Don Sherwood Family Blog: Transfer 14, Week 6: Snow Brings Miracles, Too!

Hey Everyone,

How are we doing this week? This wintry week in Columbia Falls Montana has been pretty spectacular! Boy was it a blast, and flying by so fast. So, let me not delay your excitement any further. On with the show...

This week has been different for many reasons. For one, it's the last full week of the transfer, so the rumors are high about what may happen at Transfer calls tonight/tomorrow. You never know nowadays when we'll get the call. Hahaha. It'll be good.

Anyway, The first couple days of the week were nothing special other than an unexpected phone call from our investigator Inga, where she told us that she was praying about being baptized! If that doesn't start the week off great. I don't know what does! We're very excited for her.

Wednesday with the zone leaders out of town for MLC, the district leaders decided to combine districts for district council. And on top of that, the consensus was to also go to Eureka for District/Zone council. It was crazy, but worth it. We had a ton of fun. While we were up there, a few of the other missionaries wanted to go see the U.S./Canada Border. (we were only like 5 minutes from the border) Super cool.

So Story time.... We go to our dinner Thursday night, and the father talks about a basketball game at the stake center. So, me being all about playing church ball, ask when it is happening. Apparently the stake here has a lot of nonmembers involved in their stake elders quorum basketball tournament. Of course then we get permission from the zone leaders to go and ball it up with members and nonmembers alike. It was a ton of fun. Later the zone leaders ask for details for the next game/night they are playing. Hahaha. I think we've got them hooked too.

Friday night there were a few Miracles too. The first was a result of a faulty timer. We were given a frozen pizza for dinner. So we do our best to cook it. Well, it turned into a hockey puck. So, not being all that hungry, we went to Burger King to go talk to a member that works there, who just got off work. Just at that time, There was another member family, who ended up paying for us. God really does look out for his people.

The second was a planned activity. The ward missionary committee planned a "bring a friend" board game night. It was super fun, and we got to meet a few new people. And even with the short notice, we had a great turnout as well. The only bad thing that happened there was that as a result of that activity, I want to own a new board game. Hahaha!

Saturday, we did a lot of snow shoveling. We arranged with Inga for us to come up and help her with her driveway. There was a lot of snow. Most of it was knee to waist deep. Holy cow!! But it was cool. Afterwards, we sat down for a minute, and chatted about what baptism meant and involved. Inga expressed a desire to be baptized, and set her date for February 22nd. We're both super excited for her. Hooray!

Well, I think that wraps up this week for me. I hope yours was great as well, keep up the great work, and we'll announce transfer news next time. (unless it comes before 6pm today, but I doubt it.) See ya next week.

Love,

Elder Sherwood

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