7 Hours of church, NOT Training and Beautiful Weather

Hello Canada. How are you all ? Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Updates for the week...I was in my studies and came across this scripture and loved it. 
Roman 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience. 
Is that not just great? I read it and loved it. With my struggles it brought me great comfort. Another pretty crazy update is well, I am no longer training. The Reason for that is I was going to be training a visa waiter and he got his visa and so he went to Thailand. My new companion had the same thing happen to him, so they made us two companions and now we are covering two wards. It is kinda fun but it is very busy. 

Monday was a good day. We said goodbyes, did shout outs, wrote in journals and all that fun stuff. 

Elder Routledge & Payne

Tuesday was our transfer meeting and I got to see a lot of my old comps, like Elder Gregory and a few friends of mine so that was cool. Because we are covering two wards we had two dinners and the way that all worked out is kind of funny. My new comp is one of the Elders I lived with last transfer and he is a a very big boy. We came up with a plan to both eat healthy. It has been fun, he is just a big teddy bear. I love him, he is just great haha, we are so loud and weird together, it's like two of me in one apartment that eats 3 times as much haha. 

Elder Payne

Wednesday we received 7 referrals from HQ in Salt Lake. They send a text of someone who is interested, so we have been very busy with that and seeing two wards of people is fun, but the days start and are gone already. It is good because this will build up my diligence as an Elder. Only look for the good, or I try. It can be hard at times, but if you rally think about it, every day there is more good than bad that happens, or can happen. 

Thursday was fun. We did our weekly planning and we set some goals of how to help out wards out and I do not have anything to complain about. Our Elders back home cover two wards and they are still great :) SHOUT OUT TO YOU, CANADA ELDERS!!
We also had a District Leader Training meeting, yep back as a DL comp, the best place to be haha. That was NOT sarcasm. Then I had to introduce Elder Payne (my comp) to the gun family, the Throckmortnes. It was a fun visit. 

Friday was cool. We had a cool district meeting. It was like an intro to the transfer, it was cool. Then we stayed busy seeing people. We talked to a less active man named Brother Golden. He was cool and we taught this new but old investigator named Jenny. Then we went to see this guy named Uncle Boobala. He loves on the ocean and he is 60!!! and he surfs like everyday ! He was a very cool dude. He has long white hair and looked like an old surfer guy and surfer body, it was just funny. 


Saturday we saw Josh and Kenna and they are the best. Their mom is a less active, becoming more active and they are both 9 and not baptized yet, so we are getting them baptized on the 9th of November. They are so great, I just love these two kids. They came to church on Sunday and they just crack me up. I will have to get pictures to show you them, they are very cool. 

Oct 11 - Temp

Oct 11 - Temp (in Canadian) 

Sunday was fun. We had 7 hours of church and meetings so that kept us busy. We even got to go into primary and talk about missionary work. Oh man, that made me so happy, as they all knew so much already. Man, never thought I would miss primary this much. It was a good long day and tonight we went by our ward mission leaders house on the beach and just talked about conference. The spirit was very present. 

Well family. I love you all and hope to hear from you soon. Mom, dad, Shel, Scott, take care. Muah. 

Love Elder Routledge