This Too Shall Pass

I'ts been another great week in Oakville!

As i said last week, we had our three day meeting this past week. Breakfast started at 8 am and we didn't leave the building til 9 pm. So...needless to say, it was really, really long. Learned alot though. Pres. and Sister Clark trained along with the Assistants. The church is putting another emphasis on Preach My Gospel, but this time focusing on Teaching skills. There are eight main ones; the doctirne of Christ-our purpose, the Holy Ghost, revelation through prayer, the BoM, Church attendance, teaching people not lessons, how to begin teaching, and something else I can't remember. Almost all of my past companions were there (everyone but the two that have gone home and one other person). So it was fun to see them all again.

You might have seen/heard (maybe not) the new ads the church is putting out. its called "I am a Mormon" they are really good and just show normal everyday people talking about their lives. Then at the end they say "and I am a Mormon." they are really well put together. Pres. Clark called up the head of Church PR or something like that and he was able to tell us a little more about it. It goes along with the updated mormon.org where members can create profiles sharing their testimones and what not. it sounds really neat, you should look into it.

Then on Sat. we went on team ups with the assistants. I went to Frontnack with Elder Nelson. It was good to work with him again. Then Sunday was really neat. There is a family in our ward, the Branhams, who we talked to last week about some of their friends. We had already started teaching the daughters friend and we were trying to set up another time to teach her. Then their three kids got really excited and started inviting a bunch of their friends. The daughter had three friends over and each of the two boys also had a friend over. Then bro. Branham had his nephew over too! All in all there were 7
non members that we taught and each took a Book of Mormon! It was great!! We'll be going back by to set up another time to teach them.

Then today, Pres. Bankhead asked us for some help. He was having his septic tank cleaned out, so we had to dig out the hole to get in there. It smelt terrible, even with the lid closed. now we have this permi stinch on us, oh well, this too shall pass. We were going to go up to the zoo and arch with some of the new elders but its supposed to be in the 100's so we thought it would be better to go next week, hopefully.

Mom-Sis. Bankhead is a big quilter/sewer too. She's always making something. No, my contacts are fine. I think ive changed them maybe three times...so yeah I'm good on those.
Dad-yeah, from what I understand the whole church is starting this new focus on PMG.
Josh-Wow. that's a busy summer. I don't know if I can say that mine has been quite that exciting...well maybe, in a different way though. Have fun at band camp.

Hopefully this is our last crazy week of the transfer. all we need to do is finish up our team ups and then we can focus more on our area.

Love,
Elder Egan

Oh and thanks for the package :)