These past two weeks have been great!
Last week we taught 11 lessons total, which is our highest yet! We were really busy and saw all our investigators and lots of less active members in the ward. One cool miracle we had on last, last Saturday was with a part member family Patrice and Karine. We've been trying to get in contact with them since we got there but have never heard from them. That day we were driving around, verifying the ward directory and meeting people in the ward. We went by there house just to see (we had called the day before but no one picked up) and they were! They said, "We've been trying to respond to your messages but we haven't had time! Want to come over for dinner and a lesson later?" (it wasn't exactly that but kind of). Nice! We had a really great lesson with them and Patrice (the nonmember husband) really seems interested and like this is what he wants for his family. There was even another member friend there from another ward who helped. It was awesome! I even got to go to exotic Granby, QC on a split! What a week!
This week we kind of assumed we would have the same success as last week so we didn't really try and do more planning or verifying or having good back up plans. Then, when a lot of our plans fell through, we didn't have a good idea of what to do, mostly resorting to knocking. And because we were frustrated that we had to resort to knocking, we got even more frustrated sometimes! I feel like all that frustration could have been avoided if we had planned better and had a better attitude. It's inevitable that lessons will fall through sometimes and sometimes miracles will happen, but no matter what, having a good plan for the whole day and back up plans for the whole day too. And if there's nothing else to do than go door to door, we've got to do it! Often if something falls through, we spend too long thinking of what we could do instead when there's really no other feasible alternative than knocking for a little bit.
Despite our difficulties meeting with our investigators and less actives, we really got to know a lot of the members of the ward. Saturday we had a fun little trip going up to the far places north up to Sorel (where the boots get their name?). We met all the active members that live up there and they were so welcoming! I love seeing the strength of the members of the ward and how welcoming they are to us. I've seen so many great examples of the type of missionary, (and down the line) ward leader, husband, and parent I want to be from these members here. Working with members in missionary work is key!
Other than that, nothing too special or exciting to tell...Some cultural differences I've noticed here though:
So many cats! It may be the nature of the people we work with most (older, lonely, often single people :( ) but everyone has cats! And I'm allergic :(
So many bikes! Motorcycles and velo bikes. After my mission some autumn, I'm just gonna come up here, bring a bike (velo), and ride around and eat at poutine places. Ahhh
Canadian food is the same as American food I guess. At our dinner appointments we've been served authentic Canadian dishes such as spaghetti, hamburgers, and lasagna. But poutine is something else. I've had it twice already, maybe again today. I probably shouldn't... For those of you who don't know, poutine is french fries, cheese curds, and this gravy-like sauce all mixed together. I can't really describe it in words that well, you just have to make it because I don't think anywhere in the US sells it as good as here. Just make sure the fries are crispy so it doesn't get soggy. They're probably a good number of youtube videos on how to make it. Do it!
Anyways, hope you all have a great week! I love you all! Read Moroni Ch 7, especially verses 40-48. Bonne Semaine!
-Elder Rosenlof
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