Halifax Mission Week 2 July 9-15
Halifax Mission Week Two
Sunday July 9 to
Saturday July 15, 2017
On Sunday, we went to our new Ward, the Cole Harbour Ward. They
meet at 9:00 AM in the Stake Centre on the other side of the temple from our
apartment. It took us about four minutes to walk there. We enjoyed meeting the
missionaries and members and they are such a nice, warm people. After supper,
we went and dropped a package and a cowboy hat off to Elder Smith who had
served in the Cranston Ward (our home ward). His family invited us in but we
didn’t want to interrupt their family time and we told them we were planning on
going for a walk. They suggested we go to Rainbow Haven at the end of their
street. We parked in the parking lot, then started walking down the path. There
were lots of beautiful trees there and we could see a lake in the distance. We
continued on and came upon the ocean! It was so beautiful and unexpected! That
lake that we saw was really an inlet from the ocean! We walked back to our
car, then followed a little gravel road around the lake/inlet. It was so
beautiful! We didn't know it, but we only live about 15 minutes from the ocean.
We are so blessed.
We used this week to help us get organized, both at home and at the
Temple. It was a very busy week.
On Monday we went to the Mission home to get all registered and give
them copies of our Drivers Licenses and to order our name badges.
Picture of us at mission home.
Our name
badges were made up very quickly locally and so we were able to pick them up
that day. Then we felt official as real missionaries.
On Tuesday, we were
invited over to Veinot’s (the Temple President and Matron) for dinner. We had
dinner and a wonderful evening of visiting with the Veinots, the Randalls, and
the Greens. It was so nice to get to know them outside of the temple and I
think we will really enjoy working with them! The Presidency consists of
President and Sister Veinot, President and Sister Drennan, and President and
Sister Green. The other missionary couples are Elder and Sister Randall and
Elder and Sister Erchanbrack.
This week was our first
full week of working at the temple. There was much for us to learn and we spent
many extra hours over at the temple this week, especially Fred since he always
gets up early and he spent that time learning systems and procedures at the
Halifax Temple. The temple is open on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday. On Saturday, we were privileged to be able to work with a sister who
was coming to the temple for her first time, and it was fun to be a part of
that as we verified her information.
This week, we have also
gone on lots of walks around the neighborhood and in the area. On Thursday, we went
for a hike on the Salt Marsh Trail. It was part of the TransCanada trail and it
was beautiful. The trail was a built-up area between two parts of the marsh. I
think it used to be a dyke but now it's more like a road or trail. There was
lots of foliage in the area and we saw several birds. We also saw a couple
fishing off the trail into the marsh. As we watched, the man caught a fish. He
reeled it in and it was quite a big fish and it was really flat. It was very
funny looking!
We also tried out a new
restaurant on Saturday after our temple shift, called the Palladium, which
serves seafood and Greek food. Fred got their fish and chips and I had shrimp
souvlaki with lemon potatoes. They were both very good!
We are really enjoying
our mission in this area and love working at the Temple. If you would like to
watch a church-produced video about temples, please click on the link below.
