Discouraging week!

Hello!

Well today is a much needed Pday. This week was a poopy one. But you still gotta find blessings out of it right? and we definitely have had our fair share of blessings. Here's the latest with our gators. (investigators)

Laura was doing so well! She cancelled our appt this week because she is busy with work. She said she would continue to read and call us if she had any questions. I'd be real concerned about her but if she's ready, she's ready. The only hope is that she did answer when we called her and returned our text. haha There could still be hope! I surely hope so because she is a really great girl.

Another family also cancelled our appt because they "were going to church". nice, eh? So we are rescheduling this week.

Another sister.. Our ward mission leader had a cottage meeting at his house. (never hear of that until i got here but it's basically fhe) and we talked to her and she wanted to come but had to work. So we got her a ride and he picked her up from work, was going to take her to her house to get her kids and then take her to milton for the cottage meeting. Well, she was really tired and didnt really want to go but ended up going anyways. Her girls didn't come and everyone else going to the cottage meeting cancelled last minute. In her culture it's very scary for them to get in a car with someone they don't know and she expressed that concern to us. Makes sense-don't blame her. But she waits to tell us things like that after it's happened like 5 times already. So there are some communication problems and we're at a loss. It was a really awkward evening. luckily the meeting went alright and that day is in the past.

We don't have any baptism dates set. I think that's why this week has been kind of hard. We feel discouraged sometimes because we don't see our hard work turning into anything very often. But we have some good appointments this week and hopefully whatever the Lord needs us to learn from this we will learn :) Oakville is teaching us patience and teaching us to rely on the Lord...all while testing our faith, i suppose!

We did pick up two new gators though. From the stack of former investigators we found, we called them and they were excited to meet. Mr & Mrs Longman are in their 50s or 60s. They're the sweetest couple and are from Pakistan and India. They met with missionaries over 20 years ago and he said he's "been looking for the truth for 40 years". We promised them that if they read the BOM this week and sincerely prayed about it that they would receive the answer they 've been looking for. I called and talked to Mr. Longman last night and he was like, "is this sister messer?!" and was excited to talk haha he said he'd been reading about planting a seed and nourishing it. So i told him how that can apply to him and he said and i was reading Alma 36 about Alma too! he is such a talker but i told him how repentance and baptism can bless his life and how as we turn to Christ we can find that path that leads to happiness and he was dead silent. It was actually a pretty cool experience. They would be really great members and I really hope there's something we can do differently than the missionaries in the past that will prick their hearts.

 The pioneer trek sounds like an AWESOME experience! Dad said over 1000 people were there that day at st. thomas, that's sweet! 

So we were visiting a less active lady this week and she looks at me and her eyes get really big and she says, "You look like sara fergusson!!! When she married Prince" ---(whatever his names is) haha i was like...really? Aren't her daughters the ones that wore the ugly hats to the royal wedding? haha I have never gotten that one before.

We should be moving out of our house in Mississauga on april 1. We were approved for the appt by Lake ontario! So that should be pretty cool. That's also the same day as transfers...so that will be interesting. Make sure if you send anything towards the end of march that you send it the mission office address instead.

Well, pray that success happens this week! :)

sister messer