Update | 8 September

Dear all,

It's been a good past two weeks here in the Canada Montreal Mission! Here's some stuff that happened.

I think I told the story of Pierrette, the innactive member who found us. Anyways, Pierrette is the ultimate example of a member missionary! She probably talks to more people about the church than we do...Not really, we talk to a lot of people. But she is so cool. She comes to church just about every week and is bringing her friend Jean, who we're teaching. He is probably a distant cousin because he has the same last name as many of my Quebecois ancestors. He's pretty old and forgets a lot of stuff so teaching him is tough...but he wants to be baptized so we can't say no to that! Pierrette said the thing that she missed most about the Church when she lost contact with it was the Sacrament. I love that! The Sacrament is a beautiful ordinance we have the chance to partake of each week in remembrance of Jesus Christ. When we take the Sacrament, we'll have the Spirit with us and sharing the Gospel is easier. I know that's true because I've seen it in Pierrette.

As many of you probably don't know, there's a temple about 20 minutes from where I'm serving, but it's closed for renovations. This past week, some missionaries had the special opportunity to do some service inside the temple! It was a really cool experience. Temples are truly the House of the Lord! My job was to scrape gunk off the floor of one of the rooms to prepare it for carpet to be laid down. It wasn't much, but I'll probably tell everyone I know I helped build the Montréal Temple ;) A temple reopening is exciting for missionaries for many reasons, one of which is General Authorities who come to rededicate it. Supposedly, two members of the First Presidency, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, and a Seventy are coming for the rededication. Nice! for more about building temples, read a great conference talk from November 2012 entitled "Temple Standard" (https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/temple-standard?lang=eng)

It's starting to get cooler and autumn is coming. Autumn is the best season!

Speaking French is second nature now I would say. I'm by no means perfect, but it sure is a lot easier. And less people reply in English when I talk to them in French which is good haha. I still get a good laugh at Quebecois phrases and accent. I love Quebec!

Missions are great! I love you all!

Elder Rosenlof