Bonjour!!!! Aloha...
Where do I even begin with this crazy week! Well I guess I can
start from the beginning. Goodbyes were so hard and not fun at all. I have
never done goodbyes on my mission before now, but everyone would always tell me
how hard they are and they were right. I was able to leave Dow's Lake on a very
high note by seeing a Chinese baptism. I have seen him be taught by the Chinese
elders since Christmas and he has grown so much in the gospel and his baptism
was so special. The spirit was so strong especially when he bore his testimony
about gaining a testimony about God and that he knew joseph smith restored the
gospel.
Packing was interesting when you have been in the same area for
so long. I'm pretty sure the zone leaders eyes couldn't of gotten any bigger or
there back's any sorer when they helped us take our bags to the bus station.
Sister Verdin and me were the only ones who took the three-hour bus ride to
Montreal. Everyone else rode up in cars. When we got there my new zone leaders
met me there one of them being my last district leader and he confidently
jerked my bags off the side walk breaking all four wheels off of them. It was
funny and it was even funnier when he realized he would now have to carry the
back straining bag to the car now! We arrived at the mission home and it was so
great to see all these missionaries I have not seen since I arrived in the
mission because i have been isolated in Ottawa. My new companion Sister Alvarez
was there to pick me up. She told me the great news that she had gotten in a
crash the week before so we had no car at the moment. We had to get into the
other sisters car and stack luggage on top of us. Luckily we do not live to far
from Montréal.
My first impression of this new area was oh my goodness I have
been transferred to Columbia... I woke up to my Columbian companion cooking me
a Colombian breakfast and our first ten lessons were only in Spanish to all
Colombian people. This area has a LOT of Spanish in it and with the world cup
going on and Colombian doing good everyone just drives around waving their big
Columbian flags honking their horns its crazy ha-ha.
Our big miracle this week was with this Columbian family.
Last week Sister Alvarez contacted this girl at a grocery store because she has
this like secret combination with being able to spot Columbian people from like
a mile a way and she yells hey are you Columbian!!! Anyways the girl was not
interested in the gospel and said she already had a good religion. That Sunday
she came to church with a less active member. It is cool to see how member
missionary work is so much more effective. The first night I got here they
invited us over to eat and She was there with her three kids. We taught...
Sister Alvarez taught a wonderful Spanish lesson and i just had a big smile on
my face. We have been able to teach them many lessons this week and even
committed them for baptism. They are an amazing family and were all able to
come to church this past Sunday!
We have had a lot of work cut out for us this week because they
closed the Elders area here and gave it to us and with no car we have been
doing a LOT of walking. I have never walked so much in my life and especially
in this warm weather. It has become so hot and humid here this week we walk out
of the apartment and we are already sweating a ton.
Church was a lot of fun and I already love the members here so
much and I have already gotten use to everyone coming up and kissing you on
each cheek. I think it makes the ward so friendly and close. At church I
luckily only told one person on accident that I was not happy to be in this new
ward. Its really cool to be in this ward because its the ward next to my
trainer Sister Houde, so they all know her and I feel like I get at least ten
brownie points when I tell them that she trained me on my mission. All the
people she talked about the three months I was with her I now have met
personally!
No one believes that I am American I have to convince them
that I am from Utah. They all think I look Italian or Lebanese. It’s so fun to
be in a family ward with all of the cute kids running around. There French is
hard to understand sometimes and I have never agreed that women talk to fast
until I went to relief society. They were talking so fast that If someone told me
it wasn't French I would of totally believed them! I know my French and Spanish
will get better over time though and I feel like it already has just in the
week I have been immersed in it. I can now bare a better testimony in Spanish
and for the first time in my life i had someone clap after my testimony because
she though it was so cute that I could say a few sentences in Spanish.
My companion is so amazing and its excited to be at the
exact same spot in our missions. I am so excited for this wonderful transfer
that lays ahead of us! I love you, J t'aime, te amo!
-
Soeur Dick
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