Monday, November 17, 2014
Salut toute le monde!
This week was fun but I feel like I barley remember it because I
was barley in my own area! Three times this week I went on splits with sisters
in their area. It was really great to see how they do the Lords work and all
the great people they teach. Each area is unique in its own way! Sometimes I
always feel like the bad guy in other sisters area because the people we teach
in there area think that the other sister got transferred and they aren’t happy
they didn’t tell them, but they become happy again when I tell them I am only
there for a day.
This week we went to Laval to have dinner with the parents I
taught there of Carlos a recent convert in our branch. It was so good to
see them because I never got to say goodbye. One of the splits I did this week
was with the sisters in Laval not my last area but the other sisters in the
ward. It was really cool because there are so far up and you can actually see
what is a hill they call it a mountain but it is for sure a hill. We also got
to go to dinner at the bishop’s house of Laval!
This past Sunday Carlos a Recent convert got called as our
new ward mission leader! It is a really big calling for him but it is going to
help him grow so much before his mission. I am so happy I get to work with him.
The snow is back in good Ole Canada and it looks like the North
Pole again. We are being dumped on right now and I don’t know when it will
stop. You just don’t feel like a Canadian missionary without your big winter
coat on.
I love you all
-Sœur
Dick
Monday, November 10, 2014
Familia!
This week was a really great fun week! We did three splits this
week and we already start this week with one tonight! I can’t really remember
what my bed looks like anymore. This week’s event of the preparation of the Book
of Mormon musical was a speech by a professor bushman. He was the editor of the
joseph Smith papers. Two of our investigators came and it was a really great speech
called “The Perplexing Book of Mormon”. It was more on the history side of it,
but I even learned many things about the Book of Mormon that I didn’t know
before.
This week in District meeting I gave a training on how to better
find people to teach. I love being able to give trainings because I always
learn way more then I could ever teach anyone about the subject. Something
really cool about this Young single adult branch is how awesome they are at
working with their friends to share the gospel. This week we taught a girl who
has been coming with a member to our sports night we have every Wednesday. It
was a really great lesson and really cool to see the friend bare testimony to
her of why he knows this Church is true.
On Friday we were asked to teach the missionary prep class for
institute. Our focus was supposed to just be on the restoration when Joseph
Smith restored the gospel. We taught out of the scriptures and explained in
detail the story and then after wards we were suppose to teach them how they
would teach it to their investigators. We decided to ask Sister Alvarez my
companion in Laval to come and have her and her companion do a roll play to
show the students how to do it. Well they decided to be more effective with
their time and bring one of their investigators. The role-play was amazing
because it was not even a role play two missionaries were teaching the gospel
to an investigator. At the end of the lesson when the spirit was so strong they
committed her to baptism on December 13. You should of seen all the mouths of
the students they couldn’t believe they were watching what they were watching.
We also had a girl there that had just gotten off her mission the day before
and she bore a great testimony of missionary work. It was such a great class
and we felt so lucky to of been able to testify as the spirit taught!
This weekend was our Stake Conference. We had many meetings on Saturday
mainly focusing on missionary work. It is so great how wards will now becoming
together to really help the missionaries fulfill the Lord’s work. Meetings are
so different in French because it makes you have to pay attention so well so
you don’t miss anything. Our stake conference on Sunday was really neat for me!
Sister Houde my first companion and her new husband both gave talks on just
being married in the temple! It was so great to hear her testimony on that and
what the coolest thing was I could understand everything she said compared to a
year ago when we were together, I couldn’t understand a thing ha-ha
After the conference I was a really busy day. The son of the
parents I was teaching in Laval for months received the Melchezidek priesthood.
He has been a member for 6 months and he has progressed so much it’s amazing as
well as his parents. It was so cool to have them there to see their son receive
that. Then we had to go to a singing practice because all the missionaries in
the Montréal stake are required to go to the flash mob practices. There will be
a flash mob down town Montréal to help promote our religion in a good way with
a bunch of members in the area. After all of that I went on splits with a
sister in an area I have heard about since I came on the mission and I figured
out why. It is a super cool area! We taught so many awesome Haitians we would
just go from door to door teaching all of there recent converts all in the same
building! We also had a super cool street contact. We stopped this man on the
street and asked him if he was religious. He told us he was and we were able to
set up an appointment with him and his whole family and then when we asked him
if he had any friends that were interested he gave us a ton! It was so cool to see
someone so willing to let us come to teach the gospel!!
I love this work so much and I love the spirit so much. You just
can’t describe the feeling of the spirit being so strong with in you! Always
strive to have the spirit with you i promise it makes you happier and can help
you with any problems! Have a great week!
Love,
Sœur
Dick
Monday, November 3, 2014
SALUT!
I have gone back in time it feels! I am now in the other Young
single adult branch in the mission. I feel very Lucky to of had the chance to
serve in both the YSA`s here. It was very hard to leave Laval. Laval will
forever have a part of my heart. I had some of the fondest memories so far on
my mission there. I think the hardest part was leaving my baby there who I
trained. She is so strong and is going to rock that area! Her new companion
doesn’t speak Spanish but I know she will teach her in no time! My new
companion is super awesome. She is El Salvadorian originally and she is
from Texas so we connect big time with the country sass. She has been out
17 months so I will be killing her this transfer. She has only been a member of
the Church for 3 years and her testimony is amazing!! This new area
is so great and never stops! Its a French area most of the members are Spanish
speaking so I get to practice my Spanish sometimes and me and my companion
usually speak French, Spanish, and English in one sentence. Our
transportation is the underground métros here in Montréal. I am not use to them
at all there are thousands of people just smushed up against each other in a
big train going and stopping fast. It is quite the experience. We work mostly
in the mission office it is also our chapel. The people come there and we give
them lessons. There is also institute, family home evening, and other
activities that go on there that we are involved with. They had a huge
Halloween dance that people came from everywhere! I got to see a lot of people
from Ottawa there, which was really cool. As sister training leaders
we have the responsibility of taking care of all the sisters serving in the
French area around Montréal. We have the biggest zone so we are taking care of 10
teams of Sisters! It is no easy task so I have found out so far. This past
Saturday all the teams in Montréal were gathered together by president Patrick
the stake president and our ward mission leaders. The public affairs in
Montréal explained to us the plan they have been coming up with for months. The
Book of Mormon Play is coming to Montréal in December. It is a play that mocks
Mormon missionaries. They have decided to do some thing’s to help make a better
atmosphere in this coming month. One of the big activities they have planned is
on November 29 members in each of the teams of missionaries are going to be
filming and taking pictures of us all day long and documenting them on Facebook
every hour. They are calling it a social media blitz and apparently stakes have
done it in the U.S. and it has worked out really well. They want to show people
what a missionary actually does from hour to hour. I will keep you posted for
more information on how you can follow my day that day. They are also planning
a big flash mob that is going to be happening down town Montréal where 100`s of
people are going to break out in Christmas hymns! We are really excited about
these events that we can promote the Church in a positive way. I really enjoyed
Church this Sunday and the members are all really nice. Most of there parents
are in the ward I just served in so it makes for easy relationships. We had to
leave Church early though because some sisters were having a problem so the
rest of the day until just a bit ago i was on an emergency split on the other
side of the island. This calling has a lot of responsibility but I hope with
time I can get better and better to know how to help these sisters here so they
can serve the best they can. This week we have a busy week with two different
splits with sisters so it will be lots of fun! I love you all!
-Sœur
Dick
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