Heat Stroke Anyone?

Hey everyone, how's life?

Life for me has been going on. Places to be, people to teach, things to get yelled at me. Other than that, not too much has been going on. Monday was our P-Day, and I was still feeling sick that day. They also had a heat warning for that day, and all the missionaries wanted to play Ultimate Frisbee, which meant I had to be there. Unfortunately, I got heat stroke/exhaustion, and that lasted for a few days. That wasn't fun. We also got to meet this new less-active member named Bro. Wee. He's a great guy and knows a lot about the church. He's from the Philippines, but he's actually Chinese. Tuesday was busy and sucked mainly because of my heat stroke. We had district meeting in the morning and a few lessons for the day. Then we had a dinner appointment with a new family in the ward, but we didn't know where they lived, their phone number didn't work and pretty much everyone we called didn't know where they lived. Fortunately we found one member family that did, so we were able to get there and have dinner with them. The family is from Zimbabwe. Cool, huh? We also got to teach Beverley and Jacob that day and things are going well with them. Wednesday, we went to go help a family across town move. We had to bike there, and I still was feeling sick. When we got there, we couldn't do anything since the Uhaul truck wasn't there. We waited, and waited and waited. Then the people who went to pick it up came back and told us they had to go to Ancaster to get it. We were already waiting for about an hour and a half, give or take, so we left since we had other appointments that we needed to meet. We then taught another less-active which went well and we taught John the Barber for a bit. After that, we went to the park near the mall and contacted there for the night. Thursday was planning day. We planned for the week and new month ahead of us, then we went to go visit John the Barber and Beverley. Unfortunately, Beverley had a cigarette, but we recommitted her to quit smoking. She also wanted a blessing to help her, so we gave her one. Right after that, she took her cigarettes and threw them across the room. The member who was there with us ran across the room, picked them up and put them in his bag to dispose of them. Good for him. Later that night, we went to go visit our new ward mission leader for Coordination meeting. That went really well. He's instituting a new cake policy for missionary's birthdays and for when they leave the area, which means we'll get cake this week since Tingey is going home! Friday was mainly just a day of finding. We got to meet with Jacob again and teach more about scripture study and what Lehi's dream meant. Then I got to head downtown with Elder Giles. Saturday contained a lot of walking as well. It was also pretty cold and wet and windy. Apparently a hurricane hit... Halifax? I can't remember, but we were feeling the after effects of it. So Saturday was just walking around trying to find Mandarin speaking Chinese (Elders Giles is a Mandarin speaking missionary). We met a lot of Chinese, but unfortunately, most of them could only speak Cantonese. Dang. We also got to watch some of the new Preach My Gospel DVDs that morning. Sunday we had church (duh) and then after that, more walking! It was a pretty cool day though, so that was good. We also got to go over to a member's house (The Sepper's) for dinner (he made ribs!). Dinner with them was really good. They're a great family. After them, a lot more walking until we had to go in. Monday we didn't get to email because of Labor Day, so instead we watched more of Preach My Gospel, then we played some sports for awhile, like volleyball, basketball and ping pong. Then we just ate and relaxed for the day since we couldn't do grocery shopping either. Then we went to the Goddard's for dinner. Bro. Goddard made this book of the history of the stake and mormonism in the news dating back to the 1800's! It's taken him quite a few years to make and he showed us his resources, which were a lot! The stake's 100th anniversary is coming up either this Sunday or next, so he made an abridged one for that, and the bigger one might be available at Stake Conference in... November, I think. Then it was more finding after that.

Well, that was my week. I get to go to a member's home who owns the actual puffy shirt from Nacho Libre, and I get to try it on tonight! Hopefully the pictures will be ready soon. Anyways, that's all I have to say for the week. Hope all of you enjoyed your summer and are getting back into the routine of things. Christmas is just around the corner! Have a great week!

Elder Stubbs