It warmed up again and now all the snow melted. It's about plus 5, so not too cold. After the snow everything feels warmer. There are a few patches of snow here and there, but most has been melting.

So more craziness; we are gong to be getting another companion, Elder Nyman, and we are now going to be covering three stakes. Fun. We are covering the North, Riverbend, and Bonnie Dune. I already served in the north, so this should be a party. We have put so many clicks on our car already. This is all just crazy.

So we taught Maria. She has been coming to church, and she reads from the Book of Mormon, and yesterday was our first lesson. She is awesome. She is a foreign exchange student from Spain living with some members. There is a recent convert family from the same part of Spain that we are hoping to get to a lesson, so it is just awesome. Our lesson mostly consisted of answering questions, and she had lots.

Other than Maria we haven't met with many people, but we have been stoping by lots of people and we should have plenty of people to work with.

Con amor

Élder Grimmer

So almost all of last week's snow melted, then Friday we got another 6
inches or so. Then it warmed up a bit again. There is snow on one side
of the street and the other side is wet. It's about +3 or so. Not bad
at all. We got freezing rain Sunday. Thankfully the roads weren't bad,
but our car had a sheen of ice all over it. It looked cool.

So we had some craziness this week. So I got transferred to the Bonnie
Dune stake with Elder Christensen, and we also cover Riverbend stake.
Here's where the craziness comes in; transfers are next Wednesday.
Elder Christensen came out with Elder Dike, just under a transfer ago.
As well, Elder Moody's not even done training. I just say Elder Moody
is training Elder Dike, and is also being trained by Elder Dike.
They're great missionaries, and they'll do great.

So we are covering two areas and we travel a lot. We can spend 30+ min
easy going to an appointment. The mission likes to filter out cars
once they have 60000 kicks on them; our Subaru had over 80000. We went
to the mission office today and I talked with the mission vehicle
coordinator, and he had us switch out all of our stuff into a new car.
Now we drive a 2016 Rav 4 with 108 kilometers on the odometer. It's
pretty awesome.

So RiverDune is pretty great. There are a ton of people that all seem
super solid, but the missionaries haven't been meeting with most in a
long time. We found some some solid people and have been trying to
connect with more for the past few days. The members are also awesome.
We don't get fed quite as much, but on Sunday we tried by a family
some of my old companions told me about. We wanted to share a quick
message about missionary work, and they asked if we had a dinner
tonight. We said we didn't, and they fed us really good tacos.

I'm still trying to get everything organized, but I'm fine.

Élder Grimmer

So it snowed. We were doing our weekly planning, and we look out side
and snow was falling. By that night it was sticking, and it has snowed
off and on for four days. We have maybe an inch, and it's melting. I
want to make a snow man. It's not too cold, but with wind it gets a
little chilly. Everything looks different.

So we had thanksgiving this week. Yesterday was the official
thanksgiving day, but we got three thanksgiving dinners this weekend.
It was a lot of fun and a lot of food.

This week has been tough but good. We are starting to visit all of the
members and it has been good for getting people exited for missionary
work. In one of the visits I felt strongly to invite the sons to pray
for a knowledge if the church is true. It was cool. We also got a few
more dinners out of this, so that is always fun. We don't have much
work but we are keeping busy. Most of our Investigators are very hard
to get in contact with.  It has been a bit hard, but life is good.

Take care and stay warm!

Élder Grimmer

This week has been cool. Sunday was frigid; it was raining and cold,
which makes a bad combo. We walked to a house that was right behind
the stake center, that was fun. We got very wet and very cold. Most of
the week has been relatively warm. Most of the trees are changing
color and losing their leaves.

We have been finding some new people. Yesterday we met a Mexican woman
who I could have sworn was Chinese. I guess she was raised in Mexico
though. She is currently investigating the Jehovah Witnesses, so this
should be fun. We have met a lot of solid people, but it had been hard
to get people to want to change.

So General Conference was awesome. We went to the church for each
session and no one came, but it was still awesome. I loved Elder Oaks'
talk and we plan to share it with the members here. Really, to be
effective missionaries, we need to involve the Lord in our personal
efforts to bring others to Christ.

It has been work as normal. Nothing too crazy to report.

Élder Grimmer

So this week has been cooling down some more. We just got a coat for Elder Dike. It has been fun.

This week has been a bit empty. We had lot a ton of approaches and found some cool people but we don't have many solid Spanish Investigators right now. We made a list of former investigators to call. We are working hard; we got well over 300 approaches.

We met with PJ twice. She is going through a very hard time. We gave her a blessing, and had a very powerful lesson on the full meaning of the atonement. The Savior was with us that night. She is on date for  Oct. 22. She has some awesome Fellowshippers, for which I can't take credit. God is taking care of her. 

We taught a man named Oscar. He is from mexico. We read Lehi's dream with him. We have been meeting with lots of mexicans. Some were having a party the other day. They gave us really good tacos. There are lots of people who are prepared, but we seem to just be finding for other missionaries. 

We have gone on lots of splits with other missionaries. It's been interesting. There is another group of three missionaries, so we split into three groups of two a few times.

We are all well.

Élder Grimmer

Touch of Frost

So our car was covered in dew and I was telling my companions that
frost will be coming soon. Upon closer inspection, there was a little
bit of frost. Winter is coming.

Elder Dike is awesome. He is fresh out of the MTC from Arizona. His
first day we got six other lesson and got more approaches than before.
We found several awesome people in this week. Elder Dike and Moody
seem to have opened the windows of revelation. We have been searching
out the elect, and it has been bringing miracles. We met with a guy
named Cruz and it was awesome. We taught him on his doorstep and got
him to pray. The spirit was so strong. Then there was another day we
felt we needed to knock one more door. A guy was walking around and
Elder Moody said "we should talk to that guy." We knocked a door and
no one answered. Then as we walked back to the car, the guy walked
past on the phone. I said "hey do you want a book?" He said sure and
so I gave him a Book of Mormon and he walked away. It was sweet.

So we finally met with Drago. He was the Croatian man who was
supposedly reading the Book of Mormon. So he wasn't, but it was still
cool. Monica came to the stake conference! She has been the first
person to come in many a week. We are doing awesome.

I've had a bit of a sore throat and runny nose, but otherwise all is well.

Élder Grimmer

Almost Fall

Tha leaves are changing. Fall is upon us. It has been cooling bit by
bit. The coldest was 6 this morning. Soon that will be the high.
Sunday was miserable. It was raining and cold, which is much worse
than snow.

So we are going to be training. And yes I am still training Elder
Moody. We are going to be a trio with two missionaries training and
two being trained. This will be fun.

We still haven't had anyone come to church. We have a lot of people we
are teaching but hardly anyone is actually progressing. It is tough.
We have been doing lots of finding recently and we found quite a few
Spanish. Canada really is extremely multicultural. We met a bunch of
people from all over Europe. The work is good.

So #Yegmormon was a blast! We did two service projects and taught
Eduardo. It was a great lesson. One of our members scheduled to come
with us fell through, as did two lessons, but that's life. It was a
good day.

All is well. I love you all!

Élder Grimmer