Hello everybody!
This week has been CRAZY...there has been so much to do! We tried to focus just on the work, but it was a bit difficult with Sister Pearson already knowing that she`s leaving and having to organize everything for that and for her tour around Quebec when her parents come to pick her up. But at least it`s given us a bit of time to make sure that I have copies of all her pros helps and anything else I might need from her. So...transfer calls came on Saturday night and they have a tradition up here in Quebec of having all the companionships in the city get together and have a little "party" of sorts while we wait for the transfer call and that way the Assistants only have to call one person and just talk to everyone at the same time. So we were sitting at the Institute on Saturday night with Elder Zaldivar and Elder Magre waiting for the zone leaders to show up and I got a call from Prseident McKinnon. He started off by saying that they were transferring my companion (such a shock :) ) and that I had every right to be nervous for transfers (I guess Sister Pearson or someone told him I was slightly concerned...i don't remember mentioning it in interviews) because the rumors were right...I'm training. There are 4 sisters coming in this transfer so I don't know which one I'm getting yet, but only one of them spoke French before the MTC and she's going Spanish speaking. So it will be interesting...I haven't even been out 6 months yet and I'm training already! In a completely French area where I don't understand the accent AT ALL with someone who only knows MTC French. It will be interesting, that's for sure. But I'm excited...there are always miracles when a greenie is in the area, and there are going to be 4 in our zone next transfer (one elder, the girl I'm training, one girl who came last transfer, and then Sister Orozco's taking on another greenie) so our zone is going to be AMAZING! I'm excited for that :) And I'll let you know all about my new companion next week after I meet her.
But as for the rest of last week....it was really fun! For p-day last Monday we didn't do too much...we wanted to go to the Ice Hotel, but then the elders decided they didn't have money to go last week so instead we're going today since it's the new month and we have more money. I'm excited for it :) Instead, we watched the Emma Smith movie...it was good to see her side of it, but I didn't really like it that much...the Joseph Smith one is definitely better. But there are some really cute scenes in it that you don't see in the Joseph Smith movie. So that was fun :) We also taught Robin on Tuesday and that went well...we're hopefully going to see him again tomorrow. We also taught Patrick twice AND he came to church! it was SO exciting to have him there finally and the lessons were perfect for him...it was wonderful :) I just hope things work out this week...We taught him Word of Wisdom which he was great with...he LOVED the blessings from it. Then on Friday we taught him Law of Chastity and THAT was an interesting lesson. We had planned it all out and really needed to teach it to him since he was planning on getting baptized like this week (I think that's since changed, but we haven't really discussed it with him yet...) so we go to the lesson and he'd invited 2 other friends to come and sit in....not the ideal first lesson. But both friends are meeting with us again next Friday, and Patrick said he'd live both WOW and Law of Chastity, so that was exciting :) But then yesterday at church he started to tell Sister Pearson something about changing his baptism since he didn't realize he'd actually have to LIVE that law before he got baptized...so we're meeting with him again this afternoon and we'll see what happens. He has to get baptized though...he knows it's true, he LOVES the Book of Mormon, and he is ready...he just needs to have the faith and know that God will give him the strength he needs to live through any trial. So it'll turn out :)
Oh, and I think the highlight of this week was definitely our district study on Wednesday. So for background real quick: each night our district leader (Elder Zaldivar) calls us and asks us how our day went and some other questions and about a week ago he started asking random questions like what our favorite food is and favorite color is and if we could be any thing what would it be and things like that. So we gave him the asnwers, not thinking anything of it. Then on Sunday they asked us about funeral potatoes and we were a bit confused, and then on Monday they explained that they were doing a big transfer party on Saturday as a surprise for the zone leaders and it was supposed to be a surprise for us, but they weren't creative enough so they needed our help in deciding what to do. So we gave them some ideas and that it was really neat that they had decided to come and ask for our help :) THEN on Wednesday we show up for district study (a little bit late...it took a little while to do our make-up :) ) and we walk in to the institute and elder Magre is there with his hair parted and everything and in a 3 piece suit with a black tie and he told us we were doing the study in the chapel. So we walk in and Elder Pearson is handing out programs to the funeral of Sister Pearson (when a missionary goes home, it's termed as "dying" for anyone who didn't know) and the senior couple was there, everyone was in black with black ties, there were roses at the front and a picture of Sister Pearson, and it was done SO well! They had an obituary and everyone was pretending to cry and we each went up and said some of our thoughts about Sister Pearson and then they ended with a DVD they had made of pictures representing Sister Pearson's "mission life". It was amazing; I'll have to send pictures sometime. they did such a good job with it! And it was really funny because in the obituary, they used every single one of the random questions they had asked us the week before...it was incredible. We had such a great time :)
Then our transfer party was really fun too...We took our dinner break at 7 and went up there and met up with the elders. Elder Magre had the idea that each of us should bring 3 random things from our apartments and we'd all put them on a table, divide into teams, and pick 3 things and make a game out of it and then we'd each play each others games. So we split into 2 teams (seniors vs. juniors, like always). My team was me, elder Magre, and Elder Williams and we had 8 boxes of those valentine's day conversation hearts (Sister Pearson had gotten a package that morning from her mom with those in there and we couldn't eat them all ourselves), a typewriter, a bag of beach toys, and a half-deflated beach ball. So we made up this game that was a mix of skittles bowling (where each color heart has a different thing attached to it, ie: use your head, on your knees, eyes closed, etc) and kickball, but instead of bases, you had to run to a beach toy that contained candy hearts, pick a heart and read it, another team mate would type that on the typewriter, and the other team would try and tag the person out with the ball, but once you were holding the ball you couldn't move and since it was mostly deflated, you could barely throw it. Then whoever had the most hearts typed at the end won. it was pretty fun. the other team had this competition where you had to put finger puppets on the hands of a team member, tie a paintbrush to their head using string, use an ab slide to go down and dip your paintbrush in the paint and then write your initials on a piece of paper. Each team member had to do it and they timed us against their team. it was pretty fun as well :) We had SUCH a great time.
So all in all it was a wonderful week :) Finding suffered slightly which means that my greenie and I will have to work a little harder this next week, but it'll turn out well. I hope all is going well with each of you! Love you all tons!!
Love, Sister Lindsey
PS: CONGRATULATIONS on your baptism THEO!!! I'm SO excited for you :)
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