8th May 2017
We had a dinner appointment with the daughter of my favorite person ever
this last week
(Sister Loute from my last area!!!), so we showed up,
just so excited to see her daughter Foster,
but then Sister Loute came
out from around the corner
and I about fainted I was so happy to see
her. I LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!!
MY HAITIAN QUEEN AND PRINCESS!
Hi everyone!
This week has been so crazy, another one full of
miracles and happy things. And if you've ever wondered what May is like
in Canada weather-wise, don't. It's not that great. At least this last
week the weather has been annoying. Still cold, rainy and windy. This
morning we walked out of our apartment and we think it was trying to
snow. Oh Canada, what are we going to do with you.
But
guess what, as this last transfer came to a close, last Saturday night
we got a phone call, and we were told there would be some changes.
Sister Bascom will be leaving and going to Quebec City this Wednesday,
and her new companion will be my old bestie, SISTER ZOBRIST! (we laughed
so hard) and as for me............................
Our cute family in the ward who all speaks Sign Language, they were
so sad to see Sister Bascom and her hands go :(
Okay, so I have to tell you all the wonderful things of this week, get ready.
Funny things,
OH
MY GOSH it was so funny, we were walking out of Sydney's apartment
area, and we saw this older Chinese lady with what must have been her
grandson, and we were naturally so excited to talk to her, because I
love Chinese people and freak out whenever I see one. So we go, and
start talking to her in English, and she just looks at us, so we switch
to French, and then she goes, "habla espanol?" And were like WHAT! And I
try to start contacting her in the Spanish I know while at the same
time we are trying to call the Chinese missionaries on our phone, but
none of them are answering. Then as I start teaching/contacting in the
most broken Spanish I can muster, the Elders call back and start talking
to her in Mandarin. Then like 2 minutes later
her bus came (dangit). And then the Elders told us she had moved to
Venezuela for a while and that's where she learned her Spanish, and had
just recently moved here. In the end, she wasn't really interested, but
we couldn't stop laughing about how we contacted a Spanish speaking
Chinese women. (Side note to the story, we tried to talk with the little
kid she was with and he was SO GRUMPY, it was hilarious, I was trying
to find something in my bag for him to play with, but man, he just
looked like he wanted to punch me, he must have been having a bad day)
HAPPY THINGS!
Okay,
remember Bryan, our super amazing miracle? Well, he started listening
to the Book of Mormon this past week, and read through all of the first
book of Nephi while at the night shift at his job at a local gas
station. He really liked it. Then later in the week, after coming to our
Tuesday night activity, he invited us and two other members over for a
BBQ at his house, and it was super fun, but it was so so cold outside
(AND IT IS MAY, WHY?!), Judy, one of the members had to borrow a scarf
from our car. But, in spite of cold, it was great. We had an awesome
discussion about church and church meetings while we were listening to
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on his phone. He really is doing well. He
came to church yesterday, we had a special broadcast for the North
America Northeast area, and an apostle spoke, and he really enjoyed it.
Recipe for success!
Photographic evidence of our super awesome BBQ with super awesome friends.
Another thing, we have been
teaching a mother and her daughter for a little while now, and the
mother is about to give birth. No like seriously, her C-section is
scheduled for this Thursday. But they are so wonderful! She had some
questions about the prophet Elijah in the bible, mostly because the mom
(her name is Godlyn) really liked the name and was thinking about that
name for her baby boy. So last night we went over and watched a few
bible videos about Elijah and had a great time talking about his faith.
And her daughter, Murnah, fell in love with the Gospel Library app we
put on her moms phone. She was so excited about watching different
videos about the Book of Mormon and the Bible. She even said "I want to
name the baby Nephi!!! That's such a cute name!!"
We
also met a super cute old Phillippino lady at a local service project
we go to. We usually sing with the elderly people at a facility or paint
some of the older ladies nails, but this last week, we saw a new face
roll into the room and so we went and sat next to her and tried to sing
old French sings with her (none of us were very good at French so we
just laughed). Then we saw her again the next day, and she is so cute.
She doesn't really have family here, so she was really happy to have
visitors. And we talked to her about prayer and the love God has for
her, and she just looked at us and smiled so big. We love her.
MAN,
how I love this area, its full of some crazy people, but oh, how we
love them. I love these members, the friends we have met, and all the
people I know that Heavenly Father will introduce us too. I'm excited to
show this new Sister how to have fun, how to laugh, how to teach, and
how to find joy in missionary life.
I'm also
so excited because its T-minus 6 days until I see the beautiful faces of
my family! What a blessing that will be. I can't wait.
Everything is wonderful, hope everything is wonderful for you all as well.
I pray for your well being,
One of our members has a BENGAL CAT.
Have you ever heard of them?!!
THEY'RE SO CUTE, and so fun!
(and actually super expensive, yikes)
But
we tried to eat dinner with them, but me and Sister Bascom
were just
memorized by this cat, she was so cute!!!
Love,
Sister Thomas
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