Area: Laval, Quebec
French Speaking
1- I am so good! Life is so great I am loving it here! Cant get much better when there is snow and winter involved I love the cold and the fresh and air and especially the peace that winter brings to the earth. Walking ouside and the world is covered in a blanket of perfect white snow! Nothing is comparable! This week.. Hmm just a bunch of miracles I suppose! They are always there if you look for them I think something cool is we received a promise that we could find a family each day and we have! We have been finding so many families and yesterday it was 8:55 ad we were heading back to the apartment and we still hadn`t found our family so we frantically ran once we got home up and down the street looking for people but there was no one in site.. finally at 8:58 we had time to knock one door close to our apartment we knocked the one that had lights on and a woman opened the door I could see a family behind her eating.. In the end.. She said we could come back and we found our potential for the day and we made it home by 9 oclock!
2- Hm.. Yesterday we ate with a family that just came from Mexico a couple months ago and they only really speak English and Spanish but they are learning french. They made us this super authentic Mexican food and It was so good! I couldnt tell you the name but.. Other than that.. That is about it.
3- Yeah we will be having 2 baptisms Christmas eve and then they will be confirmed on Christmas! They are so awesome! Other than them there are a couple other families but they wont be baptized until the following year.
4- Hm.. Well I guess it depends on how you define home! I will miss being with the family of course but I know you are close in spirit but I am excited to pass the holiday season on the Lords errand looking for the people that are ready to hear the message of the Gospel and change there lives. I am excited for the snow and the cold and I know that in the end everything will work out! Besides who doesnt what to have a French Christmas!
5- There are so many families here! Thousands! The cold and the snow drives them inside so when we go knocking we find so many families! I love how close it is to Montreal and the culture it is a melting pot here and in our ward a lone I could probably name 20 countries! There are so many amazing people! Cant get much better than this!
6- I have been studying a lot about the importance of knowledge in the gospel. As we feel the spirit he blesses us with knowledge or what we could call a testimony of different aspects of the gospel. When the spirit departs that knowledge we have gained leaves. This is why it is so important that we have the spirit with us all the time. This is also why it is incredibly important that we rekindle the fire that is the testimonies of the people that have lost it so that they can remember their conversion and their testimony and they will be drawn back to the gospel. Our goal is to give them those spiritual experiences again and as we remember and learn about what the Gospel is and about Jesus Christs Atonement then our desire to share it will likewise increase and they will go on to rekindle the testimonies or help others start their own testimonies!
7- Hmm this week was good it is currently -3 and snowing there is probably a foot of fresh powder outside! I am loving it, It got pretty cold this week down to -12 so that was of course awesome! Other than that. Hm a cool experience was teaching a man that only had 1 month to live.. In that moment teaching that man and looking him in the eyes and bearing testimony that there is a life after this life and that he could be with him wife again. I felt like a true minister of Christ. I was able to comfort a man that stood before what for most is the scariest and most unpredictable part of life. He said he was not scared though, all he wanted was the confirmation that his family would be okay. How sweet is that. How wonderful is the gospel and the knowledge that families can be together forever. There are very few greater blessings that compare.
I am excited! Love you have a great week!
-Elder Massé
These are the other 2 elders we live with! There was so much snow outside!
1. How are you?!?! What were the highlights of your week??
2. Have you tried any new foods?3. Is one of your investigators progressing a lot?4. How does it feel to be away from home on Christmas?5. What's something you love about Laval?6. What's a principle of the gospel you've been studying lately?7. Tell me anything!!
