Well this week was another week calling a lot of former investigators and setting up appointments. We figure there is a reason we found over 100 former investigator sheets in a file folder in the bookcase so we're contacting all of them! We have gotten quite a few appointments and investigators from doing that. Hopefully some of them are interested! We walked a lot this week because it's been so warm and sunny, talking to people along the way. Street contacting in Oakville is really not very successful. There are a lot of very wealthy people around here. We were going through old baptismal records- the last baptism for the Oakville ward was in July! Plus all the baptisms in the last couple of years have all fallen inactive except for one. Not cool, eh? But we did get a new ward mission leader yesterday! He is great! His name is Brother Taylor and he just got released from the stake high council when the stakes split. Him and his wife are from the states! :) He works for General Mills and so he travels a lot but maybe he can supply Cheerios for us ;) haha They have a daughter on a mission in Arizona. They're very missionary minded and his wife is the Primary President. He's got some great ideas, hopefully this will help get the ward involved and some baptisms in the works!
One of our investigators came to church yesterday with her two girls. We have talked to her a lot about baptism and she said she will tell us when she is ready. It's pretty frustrating, but we continue to work with her. We've been able to help her a lot in the last few months and i know she'll get baptized...i just would love to be here when she does :) Her 9 year old daughter asked for an english Book of Mormon yesterday...maybe she'll get baptized before her mother does! haha We have been making some good progress with her though. She always says she's too tired to pray when we're there but on Saturday she said a very nice prayer! It was in french...but i understood the words "Christ" and "missionaries". that's good enough for me!
We've been focusing on less active families too. We were at a family's house last week and they have a son who is 18 and he came downstairs and talked a little bit with us...he said he was preparing to go on a mission and getting ready for that and that he wanted to go. After he left his mom (who has a strong testimony) said, "that's the first time i've ever heard him say that!" she was shocked! Yesterday he was ordained as a priest! He really is working towards a mission. So even if we don't see baptisms in oakville, hopefully we helped some other people.
Today we aren't going to the CN Tower. SisW wants to wait until she's got some more money because it costs like 30$ to go to the top. But some day....SOME DAY! Even if i have to come back in like ten years. I will reach the top :) But Sis Doehring, a member from Lindsay is coming to take us to lunch and stuff. SisW knew her from her last area and established a great relationship with her. She comes down every once in a while and we have a good time with her.
To answer your question about the different races and prejudice people---i don't see any of that. I really don't think i've ever heard one prejudice remark. People here just come from all necks of the woods.
We talked to a lady the other day who's car was broken down in the middle of the street. I think she was glad not to be awkwardly standing there alone.
No, i haven't heard from any of my BYUI friends. Maybe some of them read my blog? WRITE ME dang it! ;) I do hear from Corinne A LOT! she is in a spanish speaking area in New Mexico but she's speaking English! She says she writes down her testimony or prayers in spanish and reads it. haha her Mission pres said he knows she is supposed to be there, not learning spanish...crazy, eh?!
This week we have a zone conference in Etobicoke (JoeyVotto in the house!) and next week we have a sisters conference in Brampton at the mission home! All the sisters in our mission are traveling down and we get to love it up i guess. Both should be awesome! Can you believe the end of March is approaching? i can't! Thank you for your prayers!!!
Love Sister Messer
For those BYUI friends Sister Messer's address is:
Sister Austriana Messer
Canada Toronto Mission
197 County Court Blvd Suite 203
Brampton, ON
L6W 4P6
Canada
pictures: A great family in the ward (Madsons) moved to Utah this week so we went over to say bye and they gave us a TON of food. That was a blessing! haha But for real, it was so magnificent we took a picture with it!
SisW and I were bored driving to Oakville one evening so we took some great pictures...
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