Quebecois

Bonjour! How is everyone doing? I bet everyone is super excited to have Sophie back home soon. Its crazy that she is done with her mission now and almost home! Make sure y'all go to the homecoming and tell her Hi and give her a hug for me. I hope everyone's week was amazing. This week here in Canada was so good.  

Last Wednesday we went around to a couple of the small outlying towns and knocked and passed by potentials. There wasn't a whole bunch of people who were open and interested but we did contact this one lady right after her husband denied us. She was super sweet and was kinda like a mom to us. She made sure that we were warm and had a good place to live while we were staying here and fun stuff like that. She wasn't super interested in changing religions but did accept a brochure on the restoration and we are going to try to contact her again later. That night we passed by our buddy Fanel. He is doing good but is moving soon. We will have to give him up to the other elders but they will take good care of him and baptize him soon. 

Thursday we had some studies and a member called us saying she had food for us to come pick up so we ran over to her place. We had a little English lesson with her because she is trying to learn English and then she payed us with two big bags of food. Super nice. Later that day we passed by a few more potentials and knocked quite a bit. It wasn't until the very end of the road before we decided to turn around that we found someone who was interested. She was awesome and really liked what we did as missionaries. We shared a quick message about the Restoration of Christs church on the Earth and she seemed to like it. We didn't have a ton of time with her because we found out she was working and had to leave but hopefully we will be able to meet her again soon. That night the Granby Elders slept over so they didn't have to drive as far the next morning to ZONE CONFERENCE!

Friday was zone conference! About 30 minutes into the conference we had power outage while we were talking about our spiritual power. I don't have my notes on me right now but the theme of conference was Fanning our Faith. We read and discussed Ether 12. I really recommend it. It was soo good but ended up taking most of the day because we had interviews with president after so we didn't get back to our area until later than normal. That night we had a lesson with our amazing Zimbabwe family and we went over the Restoration again and made sure they understood it and they said they would pray about it. They are progressing super well right now. 

Saturday not much happened. We had even more time to go out and knock and we got a couple return appointments. It was awesome. We stopped by the hospital that afternoon to help give a blessing to one of the Brothers who is sick right now. He was looking much better than the last time we saw him and he was very thankful to get a blessing. That night we had volleyball again and it went really well. Almost half the people that were there were non members and we got to share a little spiritual thought with them. 

Sunday was kinda rough for us haha. We both woke up a little sick. Elder Moellmer was more sick than me. We were also supposed to have 5 people come to church too but only one of them showed up. Kinda sad but they will come next time. I was also asked to give a talk in Sacrament meeting about the Joy that comes from reading the Book of Mormon. It was all in French and it wasn't too bad. After church we went and passed by a couple of our amis and then did some studies to finish off the day. 

Yesterday we were feeling a lot better and spent most of the day out and about. So quick little back story, a few days before this I had lost my mission card and had been looking everywhere for it. It was no where to be found. We had some plates we had to give back to some members so I set them in the car for later that day. We opened up the door to grab a Spanish Book of Mormon, We found my card just sitting there on top of it. It was crazy. It wasn't there early that morning when I put the book in the car but it showed up later. Heavenly Father loves and Blesses his children! After that we went out and spent time with this old man that used to meet with missionaries. He is super cool but is sick and is kinda lonely so he was glad to see us again and be able to talk with us. We talked about cars for a little bit too because I found out he was a mechanic. Oh man, If you think trying to understand Quebecois would be hard, try thick Quebecois while talking about differential and other things like that for cars. SOOO Hard but fun. I actually understood more than I though I would too.

That's about it for this week. The work is moving on here in Canada but the cold is still here. I hope you all have a great week and continue being awesome and sharing the gospel with your friends and neighbors. 

Love you All!

Elder Beckstrand

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MTC buddy's elder Wai and Vargas

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