CANADA WINNIPEG MISSION OFFICE MOVES - May 2015

Subject: IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 20:33:00 +0000

Dear Families,

Please note:

The property, where the current mission office is located, has been sold; therefore, the mission office is relocating.  The move is scheduled to happen June 5^th and 6^th.

The new address (and where you should now start sending mail/packages) is:

Canada Winnipeg Mission

Your missionary’s full name (we have several sets of missionaries with the same last name)

505 Academy Road

Winnipeg, MB R3N 0C9

Canada

Should you have any questions/concerns, please do not hesitate to call/email me.

Warmest regards,

Sister Hafen

204-775-0466 x200

Letter Of May 11, Part 2

Also it's brilliant you are using the Jimmmy Fallon gamesss!!!! :D I love that man and I miss watching him late night with you!!! :)

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:04 PM, D.Sherksnas  wrote:

Hi, Babe!

My Ipad was freezing up and I was afraid I was going to lose the whole letter with pictures and all, cause it's happened before...

So this is a first - and I am now sitting by the back door with the door open, the new little magic mesh screen blowing in a soft breeze as I type your letter on my laptop.  The birds are chirping and singing, the horses are still grazing in the back field and Kait is stil on the bathroom floor doing her toenails while chatting on the phone with Taylor and Rick.

Brother Jordan especially wanted me to tell you hi, from him and he sends his apologies that he hasn't had time to write.  He said its farmer season and he's been busy getting animals reared and crops in the ground and hasn't had much time on the computer.

Posted our Skype pic of you on FB and these were the comments:

 

Pamela Kallas Sweet face!! Miss your amazing children... I remember carrying this one on my hip. smile emoticon

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Kaitlyn Andrezze She's so beautiful!!! Miss you kare!!!!

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Ann Hardy Beaver So glad you made contact with your amazing daughter! Just seeing her picture makes me smile!

Here is one of Danny Jordan skyping his family yesterday:

 

Back to  Acher Rd life - I scrubbed the pollen and winter dirt and mold off the deck for our enjoyment - I'll send a deck pic in the next letter.  I only have one geranium out there now, but the umbrella is up!

When we spoke with Kristen last night, she said she had been emailing you at k.sherksnas@myldsmail.net, so.... I gave her the correct address and she said that she would resend her letters, and she said, be prepared for a novel!

Dad is getting ready to head out to Chicago and we'll see him at the end of the week, then next week he will head to Brazil.  He's getting lots of traveling in so he can attend all the upcoming Wedding festivities...

I noticed you had short sleeves on yesterday - was it warm?   The Midwest  - Montana, Dakotas, Wyomng - had lots of snow over the weekend!  hope you guys steer clear of that for a while!

Church was very nice yesterday - Brian Abbate and Sister Abbate spoke and they were very funny, but terrific talks! 

I have to get together with Sister O'Connor this week soon and get the Super Saturday finalized and under way for this upcoming Saturday.  We are having a 'Black and White" Dance for the youth and the activity will be the Jimmy Fallon game of Box of Lies - but I think we will re-name it "I Doubt That!".   The kids have to dress in black and white, decorations will be black and white and all the snacks and treats will be black and white.  Should be a good time.

Because I am  writing later again, I am so afraid I am going to miss you!   I keep checking all the "dings" that are coming through on the ipad! So I think I will send this too, then pick up again, just so I don't miss you again!

Love, your Momma!

Mail May 11, 2015 Spring Is in The Air and Favorite Scripture Shared

Mom and Dad!!! 

I love these!! Everything looks so beautiful and I wish I was home to see it in person and smell our grass and lilacs! That is so exciting!!! I don't have much time to write this week but I wanted to tell you all I SAW THE NORTHERN LIGHTSSSS!!!! WHAT?!!! It was incredbile and beautiful!!! We have a family we teach that lives in the same apartment and they came and woke us up and told us to look at the northern lights and it was incredible!!! And he said they weren't even that bright!  It was such blessing! I love you and want to hear about different things that you've been doing, has Dad started the garden?? Also Some scriptures for you for this week that have been helpful and comforting to me this week, Isaiah 41:10;17 and also in D&C 6:36 I love the Book of Mormon and have been trying to find some here to send you all!!  

I love you heaps!!!!

Love,

Sister Kerry Anne Sherksnas

2015-05.11.2015  D.Sherksnas wrote:

Shared this one in today's letter and on your Facebook wall!

Romans 8:38-39.

Love you, Babe!

Thank you mom!! I love you!  

Almost Missed E-Mail on P-Day :( May 4, 2015

This Mother's Face...

May 4, 2015

Hi Mom and Dad!!

Well I haven't heard anything from you but I love you both and pray for you all the time.  I am SO EXCITED to skype next week and can't wait to see your little faces on the screen :)  I love you and miss you!!

Love,

Sister Kerry Anne Sherksnas

Mon, May 4, 2015 at 11:36 AM, D.Sherksnas wrote:

Keep writing to others  and let me know what time you're leaving the computer and I'll finish!

️️

Mom

Mom!!!! I have to leave the computer in like 2 minutos <3 how fast can you type?!? 

Also I love that picture 

 Mon, May 4, 2015 at 11:47 AM, D. Sherksnas  wrote:

Found a neat little write-up of the history of the church in Prince Albert. I'll attach and send.

XOXO Mom 

 Don't send me sad faces mom!! They make me sad! I love the pictures and I was just writing my leetle friend Dianna quick! :) Also dad looks very happy with his toy! 

Also I don't have Uncle Rob or Aunt Meg's email but I would love to write them! :)

Hahah you look so thoughful mom!!! 

