"I want to be a missionary now" :)

Hey everybody!


This week was an interesting week...it was SO HOT! We got a call last Saturday (I think) telling us to take care of ourselves and if we couldn't get our 3 hours of finding in everyday because of the heat, that was OK, they weren't going to get mad at us. Sister Leonard and I thought that that was a little ridiculous and decided we were going to do it anyways, but after our hour of power on Tuesday morning (we go out every morning from 10:45-11:45 to knock doors just to get us out and about first thing in the morning after studies) when we were dripping sweat because it was already 32 degrees C, we decided that we might have to take it a little slower than usual. But we still worked hard and had a wonderful time.


We did mix things up a little this week though...we decided at the last minute that we wanted to do a split with Victoriaville because we had never done one with them before and it would be a good experience for everyone, so Sister Leonard went down with Sister Verdeja and Sister Hamula came up here with me. It was SO much fun, but I'm glad I have the companion that I do right now. Sister Hamula is on her second transfer now and is so much fun, but she's in a French/Spanish area and doesn't speak ANY French. Then Sister Verdeja just got put up there after 4 trasnfers in a Spanish ward, and she doesn't speak any French either. So it was good for Sister Leonard to go down there, introduce her to the people, and help her a bit with her French, and I spent the day up here teaching Sister Hamula how to do a door approach since she said she'd never been able to get past the "Hi, we're missionaries" part. The work we do here and the work they do there is VERY different; they work almost completely with members, and we don't have any members to work with, so we spend most of our time knocking doors. I really enjoy it; Sister Hamula is now really grateful that she's in Victoriaville and not in Quebec. It was pretty fun. And we did a lot that day as well in addition to knocking...we went and heart-attacked Lyse, and she LOVED it. We knew that she was at a meeting for something, so we went while she wasn't there and covered her door in hearts, and she came home and called us and thanked us, saying that it really touched her. She's doing so well....I'm SO excited for her! She's getting baptized THIS SATURDAY!!! She was at church on Sunday and loved it again, like always. All the members were really sweet and were so excited for her baptism. And it's going to be great...there's a temple trip on Saturday and they're all taking a bus down, the bus is getting back at like 7, and then the baptism starts at 7:30, so most of the people are going to stay for that as well. And we have a lot of members that are involved in the baptism, so it should be good. Only problem: she asked me to do a special musical presentation, but I haven't sang in FOREVER, she doesn't care which song I sing, but I have no pianist. So it will be interesting. I'm way excited though :) We're seeing her 3 times this week, and one is to go shopping with her because she wants to buy a new dress to wear on her baptismal day. So cute! :)


Other than that, I can't think of anything too big that happened this last week. We had transfers, but neither of us were changed. We do have a new elder, Elder Bourdon, from France and he's great. He doesn't speak much English, but we all speak French decently well, so it works out all right :) OH! And do celebrate my "hump day" (my 9 month mark), the elders made me cake and bought me a random little present and then cooked lunch for me after district study. It was so cute...I LOVE the elders here! We also had dinner last night with a family from France, the Rodhain's, and they're WONDERFUL. They joined the church about 4 years ago, but their daughter still isn't a member. He's in the stake presidency, and they're just the sweetest couple. They live FAR, but they love having us over, so we go over about once a transfer (only us...they said they prefer sisters to elders, haha). They called us this morning to thank us again for coming over and said what a joy it was to have us there and how we really are servants in the Lord's hands in helping them. It was sweet. We also helped Sister Laflamme paint her house (Mom, all the painting I did with you last summer paid off i guess :) ) and it was really fun. So it was a great week overall :)


Then this week looks like it will be good. We're helping Sister Laflamme again tonight, and then tomorrow evening we have a relief Society activity, and we've been asked to prepare the lesson on exactly how the sisters in our ward can help us the missionaries, so we've put together a little thing for that. Then there's the baptism, and we're hoping to get our less active neighbor to help us make a chocolate cake for it (she makes the best chocolate cake ever, and that's Lyse's favorite dessert). Then on Sunday after church another one of our members is teaching us how to make empanadas, and I'm way excited about that. Plus we're teaching Lyse a couple of times and then we have lots of finding time left over...it should be really great...i'm excited!


but anyways, i hope that all is going well for each of you back home and that you have a wonderful week! I love you tons! Thank you for all your support and letters :)


Love, Sister Nicole Lindsey