Serving All In Montreal: Huskies!

Bonjour! Comment ça va?

How is everyone doing? It is always super fun to hear all the fun adventures everyone is going on. It's starting to get a little colder here each day and I'm so excited to see some snow! This week went by really fast for me but I guess that's what happens when we keep ourselves busy.

Last Tuesday I didn't have a ton of time to email because we were supposed to have a lesson with one of our amis that we have been trying to get in contact with for weeks now. It was a miracle that she called us and asked for a lesson! We showed up at her house and she didn't answer. It was actually really sad but the person who lived in the next apartment over thought we were knocking on his door and he answered so we talked to him. He invited us in and we taught him a little about the Book of Mormon! That was another miracle! After that we were still on P-day so we decided to go get some Poutine with one of our members! I was finally able to try the magical poutine. It was super good and hopefully we will be able to get some more in a bit. That night the Zone leaders came for Exchanges.

Wednesday was exchanges and I was with Elder Desvergez. He is amazing! He is from France and has such a thick accent when he speaks English. His French is perfect though. We started the day out with a trip about 40 minutes out of town for a service project. We helped this member move her fencing for her dogs. It took all 8 of the missionaries we had to do it in 2 hours. It was a lot of work but we got to play with the dogs after so it was worth it! She has 11 huskies and 1 fox. I'm not quite sure if it is a full fox or a mix. She explained it to us but I didn't understand it soo. Pictures are coming! That night we passed by a couple amis houses and one or two members houses. Elder Desvergez was trained here too so he knows most of the people here. It was a fun night with him.

Thursday we made some cookies during our studies to give to one of the youth in the ward because it was his Birthday. His Grandpa is our ward mission leader and that whole extended family lives here in Drummondville so we have gained such a good relationship with them. That night we had a really good lesson with our amis, Line. She is doing so good but she is still smoking. Everyone here smokes. So we made some goals with her this week to help her quit so she can eventually be baptized. She is down to 2-4 cigarettes a day but its this last little push that is so hard for her.

Friday was crazy. We woke up to this awful smell coming from outside. It didn't go away all day. When we got home that night it still smelled terrible in our whole neighbor hood. We never found out why it was there or where it was coming from. We were supposed to have 4 lessons but 2 of them fell through and because of that we spent about 2.5 hours street contacting because it was Friday and a lot of people were out. We talked to a ton of people and hopefully now have a few new amis!

Not much happened on Saturday. We had lunch with one of the members in our ward. He is really funny. We found out that he is a professional musician. After we ate some pizza, he took us down stairs to his studio and played two songs for us. He is super good. After that we spent most of the day just making sure our amis had rides to church for the next day.

Sunday! We left the house earlier than normal to pass by like 7 peoples houses to make sure they were awake and ready for church. All of them were up and getting ready except for two. It is amazing the miracles that can happen if you do everything you can do and put the rest in the hand of our Father. Our amis named Marc has never come to church before so he was one of the people we were going to pass by. As we were parking at his house, he called us to tell us he was coming! It was such a miracle! We ended up having 5 amis come to church! So many prayers of gratitude were said on Sunday. ahah.

Yesterday we had lesson with Marc and we had a member come with us to help teach because the member was actually one of his teachers years ago when he was in school. The lesson went really good. Members have such a big impact on those that are being taught the gospel. If you have missionaries in your ward, go ask them if you can go to a lesson with them! They would love it and it would definitely be a lot of help to those who are preparing to serve too. We did a few other pass bys and knocking but no one was really interested yesterday. They will be one day though!

I hope all of you are having a wonderful day and an amazing week! My prayers are with all of you and I know you can do anything if you just put a little more faith and trust in your Father in Heaven. Love you!

Elder Beckstrand

These are some pictures from the service with the dogs!