This week was good, we had some good lessons and what not. But it's a bit slow. The people here are really nice but it seems like all the people that we talk to aren't really interested. They talk to us and say they will meet with us, but then they never actually want to do anything. I'm guessing that's pretty normal, but it's a bit frustrating.
We had some cool experiences though, little miracles :) We had contacted this guy in the street and he said he would meet with us again. So we went to his house and met with him and his wife and their absolutely adorable little girl who was just 2 weeks old. She's from Spain and my companion can speak Spanish, or Portugese, but they're pretty much the same, so the lesson ended up being in Spanish because she didn't really speak French (not that it really changes much in what I understand...) anyways, so what happened was her husband is Muslim, but she doesn't believe in anything. For him its really important to believe in something, anything, he didn't care. He just wanted her to believe in something, so he had us come over to get her to believe in something. Crazy eh?!?!?! And she's super open and willing to try anything!! So we are super excited and she has this new baby so she's at home all day! Ah, we're excited to start teaching her!!!
I'm not really sure what else to talk about... Do you really want to hear about the blah, day to day things?? Boring, but okay. So my companion, she's from Calgary, well Airdrie. Her mom is from Honduras and her dad is from Brazil. She did a year of linguistics at the U of C. She lived in Montreal for 4 years when she was younger so her French is really good. She's very nice, she LOVES all things Asian, especially Korean, she's super into all those Korean dramas and stuff like that. Which just makes me laugh! In a good way though, not a bad way! Don't take that wrong. We've started running every morning which is nice and we had exchanges this last week so I took some pictures of workouts from that sister (Koyle). So hopefully I can ... you know... keep eating all this bread... haha.
And for food... ah this is so weird talking about. You seriously want to know about his??? Gah so weird. Okay, we kind of rotate between rice or pasta or soup or chili, with salad and different veggie mixes (just frozen things) its good, some times kind of bland, but good. I really miss my hot sauce!!! I'm going to search for some that I like, we have one but its kind of weird and like this mayonnaise hot sauce. It kind of weird... really weird.
Oh something actually cool. We had dinner at a members house last night, the Dieutre's. They are SO NICE! I really like them. There are 3 kids, the oldest is a guy, 18, then a girl, almost 17, then another girl that is about 14 I think, I forget. The dad reminds me about of my dad, haha. He is just kind of goofy always joking around. He always says phrases in an american accent, so in french but like an american. It is really funny but then it kills me because I know that that's exactly what I sound like. The boy is working on his papers right now, so that's exciting. Oh, and I was just looking on their book case and there was a missionary tag. It said Elder Blosil, and he taught my class at the mtc for a while! So that was kind of fun, we talked about him a bit. They just said he was an amazing missionary, but it was cool to know we both knew him. Anyways...
It feels like winter is over here!!! The days are getting warm, but rainy. So yay for umbrellas.
Missionary question, that I need help with. What do you do when people just don't want to hear, or have what we're sharing as missionaries. I don't know what do do, because it honestly makes me so sad when we are talking with some one and they are so nice and I can just see how much their lives can be blessed, but then they just don't want it.
We had this lesson with a family, they were so nice, just amazing people. The mom is Arab, and she converted to Catholicism. The story was cool, just in that she searched and searched to know God. And her husband too, he seemed really smart and they both had just really really searched for truth, and to understand God. Which is awesome and in my head all I'm thinking is that's awesome, read this book it will build on your knowledge. But when we got to it The mom was open, but the Dad wasn't and it just makes me so sad to see these people who have searched and searched for truth, turn it away. I don't know. How do I deal with that? Cause it's hard, ya know?
Love you all!
Soeur Christensenc
Love you all!
Soeur Christensenc
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