Elder Robbie Marsh

Wow, hello everybody! This last week's been absolutely crazy. First off, I'm getting transferred to Bathurst, I'll be serving with Elder Boardman, he's from Holladay too, we're super excited! I was also called to be the French district leader, so I'll be working on training for the French missionaries too. Really looking forward to it! Second off, the French temple trip. Holy cow, best part of my life. Long story though. To start, Elder Greenburg and I had to drive separately from the other missionaries. They were taking two members, Anik and Renaud, to Mirimichi, where they met more members there to take the members the rest of the way. They picked up Elder Boardman there as well, and came the rest of the way down. On the other hand, Elder Greenburg and I went to Fredericton, picked up Sister King and her harp, and drove with her all the way to Halifax. When we got to Truro, we got this HUGE storm. It was absolutely crazy, people were sliding off t...

Good Morning America! (Or Canada. or Vietnam. Guess it depends on where you live, or if you're old enough for that joke.) Man, do I miss basketball and football. Super excited to hear some more details! I didn't even realize that the PAC 12 playoffs are starting. Not only that, March Madness is going to be getting going too. Hopefully the Utes will follow the pattern and play their best basketball while there's a Marsh on a mission. Also super excited to hear about the spring football starting. Posters look sick for Boo's campaign. I'd vote for him. Especially if the Rock, Thor, and Will Smith are. They must know how to vote, so I should do the same! And his hair is real! Obvious choice. Hope you kill it Boo. It sounds like you've had a super fun week though. The RootsTech sounds like it was super awesome. We have had a chance to watch just a little bit of it here, and it looks like there have been a lot of really cool speakers. Miss the Polo...

The subject line is because I told him in no uncertain terms that cliffhanger sentences like the one in his last email were unacceptable. 😂 Hey all,         Happy anniverary mom and dad! Glad to hear that you liked the movie. I heard from some members that it was really good, but it was too much like the other Marvel movies.         Still haven't gotten my package. Haven't had a chance to see the Caribou Elders, so it's taking it's time. It's normally just better to send stuff to Erich, because it's super easy to get my stuff. Only problem is that I don't know if I'll be here next transfer or not...hehe.        One thing that was pretty weird is how crazy the temperature has been this last week. We literally went from wearing no coats, I was sweating in my sweater, and then the very next day we go back to absolutely freezing and snowing. It really sucks, because it melts the snow and leaves a ton of water, an...

Hey everyone! Good to hear that you had a good birthday mom! It was definitely weird to see the picture of everyone eating Valentines crepes, and to see that Dad's in my spot. It was definitely easier to enjoy cool dinners when I wasn't making them. I normally cook for everyone, which is pretty fun, but it chews up my dinner time. I sure appreciete cooking time more mom. For our Valentines day, I made a Tollhouse pie, and brought it to district meeting. Everyone loved it. Also made the Broccoli Chicken Casserole today. (Also, don't remember or not if you sent me the recipe for the roast you would always make back home, but because I can spend a little bit more time on p day making food, I like making something better today. Maybe for another pday?) We got our smartphones!!! Currently I am writing this email from my new phone! I got some pictures of all of us emailing. It's pretty cool! We have a lot more chances to talk to and communicate with people, it...

Hey everyone, Happy Birthday Mom! It has been pretty crazy that so far every single birthday has been on my p-day. What a miracle is that. Hope you enjoy some Olympics for me. I saw just a sneak peak of the opening ceremonies at a members house, it looked like some kinda tiger thing. Kinda jealous of Peter, because right now he's helping out at the Olympics, which would be super cool.  Ward party sounds like it was a blast. I guess I don't get the "tradition" behind the "fiddler on the roof" thing, but it sounds pretty funny. The following Sacrament meeting sounds like it was really cool too, Elder Owens is pretty cool.  Man, I miss basketball. Is it possible to get any updates on games and scores? Sometimes I feel like a lone Utah man surrounded by the lone and dreary updates of BYU fans. Haha, I actually enjoy their updates, but I'm missing the true light. But it sounds like Boo's having fun. What happened to Ben being Samantha's bo...

Hey everyone!  Couple quick updates from my end. One of the members in Caribou is a dentist, and used to do checkups for the missionaries, haven't talked to him about it yet, but he'd probably be down. Probably won't need the exercise equipment. My money's doing fine, I haven't really needed to buy much of anything, and I have plenty on the mission card to buy groceries. We could probably buy the meat. I think one of the greatest things that the mission has taught me is how much food we really had, and how easy it would have been to fix it. I seem to remember complaining about how we never had anything to eat. I've definitely have gotten more creative with food. We get by quite easily with the food we have. The only things that suck to buy here are eggs and milk, which are ridiculously overpriced. You can buy 60 eggs in the states for like 12 bucks, and 18 in Canada for 6. Just goes to show that America really is the land of the free. Been healthy. No colds....

