October 11, 2022
Hello everyone! This week has been super crazy, fun, and spiritual!
Now this email is gonna be pretty long haha so prepare yourselves.
Goods:
- Canadian Thanksgiving!
- Autumn is finally here!
- Our new friend Louis!
- Zone Conference!
- P-Day in Salmon Arm!
- Our Dungeons & Dragons Campaign!
- Salmon Arm Members!
- I LOVE Lasagna!!
- The weather is PERFECT!!
There aren't any notable bads other than I was tired some days haha but thats the usual.
So some explanations and experiences:
1. Canadian Thanksgiving: It's the exact same thing as an American Thanksgiving just earlier haha.
2.
Autumn: Autumn has finally arrived! The trees have started to change
color, and it's starting to get a little colder. The mornings are now
brisk, and it's been perfect weather! Its absolutely beautiful and
perfect!
3. Louis: Louis is a referral from
the other missionaries here in Kamloops. We've had one lesson with him.
He is a returning member, and wants to be rebaptized and go to the
temple before he dies. In our 1st lesson with him, we taught lesson 1
the restoration. And during the Lessen, we were talking about the First
Vision. He mentioned he already knew it, and it seemed like he wanted to
skim right over it.
Louis is pretty stubborn, but super
nice. I told him that I wanted to keep talking about the First Vision,
and he listened as I quoted the First Vision from memory. After I had
quoted this this account, Louis was in tears. He said that he's a
stubborn man, and the fact that I was able to say the First Vision
memorized and from the heart meant so much to him, and he felt the
spirit so much.
The lesson took a complete turn from there,
it went from being just reviewing what he already knew, to us getting a
spiritually uplifting experience, not only for him but for me and Elder
Achal.
It was such a big testimony builder to see how something as simple as saying a memorized quote can affect someone so much.
4.
Zone Conference: Zone conference was absolutely incredible this
transfer! It was so spiritual and enlightening lightning, it was just
incredible. The main focus of this zone conference was about joy. And
why joy is so important in missionary work, and why joy is so important
to us as we continue to grow closer to Jesus Christ and become more like
him.The biggest thing I learned from zone conference, is that the
reason why we have pain and suffering is because of joy. Now this may
seem contradictory, but it makes sense. Without pain and suffering, joy
would not exist. In 2 Nephi 2:11, it talks about how there needs to be
an opposition in all things. How good and bad cannot exist without each
other, so we wouldn't be able to understand or value joy without first
experiencing pain and sorrow. And that is so true, I have noticed in my
life all the hard times, and they have been hard and are not fun, but
they have built me up so much and helped me so much in my life. They
truly have helped me grow into the person I am today.
5:
P-day in Salmon Arm: Today, we are in Salmon Arm with the other Elders
in our district, and we are playing games and hanging out for P-day
today before we head back down to Kamloops. The reason why we did this,
is because we were in Kelowna for zone conference yesterday, and Salmon
Arm was on the way back, and we thought we would just all hang out for
PA. It's been pretty fun today
6: Dungeons
& Dragons: So for the last transfer or so, my district and I have
been playing Dungeons & Dragons on P-day. I have never played it
before, and we decided it would be a fun way for us to connect and grow
as a district haha. It's interesting, because I never saw myself liking
roleplay type games, or anything like that, but I've actually really
enjoyed it. It's been a ton of fun, and it's just been a great way for
us to connect as a district. Anyways, we had a really cool experience
the other night while playing Dungeons & Dragons. We were finishing
up our session that night, and the funniest thing happened. We felt the
spirit. Soft Music was playing, it was dark, and very serene. At first
it was a very odd sensation to feel the spirit during this game, but it
showed me that Heavenly Father enjoys playing games, and using our
imagination and I had never realized that before. It was an incredible
experience that I didn't expect from playing Dungeons & Dragons.
7:
After zone conference, we drove to Salmon Arm to stay the night, for
P-day the following day. When we arrived, one of the members there
invited us over for dinner! They showed us their Dungeons & Dragons
setup in their basement, which was super complex and very thorough which
was really cool! I have never seen anything like it. A couple elders
geeked out about it haha. And we had lasagna for dinner which was
amazing not as good as Aunt Brooke's lasagna, but it was still really
good haha.
Anyways yall, sorry about the long
email, it was a really exciting week, and I wanted to share with you all
the cool experiences that happened. I hope everything is going well
with everyone, just know I'm praying for you!
- Elder Biesinger
Pictures!!!
1: A rainbow in Kelowna after Zone Conference!
2:
Elder Canals hit his one year mark on his mission! And a tradition
around here, is to burn a white shirt on your one year mark. We happen
to have an extra white shirt that was left behind, so we were able to go
and burn it. It was a really fun time!
3: Kamloops at night!!
4: The Salmon Arm members Dungeons & Dragons setup haha.
5: My district, the best district ever haha. The goats🐐 haha.
6: My district playing Dungeons & Dragons haha.
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