"So it is kind of crazy to me to think that a year ago I was at BYU watching conference... 6 months ago I was in Montreal... and now another 6 months has passed and I watched conference in St. Lazare. It always seems like so long in between the conferences, and yet it flies by. I have now watched 2 of the 4 general conferences that will be shown during my mission. That's a crazy thought.
"This week was really cool in that we worked with Brother Stothart (the 1st counselor in the Branch Presidency) to use his ipad and projector and speakers to then stream conference live at our little building. On Saturday we didn't have very many people come (just a few members) but on Sunday we focused on inviting our investigators and some member families to the sunday morning session. It was super cool when we ended up having about 12 members there, 4 missionaries (us and valleyfield), and 3 of our investigators! Andre and Elizabeth came and they had a hard time concentrating on understanding the english for the 2 hours, but they enjoyed the messages about the family - they want to come to the activities put on by the church now and just just church! It's crazy. I hope we can start teaching them seriously! Manny came too, he was a little late, but he said that he connected with a couple of the messages that were given and that he was going to review the part of conference that he missed! That was really neat. He wanted to meet just the next sunday at church, but we talked him in to the possibility of meeting during the week. It was awesome to see how the members just went over to the investigators and welcomed them, got to know them, and just included them. We were really happy with the turnout and reception.
"I learned an important lesson about not procrastinating this week! So each week we have a district study and we assign a team to be in charge of the district lunch afterwards. They then make assignments to the other teams to bring specific items. Ha so this week we were assigned to bring the dessert. We remembered to buy a dessert as we walked into the store on monday but by the time we were checking out, we had forgotten all about it. Ha Fast forward to wednesday morning right before the district study - elder cowling and I are hustling through the store trying to find a dessert and get to d study on time. Here's the lesson I learned - just because there's a picture of something on the box, doesn't mean that that is what you are actually buying! Ha There was a picture of this pie crust with a whole bunch of fruit in it - so I thought that it was those little fruit cups - so I bought two boxes of them thinking that that would be sufficient for our district. We then went to d study, and had great trainings and a great lunch. To my horror, when we went to get the dessert, we open up the boxes to find 4 pie tins with a dough placed in them ready to bake... I was so embarrassed that I was just laughing. Ha I promised to bring extra dessert the next district study.
"In terms of conference, it was just really good this time around. Like always. It was crazy to me when twice (in particular) I just stopped and stared because I felt a personal epistle just to me. I really can't wait to get the ensign and read over these talks again. I've been trying to write down the miracle of the day or the hand of god in my life as well as a lesson that I have learned throughout the day - and the hand of god was definitely in general conference.
"[While being on a split with the district leader,] We had a couple of miracles that night. When we were trying to buzz in to this apartment building, this lady came down and we waved to her, so she talked with us in french. It was funny because she was telling us that she didn't really want to hear us out and she didn't think that it would be a good idea for her to let us in because a lot of people there didn't like people knocking on their doors. So then Elder Neff asked if he had buzzed her apartment just to make sure he didn't do it again.. well she stopped and then said 'well I guess I can let you in this once!' Ha so she let us in and then we went up to the top floor. it was funny because we were trying to get a vibe on which kind of people lived in this apartment building - 1st door - People from India... no go. 2nd door - older quebecois man... no go. 3rd door - younger black man with younger white girlfriend... try back another time. 4th door - Mom and son from pakistan - Christians - Let us in and we taught a lesson on the restoration! Ha it was just funny how different those first three doors were and then really neat to be able to teach that mom and son. I hope they become investigators for kirkland soon."
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