- Elder Baird's #BLESSED Mission: WEEK 6 BURNABY: "What's that" "Zhu Jiao" "Bishop?" "No, pig foot" "ohh..."

中秋节 and 感恩节快乐！！！

Happy Mid-autum festival and a Happy Thanksgiving. Yes. I'm cooler than ya'll. I get two Thanksgivings. So that's pretty flippin lit. Another blessed week. My comps are finally back to normal, so we ballin and we out doing the Lords work in the wild. Lots of miracles and joyful moments. Cus at the end of the day, life is so joyful and awesome and blessed.

Elder Flake has been humbled. Never believed in family history finding, and when we were at the library on Thursday, guess what, he found someone and taught them about family geneology work. Pretty cool to watch. Thrusday night I got to go to the temple. Even though it's for MLC, I'm zone monkey, so I gotta join. Super small temple, but so awesome and beautiful. Go to the temple, cus it's pretty frikin lit. Then friday came and that was MLC, so I got shipped off to do a playdate with Richmond. We ended up doing exchanges that night, and one of my MTC district memeber, Elder Wengert, came back to Burnaby with me and Elder Tai. I balled out at pickleball with my buddy MJ. Then cheffed up some baeutifully amazing salmon alfredo pasta. (Drop 5 starts on yelp if you don't mind)

Saturday was our Mid-Autum Festival celebration, and it was crazy fun. One of our refferals, Vincent, cameand hung out with us the whole time. To start off we did 卡拉OK, (kareoke). And guess who absolutely cooked....yea not me. I wish I could sing. But one of the chinese members said I had to sing hotel california. So I did, stood there very akwardly for a 4 minute guitar solo, and balled out. It was nice though to do kareoke and here all the contribanded music. So blessed. At that point I was a little worried because only like 12 people where there, and we set up for 90. Then at like 6 o'clock, the flood gates opened and so many people just appeared. We had to pull out more tables and had over 110 people. So that was super super cool. Then we had chinese potluck, which as you can imagine was incredibly delicious, and incredibly questionable food that I put into my body. We had a bunch of other friends show up to, so lots of miracles.

Sunday came and miracle day came with it. Our friend Vincent texted us at like 10am saying he was at church. And we were like that's the englilsh ward. Then he texted us and was like, ima go grab luch, but I'll be back for Chinese ward. And we thought to ourselves, lit. So I got to sit with him through sacrament meeting, then he came to EQ. After church he was like what's next, and we were like uhhhhhhh... Choir Practice? and he was like perfect. Then after choir practie he was like what's next. and we were like uhhhhhh..... Scripture Study? So we ened up doing "scripture study" that may or may not have turned into a lesson. It went super well. Then after that he was like what's next? and we were like sorry we actually have an appointment. So safe to say, he might enjoy it. But we've kept in contact with him, and he seems super interested. We also had 2 more friends come to church, but church was in english becaues of high council talks, and they seemed kind of put off by it. So please pray for them, that they might have the desire to come back.

Then we got blessed with two thanksgiving meals. One on sunday, and one on monday. Sunday's was at the Foxes again, so blessed, so much food, and soooo good. Monday was at the Lo's which was a Chinese thanksgiving, and so delicous as well. Did I eat pig foot, yup. Did I enjoy it, sure. So many fun new foods. Than today we did another temple trip, so blessed, and got taken to an all you can eat Indian buffet, again, so blessed. We just got back from SFU, which is a university campus where we met a friend. And boy does it make me excited for college. Mission first obviously, cus like, no homework, and a lot more fun. But college will be lit.

Shoutout to the Cougs. Ima be reppin blue this Saturday, keep them in your prayers , but like they gonna win, so it's chill. But look for the little things. Everyday God will put something small that brings you joy. MMM's, mini m&ms. jk. Many Mighty Miracles. It's not just us missionaries that recieve daily miracles. We all do. Just look for them. Be grateful for everything that you've got. And find the amazing joy that life gives.

Love Ya'll, hit me up and tell me what's up with your life

Elder 白