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Good week

Hey all,

I sent my photos first, I took a hint from you and made sure to send those.

You aren't kidding, you had a busy week! I'm a little jealous of Boo getting to go to JO's, that sounds like a lot of fun. And of course I knew all those players, I played with them, lol. Missing out on the World Cup, I wish I could watch all these games. Thanks for the updates dad, I did get them. For the books, I don't think I'd really reccomend them. I did read them, but I don't really remember them. Maybe they're good, but they sure didn't stand out. I'd love to hear updates about England, tell me all about it. Buckingham Palace and Parliament sound like they're going to be awesome! If you're there, and you happen to come across a John Ablett at church or something, make sure to say hello. He is a missionary here, and he's super awesome. He goes home this next transfer, so you might run into him. 

We had a pretty good week! We had our exchange with Amherst. That's Elder DeBry and Elder Calvert, so it was a lot of fun to be with Miles again. He brought his polo ball, and it was so good just to hold a wp ball again, we threw it back and forth, did some passing. Shawn would have been proud. 

My meeting with President and Sister Low was really cool. They are super awesome, we had some good interviews with them, and we had a testimony meeting with them after. It was really cool. They spoke in church on Sunday too, with was really good! Speaking of Sunday, we had a really good session of church. Magen didn't come, which was too bad, but the Moncton Elders had 4 people to church! It was really awesome! We sat with one of them, Deji. We were with the Moncton Elders when we found him, we were walking into our apartment last week after church, and we met him. He lives two floors up, and the Moncton Elders started teaching him. He's been loving the Gospel, and he absolutely loved church! In addition to Deji, another person the Elders are teaching came, his name is Farhan, and he brought two ladies with him to church! One was a Catholic Evangelist, and wasn't too happy, but the other took a Book of Mormon to start reading!

Who would I stay friends with? Most of them, there's a lot of really awesome people! Most of them are going to BYU, so we'll definitely see each other again. Probably the ones I'm closest with are Elder Smith, Boardman and Carlson. The weird thing is that the majority of these missionaries are probably going to be married by the time I even finish my mission, because so many of them are going home.

There's not a lot of French missionaries, only 9. There is Elder Sawa Sawa, Elder Boardman, Elder Carlson, Elder Olmsted, Elder Smith, Elder Pierson, Elder Surette, Elder Holmen, and me. Elder Holmen was an English missionary who got changed to French. And there are only three French areas, Edmundston, Bathurst, and Dieppe.

I've kinda already told you everything about Magen. (Yeah, that's how she spells it, it actually would make sense to a Canadian, because of how weird they say their A's.) We taught her the law of chastity, so we're making sure she has been keeping it...if she doesn't we're going to stop teaching her. 

Still liking the city and bigger ward. 


There's lots of members, so I don't know exactly what to say about them. They're all really cool, Brother Secord and Brother Parker are both super awesome, they're the ward mission leaders.

There's plenty to do and see, but we only get one sight seeing p-day a transfer, and so we spent the last two at Brother Williams, cooking and playing Settlers of Canaan, a spin off of Catan. It's a lot of fun, the pieces don't move around though, and so you get different strats competing. 

Love you all!

Elder Marsh





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Location: Dieppe, NB, Canada

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