Week 79: Pizza, burgers. and beer

 Hello,

It's now been over a year and half since I started my mission. I'm impressed every milestone and that I'm here. Every month mark comes and I'm at a stage that seemed life times away when I first started. I'm where I never thought I could be! And still, the end feels that way. But as hitting 18 months has proved, it'll come.

This week we had many lessons and were super busy which was great. Lots and lots of zoom calls! Most we've had in a week for sure. Getting into routines and setting up weekly visits too! It's been good meeting with so many people! Some lit, others painfully awkward. I've learned how questions solve awkwardness! It's the visits where we leave them not knowing our names or where we're from that are horrible! 

We were savages this week with members asking if we had food requests. They've been pushy in wanting us to actually choose stuff, so we got 5 guys with shakes and a really expensive pizza place voted best restaurant in airdrie. And it was super good tbh. 

We also partook in some non alcoholic beer and it tasted very bad. It being warm and expired must not have helped, but still. Always a no thanks from us. 

I had been kind of struggling with feeling like we aren't helping anyone here. Feeling like we are sometimes just wasting our time and are more of a burden than help. That's been a struggle of late especially due to our lack of teaching non members. But this week it was weird. It's like everyone started telling us how much we are helping,  needed and appreciated. A returning member broke down in tears saying how much he appreciated us and our help, a foodbank manager went on an hour rant about how much they appreciate us and how they served 40 000 ppl last year and couldn't have done it without missionaries (put that in perspective the city is 80 000). Other members talked about how they were so grateful we were still out and how that helps them. I don't know if they were answers to my prayers, or if I was just looking more and the answer had always been there. But either way, many valuable lessons can be taken out of it. We are needed right where we are. God uses others to answer prayers. We are answers to others' prayers. We need to look for answers to our prayers and look for God's hand. I still feel useless sometimes here inside all day, but for the one person we can help in the day, or week, it's worth it! 

Go find that one person:)

Love,

Elder Fiore

1. Food bank!

2. Letter from Rachael 

3. 5 guys

4. Spilled smoothie, money wasted :/

5. Camp fire

6. Got a great deal on these shirts at the outlet! You may have thought 2 thumbs up were cool, so how about 3!