Aug 5

Cheres amis

 

Salut et Bonjour à tout le monde! One more wonderful week here in Ville-Marie! :)

Lets see... where to begin.... lets go for a rundown of what's happened here so far!

Lundi

P-Day! not a lot, but very tasty! We went out to Centreville (downtown) to get some Vietnamese food with the other elders from our district, which was SUPER good and super fun, and then back to LaSalle for a family home evening with a Haitian family. And an african family. And another Haitian family. And maybe one or two more.... we got lost with all the people running around, and all the FOOD! One of the best things about the Canada Montréal Mission is the food. People here come from all over the world, which means the food does too. ; )

Mardi

Appointment with our investigator Alain who FINALLY started reading the Book of Mormon and took off like a shot! He read most of 1 Nephi this week. :) We followed that up with a bit of knocking and some sweet sweet metro contacting, since it was the last day we'll be able to use my beloved metros. :( Also, we went home Teaching with a member of our ward and ran into a miracle as someone in his apartment recognized us and asked to know more about the Book of Mormon! :D

Mercredi

We lost our Metro cards. :( They took them away since we have a car. Dirty dogs. Then, District Study! followed by a district lunch and a quick meeting with Elder Bendio (The Bendio's are a senior couple from Orem and they're wonderful). After that, a day full of knocking on doors followed by a dinner appointment with a Hindu couple from L'Îsle Maurice, which is near La Réunion. Fun fact about Indians, they eat with their hands! Always. I think I'll have to bring that tradition home.

Jeudi

Split with the MacDonald Elders! I gave up the car for a day to go into the north Island. Lots of walking. Those Elders are way more in shape than us. :P So we had another day of knocking and Less-Active hunting, combined with the most interesting pass off lesson I've ever been in. Two Phillipina ladies that were so set on arguing with eachother they wouldn't listen to us! It was quite the event. :)

Vendredi

Another visit to our friend Alain to talk about what he read, and then a lengthy planning session which, when it was finally finished, we followed up with More Knocking! I love to knock. The worst days we have are the days when we can't knock. :P

Samedi

Started out with an early morning lesson with an african man, followed by english class, Lunch, another African, and MORE knocking! Today we had a less-active from a different ward call and invite us to dinner. We're trying to get more strict about which missionaries visit which people, so we told her we'd come, but only if we could bring her wards missionaries as well. We ended up in front of her house, writing a thank you note, when she called again to double check what time we were coming. As we started to tell her we were already their, we heard a man in the background say something in.... spanish.... and we realized we'd made a terrible mistake! The woman we were on the phone with was one of our investigators (who SOUNDS a whole lot like one of LaSalles less actives) and we were far from being in the right place. So. We rescheduled for next Tuesday and went to get lebanese food as a consolation. :P What can you do?

Dimanche

Church, and one of our investigators Came! :D It's been over a month since We've had somebody come to church, and it was nice to just show him around the chapel and sit with someone that wasn't a member during sacrament. Really good day. :)

So. There's a week out of a missionaries life, in a nutshell! We run around a lot, we change plans a lot, and sometimes it feels like we don't get a whole lot done, until we see somebody sitting in the chapel with a smile on their face, and we realize that it really does make a difference, and it's all worth it. :)

Have a good week everyone. Try and put a smile on someone's face. :)

Elder Christensen