Wednesday, January 28, 2015
January 26, 2015
Salut lo lo!!
Start of the transfer started off pretty smoothly we didn't have
any planned splits this week but we had an emergency split and the start and
that went well for me as for my companion she was stuck in a snow bank for a
couple hours but luckily found someone to push them out! We had an awesome
stake meeting with us the zone leaders and the president of the Montréal stake.
We got to tell him how awesome our stake and zone is doing and that as a stake
alone we almost reached our missions goal for baptisms in a month. He is a
really great stake president and is really helping this stake hasten the
work!
We had many potential lessons this week which is always fun!
Sister Arriaga and I are getting really good and tell people our purpose and
the restoration lesson! A couple weeks ago I talked to a man in the apple store
as I was doing my emails he found out I was American so he started with the
major American football talk this poor man didn't know I have not seen a
football game in 18 months and couldn't even give a good guess who was going to
the super bowl this year but I played a long with it. I gave him our card and
didn't think much of it. Well this week he called us and wanted to meet. We
were able to sit down with him and have a great discussion on the Book of
Mormon. I also had to really dig through my brain to some of the football
conversations with my brother (thank you Kendall) My Danish companion could
only comment on the o ya I love football I think I have seen it once!
We have an Indian investigator that is progressing and he was
able to come to a fireside held at a member’s house. It went really well and it
was cool to see him be able to make friends.
This week we start our many splits for this transfer so my
companion and me say our goodbyes ha-ha jk but sometimes I feel like I never
see her.
This week in my reading of the Book of Mormon I read in Alma 40’s
and love Alma so much I look up to him so much in my missionary work. He was
not perfect but with him being in 20 percent of the Book of Mormon we can see
that anyone can change and help 1,000 change their lives! 33,000 other Christian
religions use and interpret the bible but I am so glad that we have the Book of
Mormon with the bible to really know what our heavenly father has in store for
us! I love you all tons Bonne Semaine!!
-Soeur
Dick
Monday, January 19, 2015
January 19 2015
Familia!
Como están!
This week I started my week off with splitting with some sisters
who are in a Spanish area. I love Spanish people so much! They have the
sweetest spirits unfortunately the way they show their love is by FOOD. We were
fed four Dinner appointments I thought I was going to die!! I was in a food
coma for sure but some how I managed to make it home with out my companion
rolling me back home! We had an awesome zone training this past week about
contacting. The zone leaders really helped us with our vision and WHY we find
people and then my companion and me did training on HOW we find people. We were
able to do these really cool role-plays of contacting and working with members
that will hopefully really help our zone be even better!
Since I have gotten to this area I have wanted to go and try and
find people by the university here because it worked so well in Ottawa. Well,
this week we were able to go and check it out the university here are a lot
different and packed into the city. We walked into this building that looked
like an old chapel and we said a little prayer asking heavenly father if we
could just find one person after that the first person we saw I asked him what
building this was and he told us and we got talking about where we are from and
why we are here. We were able to sit down with him and explain our purpose and
give him a Book of Mormon. It was a really neat experience and i am excited to
continually use the university here!
This weekend with had this big YSA conference that our YSA put
on for Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, and some states to come to. We helped a lot
with setting up and getting things ready for it. On one of the days we got to
do a missionary workshop where people would come and we would teach them on how
they can be better member missionaries. The best was on Sunday when our entire
chapel was filled for testimony meeting! The spirit was really strong and I got
to translate to one of my recent converts from Ottawa who doesn't speak
French.
This week we have been able to have some lessons with potentials
we have contacted on the metros and we were able to teach this really awesome
guy from India. We taught him the restoration and the next lesson watched the
restoration movie with him. The spirit was really strong and he really enjoyed
it. Its amazing to see how different his culture is but how the gospel can
touch anyone!
I got some really awesome news this week from our ward mission
leader and that was that his parents who I taught in Laval are going to get baptized
January 31st. I was so excited I was jumping up and down. They are the most
amazing people and I'm so happy for them and for Carlos our ward mission leader
to see them as a family move forward in the gospel.
We had transfer calls this week and I am staying here with my
amazing companion for my last transfer! I cannot believe it has already come. I’m
excited to live it up and have amazing miracles everyday!
I love you all
-Hermana
Dick
Monday, January 12, 2015
January 12, 2015
Hello!
