will have to use Facebook to call on Sunday. I don't know when but sometime in the afternoon.

1. How did the cake taste for Elder Stewarts Birthday?
2. How soon do you want the new journal?
3. When are you phoning?
4.Give any talks or teach any classes in church this week?
5. Have you seen Khris from Salvation army since his Surgery?
6. How is the Book of Mormon reading club going?
7.Did you see some sun this week?
8.What blessings did you see this week?
9.What did you learn this week?

1. It was good, we got ice cream as well

2. As soon as possible

3. Sunday, ill email time when on like Saturday or something

4. I gave a talk at zone conference, I did it on faith 

5. Nope but we texted him

6. It ended, people cant make it out

7. Ya it got up to like 20 degrees this week

8. I got to see other Elders

9. Actually quite a bit

yaaaah... fun week.

Elder Sheen