Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Safe
Hey mom, not sure if you heard but there was a vehicle rampage deal, not sure what to call it, on Yonge and Finch which is where the majority of my missionary work is done. But I wanted to let you know that I'm safe and that all is well with me :)
Yellow Vests
Things are WARM here! Crazy, last pday (1 week ago) we were fighting an ice storm that put like 4 inches of snow/ice on everything. Now I'm rocking a short sleeve with no jacket. lol.
Things are good.
Been moving trees all weekend for the "10,000 trees for Rouge" annual service project. Its pretty weird to say that I did the exact same service project last year around this time in the same place...
We went on exchange with the AP's, Elder Kimball and Elder Ballard, yes they are related To Heber C. and M. Russell. It was a super good time. Elder McBeth stayed in the area with Elder Ballard while Elder Auerbach and I went to Brampton. Elder Auerbach and I have a a common companion, Elder Ward, that is living in the Brampton and he didn't know that Elder Auerbach was coming with me on the exchange so we played a prank on him. Basically made the elders in the house think that someone broke in... one of the elders was freaking out and ready to call the cops and the other (Elder Ward) put on his Bass pro hat and grabbed a bat and went down ready to fight whoever it was. lol. We stopped him before he could.
Elder Ward is easily the closest companion I had to being a dad. What a good guy.
The next morning we went to the church played some ball, came back and had a nice breakfast.
Life is different in the mansion (basically a frat house lol).
Other than that I also went on exchange with Elder Smith, a Chinese speaking elder and we went contacting almost all day on the subways and outside in the cold. We were able to find a couple Pi's and whatnot so it was a good day.
The work is also moving along, eternigators (eternal investigators) are starting to come to church, people are wanting to meet. I can't complain at all, Missionary life is simple and sweet.
Hope you all have a good week!
Your boy,
Elder Bakker
ارشد جک باکر
Things are good.
Been moving trees all weekend for the "10,000 trees for Rouge" annual service project. Its pretty weird to say that I did the exact same service project last year around this time in the same place...
We went on exchange with the AP's, Elder Kimball and Elder Ballard, yes they are related To Heber C. and M. Russell. It was a super good time. Elder McBeth stayed in the area with Elder Ballard while Elder Auerbach and I went to Brampton. Elder Auerbach and I have a a common companion, Elder Ward, that is living in the Brampton and he didn't know that Elder Auerbach was coming with me on the exchange so we played a prank on him. Basically made the elders in the house think that someone broke in... one of the elders was freaking out and ready to call the cops and the other (Elder Ward) put on his Bass pro hat and grabbed a bat and went down ready to fight whoever it was. lol. We stopped him before he could.
Elder Ward is easily the closest companion I had to being a dad. What a good guy.
The next morning we went to the church played some ball, came back and had a nice breakfast.
Life is different in the mansion (basically a frat house lol).
Other than that I also went on exchange with Elder Smith, a Chinese speaking elder and we went contacting almost all day on the subways and outside in the cold. We were able to find a couple Pi's and whatnot so it was a good day.
The work is also moving along, eternigators (eternal investigators) are starting to come to church, people are wanting to meet. I can't complain at all, Missionary life is simple and sweet.
Hope you all have a good week!
Your boy,
Elder Bakker
ارشد جک باکر
PBUH
Top of the morning fam!
PBUH is an Islamic term that means Peace Be Upon Him. Talking about prophets that have passed. So this week we have been using it a bit when talking about missionaries dying. EX do you remember how elder Bakker(pbuh), did....
I'm still here in Don Valley Ward (Farsi South) coming up on 12 months!
Things are cold here ha, massive ice storm hit Ontario and cancelled church for almost everyone!
The weather has been up and down this week. Started off in the 50-60 range and we were able to go proselyte downtown Toronto in a light jacket.... then Thursday hit and it got colder and started to rain... then Saturday got even colder and turned into ice rain... the entire city was covered in a sheet of ice.... then it warmed up a bit last night and flooded Toronto... ugh. Gotta love Springtime in Ontario...
But anyways things have been good. Mission life is treating us well.
Interviews were also this week, President shields making comments about me going home and whatnot.... ugh x2. too weird.
Not much to report on but enjoy the pics!
Enjoy the week :)
--
Elder Jack Bakker
ارشد جک باکر
PBUH is an Islamic term that means Peace Be Upon Him. Talking about prophets that have passed. So this week we have been using it a bit when talking about missionaries dying. EX do you remember how elder Bakker(pbuh), did....
I'm still here in Don Valley Ward (Farsi South) coming up on 12 months!
Things are cold here ha, massive ice storm hit Ontario and cancelled church for almost everyone!
The weather has been up and down this week. Started off in the 50-60 range and we were able to go proselyte downtown Toronto in a light jacket.... then Thursday hit and it got colder and started to rain... then Saturday got even colder and turned into ice rain... the entire city was covered in a sheet of ice.... then it warmed up a bit last night and flooded Toronto... ugh. Gotta love Springtime in Ontario...
But anyways things have been good. Mission life is treating us well.