I survived a really cold week in Canada! This week was supa
cold!! Its when you try to find every pair of tights you own and your still
cold. This week started of a little rough on Monday we went to one of the university’s
here to a guys apartment whose information we had received through a media
referral. He was really nice but when we introduced the Book of Mormon he
wasn't too nice any more and started really lecturing us about how it was so
wrong. We tried to do our best with testifying but it was going anywhere. I
wish he would of at least opened up the book and just tried to read it because I
know you can really fill the spirit of the Book of Mormon when trying. It just
so happened the next day everyone I contacted seem to reject our message it
didn't seem like we could do anything to get anyone to listen to us, but I know
that if we didn't have rejection we would realize the miracle with contacting
either. This week I had one of my favorite contacting experiences we got on the
metro and when I looked across the metro I saw this younger guy and I felt the
spirit touch me to talk to him so I told my companion that we needed to go sit
over there. I started talking to him and he said that is so crazy your
missionaries I have been praying every night. He gave me his number and is
really interested to learn more. It was really cool to have an experience where
you feel the spirit to do something you do it and you immediately see why you
needed to do it.
We had two good splits this week with some awesome sisters who
are working so hard in their areas! I got to go to one area where they teach
mostly Haitian people it was a lot of fun because I really love Haitians. They
are so down to earth! We had a baptism this week WOOT WOOT His name is Josue
and he is actually from Haiti but has been living here for a little bit to go
to school. He is really great and has so much faith. At first we didn't know if
the baptism was going to go down with no lights in the baptism font, no vent,
no plug to keep the water, and both Sister Arriaga and I cutting our toes in
the process by almost making the baptismal font look like the red sea! In the
end he was baptized after waiting for a while because we might of gotten the
font water too hot. I think we were trying to compensate from the temperature
outside. The cool thing was Sister Rios; my last companion was able to Skype in
and give her testimony at the baptism. On Sunday he received the gift of the Holy
Ghost and it was really great! We also had two members to church and we were
able to talk to them at set up lessons with them! Member missionary work is so
much more affective we have been finding lots of potentials lately but most of
them we have to pass off to other missionaries because they are too old for YSA
or they speak English. We did talk to this one older man this week and gave him
our card. When we called him to see if we could have a lesson with him he told
us that later that same day he saw us other missionaries contacted him and gave
him a Book of Mormon and he has been reading it ever since!
I hope you all have a great week lots of love from Canada
-Soeur
Dick
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Salut ma famille!
Joyeux année I hope you all had a
great jump into the New Year. That’s what I did my Danish companion tried to
get me to incorporate her Danish tradition with literally jumping into the New
Year. I wasn't the happiest person when she was literally jumping on me at 12
in the morning.
This past P-day some sisters and us
were able to go and visit a Sikh temple from India here. There is so much
culture and is so fun to be able to visit some of it. We got a personal tour
from a young girl around our age. We got to talk about their beliefs and a lot
about ours we told her that she had to come to our church and we will give her
a tour of it!
This week I got to go on splits with
sisters that live the farthest away in our zone. It’s a really cool area
because it’s more in the mountains well what they call mountains and we call
hills. A YSA girl lives up there and she was able to come with us most of the
day to teach with us it was a really fun day.
Lots of sisters are getting sick with
this cold weather so we had to go on a couple of exchanges with them this week.
The weather has been crazy this week it has been raining freezing ice, which
makes everything a huge skating rink! My companion and I just hold on to each
other and glide across the sidewalks only falling on top of each other a few
times! It got so bad on Sunday that they actually cancelled our church.
We have been able to find some new
investigators this week, which is really cool, and we have been helping our
investigator prepare for his baptism this Saturday!
This week as I was reading in the
Book of Mormon I came across this passaged that touched me and I would love to
share it with you!
16 And also, ye yourselves
will succor those that stand in need of your succor; ye will administer
of your substance unto him that standeth in need; and ye will not suffer that
the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out
to perish.
17 Perhaps thou shalt say: The man has brought upon
himself his misery; therefore I will stay my hand, and will not give unto him
of my food, nor impart unto him of my substance that he may not suffer, for his
punishments are just—
18 But I say unto you, O man, whosoever doeth this the same
hath great cause to repent; and except he repenteth of that which he hath done
he perisheth forever, and hath no interest in the kingdom of God.
19 For behold, are we not all beggars? Do we not all
depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have, for
both food and raiment, and for gold, and for silver, and for all the riches
which we have of every kind?
This also reminded me of the talk
that Jeffery R. Holland gave https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/10/are-we-not-all-beggars?lang=eng
We can always serve people and give
people the best we can! It easy to judge people and think that they deserve the
situation they are in, but "are we not all beggars" This week we saw
a girl struggling to get up the metro stairs with a suitcase and tons of
groceries. We hurried over to here and help her get up the stairs and insisted
to help her get to her house. I have never heard anyone say thank you so much!
We trucked her luggage to her house in the blizzard and my companion gave her
the gloves she was wearing because here hands were bright red. I will never
forget that experience and the feelings I received from it. I know we can
always look out for service opportunities to help our brothers and sisters! I
love you all tons
Love,
Soeur Dick
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