These past two weeks were great! Busy, busy, busy! We're working with a lot of people and have very little unplanned time. Taught 21 lessons last, last week and 20 this week! And we had about 8 that we planned that fell through. I'm very grateful for our car, we're working all over in our somewhat large area. It's also been pretty hot and humid. I might have to break out the short sleeve shirts soon!
I'm just going to try to summarize one day last week, probably our busiest. It was in St-Hyacinthe.
6:30 - Woke up and did normal morning routine
8:00 - Personal study as usual. I restarted the Book of Mormon. I'm in 2 Nephi 2 today, where are you?
9:00 - Étude en équipe (companion study) as usual too. One of our investigators who has the most difficult schedule to work with called us and said we could come over in about 30 minutes to teach her because.
10:45 - Taught our ami Nemesi. Started the Plan of Salvation, elle a bien compris
11:30 - Language study
12:00 - Lunch. called "dîner" here. Dinner is "souper"
1:00 - Started driving to St-Hyacinthe. Made some calls in the car like usual. Called a man (Jamal) we met on the street a week or two ago but hadn't had further contact with yet. Set up a rendez-vous for 3:00 that day
1:30 - Met with our good friend and less active member Jacques. He's come teaching with us a few times. I think I wrote about him in past letters. I hope I didn't mention his last name, I need to be better about that! He hasn't been to church in a long time nor meeting with missionaries. We started meeting with him regularly and he's really improved a lot. We challenged him to read the Book of Mormon, two chapters a day, and he's kept on pace!
2:15 - Walked around "downtown" St-Hyacinthe. Really the only place in our area where people walk around outside so we contact there a lot. Lots of cool looking buildings too, too bad it's kind of a poor area. Got phone numbers from two people who were interested in hearing more!
3:00 - Went to teach our ami Jamal. Knocked on his door and someone answered who was not Jamal. The man (forgot his name, hard to understand when people say their name because they're not really actual words!) was from Haiti and was reading the Bible when we knocked. We talked a little bit about missionaries at the door. I asked him "How's it going" in Haitian, don't remember how it's spelled but the answer to that question translated is "I'm burning!" Haitian is funny. He let us in but said we had 5 minutes. We taught him the Restoration lesson and testified of the Book of Mormon. He tried to convince us the Bible was enough but we were insistent and he took a book. Who knows if he'll read it but you never know!
3:30 - Called Jamal because the person who answered the door didn't know him. He lives in the basement of the house. Got to know him a little bit. He's from Morocco and going to school here. By the way, I've met people from at least 16 countries already, Québec is very different from Missouri in that manner. Taught him the Restoration and it went well. Have a return appointment for this week.
4:00 - Taught two less actives in a row with a member of our bishopric. He's so cool. We had a plan for our lessons but he kind of took a different direction, the right direction probably! He was a stake president in Switzerland for a bit, called as a temple president too! Hope I have as much wisdom as he does in the future...
6:00 - Souper! Didn't have a dinner appointment so we got poutine.
7:00 - Called a family that lives in town to see if we could share a message, they said yes. It was great! Going to start helping their daughter prepare to be baptized. On Sunday, the father bore a great testimony, talked about how much he like having us in his home the other day! It was great to hear some direct positive feedback like that.
8:00 - Had a lesson with an ami we taught the first time the other week. No one was home and he didn't answer the phone though. Saw some people sitting on their porch nearby and we asked if we could share a message with them. They said yes. We started with a prayer and then opened our Books of Mormon to read something and right away, one of them got really mad (see 2 Nephi 29:3) and told us to leave.
9:00 - Returned and planned for the next day.
Kind of a depressing end, but it was a great day! Things are great here! Great people and it's really beautiful. Also, Elder Deakins and I may be in a documentary about Mormons in Québec one of our new amis wants to make. I'll keep you posted! Have an awesome week!
Elder Rosenlof
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