Ruthie's Silly stuff: First P-day 8/19/22

First P-Day in Canada Monday 8/29/22

Zoom with Maggie Mom and Dad

She is serving in Barnwell and Colesdale but will live just outside her mission in Taber.

Second letter home:

Well howdy Brothers and Sisters!

Been a long week eh? Well for me it's kind of flown by. Once a wise and learned MTC missionary, now a bumbling baby missionary serving in her first transfer ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ!

On Wednesday we flew out and spent the day traveling to Canada, all 30 something of us. There were 16 in my group flying to Seattle first and we made it through customs by 5:30ish, but the other group got stuck in San Fransico for a couple hours. We had dinner that night with President Davis and Sister Davis and a couple other mission leaders at the stake building before spending the night in a hotel.

Thursday morning we went back to the church for breakfast and to meet our companions!! I'm in a trio with Sister John and my trainer, Sister Sellers, serving in Southern Alberta. We're over two towns, Coaldale and Barnwell and the members there are fantastic! It's mostly just farmland and prairies and hills and grass so it's very windy. Also, people keep saying it's super hot right now... and I'm standing there with a sweater on, wishing I had another lol.

The days usually get to a nice 75ish, (it's been interesting learning how to convert Celsius and Fahrenheit back and forth. Same with kilometers and miles), but it gets chilly in the morning and evenings. What winter is gonna be like I cannot imagine, but I'm going to be so brave about it ᕦ(ò_ó)ᕤ

I should probably get a good coat soon tho lol.

Anyways, apparently transfers happened right in the middle of Corn fest so we went street contacting there twice and met some really cool people, mostly Mennonite families. We also volunteered to help man a water station during the Corn fest Fun Run on Friday so people could see us missionaries out and about :D

On Sunday we had a lesson with our friend named Jenell who is two weeks out from her baptism date! She's getting married at the end of this week to Westley, a returned missionary so that's also really exciting! She just has one lesson left and a meeting with the bishop and then she's good to go! I haven't known her long but she's already so amazing and I can't wait for our next lesson with her!

We've had a couple other lessons with members and I'm slowly learning how to talk to people without sounding like a robot or a doofus (＾▽＾)

I am so glad to finally be living free and in the wild of Southern Alberta! Meeting and serving and teaching the people of Barnwell and Coaldale! There's a lot of work to be done and I'm so happy to be a part of it!

Love Sister Evans <3