Bonjour a tous! I hope y'all have had a great week. Man, this week has been crazy for us!
The beginning of this week started out pretty normal just like any other week. We went around did some metro and bus contacting and also visited members taught a few lessons and was pretty normal.
On Thursday we had some questions going around the mission and present wasn't quite sure what was going on. Everyone one here in Montreal kinda slowly stayed home so there has been less and less people outside everyday.
Then on Friday we got some updates. We were doing some weekly planning and president sent out a notification to everyone telling them with we needed to get 2 weeks worth of food storage immediately in the case that get stuck home. The mission gave us some extra money she could do that so we went we got some extra food storage got all set up on pop tarts and pasta and good food like that for 2 weeks just in case. They were also telling us so we need to stay away from large crowds and Stay away from sick people and to wash our hands often.
Sunday church was canceled so it was really weird. Members didn't want us coming over because they didn't want any anyone getting sick and so we took the sacrament to a sister in the ward that we usually take sacrament to and then we also took the sacrament then. We did some come follow me with her which is really cool . It's been super great to have a living prophet in our day that has been preparing us for this and has been helping us be ready to do church at home and ministering around so that everyone could have some one to look to for help.
Monday we got placed in semi quarantine so we were allowed to go out in have lessons and visit members that we had already planned for but we weren't allowed to go and do like contacting or finding and are supposed to stay in our home unless we had something already planned.
Then this morning We have Have officially been placed under quarantine until further notice. We are just in our apartments now. Mission present has given us an updated schedule and guidelines and rules for how to do missionary work while under quarantine in how to best utilize this time even though we can't go out and talk to people and visit anybody. It's a good chance that we get to be able to learn how do do Facebook finding and learn how to teach over Skype and be able to do some family history work and indexing and also to do some more studying and deepen our own personal conversion in the gospel.we are not about to go outside anymore unless we need to do some shopping for essentials or to go out 2 or 3 times a day to do a quick walk to get some exercise and some fresh air. Other than that we are confined to our apartment until we find out more about what's going on . The world is in a crazy place right now but it's been really interesting and cool to be able to see how true the church actually is and how the living prophet today is truly a prophet,seer and revelator and can help prepare us for the future.
One zone conference a while ago we talked about the role of a prophet and how he is a watchman for us in for a lives. He sits at the very top of the tower is able to see far off and see people coming in that can cause harm or danger to us and how we need to listen to him and how he can he sees the bigger picture and you could definitely tell that with the preparations that have come out in the last year or so with come follow me and all of that help us.
I'm so glad I am able to be a missionary at this time to be able to share that with people and hope people realize that we can have some guidance in this lost world of ours and that we can always have faith in Christ site as we follow his commandments do are supposed to do God will protect us in you give us direction when we need it.
Our zone has been sharing scripture of hope to each other so we can stay strong during this time together. One scripture I found and really liked was Alma 38:5 "And now my son, Shiblon (or enter your name here), I would that ye should remember, that as much as ye shall put your trust in God even so much ye shall be delivered out of your trials, and your troubles, and your afflictions, and ye shall be lifted up at the last day."
I hope you all are doing great and are staying healthy! Keep being awesome and keep washing your hands!
Love Elder Beckstrand
We heard a mouse but couldn't see him so I made a trap. a ramp up to a peanut butter jar full of water. But when he gets to the peanut butter the top part of the ramp falls because of his weight and he falls into the jar. Then he drowns. But I didn't know #1 that it would really work and #2 that it would freeze and his head would get stuck to the ice. oops. sorry.
Cleaned out. But a great sale on frosting!
Bread isle.
Still had POUTINE!
Everyone cleared out!
We are prepared with our Candles.
Basically dead.
No one around
