Darryl Has Come Back To Haunt Me Right Before Transfers

November 8, 2022

Hello everyone! This week has been pretty eventful! Lots to write about! Its gonna be a long email so bear with me haha. Here are the Goods and Bads:

Goods: 

-Tracting while being Sick

-Authentic Indian Food

-First snow in Kamloops!!

-Interviews with President!

-Stake Conference

-Transfer news!

Bads:

-Still being sick from the Halloween Party

-Saying goodbye to all the missionaries at Stake Conference cause transfers are today.

-The last week before transfers goes SO slow.

-Snow is now here, and its probably gonna last, so bye bye Autumn.

-Still getting colder by the day. We are at around freezing or below every day now.

-We were heading out to shovel snow for some members, and we slid into a ditch. Haha we are all ok tho the car didn't flip.

Tracting: One night me and Elder Achal were still pretty sick from the Halloween party. Elder Achal said he needed a nap and I said ok and did some Facebook work on my phone while he slept. All of a sudden, Elder Achal busts down the bedroom door and says: 'Elder we're going door-knocking'. It totally threw me off guard, but we got dressed and went off to do some tracting. It was my first time doing it, and it was flipping cold outside, my face and hands were dying. But it actually went pretty well, we were able to drop off a Book of Mormon! But the craziest thing was, when we were tracting, neither me or Elder Achal felt sick. We felt completely healthy and energized to do the work. And we didn't feel sick again until we went back home. Its so crazy that we were temporarily healed so we could go out and do some work. Even though it was cold, it was well worth it.

Indian Food: We had dinner with Hitesh this week! (Bro. Kanwar now). And he fed us Authentic Indian food which tasted AMAZING. I don't know most of the stuff I ate, but it was all soo good. But the best part of the night is when Hitesh asked if we wanted to drink some Buttermilk. I politely declined cause Buttermilk is nasty, but Elder Achal, not knowing what Buttermilk is, said 'sure ill try some' haha. Sadly Hitesh brought out two glasses so I had to drink some. But it was so funny to see Elder Achals reaction, he just about died haha. After I learned he had never heard of Buttermilk before and never had it. So that was funny. But the rest of the food was amazing!

Snow!!: Guess what? It actually snows in Canada! This week was the first snowstorm so the roads were really bad. And the snow keeps on coming down! We have about 5 inches or so at the moment haha. I'm gonna need to start getting my winter gear out haha. But it is beautiful to see the snow fall and to see everything blanketed in white haha.

Speaking of snow, when we slid into the ditch we were pressed up to a telephone pole. When we eventually dug ourselves out, we had a dent on the back left side of the car that looked kinda like the dent on my old Kia Optima Darryl haha. I guess he's come back to haunt me haha.

Interviews: It was great to see President and Sister Gill again! And this time they came here to Kamloops! It was a bit weird cause they did interviews in our apartment(don't worry we cleaned haha). But it was still good to get insight from them and to learn more from them!

Stake Conference: Stake Conference was up in Vernon this last Sunday! And we had the privilege of driving up! The messages were really good and President and Sister Gill spoke as well! It was very spiritual and it was fun to see the other missionaries. It was sad to say goodbyes to them though, cause lots of changes probably happened at transfers. 

Transfer News!: This transfer news is crazy! I am being transfered to Port Alberni!!! Its a smaller town a bit north of Victoria on the Island! I'm gonna experience Island culture in winter. I'm gonna have to wear my Hawaii tie haha. 

But what's even crazier is my new companion is Elder Walcer!!!! We were in the MTC together and he is a total legend! We both play guitar and are pretty chill! Its gonna be a sick transfer. I'm so excited!!! 

But I will miss Kamloops. Its been an amazing 2 transfers here, the members are great and my district was amazing. What a start to my mission. Elder Achal is being transfered as well! He is going to Victoria with Elder Canals! And they are gonna be Companions!!!! This next transfer is going to be amazing haha.

Anyways, an exciting week should be coming up! Hopefully it doesn't get too cold here in Canada haha. Hope everyone has an amazing week!

-Elder Biesinger

Pictures!!!!

1-Me and Elder Achal with Hitesh eating the amazing Indian Food!

2-Part of the First Snow here in Kamloops!

3-Me and Elder Spencer

4-Tracting! Don't I look so happy? Also I kinda look like the classic 90s Canadian Elder haha.

5-Autumn's final Hurrah!

6-The car damage haha

7-The Bartels: The most sick members of all time. They have helped us out in so many ways, and have just been so kind and friendly always. They've kinda been our family here in the loops haha.