Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Planting Trees

Hey everyone! This week we planted trees with an interfaith group, practiced Christmas caroling, jump started the Bishop's car, and we found more people to teach! It's been getting cooler and rainier the more we get into the winter over here in York. We had a zone training this week and the church is launching a thing in December called "Light the world". We're going Christmas caroling at King's square in downtown York this Saturday. It should be a really good experience.

On Tuesday a ward member, Mark Cosens, invited all of the missionaries in York to a planting trees service project with his interfaith group. It was cool meeting people of other faiths and just planting trees. We planted over 500 trees in Rawcliffe Park!

After church yesterday, the Bishop's daughter left the light on in their car and the battery was dead. So, Elder Peña and I jump starter his car by pushing it down the parking lot in 2nd gear. I've never done that with a stick shift car before. After we helped him out, he invited us over for tea. 

This week has been awesome for finding new people to teach! One day when we were knocking doors, we met a lovely lady named Claire and her 2 young boys. When we walked up to her door to knock on it, I saw her feet propped up through the window expecting her to see us through the door and ignore us. But, she greeted us warmly and said that she would love to hear our message. We gave her a Book of Mormon and she said that she was definitely going to read it. We're going to see her tomorrow and I'm so excited! 

Another miracle that happened this week was that D came to church! He's becoming less and less anxious about getting baptized and he gotten to know the Bishop really well.  It's been a brilliant week and I'm just so grateful to be out here! I love you all and happy Thanksgiving, even though they don't celebrate it over here.

-Elder Holyoak

Planting trees at Rawcliffe Park

Always "scoop the poop"

Brrrrrr.......


Elder Tobler and Elder Zeck





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