"So this week was pretty good! Unlike last week, we were able to have our Baptism! It was a super neat experience that I had to baptize Chelsea myself. She is a great girl and when she came up our of the water she was just beaming! Her little sister and her little brother were both just so giddy and happy for her throughout the baptismal service! It was really neat because the font wasn't warm... it wasn't cold, but it was a long shot from being warm, however when she was asked if it was warm she was like "yeah, totally." ha Thank you for the spirit!
"First off, to Aunt Linnie and Grandpa I wish a happy birthday! It was really funny having my birthday yesterday. Ha first one away from home! So some funny things that happened were among these: I had saved the cards that I had received during the week and opened them up at 6:30 after I woke up. I opened up the big one from mom and dad only to find beach music playing. haha it scared my comp on the couch and also reminded him that it was my birthday. Ha it was such a funny card! Ha the only mention to my birthday/happy birthday he gave me was around 7 am "Hey birthday boy, are you gonna take a shower first?" hahaha And then everything else was normal. It was really fun because at church, Soeur Pace showed up since she had servec in Hochelaga too. That was a fun time seeing her and her mom again. Then in the English branch I gave a talk! Ha it was way fun. I made my talk about covenants with the intention of it being for Chelsea... but she didn't show up. Oh well. It was still fun. As I was contacting on the metro after church, somehow the fact that it was my birthday got brought up with this one lady and she was incredulous that I would be working on my birthday! Ha "you should be taking it off! it's your birthday" Ha to which I said, "uh.. I guess, but I'd rather be doing this work anyways!" ha so that was good. Then we went up to Sister Battani's house where we found out at the house that we were going to be eating there. It turns out that one of the Recent Converts, Mary-Lisa, in our branch was there too and it was her birthday as well! Ha so we got to celebrate my birthday with Kus-Kus and a "heart" cake. Ha as we cut the cake, mary-lisa said "you're breaking my heart" almost simultaneously with me singing "don't go breakin my, don't go breakin my heart!" ha so that was for sure a funny moment.
"So this experience actually happened last week, but I forgot to mention it. Last Sunday Elder McMurrin and I decided to pass by one of our investigators and as we got of the metro at Pie-IX, apparently a football game had just finished or something because there were about 3-4,000 people in the metro. Ha so an STM worker started clearing a path for us to walk through the crowd and it felt so awesome. Picture just so many people on both sides of you, and then you're in a suit wearing the tags saying that you're a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ and every now and again people are razzing you or saying something at you which you just ignored and kept on walking - ha oh man! It was like I was about to step out onto the football field or soccer pitch or even like the battlefield against satan and get things started! It was awesome!
"Elder McMurrin and I are trying to pick some [Creole] up. Also, one of our investigators is a foreign exchange student from germany and it was really neat giving her a book of mormon in german yesterday at sister battani's. ha I love the saying "dem wahren shonen guten." I wrote it in my planner. "To the true, the beautiful, the good." so yes, I have been trying to pick up some german now too. Ha granted, I can not communicate with anyone in German, Creole, or Spanish, but it's fun to be able to say something and get them to laugh or like you a little bit more than they did before. Haitians love it when you speak creole with them."
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