New game in Sherbrooke- July 29, 2013

haha dang it!!!! Yeah maybe we'll have to wait on the home made rolls.

Hello!!! This is Elder Murphy speaking (Austin). First, i don't think anyone told me about Jamie getting married! Obviously thats okay, but thats awesome!! Way to go!

And thanks for reminding me about sending you the Clarkes email. I dont have it with me, but ill send it next week. 

ANSWERS:

So! Sherbrooke and Elder Hardy are wonderful. Sherbrooke is a bigger city (compared to Mont St-Hilaire) and has 2 universities really close, so many of the housing we've been knocking has been highly populated with students (or the lack thereof, because they're all on break). Its a French city, but a good percentage of the population speak english. We're the Sherbrooke Est team since theres another pair of Elders here, and we work alot on the south side of the river. Its a very pretty city. Very hilly and many many trees. 

  The ward is in French, but pretty closer to bilingual actually. One sacrament prayer was done in French, and the other in English, then the announcements in Priesthood were done in both languages to make sure everyone understood. Pretty cool! The ward is awesome, it was about 80 who were there this Sunday, and they had 3 of us missionaries bear testimonies, and then they took our picture and put it up on the wall hah so that everyone can know who we are. The ward mission leader and bishop seem great, so we`ll be learning how to work with them. 

   My companion! Elder Hardy! From Spokane Washington. Hes great. He is a quiet guy, and very sincere. Its great to be with him to see how he works. But Im seeming to understand now what actually ''training'' means. Its pretty tiring, and Im getting sick so that's not good. He loves to sing (and is very good at it) and has 5 siblings as well! He really likes PB&Honey sandwiches. And hes getting more and more confident with french every day. 

  President Patrick is moving stuff, but taking time which is good. I definitely dont see too much of it now, but Im sure Ill be seeing it in the future. Ill tell you once we see stuff. 

Love you all! The last elders who were here left nothing for us to know about the area, so we've been learning a lot hah. There wasn't really any real investigators they were teaching, so we're starting over. We found some so far, so we're hoping to keep going with that. But its been a lot of knocking so far, but now we have a better idea of people we can visit, since the Bishop gave us a couple of names. And we set up 2 dinner appointments at church, so its looking up. 

Quick funny story! We were knocking out in Lennoxville, and we ran into this living for college students, and six of them were chatting outside, so we went up to them. They said that we were welcome to come in and discuss with them, ('discuss what?'  'anything. thats all we do') and so we told them who we are, and so one guy decided to 'discuss' to us how terrible Christianity and our church are. I won't go into it, but it was a very week discussion, since he didnt want to hear anything we say, and it threw the other college age students out of a loop. Hah it was really weird. He was crazy! So we declined the invitation, and continued on our way. 

You are the best!

Love,
Elder Austin Murphy

P.S. We knocked Durham street the second day in Sherbrooke, because I saw the name on the map!

And, here's my companion and I.