Bonjour! I hope you all had an amazing week and Valentine's day! Quick shout out to my amazing Valentine. Love you Mom! This week here in good old Canada was awesome. It wasn't as cold, we got more snow, and found some new friends to teach.
Last Wednesday, we got over a foot of snow so we went around and shoveled for everyone. We helped a couple of random people and then helped a few ward members. It was a lot of fun and we definitely planted some good seeds out there. We then went out to lunch with Luz Nelly. She is an older lady in our ward. Every time we help her she gives us two big bags of food. She is amazing. We then passed by some of our amis. First was Ado. She is awesome and we just taught her at her door because her husband wasn't there. It was an awesome lesson and the spirit was super strong. That night we visited our Zimbabwean family. We had an amazing lesson with the son and then the mom came in with a few questions about us and the Book of Mormon. She wants us to teach only using the bible because she doesn't know if the Book of Mormon is true and wont read it to find out. We are praying for her and are going to be using the bible more from now on while quoting the Book of Mormon. It will be a fun challenge.
Thursday was Valentines Day! We didn't do anything special for it. We had lunch with a sister in our ward and a super less active brother in our ward. We have been trying to meet him for a while and she was a good friend of him so we all went out to eat together. It was really cool. He is super cool but has had his share of problems in his life. We had a good conversation with him and he seems to really like us now. He will hopefully start coming back to church soon. After that we had a really cool miracle. We made a goal to find someone who was prepared for us and then went out finding. We passed by a couple of potentials and knocked for a bit. We finally passed by this potential named Klein. He immediately invited us in. He remembers a lot of the things he has been taught from the missionaries before but stopped meeting with them because he had some good questions. We answered a few of them and then asked if we could come back and continue and he agreed! He is awesome and is super spiritual. It was a great way to finish the night.
Friday we had district council and really focused on teaching simply because the gospel is simple and it only takes a simple truth to invite the spirit. It was really nice. Then went on exchanges after. I was able to go on exchanges with Elder Furness! It was soo cool. On the way back from Gramby, we had a member call us and he told us that we could call our families now on p-day. We didn't believe him so we went straight to the church and checked for ourselves. It was amazing. We couldn't believe it. After that we passed by a few people and then helped clear the path ways at the church. We moved some snow and found 6" of ice. We got shovels and picks and started to break it up. We got most of it out of the way and then threw a lot of salt down to get the rest. We had volleyball that night because the youth had a dance Saturday night and a ward family was doing a birthday party Saturday at the church too. It all worked out nice.
Saturday we unexchanged and then visited Klein again. We had another really good lesson with him and he asked us more questions. He also really likes the Bible so we have been using that to help support the Book of Mormon and doctrines. It was good. After that we went to Montreal to pick up some things from the mission office and then went over to LaSalle to watch one of Elder Moellmer's old investors get baptized! His name is John. It was really good to watch someone get baptized, especially for Elder Moellmer since he taught him. After that, we went back and visited a few more people and called it a day.
Sunday we didn't do a whole ton. Church still feels super short to me aha. After church we did have a lesson with a new ami. One of our Latino members gave us a referral and let us teach them in their house. It was really cool. It was also completely in Spanish. Yes, that is right. Your French missionary taught a full lesson in Spanish. It was really cool and the gift of languages is real aha. We also had the members to help explain some stuff. It was a very good lesson. That night we visited Fanel. He is doing good but is getting ready to move. We went over the Gospel of Jesus Christ with him and are helping him learn more before we give him over to the other elders.
Yesterday we started off with good studies and I was able to read some of my ancestors Patriarchal Blessings. If you log into lds.org, you can request the blessings of direct ancestors. It was really cool. The rest of the day was dedicated to finding. We went to some of the outer cities and did our best to find new amis. We didn't have a ton if success though out the day but we decided to pass by one more potential and knock two doors next to them and then we could head home. The potential and the first door we knocked were not home but the second door was a man named Christian. He has actually met missionaries before and knows a lot but has moved around a lot since then. He is currently having some hard times right now and is really open to hearing about the church again. He invited us to come back in a week and was really glad that we stopped by that night. It was a really neat experience. On the way home we got some pizza ahah.
That's about it for this week. We saw a lot of miracles and had a lot of really good lessons. I hope you are all having a wonderful time. Keep up the good work and don't be afraid to share the gospel with someone this week!
I love you all!
Elder Beckstrand
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