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Canada Day

Hey everybody! 

I'm glad to hear that Girl's Camp was such a success! It's really weird for me to think that this year's already past the halfway mark. It's going by too fast! Don't scare me by talking about summer jobs. 

Also, I'm jealous of missing dad's lesson. I really love the stories of David, Jonathan and Saul! I think Jonathan is probably one of the greatest examples in the Old Testament of righteousness and loyalty. Would have been nice to talk about it!

I've been loving the warm weather. It's been so nice. This whole week is supposed to be quite hot! The bugs are definitely out though. It's almost like a lose-lose, you can either choose freezing cold weather or actually nice, with a lot of bugs! (Think I still prefer the summer though.) 

This week's been pretty good! We had a busy week, lots of work. We've met quite a few of really cool less actives this week that we've started working with, because they're working towards going back to the temple. One of them is Sister Comeau, she's this super sweet lady who just lost her husband only 16 days ago. She's been having a really rough time, and we were able to give her a blessing. 

Another one we've met is Sister Chapel. She was baptized a couple years ago, and she wants to come back to church! She just moved by our investigator Magen. 

And then the last one we met was Loyd. He is married to a non member, but they are super sweet! We worked doing some family history with them, and are going to try helping them come back to church! 

But other than that, we did lots of finding. We don't have a lot of people to teach right now, and we really only want to teach people who really intend on learning the Gospel.

Best moments so far? Being a witness to the Dyvrandes sealing. Going to Saint-Pierre. Serving with my companions. Alexandre's baptism. Some Priesthood blessings. Meeting the members here. There's been a lot of cool experiences here. 

Canada Day was a huge let down!!!!! There were like no celebrations. I saw one Canadian flag, and there weren't even any fireworks. It was lame! On Monday we had a fun BBQ for Canada Day. But other than that there was nothing. 

I'm going to be meeting Pres. Low and Sister Low on Saturday! Looking forward to that! There haven't been any changes that affect me yet. He's moved MLC (Mission Leadership Conference) to the first week of the transfer, aside from the changes to PMG (Preach My Gospel), there've been no other changes yet. 

With French, I speak it quite a bit, but the majority of people speak English. I'm not fluent. Not yet, but I'm not bad at it. I really like French. Definitely going to keep speaking it and practicing! 

I love you guys! Have fun tomorrow for the 4th of July!! Here's a photo of how to speak New Brunswickese. There's a bunch of funny little things people say or do or that happen in Canada. It's pretty fun! I also took a photo of Brother Williams, he's one of the members here, and he's awesome! 

Love you all! 
Elder Marsh




Robbie didn't send these following pics, but I found them on his Google Photo Sharing:




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