What a crazy week....

Hey everyone :)

This past week was a bit insane...fun, but a little crazy. It started out on p-day last Monday when we had to take our car in to the garage for a recall on the power steering. We ended up spending all day there and then finally taking a shuttle back to the mission office when they realized our car wouldn`t be finished in time and they gave us a new one. We ended up having to cancel our appointments for that night and went grocery shopping instead. ON arriving back at our house, arms full of groceries, I realized that I had given ALL my keys (house keys included) to the guy at the garage so he could fix the car. So we had no way to get into our house. We met our next-door neighbor and asked her for the landlord`s phone number to see if he had a spare key and while she was getting it, i dropped our car keys down her stairwell which was completely fenced off to keep her dog from escaping. So we had to remove the fence and I had to dig through about 10 years worth of cobwebs to get our keys, she got the phone number, and the landlord wasn`t home. So we sat in our stairwell for a good 45 minutes calling everyone we could think of who might have a spare key and finally Elder Kite (one of the senior couples here) called the mission home and then called us and said we had to drive to the mission home as quickly as possible because we were having a sleepover there and they were expecting us. We were a little nervous at first, showing up at 9:30 at night still in our p-day clothes after having forgotten our keys, but the Cannon`s were SO sweet about it and fed us dinner and got everything they could for us for the evening. It was fun to get to talk to them for a little while one-on-one as well. Then the next morning we got up and got ready for interviews. We didn`t have a change of clothes, so we ran to concordia`s apartment (the YSA sisters) and they let us borrow skirts, but we were still in shirts and flip-flops, but the Cannon`s thought it was great. Interviews were wonderful and we got our car right afterwards. However, it took us 2 hours to drive and get our car (the shuttle was supposed to pick us up, but it left without us and without telling us it had left) so a set of elders drove us over there. That did make us an hour late for our DA that day, but luckily the family was really nice about it. Then that pattern continued through the rest of the week as we were late to almost every appointment, couldn`t find membesr to come with us to save our lives, and arrived home after curfew almost every day. It was so insane. But it did turn out well!

We ended up going to Lilian`s house and talking to her and she is doing SO WELL. We`re planning her baptism for the 25 of September...we`re so excited! It`s going to be great. Then we also met another guy, Gary, taught him and had one of those miracle lessons where everything went perfectly. He was asking US when he could be baptized and what he had to do, so we`re planning his baptism for the end of this month/beginning of next as well. It`s great.

Then yesterday was a miracle Monday. Everything was closed so grocery shopping was impossible, but it turned out fine. We had a Dinner Appointment (DA) with a nice old man in our ward who recently moved here from Laval and he fed us SO MUCH. Luckily, we had 2 elders who came with us to help us eat. But it was this dish from Spain that has a lot of rice and then all kinds of seafood in it. I`m not a huge seafood fan, and the first thing I pulled out was a piece of calamari, tentacles and all. He was watching, so I had to stuff it in my mouth. Not my favorite, but I ate it all, even had seconds, and he was very pleased. He did ask us questions though about church history (a little quiz almost) and he decided I didn`t really know anything. He asked me about the dead sea scrolls (dead sea is said "mer mort") and I thought he said "marmotte" which is a little groundhog like animal and I was SO confused...it was pretty funny. Then after that we received a call from someone we had met on the metro the other day who we had given our card to and she wants to meat with us tomorrow. SO EXCITING! That NEVER happens! Then we had an INCREDIBLE lesson with Marie Sandra. We went in thinking we`d watch the Restoration DVD' but ended up doing Gospel of Jesus Christ and focusing on how the Book of Mormon really testifies of Christ, and then we asked her to be baptized, and she wants to be! So we`re going to work on that with her. I`m so excited...it realyl has been a great week. But anyways, I hope you all are doing well...I love you all tons!

Love, Nicole

PS: Happy birthday Dad! I love you!! :)