Monday, February 9, 2015
February 9, 2015
Freezing février =)
We are getting through our splits Like ONE.. TWO.. THREE.
Usually one split wears you out but three really wears you out. Our first split
this week though was really special. I got the chance to go back to my last
area for the last time with my last companion =) it was so special to see some
people for the last time. That area continues to grow and my last companion is
doing so amazing there. I got to teach Ofelia and Pepe the couple that just got
baptized last Saturday there and they told us how they felt after receiving the
gift of the Holy Ghost. They named of many of wonderful things and couldn't
stop smiling as they explained it. It has been such an amazing experience to
see them grow in the gospel. They told us that they remember telling their son
after he first met the missionaries that it was nice that he liked the church
but that they would never join. They are now very thankful that he never gave
up on them.
I also got the chance to go to the highest area in our zone this
week. I always love going to that area because it’s so gorgeous and different
from the city. I have also seen this area really grow when I first came to the Montréal
area. It was part of the area I was in and now they have 4 missionaries up
there and its turned into a really successful branch.
I really feel like our mission has been getting better at
working with members lately the stakes have come out with papers we can give to
members to have them right out there plan for missionary work and it helps them
progress their missionary work. We have also seen a lot of miracles with it in
our branch.
This Sunday was a really powerful Sunday and it was perfect for
our two less actives that we have been working with for a little bit and haven’t
been to church in years! Our ward mission leader gave a really great talk on
the atonement and missionary work. I know he is going to motivate this branch
to do wonderful things through his example! I am so thankful to serve in such a
wonderful branch. It’s not the easiest one in the mission but its very
rewarding to see the progress in it.
I love you all!
-Soeur Dick
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
February 2, 2015
Hello!
Woof what a week I didn't think I was going to make it here to
right this email. I have never felt so cold and I have almost lived here for 18
months. The wind has not stopped blowing in this -30 degree weather. My eyelashes
and hair have a new favorite color of white and my face no longer needs blush
because it’s a permanent red now! As I touched the door to open it my hand got
stuck to the door it was so cold! This week was amazing though I feel like we
had so many miracles and so many of them had to do with following the spirit!
For starters we went on splits with my MTC companion so for a day we got the
chance to be companions again. IT was so fun to talk about all the amazing
times we have had in these months on the mission. During that day we were on FB
talking to less actives a photo came up of a less active and I had a spiritual
feeling telling me to text him and try to meet with him. I got to text him and
actually set up an appointment with him the next day. Well the miracle is that
when my companion got home she said she had a spiritual feeling as they visited
a member in the sisters member to ask for a referral and they said they had
been praying for someone to help there son and well.. it ended up being the
same person! Companion unity =)
The next split we went on this week went super well and again on
the metro I had a spiritual feeling to talk to this girl who had paint all over
her. She wasn't the closest person to me so I yelled across the metro asking
her if she was an artist but instead of answering back to that random question
she said I use to be preparing to be a missionary. I went over and sat by her
and she is a member from the ward that my current companion served in for 13
months. She is less active now because of different opinions of the church but
she was super happy to talk to us and it turns out my companion has been
looking for her since she got to Montréal. On this awesome split we went to a Haitians
mans house and he gave me the biggest tower of Haitian food the member and the
sister I was with was laughing so hard but some how I was able to finish this
thing! This was one of my favorite splits I have been on you could just see the
difference you made in them they even texted us after the split thanking us for
making a difference and that they couldn't stop contacting people and because
of that they contacted a less active that we have been looking for but wasn't
able to find. He just moved back from Québec and he has been in the hospital
with cancer. He had been praying to find the missionaries again.
Well the biggest miracle of this week was Carlos our mission
leaders parents got baptized!!! I taught them in Laval my last area and they
are so so special to me. Carlos was able to baptize them and the spirit was so
strong to see a family becoming closer to be together forever! That is really
my favorite thing on my mission seeing people change. Finding the truth and
doing anything to change for it.
We had our leadership meeting this week with president and he
shared this with us.
41 And he was withdrawn from
them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this
cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
43 And there appeared an angel unto him from
heaven, strengthening him.
He asked us if we were that angel what would you say to Jesus to
comfort him. For me I would show him a picture of so many of the people he was
atoning for to help him get through this! He did accomplish the atonement and I’m
so so thankful for it. I love my Savior and I’m so thankful to represent him =)
Je vous aime!
-Soeur Dick
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
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