Skip to main content

Montréal

Hey all,

Congrats Boo! I’m so happy you went to the temple. Wish I coulda been there for it, but that’s so cool. The temple’s been a big blessing to me on my mission, so I hope you get to go some more. 

So my week. Soooo crazy. Thursday we flew over to Montréal. Sad to say goodbye to everyone, but we were pretty excited. We arrived and met President Philips and the assistants. The assistants here are Elder Wilson and Elder Newman. Elder Wilson was in the MTC with me, and Elder Newman went to Olympus! So that was pretty cool. They’re both super awesome. Very hard workers. We got straight to work together. 

What we do is we split into two teams in the morning, just rotating who we’re with, and then going out and working. Our area is crazy busy. We’re both normally out teaching most of the day, we get a lot of work done together. We work in one of the English wards, and so we work with a lot of immigrants, which is really fun. The people are so humble and ready, it’s really cool. We have a lot of friends learning right now. 

The ward is also huge. There was a huge rainstorm on Sunday here, it flooded a bunch of the streets, and there were still 200 people at church. (Which is really impressive because almost none of them have cars, they all use public transport.) The elders said it was pretty small, so I’m going to have to readjust to having a big ward. 

Our apartment is a good bit smaller than the one we left behind. It’s kinda fun that way though. I feel like I’m finishing much the same way I started. I was on a top bunk, with my clothes in the broom closet for lack of space, and now I’m back in that top bunk, with clothes in a broom closet. From dust I was made and unto dust shall I return, or something like that. 

We’ve been super busy, and one thing we had was exchanges. Because of the situation we’re in with the quad squad, we have a tricky time figuring out exchanges, because here in Montréal normally one will swap places for the exchange, and both areas will get worked in, but with whichever way you work it out, one of Elder Holman or I would have to lead out an area, so I ended up leading an exchange with one of the zone leaders after being here for like 3 days, but it worked out. We had a good exchange. 

There is a program, it’s called my plan, that you do to prepare to go home. When I finish it I think it has me share it with you, bishop, and the stake president, but I’m not sure. 

I love you all a lot! Sorry if this is a little shorter, but I think I’be gotten busier and busier as time has gone on. Love you,

Elder Marsh 





Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Transfers!!!

Hello!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ellie!!!!! I hope you had a great one!  So yes, I got transfered!! I'm going to Fredericton with Elder Olsen. We're going to be zone leaders, and I'm super excited!! Elder Olsen is one of my favorite elders, so we're going to be having a great time! They closed down Dieppe, so there are only two French areas now, Edmundston and Bathurst. Elder Smith went to Bathurst. The French areas are in New Brunswick, but the majority of the areas are English (like mine).  I had a pretty good week. Deji got baptized!!!!! It was so, so cool. I was one of the elders who found him, and I had a chance to teach him on exchanges. Then Sunday was really good too.  I'm doing really good health wise! I've had no problems. We found someone pretty cool. Her name is Monica, we found her through Facebook. We're going to teach her again tonight.  I liked going to the zoo a lot. We have played Settlers of Catan a lot together, except it...
Post a Comment
Read more

Yes, it was Zone Conference

Salut tout le monde! Sorry that I didn't send that schedule again. I'm surprised they don't post that on the facebook page for all the parents. It's hard for me to remember that when you're not living your life 6 weeks at a time you don't normally keep track of when "week 2" is, so I'm sorry. I'll try to make sure to say in the email the week before anything like that happens.  I'm glad that you had a good week. Women's conference sounds like it was pretty nice. I know what you mean when you talked about having very crazy weeks! Also, I'm super jealous of being able to go see Avengers, even if the ending was bad. I keep seeing posters for it everywhere, and I'm pretty curious as how they made the whole connection to Guardians. But I guess I'll find out in 450ish days. (That gives me chills, agh!) I'm looking forward to  Sunday  too! You guys have church at 10 right? There is a  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ >...
Post a Comment
Read more

Still no snow on my end

Questions we asked: How's it going with Wendy, Jacob and Brendan?  Any new investigators? How's it going with Elder Pitcher? Are you still a ZL? How was your week? Do you have the chance to exercise and play the piano there? Are you brushing and flossing at least twice a day?  What are you thinking career wise? You said that observing your mission presidents had given you insight on that... Hey all, Glad to hear things are going well back home. Funny that you should bring up taxes, there is a YSA member here who just came up from Texas, and during our lesson he kept talking about how ridiculous the taxes are here compared to back in the states. He's originally from here, but he goes to school there and is back while they figure out his visa stuff. He joined the Church down there, going on to show that America is the promised land!  Things are going well on my end. Still no snow, although there's a lot of wind now, and it's getting colder. The ...
Post a Comment
Read more