Bonjour encore! Soooo, didn't get a weekly from home as of yet, so I guess I'll try to finish answering questions from last week.          Elder Greenburg's awesome! I've been getting along great with him. He was actually assigned English speaking, but after serving in Bathurst with Elder Carlson, he started learning french, and President Pratt has let him keep it up. He actually served with Elder Debry as well, which is pretty cool. Some things that are awesome about him: He has a crazy good mind for the scriptures, he has them practically memorized after reading them a couple times, (Not John Quist status, but he could definitely achieve it) he's very diligent, he works really hard at whatever he does, and he has an impeccable yoda impersonation. Listening to yoda read the scriptures is some of the funniest stuff I've ever heard.          Elder Pierson's pretty awesome too! He's very organized, and he really likes to clean,...

This week's email is mostly answers to questions. Here are the questions: How much service do you guys do, and what do you usually do? How are your investigators progressing? You never sent an update about that family, are you still teaching them?  How are you getting along with Elder Greenburg? What are the best things about him? And what are the best things about Elder Piersen?  Is Edmunston still the promised land of the mission? Why can't you guys meet with more than six missionaries on p-day? Can you still do sports? Can you believe you're coming up on six months? What have you learned in your phone training? What are the blessing of missionary work that we as members overlook or take for granted? What will you do differently when you are just a member missionary again? What was the highlight of your week? The hardest thing? Do you need us to send exercise bands or anything so you can still work out in the mornings? He didn't get to all of them, hope...

Hey everybody!         Man, sounds like everything's going good back home! Super jealous of you guys. I KNEW you guys were going to go on another trip. I'm jealous. Yes, I definitely want to hear the details. So jealous. It's cool that the Barnes are coming over again for the spring. (We told him that we booked plane tickets to England for next summer, and that our friends from England might come visit here.)          Also, it's really warmed up! The sun's come out too, it's actually been a very pretty day. Yesterday we were talking about how it was only 0˚C, and it's going to get hotter! Pretty happy about that one.          Like you said, we had Zone Conference yesterday, and we talked a lot about the technology rules we're going to have. Pretty crazy stuff, some new changes, but none of that will matter quite yet. Like you said, I heard that the office got my phone, so that's all good and taken care of....

Hey all, Hope you all had a Happy New Year. We went over to the Pitre's home for New Year for lunch with them, and that was a blast. They are super awesome. We also played pishnoush with them, it's this super fun game where you flick your pishnut at your color and try to get all of yours in first. Brother Pitre is insanely good. He schooled all of us fast, and then we started playing partners. Elder Smith and I almost beat him and his son, who just stopped by while we were there. I think we have a picture of that, so I'll try to send you it when I get back to the apartment.  Not going to lie, some 40 degree weather would be really nice right now. It has been bitter over the last few days. Because it's so cold (it's been -20's C, I think that's like -2 F) we are only supposed to be outdoors for 20 minutes at a time. However, we are still outdoors a lot. Whenever we are out finding, we try to ask people if we can come in to speak with them, and it's...

Hello everybody! I have a couple questions this week. First, did you read what Boo wrote on the Christmas card? (Liked the picture by the way.) If so, why on earth would you send that to me?  I don't appreciate the spoilers. Because now if they are real, then I already know and I really didn't want that spoiled, and if they're not true, then if you email me and tell me they're not true, that would actually spoil the movie! It's a lose-lose situation for me. I guess the best I can do is hope Boo enjoys the pain and suffering he has caused me, that scruffy little nerf herder. (Joey wrote some fake Star Wars spoilers...we wrote back so Robbie knows the card was sent before the movie even came out 😉). Second, where is Bro. Hyde going on his mission?!?!?! That's an awful cliffhanger! (This is a couple in our ward, I thought I had already told Robbie this news...they are called as the secretary and assistant secretary to the Asia Area Presidency.) Anyway,...

Hello again from Canada!        These last couple of days have been crazy, we've gotten tons of snow! Over the last tree days I would guess we've gotten a foot, it's insane how crazy it's been coming down. To top it off, we had Christmas conference yesterday, so we were driving home in the storm. Got home safe, we didn't have any problems, but it was crazy how fast it happened.         Christmas conference was awesome though. It was divided into two parts, a more spiritual and a more fun bit. Kind of made me think about the Marsh family party, except backwards.  We sang some carols, had a gift exchange, ate lunch together, and had some musical numbers. It was fun!  I was in charge of arranging the music for it, and it went really well. We had a couple districts sing hymns, we had a sister play the harp, which sounded awesome, we had a piano solo by another missionary, Elder Harris, and there was a duo with piano and cello tha...

Hi all, Hope you have all been having a good week. It's been pretty crazy for us, so I'll fill in what I can:         After emailing last, we had an exchange with Caribou, and were there  Wednesday . They hadn't checked the mail to see if they had a package slip, turns out they did, but I wasn't able to get it then. Then we had a pretty busy day  on Thursday , working in Grand Falls, we have a couple investigators there who are pretty awesome. One of them, Philip, is SO close to being baptized. All he has to do is come to church and drop his girlfriend, who he doesn't even like, and it's agonizing that it's not happening faster!  Friday  and  Saturday  we had the French temple trip, which was awesome! We did two endowment sessions in French, and had a devotional afterwards. I played a musical number for that, O Come O Come Emmanuel, and it went ok. Drove home  Saturday , and then had  Sunday  and  Monday ...