August 14, 2018

Hello Mom and Family!

This past week has been both crazy and hot.. Mainly hot and these people don't have AC.... Anyway I'll get into my week!

On Wednesday we met with Susan and Japhet and taught her the 10 commandments and such. We put her on date for baptism for the 22nd but we ended up pushing it back farther on Monday night after assessing where she's at and how ready she is. We also had supper with the Konoskys.. A single mom with a boy and boyfriend. She is super awesome and we help her a lot with her front yard. Anyway, she invited her friend Bill over as well who isn't a member. We ended up teaching the restoration and he liked it. So technically he's a new investigator but not at the same time. He doesn't live in our boundaries.

Thursday morning we went to the doctors office for Elder Pyles because he's had a rash on his arm for months. Turns out he has a history of eczema and it was just a flair up. Also we met with the lady who we cut cut down her forest of weeds and taught the restoration. She's had the lessons before and had a date to be baptized but her husband decided to divorce her and that set her back. She says that she's ready now so who knows what will happen there. So that is  a new investigator for us!

Friday was a monumental day for Lethbridge.. It was the hottest recorded day ever in August, and tied for the hottest day ever back in 1886! And I can say that I was here on that day! Also, going back to how these people have no AC.. I roasted so many people on not having AC it was so funny. They were all complaining about the heat and I was just like "If you guys had AC you wouldn't be having this problem" it was so funny. We also had dinner with the Smiths who are a young newly married couple and we had tacos in a bag.. Amazing. And amazing cornbread.

Saturday we were invited to a brunch with a young couple in our ward that we like, he's from Utah and she's from here and they met while on their mission in Halifax Canada. They are so awesome. Then we helped a family in our ward move out. The move took literally all day and my arm still hurts.. Lol. But the mom reminded me so much of Aunt Krystal! She's so funny and I'm sad they moved out of our ward!

Sunday was our ward council day so you can imagine how that went.. It was a long day!

Monday we had District Council Meeting and it was uneventful. But Elder Kretchmann is going home Tuesday morning so we will be taking him to the bus station early in the morning on Tuesday. Idk if I told you guys, but he trained Elder Walker so in mission terms, Elder Kretchmann is my grandpa.... So we went to lunch and let him enjoy his last night. Oh and we had another lesson with Susan and Japhet. Susan was taking a nap so we talked to Japhet about the prophet and his apostles. The Susan woke up so we taught her the rest of the commandments. They are literally some of my favorite people ever! Haha!!

Chris our investigator hasn't been around lately so we haven't been able to meet with him. Pretty much he was taught everything in the past but he couldn't quit smoking. Then he quit smoking for 2 years by using some medication. Then stress hit him and he went back to smoking. So basically he's in a money crunch so he can't pay for the meds but as soon as he can, he's gonna get baptized (whether or not that's while I'm here) but he has good support so it will happen.

Anyway that was kinda my week. It's hard writing emails because I can't relate the stories of what happens but I'll have some good stories for when I come home! Take care and I pray for you all, all the time! Love you guys!

Sean always makes me laugh! :)

Elder Pyles 

Love,

Elder Seanzee

August 7, 2018

Japhet got the priesthood!

Hey everyone! 

It seems like a lot happened this week so it has been nice. On Tuesday after P-Day we got a text from a former investigator named Nidel. She is in a rough spot in her life and realized that she was so much happier when she took the lessons from missionary's in the past. So we went over and visited with her and ended up giving her a blessing to help her during this time. So she is now a new investigator but the only thing is that she is super hard to meet with but we try.

Wednesday we helped move someone from another elders ward into our ward here. They had so much stuff and a lot of it still wasn't packed up there was a lot to do. We had a lesson with Susan and Japhet and we taught The Gospel of Jesus Christ. After we taught them we had dinner with some members who invited us to have dinner with Japhet and Susan. It was such a great time, definitely one fun and memorable dinner. They showed up in their full African clothes it was so cool. We ended up teaching Susan a couple of the commandments and invited her to baptism. She said that she wants to be baptized eventually but wants to learn more before she makes a decision. We encouraged her again to read the Book of Mormon and pray. It will come with time I know.

