May 7
There was a street that, during planning that morning, we had both said the name of at the same time. So we decided to knock there. (And let me tell you, knocking is very ineffective and quite hard in Courtenay. Nearly everyone assumes that we are the JWs coming by for the second time that month and many of those people slam the door in our face before we can get a word in) We both agreed that that was the place to go finding, despite knocking being the least successful way of finding that we've found here. Not only that, but I was not feeling very good so it was really tempting to do something less taxing. But we did it anyways. Annnd we found 3 more investigators in the space of 20 minutes. Seriously. There have been multiple weeks where we only found 3 in the whole week! And 7 is the most that I've ever found in a single week before, too! So that was awesome!
There was a street that, during planning that morning, we had both said the name of at the same time. So we decided to knock there. (And let me tell you, knocking is very ineffective and quite hard in Courtenay. Nearly everyone assumes that we are the JWs coming by for the second time that month and many of those people slam the door in our face before we can get a word in) We both agreed that that was the place to go finding, despite knocking being the least successful way of finding that we've found here. Not only that, but I was not feeling very good so it was really tempting to do something less taxing. But we did it anyways. Annnd we found 3 more investigators in the space of 20 minutes. Seriously. There have been multiple weeks where we only found 3 in the whole week! And 7 is the most that I've ever found in a single week before, too! So that was awesome!
Speaking of finding, we tried out a new way of finding this week, too! One of our STLs suggested it. We bought some sidewalk chalk, then we went to a big park that normally has lots of people. We then wrote "What makes you happy?" in big letters on the ground. Then we split up and invited the people around us to write down something that makes them happy. We would discuss that with them as they wrote and after, and then connected those things to the gospel! It was really cool. I took some pictures of all of the things people wrote down. Also, we talked to upwards of 50 people in the hour or so that we were there, which was especially awesome.
Honestly, going to Powell River is always a very crazy visit. Lots to do.
We also have a big Cinco de Mayo ward activity on Saturday. It was super fun, and we gave a church tour to some of the new people that came! It was super awesome and went really well. Also, we got free taco salad.
We got to do our weekly planning outside, too! It was quite fun. There are wasps that keep building nests right outside our apartment door (the count got up to 11 nests on Saturday) but that spot was quite free of them I did end up hanging my umbrella up for some shade, though. It worked really well! There's a picture of that somewhere in the several hundred that I'm uploading this week.
I love you!!!! Talk to you on Sunday!!