I've been sending everyone copies of your emails!  ️

Perfect!! :) I love you mom  I'm so excited to skype you all next sundayyy!!! 


WE ARE TOOOOOO!!!!!!!'  🏼. And a !

Hahah! I love those emoticons and the chicken you just sent! 

Mon, May 4, 2015 at 11:59 AM D.Sherksnas wrote:

You have to let us know what time to skype!

I will let you know it will probably be between 2-4 our time, so whatever time zone Saskatchewan is in :) 

It did work!!!! hahaha that video was fantastic!!   Alright Mom! I have to go but I love you and pray for you all all the time and can't wait to talk to you Sunday!! 

It's Almost Springtime!! (psych it snowed!) APRIL 27, 2015

April 27, 2015

Hi Mom and Dad!!

I love the pictures that you posted.  I am so happy to see that everyone is doing well even if it was a chilly week!  I love Will and Drew's engagement pictures and I couldn't read the little blurb about them but I'm guessing it was great!  :)  This week was the last week of transfers where everyone gets moved around or stays!  I am getting to stay in PA this next transfer which I am thankful for because it really is such a blessing to know and get to know these people who have been through so much and are still so loving and caring.  I hope that I can show my love and Heavenly Father's love for them each day.  I read a talk this week that Elder Holland gave at the MTC and it's a typed up one from someone who recorded it and did their best to type and I think they did a pretty great job. Also dad I may or may not answer those questions :P  We will have to see!

It was about being on missions and the miracles that it brings to your life and the changes if makes to your heart.  It was about trusting fully in God and realizing that as we put this tiny bit of our life in the Lord's hands completely and give these months to Him, we are helping with one leg of this race that is being run by all the apostles and all the presidents of the church before us.  I feel especially honored to run this race, even if it is for a short leg, for the prize is that of the souls of my brothers and sisters.  It is truly for the children of God.  That means this race and this war against evil is a battle we are either all in or not on the Lord's side.  I know that we can each do more and sometimes we're too tired or too weak or too sad but we have to remember that our strength to keep enduring and living and sharing the gospel is blessed by all the powers of Heaven.  In times of hardship is when we become acquainted with God and through those hard times we can look to that source of strength that will always be with us if we do all we can to live those things we know and help uplift those people and places that God's trusted us with and given us stewardship over by being saints that can reach out to His children.  

Well that was not the turn I thought this email would take but I am always so proud of you both as my parents in living the gospel in all aspects of your lives and trying to magnify your calling and do those things that we promise to do in Mosiah 18 as we enter in the covenants of baptism.  I love you both so much and will continue to pray for the Sakowski's and the Adamo's.  A very dear friend I met just 6 weeks ago is finished with his mission and leaves today so I'm pretty sad and I asked if losing friends every 6 weeks is always this hard and Sister Wray said yeah it is :(  His brother is currently serving is the Pittsburg mission though so if you get an Elder Miller you need to scoop him right up and take some pictures and tag him on facebook!  I love you Mom.  I love you Dad <3 I miss you both so much and can't wait to Skype on Mother's Day!!! Also that scripture is so easy peasy Dad!!! It's of course Alma 43:2!! I love you all heaps and hug and cuddle the animals for me!! :)

Love,

Sister Kerry Anne Sherksnas

With Love From Prince Albert! April 20, 2015

Hi Mom and Dad!!

So first Dad I want you to know I think it's better for me to just test your scripture knowledge because obviously I'm on a mission and know them much better :P  Also me and my companion had such a wonderful miracle yesterday!!! We met with a couple we contacted on the street and we could just feel their love and their hearts opening and half way through the lesson the wife said "When you come back you can talk about. . . " and Sister Wray and I were like "OH MY GOSHHH" she set the next appointment, not us!  It was beautiful! Also We talk their daughters the song I am a child of God and they loved it and the dad Gary loved it and told us about a few years in the 80s he lived with a member family and they put the love of God and for Christ back in his heart and he was so happy to know that we would be coming back to teach them and their family!!  

 Then we found a leader of a youth home who we got to invite to sports night on tuesday (it's something pretty common out here as just a weekly fellowship activity) so that invitation was to about 15-20 kids!)  And we're hoping they come!

Wow right?!?! Also tell my leetle bubbi she looks beautiful in that picture! I usually print them out and put them on my wall :)  How was your week?? Also I just heard that quote from president Hinckley in the training I have to do each week but we are working on getting members motivated and involved in trying to help themselves and us.  It's a bit tougher, Prince Albert is like a hard shell candy with a gooey inside, so far we have found out about the crunchy outer shell and now we're wondering when we will hit the gooey lovey inside, we have with some but others are more reserved.

  I love you and love being able to serve our Savior Jesus Christ.  I am so thankful that I get to come to Him for strength in my weakness.  In that talk, President Hinckley says trust them because the Lord had to trust us to call us and how hard that must be for Him!  And that's how I feel, that Heavenly Father really has put such a trust in me and all of us to help care for and love those around us.  As long as we're doing what we need to do to be obedient and feel the spirit we can get that guidance in our lives and be able to better love those around us.  :)  I love you heaps Mom and Dad!! I  am so excited to skype you soon! and I miss you always :)

Love,

Sister Kerry Anne Sherksnas

Ps- your scripture this week is "And the day comes, saith the Lord, when I shall send forth a famine, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord"  

also if I've already sent that one and it's a repeat " I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom, that ye may learn when ye are in the service of your fellow being, ye are only in the service of your God."

Also please tell the ward I am doing great, I love them and miss them and tell Bishop I especially miss him too! :) 

TEMPLE TRIP TO REGINA!

Mail week of April 6, 2015

Our Little Missionary makes it to the Regina Temple for the first time... Love those faces.