The one with member visits

Bonjour a tous! How is everyone doing? This week here in Sherbrooke has been pretty good. No updates so far as to when I am going over to Nova Scotia but I am still excited to be here and to have the chance to go over there soon. They just got hit with a hurricane so I'm super excited to be able to go over there and get some service done! This week here was filled with a ton of member visits and less active visits and a couple of really cool lessons. Here is what happened.

Last Wednesday we had a district council out in Granby where we were able to meet the other new elder in our district. He is from Switzerland and is pretty cool. After that we came back and visited our buddy Jimmy. He was supposed to be on his patches to help him stop smoking but he stopped using them for a bit so we had a really good lesson with him about how our body is the temple and how we need to take care of it. He is working on it. After that we had a really nice lesson with Bernadette. We kinda talked a little about everything. She had a few really good questions about the Priesthood and we ended up just inviting her to do here own studies and then gave her a couple of chapters to read and study. She is progressing pretty well right now. She is really looking to learn more and know the truth. That night we finished off by visiting the amazing LaRoche family. They are doing good too. They really want to come back to church at least once before I leave but they have been since I've gotten here so we are really praying for them. 

Thursday we started off the day by doing some knocking and found some really good immigrants who just all happen to be from Syria or Afghanistan or other countries over there. They are really cool and open. After that we went around and visited some members to introduce the new missionaries. We had dinner with the Gingra's family and it was really good and we talked for a long time with them. After that we visited another member that we have never visited before. They are really nice and we had a nice talk with them. 

Friday we didn't do a whole ton that was exciting. We did a lot of knocking and passed by a couple people but no one was really home or interested.

Saturday we started off the day with studies and then went and had lunch at a restaurant where we met up with this guy named Jacques. He is pretty cool and somewhat open to the gospel. We had given him a book of Mormon before and he said that he has read some of it already and is going to keep reading until the end! He is a very smart guy and has a lot of friends of other religions and knows a lot about churches too. It was a very interesting conversation with him but he said he was open to talking with us again which was good. After that we went and visited another less active that has been slowly coming back to church. She is doing good but really needed our visit to help encourage her to keep coming back to church. To finish off the night we were supposed to have a lesson with Mary so we went over to and Pascal, her member boyfriend, wanted to show us his garage so we went and ended spending the rest of the time in there talking about his conversation and the church so that was good too. It was a really good visit but Elder Calabuig had some trouble following along because he speaks very Quebecois but it was good. 

Sunday was really good. We had a ton of people at church for some reason. Lots of member visitors and stuff like that. It was really good. We also talked to talked to a lot of people and now we have a dinner every night for this week with a member. Mary also came to church which was awesome. We then had lunch with the bishops family and then went out and did some finding and passed by a couple of the people we found recently. We tried finding one family again but ended up knocking on the wrong door but found another Syrian family that was open and really nice.  We then had dinner with the Herrings again and then visited the McFarland family. They are doing really good and it is cool to see the spirit work in us as we are open to the spirit. The spirit will actually give you idea and words to say as you are worthy and are open and follow what it puts into your mind and its been fun to see that work through me throughout my mission. 

That's about it for this week! I hope you are doing great and having fun! Keep being awesome and keep reading your scriptures and doing all the good things so that the spirit can work in your life.

I love you all and Ill talk to y'all next year! 
Elder Beckstrand

Edler Calabuig and Elder Bourlet