Hank Williams Sr. (or at least his newfie look alike!)

This week has been quite a blessed week, our travels have taken us near and far to do exchanges. We went from one end of the island to the other, with a lot of travel in between totaling a 17 hour road trip! My companion and I were so exhausted by the end of the week! it was good though, We were blessed enough to help out the other missionaries here on the rock of Newfoundland. One of the days I was on an exchange with Elder Ellis, From B.C. I love this guy, and he and I were stuck walking it, as my comp and his comp took our car an hour away to another town. Neither Elder Ellis or I knew this place that well, elder Ellis was pretty new to corner brook, but we had two lessons set up, one at any time in the afternoon, and one at 7, and we were determined to make it to them! So we set out from our apartment at two to make it to our afternoon lesson. Well 4:30 hits and we're still walking, there is no public transport in the city of Cornerbrook, so this had been quite a hike (though we were talking with people along the way too). We got a call from our companions and they reminded us that our afternoon lesson was pretty flexible, but she couldn't meet at four... Dang it! so we set off for our next lesson. This is where i got really lost, and so did Elder Ellis. We Went in one big loop around the whole city and ended up back at where our afternoon lesson was supposed to be, but it was 8, so once again we missed our lesson. we decided we should probably just set out for home at this point and made it home by 9:30. That was quite an interesting day my friends, but an awesome adventure! The miracle of the week came in the name of Jim. Jim is a neighbor of our recent convert Rosie, so we see him quite often. We have talked with him a lot, about the gospel, and about random other stuff as well. He never has taken our invitation though to check out what we are teaching as missionaries, and has been pretty stand offish about that whole bit. We were walking past rosies apartment earlier this week and I saw Jim standing out, getting ready to take a smoke, so i called out to him, and started chatting with him. as I got closer I saw a blue hardcover book in his hands. I was quite confused as I realized this was the Book of Mormon! Jim, with a book of Mormon!?! well the story goes like this...Elder Fairbanks was talking with Jim last week and said "have you ever even read the book of mormon?" in the moment jim shrugged off the comment, and said something along the lines of "no, and i really never want too." Well those words weighed heavy on Jim's soul throughout the week. He decided one day he needed to take out the trash, as he lifted the dumpster lid he saw a blue book cover out of the corner of his eye on top of the trash. he grabbed it and it was a perfectly new, and unused copy of the book of mormon. In his eyes, it was a sign from God to Read the dang book! and he's been reading it ever since. We talked to him on Sunday, and through withstanding many invites to our Family Home Evening on Mondays, he finally gave in when he learned we do Gospel Karaoke! and He loved It. Jim is an awesome guy.😁