By the patience of Hope and the Labor of Love....

Hello All!

Greetings from Canada!  So transfers are today....and I am staying in Orillia.  Elder Ledet is leaving and going to Cambridge.  My new companion is Elder Day.  That's about all I know about him.  It will be good to work with him.  I am excited.  But anyway...

We had a good week.  A lot of visits with members.  It would have been better if we would have enjoyed the company of one of our investigators at church, but that is their agency.  We were able to meet with Justinn and Kim this week, and they talked about not being married.  Justinn had explained the Law of Chastity to Kim before we got there, and he actually was the one who brought it up.  Kim is all for it.  Justinn just needs to get his act together.  They did not come to church.  We had an appointment with them on Sunday evening, but Justinn called and told us that Kim was sick and that we would have to reschedule.  We have called them a couple times and they haven't answered.  So we hope to be in contact with them in the next couple days.

We finally were able to talk to Michelle Haime as well.  She had been out of town visiting Family for about a month after her dad's death.  We encouraged her to keep reading and we gave her Alma 40 to read, to help her know what is beyond this life.

We also taught a lesson to Vivien.  She is a Chinese woman who doesn't have any belief at all, really.  She has very limited English Skills, but the lesson went well anyway and she understood what we taught her about Our Father in Heaven and about Prayer.  We had a member, Josh Ribalkin come with us to the Church to teach her.  That helped a lot.  Josh told us after the appointment that he had spent a fair bit of time teaching English in Mexico, so he knew how to communicate very simply so that she could  understand. That is one thing that I realized that I really need to work on. We were able to do a bit of tracting this week, and no immediate success was seen, but we planted seeds and they will grow.  I have confidence in that.

It has been a good week and I don't really have much more to report.  I love you and miss you all!  Have a great Week!

Your Obedient Servant,
Elder Austin James Ashcraft