aperçu \a-per-SY\ , noun:
1. A hasty glance; a glimpse.
2. An immediate estimate or judgment; understanding; insight.
3. An outline or summary.
Aperçu literally means "perceived" in French. It entered English in the 1820s.)
Today's Letter:
Mom. Oh goodness gracious, mom. That was a joke. When I said I thought I
emailed you yesterday, what I meant was that it FELT like only yesterday was our
last p-day. *sigh* ; ) Speaking of, it did it again! Time here disappears. I'm
halfway through the first transfer. I don't understand how this happened. Oy.
So! This week has been AWESOME! I could tell you all about it, but that
would pretyt much mean chilling here in the computer lab for the rest of the
day.... and I've got some hiking to do! So I'll give you a brief aperçu (Look
momma!).
That guy Herbie we contacted? Haven't been able to get in touch with him
since. :P He'll set up appointments willingly and happily, but he always
reschedules them the same day. I can see how I could get frustrated with that,
but he's Haitian, so it just makes me smile every time. :) I love Haitians. They
have become my favorite kind of people. It's actually way sad, here in the
Canada Montreal Mission we have a very high percentage of Haitian
investigators.... but a very low percentage of Haitian baptisms. They're just so
happy to have anyone over to their house anytime, and they love to talk about
whatever you want to talk about (they REALLY love to talk. Whew!), but they seem
to struggle with keeping commitments. Like I said, it's sad. But! I love them
anyways. :)
In the process of trying to contact Herbie, we stumbled across a young man
named Zebair (Seh-Barr). We just knocked on his door and started talking about
the restoration, and when we explained the book of Mormon the first words out of
his mouth were "Where can I get one of those books?". Hah! So we grudgingly
handed over one of our precious copies of the Book of Mormon. ; ) Anyways, he
works nights so we haven't been able to get an appointment set up with him
since, but it's funny to see the Lord work like that. We're still trying.
:)
We also met a guy that works at our favorite gas station (Petro-Canada)
named Justin. He looks a lot like I did a few years ago, and I recognized the
music he was playing behind the register pretty quickly. I'm now tight with the
guy that works at my favorite gas station. No big. :)
Alright, time to get to the real highlight of this week! Patricia. She's a
woman who's been investigating for a while now, and her parents are members. She
had a baptismal date for Saturday, but we hadn't seen her for like two weeks
straight so we moved it back a bit. She said she'd been feeling a lot of
pressure from the previous missionaries, so we backed off the pressure on
baptism and spent all of our time just showing her how much we love her! I baked
her cookies. (they came out of a box.) She raved about them. (They came out of a
box.) I confessed their origins. (out of a box.) She laughed at me. (Stupid box
of cookies.) So I promised to make her some more. (not out of a box.) :) The
last lesson we had with her was just incredible. We taught about families living
together forever and I just straight up told her how much we loved her. I didn't
cry. No matter what anyone tells you. It was great. :) Patricia didn't show up
to Church on Sunday. We haven't been able to get a hold of her all week, and the
card we put in their door saturday is still there today. We don't know what's
up, but I wanted to ask you to pray for Patricia and Joe. Please?
We've also been spending a lot of time working with a less active family,
Brian and Bridget Powell. They're my favorite family in the ward to visit. We
saw them three times this week. :) On our second visit we successfully......
punched a hole in their wall. With a couch. Don't worry about it. Anyways, Brian
promised us he'd come to church yesterday, and he didn't. :( We saw them
yesterday night and basically just chatted. About the gospel, why it was
important to them, why they had first decided to join the church, it was great.
Brian told us that they both love having us over because by the time we leave
they just feel good. It was awesome, hearing that come from him. :)
I heard a quote once. "Whatever kind of missionary the members think you
are, you are." If that's true we're the best missionaries in the world! The
members here love us. Actives and inactives. Every single person I've spoken to
from this ward is just incredible, they're all so nice and loving! We get fed
every night. Every. Single. Night. I love these people. :)
Alright! That's all I've got for today I guess. Thanks for your love and
support everyone, and keep up the great work. :)
Love,
Elder Christensen.
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