Bonjour à tous! How is everyone doing? I hope everyone back home is enjoying the end of summer and is excited for school to start ahah. This week here in Sherbrooke was spent more outside of Sherbrooke than inside the city ahah. We got a lot of travel in this week and were able to work in two other areas which always brings some adventures and miracles. Here's what happened.
Last Tuesday we started the day with studies like normal but then right after lunch we had to leave and go down to Montreal for interviews with President Lowe. He is super cool and really nice. I'm grateful for both of the mission presidents that I have had. After our interviews we were going to stay there and work with the zone leaders for the rest of the day because we had Zone Conference he next day and we didn't want to take the 2 hour trio again aha. When we got done with interviews however, the zone leaders had to run to the mission office to grab some things so they just gave us an address and told us to go finding for them. It was really weird but we obeyed and went finding in a new place. It wasn't too bad though because we do the same work where ever we go. As missionaries we just want to share the gospel with everyone and help them come unto Christ. Sadly we didn't find anyone while we were there but then the zone leaders found us and we went on a little exchange for the rest of the night. I was able to work with the wonderful Elder Tehei. He is also from Tahiti. We passed by a couple of their friends and invited one of them to church. We also did a little bit of finding and found this amazing couple who had a ton of faith and were open to the gospel. They were really cool and Elder Tehei was stoked to have found them.
Wednesday was our first Zone Conference with President Lowe. It was just as good as all the rest of them. We talked about patience and member missionary work. There are two really good quotes that I've heard on my mission that relate with patience. The first one says that God is not a Genie. He is not going to grant our wishes and give us what we want but he will give us what we need according to his timeline. The other is that God is our loving Heavenly Father, not our loving Heavenly Grandfather. Grandparents are known just to give stuff to their grandkids because they like to spoil them and all that. (I'm not complaining ahaha.) God is our Father and he will make us work for things, he will give us opportunities to grow and gain the things we are asking for. At the base of both of those, if we know who God really is and who we are, that can answer a lot if our questions and give us strength through our trials. Zone conference was pretty good overall. Afterwards we drove all the way back to Sherbrooke for a dinner appointment and we passed by a couple people that night.
Thursday we had almost the full day in Sherbrooke and we spent a good part of it doing some good old service. Helped someone move again. We were able to talk to them too and hopefully they will come to church soon. After the service we finally had another lesson with Bernadette. We had kinda lost her for a while but she called us up and asked us to come over and visit with her. We had a really nice lesson on Jesus Christ and hopefully she will have a baptism date here soon. After that we visited bishop and then packed our stuff again to head out to Granby for exchanges!
Friday was spent all in Granby with Elder Kunzler and Elder Moellmer. I got to spend some more time with my awesome trainee and do some finding and service. We found this super nice old lady. We just talking to her at her door and Moellmer starts to introduce himself so I do too and she thought I was from France! That's the first time! The gift of tongues is real y'all! She was super nice and was open to the gospel. We taught her most of the restoration and set up a return appointment with her. After that we changed and headed over to Annie's house. She is a very short 90 year old sister in the Granby branch. She lives on the edge of town and almost everything she eats is from her garden but recently she has had skunks and raccoons eating her garden. She decided to pull out some of her traps and get them. The only problem she has is she is to old to kill the animals and bury them so that is our job and she pays us with a dinner after. When we got there she said she had caught another skunk just the day before so we had 2 that we needed to bury. As we checked everything out, one of them was already dead but one was still alive. She gave us this thin blanket to cover the cage so we didn't get sprayed but it sprayed the blanket any way and then elder Moellmer with his skills as an exterminator before his mission, grabs the rope of the cage and throws the whole cage into this little pond with the skunk inside of it. It was so sad but it also stunk sooo bad. As we went to bury them we saw that there was an empty hole where they had buried the last one and as we looked around, we saw a giant bloated raccoon about 50 yards away. We couldn't tell which animal smelt worse. The raccoon or the skunk. We realized we needed to dig a deeper this time so the fox doesn't get these ones. We dug the whole and as we put all three of these dead smelly animals into the same hole the smell got even worse. Soo bad. I've never dry heaved so hard in my life . We hurried and buried them all and then went and washed up for dinner. The dinner however was really good. It was all natural and home made. After that we unexchanged and headed off to Sherbrooke again. Exchanges are always wild but filled with adventures and miracles.
Saturday we were back here in Sherbrooke. We had an interesting visit. We had decided to visit some of the people that we had phone numbers for but didn't know yet. The second person we called invited us over so we decided to go. As we got there we realized it was a guy we were supposed to meet not too long ago. He used to be a Hell's Angels. Super fun. We found out that he was actually thinking about suicide and needed to talk to someone right at that time. We actually had a member with us that works that works at the hospital so he called some people and got a suicide prevention person to come. We waited for them to come and then we left. After that not much else happened. We did some finding and found a new Guy who is pretty nice and we will have another lesson with him later this week.
Sunday was pretty good. Church was just as good as normal. Nothing super interesting happened Sunday either. We did a lot of finding and found this lady that has seen missionaries before but hasn't really talked to them before. We talked with her for about an hour and a half just answering her questions. she was super interested and loved learning more about our church. We then also met with her on Monday too and talked more about the church and the restoration of the Church. She even asked us if she could come to our church this week to see what its all about. She is super awesome.
Sorry, I'm all out of time for this week but ill write more next week and let ya know who comes this week to church! Pray for them! I love you all and hope you have a great week!
Elder Beckstrand
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