Hello everyone! It's been a busy and eventful week, and I'm excited to tell yall about it!
Highlights:
-I got to go to the Vancouver Temple!
-Zone Conference Part 2!
-Exchange with Elder Peñúñuri in Victoria!
-Poutine, and authentic Mexican food!
-Apparently I can still testify of the gospel when I don't know Spanish haha
-Jolee & Madi came to church!!!
-First Presidency Christmas Devotional
Lowlights:
-I thought I could escape the snow here on the island.... I was wrong
Temple:
The trip to the temple was amazing! It took us half a day of driving
and a ferry ride to get to Richmond. Then the next morning we drove out
to Langley and did a session in the temple! It was an incredible
experience! And I got to do a family name as well so that was special.
Its a small, but beautiful temple.
Zone
Conference Part 2: After the temple, we found out our ferry back to the
Island was canceled because of bad weather, so we were stuck in Richmond
for another night. It was a bit chaotic but it ended up being so
spiritual. My entire zone ended up having a big dinner at the church,
and had a mini Zone Conference with President and Sister Gill at their
house. And the lesson was so spiritual, I had many questions answered in
that short lesson. What a way to make up for the bad weather.
Exchanges:
After we finally got back to the Island, I went on exchange with my
zone leader Elder Peñúñuri in Victoria! It was an amazing exchange! I
got to see my last companion Elder Achal again and Elder Canals from
Kamloops! I got to see downtown Victoria, which was way smaller than I
thought it would be, but still was super cool! And because Elder
Peñúñuri is a Spanish missionary, we visited 2 members of the Spanish
ward! We had dinner with one of them which made pure authentic Mexican
food! It was super good! I even tried the super spicy salsas haha. I
actually found them super tasty haha. But it was daunting to teach
families that knew little English. But Elder Peñúñuri helped to
translate. I found it easy to follow along with the little Spanish I
know haha. And I was still able to testify to them of Jesus Christ, even
with the language barrier. Elder Peñúñuri is such an amazing
missionary! I was so glad to be able to go on an exchange with him!
Jolee
& Madi: Jolee & Madi are the two teenagers we are teaching,
that we gave a church tour to last week! They were able to come to
church this week and absolutely loved it! One of them even told us they
want to come to church every week now! Sunday night, we watched the
First Presidency Christmas Devotional with them, and Jolee didn't seem
well the whole time. Her stomach was hurting her, and she was in a lot
of pain. She was planning on going to the hospital after our lesson was
over. Me and Elder Walcer had the prompting to give her a priesthood
blessing, so we asked her if we could and she said yes. We gave her a
super spiritual blessing, and then we bore our testimonies and left. The
next day, she told us her stomach is now not bothering her! And she
recognized that God helped her with that. Both Madi and Jolee's
testimonies are growing so fast! Its amazing!
Anyways, I hope yall are doing well! I'm surviving up here in cold cold Canada haha. Have a great week everyone!
-Elder Biesinger
Pictures!!! (I took a lot this week to make up for last week, so I will send more in another email)
1- My District at the Temple
2-All the Utah Missionaries in my Zone💪
3-Me and Elder Achal at the Temple
4-A super cool Leather design of the temple in the Poutine Restaurant in Victoria!
Some more pictures of me at the Harbor Key haha.
More Pictures!!
1- All The Missionaries signed their name on this poster who ate at this Poutine Restaurant! Try spotting my name haha.
2- The Poutine!
3- Sunset over Victoria
4- Sunset over the Ocean
5- Cool Building in Downtown Victoria!
6- Foggy Day in Port Alberni!
7-Me at the Harbor Key in Port Alberni!
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