Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!!!!
That is why i am emailing you a day later! Our mission president wants us out on holidays so every time a holiday is on a Monday our p-day turns into a Tuesday! But it was well worth it! We got to have dinner at our Bishops house on Sunday night with a few other members and a non member friend! Our bishop gave him a french Book of Mormon for us! It was great! Then yesterday on real Thanksgiving we had dinner with the cutest family, the McNiells! They also had non member family there! it was great, they asked us a lot of questions and we were able to share a very uplifting message about gratitude! We had the usual Thanksgiving foods: Turkey, potatoes, gravy, stuffing, vegetables (including cauliflower with cheese sauce and sweet potato pie that should have been dessert! SO GOOD) and pumpkin pie to top it off! I am so grateful that we were able to spend time with the members and feel at home!
We also had the most amazing miracle! We got a call from the Elders in another ward here in Victoria and they told us they got a referral that was in our area! This girl had been learning from missionaries online in Mexico so we were able to go and meet her! Her name is Karli McInnis! She is so cute and wants to get baptized so we set a date for the 14th of November! She is dating a member in another ward and can't wait to get married in the temple! She is pretty much already living everything and is SO prepared!!!! So that was amazing! We dropped almost everyone we were teaching and were blessed with this amazingly prepared woman!
We are also teaching a woman named Linda who was taking the lessons a few years back from missionaries in Parksville and met some of the elders on the bus! She has had a really hard life but as we testified to her about the gospel and how much happiness it will bring her and she got really excited to learn more about the plan of salvation!
We also had what we call "Park the Car Day" this saturday and they changed it so we can't use our car at all so we can rely on other modes of transportation kike a member or the bus or walking or bikes! We were on exchange and i was in the YSA sisters area and we couldn't find a member to drive us to meet the other sister at the chapel so we had to walk. I had about 30 pounds i had to carry and I still don't know the area very well and i had no idea how far we were actually walking! We ended up having to walk for 2 hours! With this giant duffle bag i had i thought i was going to die! I have never been so tired or sore before! Then a few hours later it rained on us as we were making our way home so that was a lot of fun! It made me feel better anyway! I am finally now almost recovered physically and i know that the Lord strengthened me the whole way!
Other than that we have been really finding and talking to lots of people oh and we were finding at a place called Saxe Point and ended up seeing a bald eagle, a hummingbird and then 2 ORCAS! They were right in front of us! It was amazing to see them! We were very thankful for that amazing experience! Then we got to see some seals that you can feed by one of the bays! Lets just say it was a great week full of adventures and miracles!!!!
I am so grateful for the opportunity to be here and share the gospel with all those i meet! Just having the opportunity to bear testimony to as many people as i can to give them a taste of the spirit and the happiness it can bring them is such a blessing! I love it here in Victoria! I am also very grateful for all of you and the support and love you give me each week by writing to me and sharing you experiences too! Love and miss you all!
Love,
Sister Heaton
The McNiells-Family that fed us thanksgiving
The Orcas!
The Hummingbird
Me and my giant bag that I carried multiple miles back to our apartment in the rain.
We got some delicious Thanksgiving Poutine from La Belle Patate
That is why i am emailing you a day later! Our mission president wants us out on holidays so every time a holiday is on a Monday our p-day turns into a Tuesday! But it was well worth it! We got to have dinner at our Bishops house on Sunday night with a few other members and a non member friend! Our bishop gave him a french Book of Mormon for us! It was great! Then yesterday on real Thanksgiving we had dinner with the cutest family, the McNiells! They also had non member family there! it was great, they asked us a lot of questions and we were able to share a very uplifting message about gratitude! We had the usual Thanksgiving foods: Turkey, potatoes, gravy, stuffing, vegetables (including cauliflower with cheese sauce and sweet potato pie that should have been dessert! SO GOOD) and pumpkin pie to top it off! I am so grateful that we were able to spend time with the members and feel at home!
We also had the most amazing miracle! We got a call from the Elders in another ward here in Victoria and they told us they got a referral that was in our area! This girl had been learning from missionaries online in Mexico so we were able to go and meet her! Her name is Karli McInnis! She is so cute and wants to get baptized so we set a date for the 14th of November! She is dating a member in another ward and can't wait to get married in the temple! She is pretty much already living everything and is SO prepared!!!! So that was amazing! We dropped almost everyone we were teaching and were blessed with this amazingly prepared woman!
We are also teaching a woman named Linda who was taking the lessons a few years back from missionaries in Parksville and met some of the elders on the bus! She has had a really hard life but as we testified to her about the gospel and how much happiness it will bring her and she got really excited to learn more about the plan of salvation!
We also had what we call "Park the Car Day" this saturday and they changed it so we can't use our car at all so we can rely on other modes of transportation kike a member or the bus or walking or bikes! We were on exchange and i was in the YSA sisters area and we couldn't find a member to drive us to meet the other sister at the chapel so we had to walk. I had about 30 pounds i had to carry and I still don't know the area very well and i had no idea how far we were actually walking! We ended up having to walk for 2 hours! With this giant duffle bag i had i thought i was going to die! I have never been so tired or sore before! Then a few hours later it rained on us as we were making our way home so that was a lot of fun! It made me feel better anyway! I am finally now almost recovered physically and i know that the Lord strengthened me the whole way!
Other than that we have been really finding and talking to lots of people oh and we were finding at a place called Saxe Point and ended up seeing a bald eagle, a hummingbird and then 2 ORCAS! They were right in front of us! It was amazing to see them! We were very thankful for that amazing experience! Then we got to see some seals that you can feed by one of the bays! Lets just say it was a great week full of adventures and miracles!!!!
I am so grateful for the opportunity to be here and share the gospel with all those i meet! Just having the opportunity to bear testimony to as many people as i can to give them a taste of the spirit and the happiness it can bring them is such a blessing! I love it here in Victoria! I am also very grateful for all of you and the support and love you give me each week by writing to me and sharing you experiences too! Love and miss you all!
Love,
Sister Heaton
The McNiells-Family that fed us thanksgiving
The Orcas!
The Hummingbird
Me and my giant bag that I carried multiple miles back to our apartment in the rain.
We got some delicious Thanksgiving Poutine from La Belle Patate