9/12/22

 Weekly Email - Consistency Is nOt My StrongeSt QUALITY

So Big Oops, I totally forgot to write an email last week (no you were not kicked off the email list I promise) so I've decided to write it Before I talk with family from now on. We'll see how long that lasts :)

Anyways! Lots happened in the past two weeks!

Janelle, one of our friends just got married last week and then her new husband baptized her on Friday!!! It was a wild time for them lol. Me and Sister John finally met our friend, Lee, in person! We've only talked to her on the phone so far but getting to see her at church was awesome and then after the ward Corn Bust (I've had the same dinner of Sloppy Joe's, Taber Corn, and watermelon four times now... 3 separate ward corn busts and a ward block party. it's pretty good so I can't really complain tho lol) we had a lesson and I was able to put her back on date!! She's so sweet and has already read though the whole Book of Mormon once, is reading it again more slowly this time, is almost finished reading reading the Doctrine and Covenants which we gave her a week ago, and is reading the Bible, all at the same time! She's amazing :D!!

I also had shawarma (I still say it in the hishe hulk voice in my head every time lol don't judge) for the first time! I got some chicken shwarma from this little place called the Mediterranean Grill and it was sooooo good!!! They also had french fries and garlic sauce which was also amazing!! I would have taken a picture but I was too busy chowin down lol. They were a little pricy but I can definitely see myself trying more of their food.

Also! Apparently! Sister Sellers mom served her mission with my dad. It was pretty funny figuring that out last Monday and since her parents and sister John's parents live in the same area they got together for lunch this week and sent us pics.

Something I've come to realize is that God knows exactly what He is doing. He puts us in proximity to people who are going to make an impact on who we are. My testimony has grown so much in just the two and a half weeks I've been with my companions its crazy. Just yesterday I was in kind of a bad mood, I don't even know why, and we were about to do some Facebook finding before dinner and I knew it would probably make it worse (there may be friends on Facebook but Facebook is not my friend lol), but before we even started Sister Sellers hopped up and said she had an impression to go knock on a family's door she knew of. Right then I knew Heavenly Father knew exactly what I needed to get me out of my bad mood. He sent us on a walk in the nice southern Alberta wind to knock a door that didn't even open and just the knowledge that He knew what I needed kicked me out of my grumpy pants. And then we decided to knock the neighbors door (they were members) and we had an impromptu lesson! that I lead! without fumbling my words! and ice cream before dinner! with peaches! and that turned my whole day around. Heavenly Father knows his children individually and wants all of them to come back to Him.

Which is funny because last week I came across President Hinckley's (40 minute) talk titled "Find the Lambs, Feed the Sheep" and it made me realize just how important missionary work is, not just for us Missionaries out in the field, but for every single baptized member of the church. When we are baptized we are given the responsibility to share the gospel. All of us know at least one person who needs a little extra love, a little spiritual boost, something to make them feel seen in a world that wants to make everybody feel lost in the chaos. And that's something I wish I'd been better about before I left. We can all share what brings us joy with those around us, and that's really what missionary work is. It's bringing the joy I feel knowing about gospel of Jesus Christ to others :)

I'd like to challenge all y'all reading these emails to be a missionary just a little bit every day.


With much shenaniganary,
Sister Evans <3


and as for pictures, there's a lot and I would add more but Google is yelling at me abt it:
- something was on fire (probably some fields) so there was a lot of smoke making the sunset look almost like AZ sunsets. pretty coolio if I do say so myself. tho the pics don't capture the colors. the sun was literally like magenta

- took some pics in a field. it was sunny so I was rockin the aviators

- it was kinda toasty (like 95 max) so we stopped for slurpies while street contacting

- duckies! in raincoats! they were trapped in the basement, so I brought them upstairs.

- our dinner the next day had to go out of town, so she left us food with that night's dinner and there was a bottle of sparkling grape juice lol. no mom, we're not drinking underage on our missions I promise.

-I have pictures of the BoM I painted for Janelle, it's a pretty sick sunset for never having painted a book before and just winging it with acrylics and Elmer's glue! I don't think I have a pic of the bookmark I water colored for her tho :'(