Elder Jordan Ferg

FEBRUARY 25, 2009
Things are going pretty well here in Innisfail. We actually have a lesson tonight with the family of five at the Bishop's house. Hopefully they will continue after tonight as well because it would be way cool to see them get baptized! They are already very family and God oriented and have many feliefs that are right in line with the gospel, so it shouldn't be hard to help them see the light and help them grasp the iron rod, so that they never let go. We actually met them by tracting, about a week ago, and they welcomed us in and we talked about Christ and beliefs for forty minutes. It was really cool!

It has been a bit chilly here recently, just because it's been snowing and -17C for the average this last week. IT'S COLD! But it isn't too bad, after all, we have our coats and tukes and everything to keep us warm.

FEBRUARY 18,2009
Yesterday we got 5 new investigators! It's a family and they live right next door to the Bishop. They've had the missionaries before, for 5 years in fact, but that was a while ago apparently while they were living in Calgary. They moved here about a year and half ago. It is cool to see a family that has a strong belief about Jesus Christ and ost of what they talked about was very much LDS minided.

The snowfall here is about the same as it is in Utah. Most of the people say that it's pretty average snow fall. It is a little warmer than usual though. It's been between -4and -10 degrees centigrade most of the week. We had a cold day of -18 and I was wearing my tuque and scarf that day.

FEBRUARY 11, 2009
Well, as for things here, we had the Reflections of Christ display in our chapel on Sunday and Monday. The pictures are AMAZING! I want a copy of the book to carry with me. If every you get a chance to see the display, do it becuase it is just amazing! We had over 300 people come and about 1/3 were non-members. So hopefully that will help the work progress. Already we are seeing some fo the effects, because people that usually won't talk to us have been coming over to see how we're doing and it's been awesome! So things are improving. I'm staying in Innisfail for another six weeks, which is nice because I just got used to everything and it would be hard to leave all of a sudden.

FEBRUARY 4, 2009
Hello, All is well here in Innisfail. It is near the end of transfer one and I think I might be getting transferred to a different area. My reasoning being that most Greenies don't stay with their trainer more than one transfer and since my trainer is a district leader, it'll be very likely that I will be leaving.

We haven't been able to meet with Katie because every time we hae something set up she gets called into work. She calls us and apologizes though. I hope this is a good sing that she is genuinely interested. Jason is back. Hopefully we are going to meet with him soon to give hime another lesson and get the mountain dew we asked him to bring back. We've been teaching a boy named Berg that is about to turn 8. His parents are memebers, but there last son Jorgen when he was intereviewed for baptism didn't really know what to say to the Bishop when he was asked questions such as, "Do you believe that God is our Father in heaven?" So we are teaching him so that they are a little more informed. he doesn't count as a new investigator, but it is cool because it gives me practice in teaching.