This was a great week! I think I talked about last week in my last email, but this week was different. Last week we only had lessons with 4 different people, but this week we had lessons with 12 different people! And we got 20 lessons total! Woohoo! The difference I think was our faith to do all these things. We really worked hard to see as many people as we could and never doubted it either. It really payed off. We've still got a lot to improve (time management, working with members, etc.) but missionary work here is really starting to pick up! We're still working with a lot of less actives and recent converts as opposed to investigators -- hopefully we'll find some new people to teach, not that we don't like working with less actives, there's just a lot of people who can benefit from our message! I can't really think of any good stories about the people we're teaching still. It seems like every missionary has crazy stories about people they teach and stuff like that but I don't! Pas encore, j'éspere!
This week we had a meeting for the missionaries who came in this transfer and their trainers. It was at the mission office in Montréal. I don't know how I didn't realize the first time I was at the mission office, but I'm in love with Montréal!! The mission office is in this hip neighborhood and everyone there dresses well and is beautiful and the architecture is awesome and there's tons of cool churches and everyone rides bikes and there's people from all over the world and I could go on! We ate this trendy poutine place (I talked about poutine last week -- we got it twice this past week...whoops! It's too good!) and we were sitting by the window so I just people watched. It was a beautiful day so there were tons of people walking around. Then "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees came on the radio and it just fit the scene perfectly! Montréal is a timeless city! Visit sometime!
The training meeting itself was really great, better than the worldly streets of Montréal haha. One thing we talked about was finding a personal purpose for doing missionary work. A verse I find fits that for me is 3 Nephi 5:13 -- "Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I have been called of him to declare his word among his people, that they might have everlasting life." Missionary work is truly of eternal significance. The message of the Restored Gospel can not only change your life, but your life for eternity! So as missionaries, we've only got two years set apart to help as many people as possible to receive "everlasting life!" No time to lose! And this work is a work of joy and love so as missionaries we've got to have joy and love for the things we do and the people all around. Missionary work is great! Ayez une bonne semaine! Je vous aime!
Elder Rosenlof
this picture is the first poutine we got this week. I only ate half, don't worry :)
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