Salut Peeps!
How is every one going back in St. Geezy?! This week here in Mont-Saint-Hilaire has been pretty awesome but cold with a lot of snow. We had zone Conference and exchanges this week.
Last Wednesday was Zone Conference with Elder Hamilton. He taught us so many cool things including some of the new ways missionaries are finding the people who are ready for the Gospel. The Church is so amazing and true. He also taught us the importance
of the Book of Mormon. He said the Book of Mormon is the most influential thing in our lives and promised that a daily reading will bless our lives more than anything else can. He also taught about the importance of bearing a pure testimony. He talked about
testimony meetings at churches and said that we need to change the way we bear testimony. A testimony is statements of simple truths that you know to be true. Not a travel log, not a report of a service you did, or even a spiritual experience. It is the sharing
of the truths that you learned from those experiences so that others can hear truth and have the holy spirit touch them and help them learn the same things. It was a super cool training and I invite everyone who is reading this to take the Council of Elder
Hamilton and bear a pure testimony next fast Sunday. Also if you want, email me back and let me know how it went! After that we went and did some missionary work and a little bit of service and had dinner with a member who was really funny.
Thursday, We went and helped paint one of our amis houses! They had so much work to do with only one can of paint. We did as much of it as we could but then had to leave once we ran out of paint. After that we went and passed by a couple of our amis and
less active people here. We also did another quick service project and helped a part member family that we are teaching finish their flooring in their basement. It was pretty easy and they were a lot of fun.
Friday was district council and exchanges. I went on exchanges with Elder Lott. He was one of the assistants when I got here and was the first elder I met in the field. This is his last transfer and he is awesome. We went knocking for a couple hours in
about 8 inches of snow and I forgot to pack my boots. It was a little cold but not super bad. I made the best out of it and just ice skated everywhere with my shoes because they were so slippery. We found a couple of really cool people and then ate dinner
with this super nice family.
Saturday morning I helped Elder Lott prepare for a baptism and then ended exchanges and went back to my area. We ate some poutine for lunch and then passed by a couple amis to invite them to church. Most of them were sick though because of how quickly it
got cold here. Everyone is saying it never snows like this this early in the year so this winter will be rough. That night we played volleyball at the church and had a great turnout. We had a couple non members there and they asked about a couple of the pictures
we had in the church so we taught them a little and they got interested. It was super cool.
Sunday was wonderful. We went to church early and shoveled snow for an hour or so. I don't think I have ever done that before so that was cool. That night we had dinner with this super nice family in the ward. He works a lot and the family is always busy
so it was nice to finally get to talk to them. He gave us both a Christmas present. He is a photographer and a pilot so he made this book of pictures he has taken of Mont-Saint-Hilaire and surrounding city's! It is super pretty. They also asked us about our
winter gear that we had and asked us if we were ready and we said we hope so. They told us to come back on p-day to go shopping with them for wither gear!
Yesterday we had some really good studies and found some new ways to find people and help our ward better. We talked to a couple of our amis and invited all of them to a Latino night we are having at the church this weekend. We did a little bit of street
contacting as well and met this really nice lady. She knew about our church already and was super nice. She said she would pray for us and said she might come to church. That night we went and helped bishop and his wife set up a garage tent thing for his
car. It took them 4 hours by themselves last winter and we did it in an hour. They fed us dinner afterward and we talked about the ward and what he wants us to do to help and we shared our ideas of what we wanted to do. Our bishop is amazing and really cares
for his ward just like every other bishop in this church.
Today we went back over the ward members house to go shopping with him and he said sorry because he was really busy and couldn't go today but went last night and bought us stuff anyway! He got us these super nice gloves and socks! He is seriously the
nicest person in the world! We also tried to go sledding a bit but it didn't work out and was lame. Next week for sure.
I hope you are all having a great week and keep reading the Book of Mormon and going to the temple!!!
Love Ya's
Elder Beckstrand
Here is a picture of me haha. Elder halliday had it on his phone. This is a member that helped us with a service project. He is super nice.
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