Week two in Brampton

Well, well, well... looks like I have made it through another week here in Canada! Looking back on the week it feels like it has been kinda boring. It doesn't feel like anything too exciting has happened!

I just found out that one of my investigators from Guelph, Egigu, was baptized Sunday!! Sad I wasn't there, but awesome that he was able to take that next step in his life. He was a guy we met on the bus and the first day we taught him we invited him to be baptized and he said yes. People really are so prepared. They just don't know it yet and that is why it is so important to talk with everyone!

We had an investigator come to church! She really loved it and we are looking forward to seeing her progress!

 This week some members gave us these Canada mittens!

I have been wanting some since I got here, so it was great that they just gifted us some they never use! Now I will have some nice mittens come next winter! (or to use now if it never warms up!)

Speaking of the weather.. Thursday was HOT! That was the first time I have really felt the humidity and let's just say there is no way I am going to survive the summer. It wasn't even that warm and I was dying.... I am not prepared for what is coming our way. It was so hot Thursday and then snowed Sunday. This weather really needs to make up its mind!

I really am learning so much and am amazed everyday about the stuff that I can now do that I couldn't do before. Like just having a conversation about religion and not being nervous about what to say... That seems like a small thing but when I first got here I couldn't say anything and now I can carry on conversations and hold my own. It really is just a lot of progress and I know that this is an experience that will help me in so many ways and it is just such a short amount of time so I really need to enjoy every second of it.

 Okay so I really don't have much more for this week! I will attempt and be better next week! Things are going well, I can't believe that it is already week 3 of the transfer! Time really does fly sometimes! :)

Busy Week :)

Well a lot has happened since I last got to email home. About 5 minutes after sending that email we got a phone call from the AP's saying that they had needed to do an emergency transfer so we would be getting another companion.  So we drove to Brampton and waited in the office until the other companionship showed up. 

(Related: the AP's know most all of the missionaries that have came from Morgan and while we were talking they said that I give off the same "Morgan vibe" like Elder Prochnow.   I am going to take it as a compliment. There just must be something different about us Morgan people!) 

Sisters - Prescott, Tuia, DeRuvo

So we got our new companion, her name is Sister DeRuvo, she is from Italy and after a week of knowing her I already feel like we are best friends. She is FANTASTIC. So funny and talkative and a really great missionary. I think it has been a really great blessing having her. Unfortunately transfers are in a week and I bet we will all be separated :( but at least it has been a really fun 2 weeks.

At the Toronto Temple

Saturday we were able to go to the Temple in Brampton! It was so great! The only bad part is that we had to wake up at 3am to leave by 4am to get there at 5:30am for our session that was at 6am.   Needless to say we were a little tired, but it was so good to be able to go to the temple and be with other missionaries and really feel the Spirit. Never take the Temple for granted, especially all of us Uta

hns, it is an incredible blessing that SO many temples are SO close to us at all times.

We witnessed a serious miracle this week and that came through this kid named Paul. We met Paul through a member and he has some SERIOUS addictions that he is trying to give up. He has a ton of faith and it working hard to get through them he is just struggling. As we all know ,addictions of any kind are hard and so he is just trying to get through so that he can be free. Anyway, Paul had told us and other people more than once that there is no way that he will give up smoking weed. He said he wanted to give up alcohol and hard drugs, but he didn't see how weed was bad. So we went to a lesson with him Thursday at the church with the full intention of dropping him because we can't help him to change if he doesn't want to change. The second I saw him I knew things were different today, and I knew that we couldn't drop him. My feelings were right because as we started talking, he said he had just met with his doctor and she told him that they weed is in fact harmful to him, and that he really needs to consider giving it up because it is slowly killing him.  So.... Paul went from a kid who was NEVER going to give up smoking, to seeing that it is something that is harming him and he was considering it and saying that it is something he needs to do. I wanted to jump out of my seat and do a small victory dance. Seeing someone experience that little bit of change and want to be different is incredible! The lesson was really good that day. Paul was able to feel the Spirit and see that this is something that he wants. We are going to keep working with him and keep helping him. We know that he can overcome this, it is just getting him to see his potential and then to seek help from the Lord and other sources to really get through it. He is an awesome guy and we are hoping for the best for him.

Easter was good! We had 2 investigators come to church and all of the talks on the atonement were perfect for them to hear. We were able to eat Easter Dinner at a members house.

We met with a man named Egigu this week and by the end of our second meeting he was saying he wanted to be baptized. He is SO prepared. He came to church Sunday,  stayed for a baptism that took place after church, and asked us yesterday if he could move up the baptism we had already set for him. He is from Africa and is a really cool guy. We met him on the bus and he really is just so prepared. I will keep you all updated on that. 

District Meeting 

All I can say is it is just really fun to teach people and see them change and grow and love what they are hearing. The Restored Gospel really can and does change lives. These people just need to be given the opportunity to hear it! :)  Well this will be kind of short for today so I can get a chance to upload some pictures!  Have a great week! :)