Thursday we did some service for a potential investigator named Jen. She had weeds as tall as me in her back yard, it was crazy. We had to make a big pile of all that stuff we were gonna throw away at the dump on Saturday.  It was good that we could help her :)

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Also it was Pyles's birthday so we went to lunch at Fatburger which was really good actually. Had some chicken finger poutine which was amazing. Also I lined up a special dinner with an amazing family in Copperwood ward named the Low's. So I surprised Pyles's with that and it was so cool. Had an awesome dinner plus his favorite cake which is Sheet cake. Oh also we had a lesson with Japhet about the priesthood since he was having his priesthood interview later that night, and he passed!!

Friday was kinda dead so we went contacting in the park and handed out a bunch of pass along cards. Japhet called us and said that Bishop gave him is membership record number (mrn) so we went to his place and set up his account with lds tools and stuff. He's literally one of my favorite people. He is so oblivious to anything we do, we on purpose try to see how many weird things we can do before he notices.. He never notices. Love the guy :)  Also we got WiFi at his place so we love going there! Haha then we had dinner with the Courts who have a son going into the MTC on Wednesday to go to the Fort Lauderdale Florida mission. They are so awesome too, they got Pyles a birthday cake as well! Such a baller family.

Saturday was pretty dead for us as well, so we went contacting in the park and had no luck again. But hey, we're trying. We had dinner with the Klines (the returning members who took us to Waterton) and they had a birthday cake for Pyles! I'm not mad because I've had so much cake I'm loving it!

Sunday was pretty dang baller. So Japhet got up and bore his testimony which was awesome, it's a long story and I don't know how to write it so I'll send a video explaining it. Also he was ordained as a priest which was so cool to be apart of, I'll send a video explaining that gong show too. Monday we had DCM--not DTM any more, the new Preach My Gosple manual calls it a District Council Meeting, they changed quite a bit in the new PMG just to catch up with everyone using technology, plus they hadn't revised it since the book was released. Then we went to Taco Bell with zone leaders which was cool. Then we did service for Sister Konosky, which included shoveling gravel on her front lawn.. We spent 3 hours on it and I just can't wait for it. She's amazing though and we are gonna start teaching her friend soon!

Anyway that was my week.. A little more exciting that it has been recently! Love you guys and take care!

Love,

Elder Seanzee

July 31, 2018

Hello Mom and Family!

This week was pretty good. Last Wednesday we had our first lesson with Japhets wife, Susan. We taught the restoration and she really enjoyed it and it really clicked with her. Japhet wants her to be baptized by the time that Pyles leaves probably on the 16th. That means we are trying to teach her fast, and we are getting Japhet the priesthood so he can baptize her! Thursday we our housing inspection.. Well while I was cleaning the bathroom they decided to show up early, so I shut the door and turned the fan on so they couldn't hear me cleaning. I took like 10 minutes then came out and the lady went in there and was like "wow this is the best looking bathroom in the mission!" little did she know I just barley cleaned it! Haha it's so funny!

Friday I went on exchanges with Elder Wilson, our district leader. I was in his area. We did service pretty much the whole day so there's not a whole lot to report there. Although we went by our housing inspectors house and he has a super clean mustang like mine! There's only almost 50,000 miles on it and it never goes out in the snow. It puts my car to shame! Haha Saturday we helped with a move, which seems to be all we do right now. But after the move we went tracting and had no luck finding anyone.

Sunday was pretty good. Susan came to church which was awesome. Monday we had DTM and then went to Streats to eat. We also had a lesson with Chris who was a potential investigator but he's now our new investigator!! He's been taught before and knows everything about the church as his wife is a member. His only problem is he needs to stop smoking. He wants to stop so we are gonna help him!

I heard that Clarice passed away, that is so sad, please tell Grant I am thinking of him and send my love.  I didn't know she was a teacher in Trail BC, that's in our mission boundaries!!! And she grew up an hour north of where I am now :)

Today we went down to the river and hiked around and stuff. Went to the train bridge then went back to church and had a water balloon fight :)

Anyway take care everyone! I keep you all in my prayers all the time!

Love,

Elder Sean