Salut à tous! Comment allez-vous? I hope you are all doing well and are loving life. This week has been really good and interesting. We sent Elder Arnold and Elder Bishop home (their 2 years are up) and I am now here with Elder Taruoura. It's been so fun. Our district is now a little bit bigger too. Here's what we did this week.
Last Wednesday was Elder Arnold's last full day here in Sherbrooke. We spent the day passing by members and people we are teaching to say one last good bye. We played a game of darts with Jimmy and did some knocking. That night we had dinner with the Herring family. They are awesome. One of the daughters took a giant shot of rice vinegar for $20 and it looked really gross aha. No one thought she would do it but she did. After the dinner we had a really nice lesson with Lenord. He has been with missionaries since 2012 and knows more about the church than some members. He just has a few questions and doesn't want to be baptized until he knows for sure it it the true church. We will do our best to help him more but he is already awesome.
Thursday was kinda crazy to start off with. We finished packing everything up and then we changed up the companionship and then me and Elder T did a couple of trips between the apartments to move everything while the others went to breakfast with a member ahah. Once we got that all done we met up at the bishops house to say bye to the elders and then we were off! We tried to do some finding in the park and we passed by a couple of people we are teaching. That night we had an awesome lesson with Ken. He was with the other elders and he is so close to baptism. We just need him to read some more and have a strong testimony in the church. He will be baptized soon. That night we had dinner that night with our amazing ward missionary Serge. He is awesome.
Friday we did our studies and then had lunch with Sister Lachance and Serge. It was so good. We shared Helaman 14:30-31 with them and had a really nice discussion with them. After that we visited one of the brothers in the ward who is in the hospital. He is doing better and will probably be out soon. After that we went back to the park with some chalk and drew the plan of salvation on the path and had quite a few of people that stopped and looked at it. After that we had two really good lessons. One with Fernand where we talked about the plan of salvation and a lesson with this woman named Rada. She is from Syria and loves when we visit. We went over the restoration with her and explained as simply as possible. She loves it and we just have to get some more things in Arabic so she can understand better. She is really open.
Saturday wasn't too exciting. We had district council which was really good. We all counseled on what we wanted to work on for the transfer and how we can best do that. It's been pretty good. We are going to work with the members and less actives. Later that day we had a lesson with Sebastian. We went over the plan of salvation again and he remembered it and so we went back to the restoration and he already knew most of the restoration. It was pretty cool and interesting. Right after the lesson we saw someone riding a unicycle down the road so we hurried and stopped and I asked him if I could try it but he said it was kinda broken and not easy to ride so he just jumped on it and rode off leaving us on the road. It was kinda sad but there are a couple people here that ride it so we will contact at least one of them ahah. Later that night we visited a less active sister we are working with. She is doing really good and her daughter really likes the church and is planning on being baptized soon. They are both doing really well right now.
Sunday was full of driving to Montreal and back for stake conference. It was really good. We had a return missionary talk and President Phillips as well. They both gave really good talks and the spirit was super strong. Right after the conference, We were able to stand in the circle as one of the newer converts to the church here in Sherbrooke received the Melchizedek priesthood. It was such an amazing thing to be able to participate in. Later that night we were able to have dinner with the Herring family again and we also passed by more of the people we are teaching but not much of any lessons. We then spent some time at the bishops house talking about the ward and things we can do this new transfer to help. It was good.
Yesterday we didn't do a whole ton either. We started out the morning by going back to the old apartment with another set of elders and one of the senior missionaries to clean and move out everything that was in there. That took a bit of the day but was good. We got everything out of the place and are done with it now. After that we got some studies in and then visited some members. We had dinner with the bishops dad and his family and it was actually really good. After that we had a Family Night with the family LaRoche. They are amazing and said that they would finally come back to church this Sunday! I've been with them for a while and I haven't seen them at church yet. I'm really excited to see them at church.
That's about it for this week. I hope that you all have a wonderful week. This week was full of spiritual experiences and I hope you all have find some time to go to the temple or share the gospel with someone this week and feel of that same spirit.
I love you all!
Elder Beckstrand
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