Bonjour!
Wow what a week! I made it to Canada last Monday around four
Canada time. President Patrick took us to the mission home and we got to meet
his whole family. They are all such nice people. Sister Patrick fed us Thanksgiving
dinner since it was Canada’s Thanksgiving! On Tuesday we had lots of training
on different things pertaining to this mission and then it was the big reveal
for where everyone in my district would be stationed. The first one president
Patrick announces is…. Sister Houde going to Downs Lake in Ottawa
with..... Sister Dick speaking.... English. My District started to laugh
because the night before we left I had told them all I had the biggest feeling
I was going to Ottawa, English speaking. The rest of my district got put in
Montréal speaking French except one elder who will be speaking Spanish and one
sister who got called to way north by... Santa Clause you could say. My
companion from the MTC got put in Montréal but speaking English! She about died
because she doesn’t even own an English set of scriptures or anything. It was
super hard saying good-bye to my district I have become so close to them, but I
know some time I will see them again! Sooo my companion sister Houde is from
you will never guess… Montréal I have never heard of anyone getting there
mission call to their home mission before, she was totally capable of going out
of the country or even out of province ha ha. She has been out for 1 year and 3
months and the funny thing is she has been in this same area for nine months of
her mission she just keeps getting called back to Ottawa, Dows Lake. She
learned English in the MTC, but she speaks it pretty well. I try to speak as
much French as possible with her so when I get called into a French speaking
area I haven’t lost all my French. Our area is so great it’s a YSA branch and
our area is down town Ottawa where there are two big universities. It’s really
crazy going from being a country girl to living down town. We do A LOT of
street contact and it scares the crap out of me. Never in my life have I ever
had the feeling to just go and talk to people on the street about the gospel,
but that’s what I do every day! My companion gives me confidence that I can do it
though since English isn’t even her first language. The diversity here is crazy,
we are teaching someone from Afghanistan, France, Africa, Algeria, Finland, you
name it and i have seen someone from there here. There is still a lot of French
here and everyone switches to speaking French to us when they hear my cute
companions accent. Tonight we have our first lesson in all French so we will
see how that goes. On Tuesday we have a lesson with a guy who can only speak Spanish,
so that one is going to be way interesting. I have gotten the real Canada
effect here they really do say “EH” its hilarious they add it behind every
sentence they make. The taxes here are really high, and they only have milk in
a plastic bag instead of a carton. I have already seen so many miracles.
The other night we were street contacting in the freezing cold (apparently
not even cold weather yet) and I was having no luck. I started talking to this Chinese guy but he
was in a hurry and walked away really fast. Sister Houde asked
me how it was going and I told her “no good this was terrible” then we
heard someone ask us if we were lost and needed directions. We turned
around and it was the Chinese guy. We told him no, but we are missionaries and
asked him if he would like to hear a message. He said yes right now! We
told him all about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith and he loved it! We
called the Chinese elders and they came and talked a lot of gibberish or Chinese
either--or and set up another appointment.
Well on Sunday he showed up and loved church. I know that if I wasn’t
here he might have never been able to hear of the gospel. Even
though we won’t be teaching him because he is Chinese I know I did
something good! One thing that has really surprised me so far on the
mission is when I street contact, a normal question we always ask if they say
there religious is “what role does god play in your life?” and never do people
have an answer they just kind of pause and say well I don’t really know. I want
everyone to think of that question of “what role does god play in your life?”
and if you don’t know try and figure it out! I love you all so much emailing
time is really hard because we don’t have a lot of time, but letters are great
so send those! Have a great week and pray that I don’t freeze to death.
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