Elder Jordan Ferg

March 25, 2010

I don't know what happened to the last post. I did it last week. Oh well, here is the report for this week. This is Mom writing. Now on to Elder Ferguson.

I'll be happy when it starts to really act like spring around here. It's been really nice the last week or two with highs in the 10s. Then all of a sudden we wake up to see it has snowed and frozen to the windshield of the car in a nasty way. It's minus 7 out (March 22), so not super comfortable. You would think I would be semi used to this by now, but I still don't like there being snow on the ground when I should be able to see greenish grass. It's just going to take a little while longer. The sun light is longer now, It is nice. Instead of going down at 5 p.m. it goes down at about 8:30. Of course the daylight saving switch helped with that. Now I don't feel terrible for ringing doorbells after dinner time. Before I would just feel really bad because it was like I was invading time when it was time for people to be going to bed.

We had a special stake meeting with Elder Melchin, an area authority. He spoke about temples. The Edmonton Temple President and his wife also spoke about covenants and genealogy work and temple work. We had a special meeting Saturday with Elder Russel M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve. He spoke on how we cOuld approach member missionary work a different way and tr a new way to get referrals, which I'm just fine with doing, but my companion doesn't want to do it. We'll see what happens. we also got the opportunity to shake hands with Elder Nelson and his wife, Elder Melchin and Elder Donald Hallstrom of the Presidency of the Seventy. Elder Hallstrom and Elder Melchin spoke on Saturday as well.

We go to the food bank here in St. Albert to do service work. We shelve and sort things, but last week we helped moved a refrigerator. We e-mail from the public library. I finally got my shoulder bag that I inadvertently left in Peace River. I practice on my violin on P-day by playing hymns and figuring out other songs.

We have 14 to 17 investigators that we are working with. Dallas Voung has a baptismal date, but is struggling to quit smoking. It keeps us busy. We also go tracting, but I don't like it. I hope to implement the new way that Elder Nelson gave us, working with members for referrals.

I 'm trying to be healthy and work out. It's hard when it's cold in the mornings though. Bishop Gatt, who's from England, bought a bow flex that we are able to use. It is really nice.

More later.