Interviews were also this week, President shields making comments about me going home and whatnot.... ugh x2. too weird.
Not much to report on but enjoy the pics!
Enjoy the week :)
--
Elder Jack Bakker
ارشد جک باکر
Halal at ya
Heyo
Pretty good week.
This week has been crazy and we have been all over the map.
We have used the car maybe 3 times in total this week for necessary things. The rest of the time we have been subwaying around. The majority of our time has been spent downtown as well, dropping by less actives and referrals. Its been good. We were able to go to Krispy Kreme as well! There are only like 2 in Ontario.
This week we were going to have a Halal (meat prepared as prescribed by Muslim law) only week, so we started off by going to a place called TopGun Burger. It's a super good burger place downtown that's 100% Halal. Super good.
But turns out Halal is pricey soooooo ya, we bagged that idea but it was still a good burger.
The other exciting thing that happened this week is that Elder S Gifford Nielsen of the 70 came to speak to us! If you don't know who he is look him up. BYU allstar quarterback, 6 years in the NFL. he is a GIANT, spiritually and physically. He came to our zone conference and really lit the place up, super funny guy, very smart and extremely spiritual.
Nothing else to really report on....
Life's good.
--
Elder Jack Bakker
ارشد جک باکر
Pretty good week.
This week has been crazy and we have been all over the map.
We have used the car maybe 3 times in total this week for necessary things. The rest of the time we have been subwaying around. The majority of our time has been spent downtown as well, dropping by less actives and referrals. Its been good. We were able to go to Krispy Kreme as well! There are only like 2 in Ontario.
This week we were going to have a Halal (meat prepared as prescribed by Muslim law) only week, so we started off by going to a place called TopGun Burger. It's a super good burger place downtown that's 100% Halal. Super good.
But turns out Halal is pricey soooooo ya, we bagged that idea but it was still a good burger.
The other exciting thing that happened this week is that Elder S Gifford Nielsen of the 70 came to speak to us! If you don't know who he is look him up. BYU allstar quarterback, 6 years in the NFL. he is a GIANT, spiritually and physically. He came to our zone conference and really lit the place up, super funny guy, very smart and extremely spiritual.
Nothing else to really report on....
Life's good.
--
Elder Jack Bakker
ارشد جک باکر
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| This is what the burgers look like. |
Monday, April 2, 2018
Stop Selling Diabetes!
Hey folks
What a conference, am I right?
Hope you all enjoyed it while it lasted!
Elder McBeth, Auerbach, and I have been doing some classic grinding this week!
Classic missionary work mixed with meetings, the temple, and conference. oof.
It's been pretty funny teaching this week, we had 2 lessons come down to the same concern in different ways. One of them I was giving a life example relating to the cookie business and our investigator flipped and was saying that we shouldn't be selling cookies because they were unhealthy and that we were basically selling diabetes..... and the other was a similar concern but our other investigator was asking us about the Word of Wisdom and if we could sell products as long as we don't partake ourselves. His example was owning a hotel that sold alcohol, and it escalated from that to "if cocaine was legal, would we be able to sell it as long as we didn't use it ourselves." ha ya...... idk....
Other than that we were able to enjoy the temple, what a blessing it is to have temples on the earth where we can go and find peace and comfort in the Lord's house.
Conference was bumping with spiritual talks and administrative stuff. What a weekend. If you haven't watched, watch.
Well hope you all have a good week!
Elder Jack Bakker
ارشد جک باکر
What a conference, am I right?
Hope you all enjoyed it while it lasted!
Elder McBeth, Auerbach, and I have been doing some classic grinding this week!
Classic missionary work mixed with meetings, the temple, and conference. oof.
It's been pretty funny teaching this week, we had 2 lessons come down to the same concern in different ways. One of them I was giving a life example relating to the cookie business and our investigator flipped and was saying that we shouldn't be selling cookies because they were unhealthy and that we were basically selling diabetes..... and the other was a similar concern but our other investigator was asking us about the Word of Wisdom and if we could sell products as long as we don't partake ourselves. His example was owning a hotel that sold alcohol, and it escalated from that to "if cocaine was legal, would we be able to sell it as long as we didn't use it ourselves." ha ya...... idk....
Other than that we were able to enjoy the temple, what a blessing it is to have temples on the earth where we can go and find peace and comfort in the Lord's house.
Conference was bumping with spiritual talks and administrative stuff. What a weekend. If you haven't watched, watch.
Well hope you all have a good week!
Elder Jack Bakker
ارشد جک باکر
Top of the CN Tower
Some juicy stuff this week.
Day 1 we went to CN tower for lunch.... in the top.... in a revolving restaurant.... holy cow that was awesome. Just in case you were wondering CN Tower is the tallest/highest observation deck in North America :)
What a party.
Secondly, we have been building up the area, A LOT. This week we picked up three new investigators. And we have been traveling to Brampton(45 min away) Mississauga( 40 minutes away) and Kitchener(1hr 20min away) so we've had a lot of driving time but its been worth it.
