Hello!
This week has been super great, but it’s always so hard for me to remember
everything...first of all; I’m so blessed to have such a great auntie living so
close by! I got some tights to protect me from the cold Canadian wind :) I also
bought some boots. They’re really cute haha!
We had zone conference on Tuesday and it was so good! I loved being
spiritually nourished and enlightened with the missionaries in my zone and a
couple zones around me. My mission Pres. and his wife are so sweet, caring, and
hard-working! They want this to be the very best mission in the world! We also
had a mission wide fast. It was humbling to give up something to benefit
others, to find people to teach, and to strengthen our investigators!
On Saturday, we did the food drive! Apparently, it’s the biggest food
drive in Canada! It was insane! The missionaries were all at the chapel
unloading cars- I wish I took a picture! We would have about 15 cars at a time
being unloaded! We filled 3 huge 18 wheeler trucks full of food! They say that
we collect around 1 million dollars’ worth of food every year. This one
collection sets them up right until Christmas! It was so crazy to be a part of
something like that! haha When we were getting everything ready, we were
setting up all these boxes ( that could probably fit 5 men in them) and we were
challenged to try and stack them as high as we could! We called it the tower of
babel haha- I’ll try to send some pics!
later that night we also went to a member's little girl's birthday party
haha- that’s why you may have gotten a picture from that mom... it was nice :)
there were a couple non-members there we got to talk to!
Yesterday, we taught in YW about keeping the Sabbath day holy. It was
really awesome how a lot of the times preparing for a lesson, you learn so much
for yourself! I'm going to try and recommit myself to setting Sunday aside to
reflect upon the Saviour more fully! It can actually be kinda hard to do this
sometimes because Sunday often ends up being out busiest day! It’s important
for me to remember that it is a day of rest. Not necessarily physically, but
always spiritually :)
Funny thing happened last night actually! our dinner canceled before
church (by the way mom, we’re being fed every night, don’t you worry haha) and
so we were really hoping we would get a dinner for that night- and we
communicated this to our ward mission leader- who is awesome by the way. So we
took our calendar and at the end of church it had a name on it! We were so
excited! So I called the family and left a message asking when they wanted us
to come over and thanking them for saving us!... she called back and said
neither she or her husband put their names on the calendar........ awkward...
haha someone else signed them up! But they were happy to have us over anyways
and it was really great haha!
Oh yeah! I also got my visa! I’ll be heading to Long Beach October 11th
:D woot woot!
Love you all so, so much!
Sister Holt.
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