Bojour a tous! I hope everyone has had a wonderful week! This week has been nice and fun here in good ol' Mont-saint-Hilaire. It is slowly but surely getting warmer and warmer here but we had two good little snow storms this week. I still love the snow so much. Everyone thinks that I am crazy.
Last Tuesday we had a lesson with our ami Diane. She is super awesome! We had passed by her a couple of weeks before and she seemed interested but told us to come back in a couple of weeks so we left her with a little thing to read during that time. We went back and she invited us right in and said she had read the whole thing and had marked, underlined and made notes everywhere on it. It was super cool. She had a couple questions. Some were easy but she had some good ones too. It was a super solid lesson.
Wednesday we started off with some solid finding through Facebook and I accidentally placed myself into this high school friend group of about 10 people haha. They are super awesome and I invited them all to volleyball. Later that day we had a lesson with Emmanise and Fere Candia. It was super. She had read a little in the book of Mormon and had prayed but didn't receive and answer yet. She told us she is looking for the true church that her Heavenly Father wants her to join. She is super open and is willing to act and do things to get an answer. The spirit was soo strong.
Last Thursday we had a district council at Granby. We talked about the importance of the Book of Mormon and how we can use it more in every part of missionary work and life. We had a quick lesson with Fordi after that. He is still doing good but is struggling to read anything. We just took some time to read over some of the life of Jesus Christ in the Bible. We talked about the importance of him and why we need to read the books that He has given us. It was a really nice lesson. That night we had dinner with the Candia family and when we were done eating we did a little language study with them. I read 1 Nephi chapter 2 in Spanish and then Sister Candia read some other chapter in French. We helped each other with word and stuff like that. It was really cool. The spirit will always be there as you read the Book of Mormon no matter what language you read it in. Soo cool!
Friday we had lunch with the Chacon Family. They are super cool and super nice. They asked us if we could help them learn English so we will be going back there more often for lunches to eat and help them practice English. We spent the rest of the day finding in the rain snow and slush. We didn't find anyone super interested but did get to talk to a lot of neat people.
Saturday was fun. We got up and did our studies and then were on the road. We planned this big loop we were going to do to go finding in the cities that were kinda far away. We first went to Contrecoeur and found there for a little bit, then we went up to Sorel and passed by our referral that we meet a week ago. We also passed by a couple other people and did some tracting. On the way back we stopped by our awesome couple who live in St.Ours. They were not home but we talked to a couple of other people in the area. After that we were back home to eat and change and head over to volleyball. We had a good group there but not as much as normal. We were missing a few people and my little friend group didn't end up coming which was really sad but they will come next week. At the end we had one of the members in our ward sing us a song to practice singing in front of people before she sings for her professor at college. It was really good.
Sunday was pretty good. In Priesthood we talked bout the importance of Mothers and the role parents play in raising children and the role fathers have of supporting their wives and children. They asked some of the younger elders what they appreciate most of their parents and of their mother specifically. It made me think about my parents and how grateful I am for them. Thank you so much mom and dad. I Love You! After church we had a ward potluck and got to spend some time talking to different ward members and friends. It was nice. After that we were invited to a YSA meeting at the Bishops house. We had a big discussion on how to help the other youth and how to strengthen the ward. It was really good and they came up with really good ideas. They are going to do more actives together and focus on bringing every sheep back into the fold of the Shepard. Super cool. That night we had a wonderful dinner with the family Michele. They had awesome stories that they shared. Everyone loves sharing a good story.
Yesterday was full of service. We started out by helping a ward member move some tires around and then we helped clean out and organised the basement. It took a little bit of time but looked so much better once we were done with it. We then all ate lunch together after. We then ran back over to Bishops house to help his demolish his bathroom. It was really fun. We took out the entire shower and all of the inner walls of the bathroom. There was so much dust and broken drywall everywhere but it was fun. Most of the walls and everything had ceramic tiles on it too so it was nice and heavy and kinda sharp. We had our safety glasses on and masks over our faces too. Don't worry mom. The whole bathroom was completely empty when we were done with it. It was awesome. We then ate dinner with bishop and his wife.
This week was pretty good! I hope y'all have a great week.
I love you All!
Elder Beckstrand
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