The scriptures have never spoken to me like they do now.

Jake sent this pic that his companion, Elder Stewart, took with his camera

Hi all!

How's it going? It's been great this week. We taught our first investigator! His name is Ty and he is 17. He is a friend of a less active's and he wanted to meet with us because he wants to change his life around. He is awesome! He said a prayer at the end of the lesson. It was absolutely amazing! He is such a great kid and I know that the Lord has prepared him for us and the gospel. 

The other elders also found two girls who came up to them when they were eating dinner at a restaurant and they were asking them questions for two hours. They are going to teach them this week. We now have four investigators here in the area. It is awesome. None of us expected to have the work move along so quick. 

We have still been giving a lot of service. We are cleaning this family's house right now. They just want it to look good so they can get rid of it. It is full of trash and mud (which is actually sewage poop) from the flood. It is crazy how bad it is. We have found some disgusting, unspeakable things in there too. Horrifying. We are doing a lot of ice breaking here too. Everyone's sidewalks are covered in a thick layer of ice. We are going to lots of houses doing that stuff. It is hard work and we will sweat while doing it even when it's zero degrees out. It always feels good to do stuff like that. 

People are constantly coming up to us thanking us for the work we are doing here in the community. It is so rewarding hearing that we are actually making a difference. We are trying to work with the ward members more. We have given them handouts with our contact information on them asking them to give them to their neighbors so we can continue to get the word out. We are also helping out the members. We helped an older man move some stuff around in his house and take out some of the flooring. We helped another family put in the baseboards all along their basement and in all the rooms. 

The people are always grateful for our help and we are always happy to help. We get fed a lot still. Just the other day we got breakfast, lunch, and dinner from people. It is awesome. We helped this hospital move a lot of shelves to their basement and they gave us each ten bucks to their cafe so we got breakfast there. Then we helped with the basement and they fed us lunch. We had dinner with the Kabeary's again. We got Alberta Steaks. The beef here is awesome. All throughout Canada it's called Alberta Beef. The steak we had was from the bishops meat store. He owns one in Okotoks and is known throughout the world for his beef and cattle. 

Well it has been awesome so far. I love it here and love serving the Lord. The scriptures have never spoken to me like they do now. I get excited every day for personal study so I can read the scriptures. The stories in them are true and truly amazing. I know that we speak to God through prayer, and He speaks to us through the scriptures. If you want answers, read the scriptures. All things will be made known to you through them. I know this to be true. I love you all!

Elder Anderson