We were also able to go to the temple this week to do baptisms and confirmations with a recent convert :).
Then on Sunday a guy came to church that we have never met before. He met the missionaries in London, UK and went to church with them twice. Now he came here and came on his own free will. He tells us he wants to join the church, I guess we will see.
The last bit of juicy info is our transfer call. Elder McBeth and I are staying here! and we are getting Elder Auerbach, gonna be an interesting trio.....
Well there's the scoop in a nutshell!
Hope you all have a good week!
--
Elder Jack Bakker
ارشد جک باکر
Monday, March 19, 2018
bizarre bazaar
Ni hao ma?
Things are nuts here.
This whole week has been full of Persian parties and bazaars.
During last week and this week every year the Persian community goes nuts because it is their new year so we have been doing our best to be immersed in the culture by attending these things and contacting people there.
The first was on Tuesday and it was basically just a party, its called Chahar Shanbe Soori. They do it on the last Tuesday night of the Persian calendar and they have tons of music going on outside and they have fire jumping where you basically throw all of the bad from last year into the fire as you jump over it and land in the new year clean. It's definitely an interesting tradition but its fun.
The next couple of days we had a Mormon Booth at the Bazaar they have. Everyone comes and sells different Persian stuff and then we are just there giving out Bibles and copies of the Book of Mormon to a large crowd of people that mainly classify themselves as part of the Islam faith. It was an interesting 2 days. But over all a lot came from it, we found multiple new investigators and loads of potentials and had a couple good sit down lessons with people on the spot.
On the 2nd day of the booth I was actually giving out materials and explaining the Book of Mormon to a group of people, and in the moment one lone lady caught my attention and I ended up talking just to her. The crowd noticed and a bunch of people ended up leaving (oops) but I know the spirit prompted me to have a one on one conversation with this woman. She ended up asking me if we could sit in the chairs in the booth, we did and ended up having about a 2 hour conversation where she talked a lot about her life and I was able to console her, by sharing the message of the plan of salvation and about modern day prophets. She lives in the north area so she isn't my investigator but that was definitely a highlight of the week for me.
And the last 2 cool things we were able to do was go to KITCHENER! ha my old stomping grounds. We got a referral for a guy there and we had a good lesson with him, he is awesome.
While we were there we stopped by some friends. The whole time I was there I tried to meet with them and teach them, but it never really worked out... but last night we stopped by and He let us into his house and asked us to stay until his wife got home. We basically had a good chat, got to see their newborn and about 5 minutes into the good to see you conversation she asks "so what happens after we die?" OOF that was it, we ended up getting into a super long conversation about the plan of salvation. So they have become investigators! Its been a long time coming.
Well that about sums up my week... ha my words can't describe what it was actually like. Good week.
Hope you have a good one as well!
--
Elder Jack Bakker
ارشد جک باکر
Things are nuts here.
This whole week has been full of Persian parties and bazaars.
During last week and this week every year the Persian community goes nuts because it is their new year so we have been doing our best to be immersed in the culture by attending these things and contacting people there.
The first was on Tuesday and it was basically just a party, its called Chahar Shanbe Soori. They do it on the last Tuesday night of the Persian calendar and they have tons of music going on outside and they have fire jumping where you basically throw all of the bad from last year into the fire as you jump over it and land in the new year clean. It's definitely an interesting tradition but its fun.
The next couple of days we had a Mormon Booth at the Bazaar they have. Everyone comes and sells different Persian stuff and then we are just there giving out Bibles and copies of the Book of Mormon to a large crowd of people that mainly classify themselves as part of the Islam faith. It was an interesting 2 days. But over all a lot came from it, we found multiple new investigators and loads of potentials and had a couple good sit down lessons with people on the spot.
On the 2nd day of the booth I was actually giving out materials and explaining the Book of Mormon to a group of people, and in the moment one lone lady caught my attention and I ended up talking just to her. The crowd noticed and a bunch of people ended up leaving (oops) but I know the spirit prompted me to have a one on one conversation with this woman. She ended up asking me if we could sit in the chairs in the booth, we did and ended up having about a 2 hour conversation where she talked a lot about her life and I was able to console her, by sharing the message of the plan of salvation and about modern day prophets. She lives in the north area so she isn't my investigator but that was definitely a highlight of the week for me.
And the last 2 cool things we were able to do was go to KITCHENER! ha my old stomping grounds. We got a referral for a guy there and we had a good lesson with him, he is awesome.
While we were there we stopped by some friends. The whole time I was there I tried to meet with them and teach them, but it never really worked out... but last night we stopped by and He let us into his house and asked us to stay until his wife got home. We basically had a good chat, got to see their newborn and about 5 minutes into the good to see you conversation she asks "so what happens after we die?" OOF that was it, we ended up getting into a super long conversation about the plan of salvation. So they have become investigators! Its been a long time coming.
Well that about sums up my week... ha my words can't describe what it was actually like. Good week.
Hope you have a good one as well!
--
Elder Jack Bakker
ارشد جک باکر
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| Tasty Persian treats |
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