Alyseeeee! Happy birthday my sista. The 12th was super crazy for us. It was officially the first day I've seen snow here in Quebec. It started snowing during studies in the morning, and just very lightly snowed throughout the rest of the day. Very odd hah.
Murph tore his ACL? Hahah was he Murph-attacking someone to hard?
I'm proud of Bethany for beating Uni! Good job sis.
Hah yay questions! Cole: 1) No, I've only been really 'cold' twice. It's actually a super nice autumn here. I'd love to come back to Mont Saint Hilaire every fall. 2) No, I have not taught any Eskimo's yet. 3) No, I haven't watched TV since May 28, except for conference.
Dad: 1) Well we teach in French and English frequently, but I haven't taught a spanish lesson since Elder Umana got here, because he was nice and said we should just teach French when they can speak it so I can contribute. So I'm happy about it, but the Spanish will be probably prosponed for another time. Ummm, this week was tough, we had 6 lessons total. Everyone canceled on us, basically, so we had a couple of short lessons at the door or things like that, but this week was a big dip for us. The investigators with the most lessons would be Oscar. He's awesome, a single dad from Mexico. He's just super scared to be baptized. So this week, we're hammering in on that. I've taught him about 10 or 11 times, in big or smaller lessons, and he's really had a big change of heart from his first lesson, but he's just a little scared right now. So this week is really going to be fun.
Bethany: (You). It's only snowed once (on Alyse's bday) but it was very very light. Hah I don't try to speak Quebecois. It still makes me laugh whenever has a really heavy accent. In fact, one thing we've been noticing, is how in Quebec everyone rolls their r's like in Spanish, unless the r is at the end of the word, then they do the normal french r. So it's very confusing, and very silly to listen to. It's just a very lazy language. Nope! Mont St Hilaire has no subways. Transfer calls are on Saturday (scary!!!!!). P-days, we've actually basically been cleaning all day. I'm sure mom will be happy about that. the apartment is super clean now.
Okay! Well, this week was sad, basically every real investigator we have canceled every appointment we had this week, so a little disappointing, but we got to have a lot of fun knocking. One door was super sad though, we got out-niced. He was SO NICE but just said he wasn't interested with this HUGE smile, and bowed to us softly, and had the quietest voice. We didn't know what to do. haha He was just so nice. Sadness!
So we were kind of bummed this week, because we had almost nothing. But, we kept praying and trying to stay positive which was fun. And so when no one came to church either, that was sad. But then at the end of sacrament meeting, Maxime (the ward missionary leader) said 'hey come over here, I have somebody for you to meet.' Soooo we walked over, and this man basically said 'hi, I just moved to Mont Saint Hilaire, and the missionaries have taught me before, and I'm interested, and my family is too, so when can you come over to teach us?'
Whuaaaaaaat??? He was like an angel. Man, it was just a miracle. So, obviously, we were pretty excited after that. We're pretty excited to go over there and start teaching their family.
One thing I read this week which really touched me was in the Institute manual for the Book of Mormon, under the sectin of Moroni's promise. He told of his experience first praying to know if the Book of Mormon was true or not, and (I don't have it with me) but he said something like, if I was expecting a miraculous overwhelming experience, it certainly didn't happen. It was just a peace, and he could see his faith starting to grow. That was so awesome to read. Because for me, I feel like I expect that too (even though the thousands of times I've heard not to do that). But still! But then when I read that, a true sense of peace came to my mind, that the testimony that I have is enough, because I know that my faith in God has been built and sustained and reinforced by the prophets in the Book of Mormon, and I know that book is from God. And that's what we're sharing here. I'm super grateful for that quote, and I think it's very applicable to anyone who's wondering about their testimony of the Book of Mormon, because it certainly helped me understand what that really means.
Well! Don't have time! Love you! hope all is well! You guys are the best! Bye.
Elder Austin Keith Murphy
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