Hide and Seek Anyone?

Hey everyone, how's life?

This past week has been pretty good. A little slow, but still good. On Monday we went to this all you can eat sushi place called 'Sushi Star' for Elder Lee's birthday. I hate sushi and fish. Luckily, they had beef, chicken and pork on the menu so I didn't have to suffer much. It was fun. Then later in the day, we got to go to a part-member family's house where the member is less-active, for dinner. She really wants to come back to church, so she came the Sunday before and Sunday this week. She's a great lady and her family is fun to be around. Her husband is Catholic, but he doesn't like organized religion because he doesn't like it when one religion tells another that they are wrong. We'll work on him. Tuesday I got to go downtown again with Elder Plunkitt. It was a good time, and we had a lot of appointments to go to and we did quite a bit of contacting. Contacting at Jackson Square is pretty entertaining. Thursday was mainly a teaching day. We met with one of our investigators named Milan. He's a gypsy from the Czech Republic. He's a great guy, and he's just absorbing all of the information we are giving him. Then we got to meet with the part member family again. (They are the only ones who have signed our dinner calendar this month). After we had dinner with them, we were going to teach a lesson, but the husband excused himself. When their daughters asked where he was going, I told them that he's playing hide-and-seek with the missionaries. If we find him and baptize him, we win. If we can't find him, kudos to him. Thursday was a slow day. We had our weekly planning session, then many of our appointments had to cancel. We did a lot of walking that day. Friday we had District Meeting and Schwarma pizza. The pizza was good.

Then one of our investigators canceled on us today. He was doing really well, but lately he's been canceling on us so much. Unfortunately, he ran into a run of Anti-Mormon literature awhile back and he's assured us that nothing is wrong and he still wants to meet with us but he's just been so busy lately and sick. He helps out with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats football team as a water-boy, so he's been busy lately. Then later that day while at the Mall's bus terminal, we saw an older lady fall of a curb into the middle of the street. She had troubles moving and was in pain, so we called an ambulance and waited with her. The paramedics said she should be okay, but they wanted to take her to the hospital because she hit her head and wanted to run some tests. Saturday, I went downtown again because my companion and one of the downtown Elders went to the Temple for a sealing of someone they both taught before. So I got to play baseball with the Elders Quorum. It was fun. Elder Lee played really well as this was his first time playing baseball. After that, my companion and I went back up the mountain. We were headed towards a baptism on the bus when Tingey saw a girl that he met awhile back while I wasn't around. He talked with her and she came to the baptism with us. She really enjoyed it and is going to take the discussions. Sunday was kind of gloomy. It started raining the day before so it was a pretty overcast day. Church was good, but Jacob didn't show up for some reason. Then later in the evening, we went to go visit the part-member family again. Luckily, today someone at church noticed our dinner calendar was empty, so it got passed around, and so we have a few more appointments this week. Some of the Leaders in the church (like the bishop), tried to make people feel guilty for not feeding us or even meeting with us.

All in all, this week was pretty good. I can't believe that summer is almost over! I hope you all are making the most of the rest of your summer, and have a great year coming up! Hope to hear from many of you soon!

Elder Stubbs