Email from Elder Lofthouse 11/1/16 Posterity

This week was pretty cool. Transfers happened, which is always exciting. My newest companion is a super cool guy.
   
Tuesday we got transfer calls.  As you know, Elder Lara and I are training!  That means I'll have been training for the last 18 weeks of my mission. Pretty neat, eh?  It was a crazy day. We had a lesson set up with the Bruce family, but they weren't home. It was kinda sad. All in all it was a pretty good day, though.
   
Wednesday we drove to the Riverbend Stake Centre for the trainers meeting. It was pretty good. The best part was when we got to meet out Greenie. His name is Elder Woodruff. Elder Woodruff is a pretty stellar guy. He's from Innisfail, which is about 20 minutes south of Red Deer. He is currently waiting for a visa to go to Guam. So that's neat!  The other cool part is that Elder Hubner is training as well!  Somebody I trained is training, so that's super cool. I'll attach the posterity picture at the end. It was a lot of fun. After transfers, we went and dropped of his stuff at the apartment. Then we set up his iPad, had a lesson with Nivee and Atul, and then we had supper with the Hinmans. It was really good! I don't think we did anything else amazing in the evening.

   
Thursday was awesome. We had district meeting in the morning, which was good. After that we had to drive Elder Cheng to the Coronation Park apartment.  His companion spent a few days in the hospital, so Elder Cheng was with Ellerslie.  We dropped him off, and then we went back, did 12 week and My Plan, and then we went and had supper with Nivee and Atul. It was awesome. We went to coordination Meeting after that. It was a good day.
   

Friday was interesting. We did our studies, and then we did some weekly planning. It was rather boring...  after that we went and knocked a few doors With Brother Joseph. It was awesome. We met a lady named Kara who said we could come back!  It was awesome. After that we went back to the church to put in some records into the Areabook Planner app. It takes forever to put stuff in, but it's gonna be a good thing to have once everything is put in, but it sucks putting it in. After that we had supper with the Gateway YSA elders, and then did splits with them. Elder Lara and I took Elder Bullock to visit Judy and Clyde, but they weren't home. so we knocked a few doors. It was pretty good. We stopped by Carlos afterwards, and we got in!  It was awesome. He's a super cool guy. It was an awesome day.
   
Saturday was good.  In the afternoon we went and helped a lady move into the Ward, and then we went and had a lesson with Brother Blanchet. It was awesome. He's a cool guy. After that we ate supper with the Steeds, and then we had a lesson with the Robanskes. It was a really fun day!
   
Sunday was great. We had Ward Council, and then we had church. I loved church.  It was the primary presentation!!  It was awesome. After church we had supper with Sister Randeau, and some of her friends. It was really good. Then we walked across the area to go visit Fong, but she wasn't home, so we walked home.
   
Monday was Halloween!  We went and volunteered at the MCC Thrift Store.  It was awesome. We had supper with the Andersons. Their family tradition is pizza and candy for Halloween supper.... haha. It was awesome. We had to be in early because it was Halloween. So nothing else happened.
   

This week was awesome. I love it here in the Canada. I know that this church is true, and that Jesus Christ is our savior.

Loves!
Elder Rusty Lofthouse

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
-Japanese Proverb