Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Hope you all had a great time!

So this week has been okay. After emails on Monday, we went shopping then went to the apartment and literally did nothing all day. It drove me nuts. I wanted to go out and do something, anything, but my companion just wanted to stay in and sleep. So I couldn't leave the apartment since he wouldn't. Monday was a very, very boring day.

Tuesday I got to go to Brantford with Elder Thompson and we had a busy day planned out for us, but then many of our appointments had to cancel, so only two really work out, but they were good. We got to visit a family called the Camellarries and have lunch with them. We also went to visit this new investigator the Brantford Elders got and she wanted to be baptized, so she has a baptismal date for the 24! Cool, huh? That day also involved a lot of walking around, but it was fun.

Wednesday, we got to help this one guy move and it wasn't a lot of fun. He lived on the top floor of a house and the steps up there were so narrow and had a few turns, so getting things down that was not fun at all, especially the huge couch with the fold out bed! That just sucked a lot. The apartment was also quite dirty so Elder Thompson and I spent quite awhile in the showers afterward, but hey, we got to help the people, right? Then we had a meal at the De Jaun's, the Ward Mission Leader's family. Dinner was awesome, and their son just got back from a mission, so that was pretty cool. Then we got to visit a member by the name of Teressa, which was a lot of fun and quite an entertaining experience. Then we had coordination and went home.

Thursday, we got to teach some more investigators and the lady with a baptismal date, so it was a good day. We had dinner with the Sillers, another member family. The Brantford Elders get fed a lot. We had a lot of time for finding as well, and then near the end of the day, I had to go back to Hamilton Mountain.

Friday was weekly planning since we couldn't do it yesterday. After that, we got to go to a member family know as the Pulsipher's. Paul Pulsipher actually served in this mission a few years ago (He's from Colorado or California, I can't remember), but came back here and married Lorraine Dufour. He served under President Middleton for a time and if you know Jordan Curliss, Paul was under him when Bro. Curliss was a district leader. Small world, huh? So they fed us a really good Thanksgiving dinner, so that was very good.

Saturday we went to Brampton to see President Brower and talk to him a bit. It was a good time and we had fun, then the assistant's gave us a ride back to the mountain. I started feeling really sick that day, but we still went out to find and contact people to bring them closer to God. We had no dinner appointments for the night, so we got to feed ourselves. I had Hamburger helper! The Cheesy Shells! Yum!

Sunday was church, like usual. Then we went over to Sister Falco's for an awesome Thanksgiving dinner. She's a great cook and it's always a joy to go over to her place. After staying there for lunch, we went home and did a lot more contacting, but also took a nap since we were both feeling a little sick.

Monday was a holiday, so our P-Day got moved to today. We got to do the Turkey Bowl yesterday! That was fun. It's the annual football game members in the ward have and we got to play it in the rain. It was a fun game. Then we went tracting for a few hours in the rain, and the rain just started pouring, so that wasn't too fun. Then I had my Thanksgiving dinner of some Hamburger Helper Taco stuff, which was good, a bowl of cereal (Marshmallow Mateys), a pop tart (S'mores), Dr. Pepper, some Garlic Cheese toast and a Caramilk bar. A feast fit for the gods! Then we went and had Family Home Evening with the Pulsiphers, which was a lot of fun.

So that was my week. I hope all of yours was exciting as well, and I wish you all the best!

Elder Stubbs