"We`ve had an interesting time with these past 2 weeks because in each of them we have found 7 new investigators. The hardest part about it is turning them in to progressing investigators - like we found a family my first week here and then the time we had an actual lesson with them... they dropped us. So that was lame, but we are super excited with these investigators we are finding! The spirit of Christmas totally has a lot to do with it. We have continued to share our spiritual thought about the gift of Jesus Christ for us and so I have been struggling to find ways to turn it from a non-denominational Christmas message to hey, you should learn more about the gospel of Jesus Christ. It sounds fairly easy to do.. but for some reason it has been tricky. However last night it was really cool because we were talking to this family and were teaching the littler kids about Jesus Christ and the bible and the older siblings were helping us and it was cool because then the older sister asked us what Church we were from - so we told them and then she was like ``oh I don`t know too much about that Church`` to which obvioulsy we were like ``perfect! That`s why we are here!
"I haven`t heard the infamous èh` basically at all on my mission - but last wednesday when we did a split I went to kirkland (so the west island of montreal) and I heard it quite frequently."
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Week 12 in the Field
"THis week has been a fun one that is for sure! It was crazy being transferred... but it worked out and I am loving Valleyfield! So Valleyfield is the name of the area, but we actually cover a bunch of littler towns like Saint-Lazare, Vaudreuil-Dorion, Valleyfield, Rigaud, Hudson... and a few more. They are all pretty small and it reminds me a lot of La Grande or Klamath because it is largely a farming community.
"The Church is relatively small actually. We cover two units - the St. Lazare branch is English and then we cover the Valleyfield Branch which is French. The goal for the Valleyfield Branch is to have an average attendance of 50 members by the end of next year. and it is bigger than the St.Lazare branch. Unfortunately, french people aren`t too receptive to our message, so most of our investigators <(all but 2)are English. But French is coming along still fine. I usually make the calls to members of the French ward and for the most part I get what they say. It`s exciting, that is for sure!
"So it has been fun because for some reason or another, people here know german. Ha I had written on my planner `Dem wahren shoenen guten`` and so it was fun to show them that and see if they knew it! Ha it was hard trying to explain what that meant in french because I know it best in English. To the True, The Beautiful, The Good - I think it is something like ``a la vrai, la belle, le bon`` but I definitely felt silly trying to explain that yesterday."
"The Church is relatively small actually. We cover two units - the St. Lazare branch is English and then we cover the Valleyfield Branch which is French. The goal for the Valleyfield Branch is to have an average attendance of 50 members by the end of next year. and it is bigger than the St.Lazare branch. Unfortunately, french people aren`t too receptive to our message, so most of our investigators <(all but 2)are English. But French is coming along still fine. I usually make the calls to members of the French ward and for the most part I get what they say. It`s exciting, that is for sure!
"So it has been fun because for some reason or another, people here know german. Ha I had written on my planner `Dem wahren shoenen guten`` and so it was fun to show them that and see if they knew it! Ha it was hard trying to explain what that meant in french because I know it best in English. To the True, The Beautiful, The Good - I think it is something like ``a la vrai, la belle, le bon`` but I definitely felt silly trying to explain that yesterday."
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