Scariest moment of my life! It was hilarious!

Elder Jake and his new "greenie" Elder Faimalo

Well this has been quite a crazy couple of weeks. First things first, my son ("son" is missionary slang for a brand new missionary). His name is Elder Faimalo. Fai sounds like die with an f. And malo sounds like hollow with an m. Faimalo. He's from Huntington Utah. Which is just south of Price and two hours south of Provo. He is half Samoan. He's sweet. It's been pretty sweet so far. Elder Becker is now on the west side of Lethbridge.

Well, president gave the whole mission a new goal for the month of August. He wants the whole Canada Calgary Mission to contact 1,000,000 people. That's right One Million people. He said anyone counts as long as you either share doctrine or an invitation with them. It could be members or non members. Just talk to one million people. It is so crazy. The clicks (Canadian word for miles) on the cars are being cut way down so we have to walk everywhere now. It's going to be a crazy month.

Last week we got to volunteer at St Therese. It is a nursing home for old people who can't live on their own. We volunteer there every week on Tuesdays. Usually we just play Uno or something like that with the old peeps. Last month they had an ice cream social for the old people. We would help out there and serve ice cream. Well we were given these rubber gloves to serve with. Things slowed down a bit so we got bored. Me and Becker started blowing up the gloves to pass the time. Well they weren't super stretchy so I didn't think they would blow up very well. When I started blowing mine up, it worked a lot better than I thought. So I made the mistake of finding its limits. Now you have to remember where we are. Surrounded by very fragile old people on their last limb. Just as that thought crossed my mind, the glove decided it didn't want to get any bigger. So it went boom. Now I kid you not when I say it sounded like a gun shot. Two of the other volunteers quickly jumped out from around the corner to see what just happened. Out of the corner of my eye was a lady in a wheel chair just about jump over the moon. I was so scared I had just killed someone. I thought for sure that someone was going to have a heart attack. Luckily, my prayer was answered and no one was hurt in the explosion. I kid you not, I thought I was going to prison for man slaughter. Scariest moment of my life! It was hilarious! I have some pictures of us serving ice cream I will send home. (See picture below.)

We also got to go to Waterton again. The Stewarts in the Henderson ward invited the Henderson Elders and told them they could invite other missionaries too. So we went with them. It was amazing! We hiked up to a place called summit. It's a five mile hike up and five back. The view was incredible! (I feel the need to have a mommy moment and say what a miracle it is that this missionary of ours can hike for 10 miles when there was a time not all that long ago he couldn't even walk 10 blocks. We are so grateful that Jake's hip replacement surgery was a success beyond what we had every hoped for!) We even got to go sledding in the snow. There were still patches of snow up there. Only in Canada I swear. On the way down it started raining. It was super sunny though so when you looked up, it looked like the sky was full of glitter from the raindrops. I was so beautiful. Then it started hailing a little bit. That kinda hurt. But it was only a minute or so. Man the hike was awesome. Waterton is so awesome.

This past week we didn't get to visit with a single one of our investigators. Yet we had four show up to church. I don't get it haha. Weird. It was good to see them though. The Williamsons were they an they haven't been in a while so that was good. Their kids are getting baptized in September. The Kolibars are out of town so we won't be meeting with Maddy until next week but we saw her playing volley ball with a friend outside one day and stopped to say hi. She came over to the car and talked for a bit. She is still doing good.

Well not much else has happened. Time is flying by. I can't believe it's already August. It seems like not long ago it was winter. Now school is going to start up again soon. That will be good because then people should be home more and not so busy. Things should slow down. I hope all is well back home. Hopefully California isn't falling apart now that I'm not there. I'm sure the sun still shines there.

Take care. I love you!