Life in Brampton

April 16, 2012
Hey Everyone!
How do you like your apartment? What does it look like? The new apt is pretty good. It's in an older apt building and it's on the 4th floor. We have a balcony that overlooks some new townhouse apartment buildings and you can see some taller apt building in the distance in downton Brampton so that's good. Our fan in the bathroom hasn't worked in a couple years so we have some mild mold issues. I called the super intendent and they said, "ya, you've told us that before, we don't know what to really do about it." hahah well, thank you kind sir! So the couple missionaries in charge of our apt said they'll take care of it. What does it look like? Well, it's got hard-wood parquet flooring throughout the whole thing, except tile in the kitchen and bathroom. It's got a bedroom and a bathroom ... i'll try to remember to send some pictures :)
What are you learning from Sis. Anushya? Is she Sr. companion? How do you phonetically say her name? Why did she stand in elephant poo? Sis Anushya has been out for just a couple of transfers. I'm the senior companion. It's pronounced Anoo-sha. Standing in elephant poo is something to do with Hinduism. I'm sure you can google it ;)
Are you driving now? I am driving! We have a 2011 white Chevy malibu. It was weird driving after like 6 months. haha To make it even better I had to start driving on 6 lane freeway after dropping off SisWirthlin in Weston. It was quite exciting...But we made it alive. have i told you about the black boxes installed in all the cars? They talk to you if you speed it says "speeding violation" and you have to slow down or it's recorded. It's moniters your driving so they can tell who needs to be 'red dotted' and can't drive anymore and stuff. I only heard speeding violation a few times :)
Did Sis. Wirthlin leave today? She hasn't left yet. Her companion is being held up even longer but we do find out if she's staying with us the entire transfer or going somewhere else later today.
What did you do this week? I"ll tell ya in a sec!
How did your church tour to the Hindu family go? The father just came and it went pretty well. We need to focus on his wife but they're really hard to get in contact with.
Did you get a follow up with the film maker at the library last week? Nope, he never called. haha
Alright, so this week was pretty good. We had dinner with the Temple president and his wife. He actually served his mission here in Toronto and was the AP to Pres Monson. They're from Santa Monica and he said Pres Monson talked to him over a conference call and asked them to come back out here. I really like them, they're nice. Know what else he told us? Well apparently there are sister missionaries just assigned to do flower arrangements in temples! how cool is that? They were just here in Toronto and spent like 3 days in the temple making new arrangements for the rooms. They fly to different temples and do that. They had just been at the Boston Temple...cool, eh?
I got an interesting call from the mission office at like 8:45 on Thursday. It was sister sippel who works the front desk. She said, "a lady named Vivian just called the office looking for you." haha Vivian had called looking to talk to me but we're not supposed to call out of our zone. She said i could call her this once so i did. She was just wondering how I was...i talked to her girls and told them i'd come to their baptisms! haha
We were at the stake center for our district meeting on wednesday and saw this lady sitting on the bottom step of her bus in the parking lot, smoking. So we went and talked to her. She drives a school bus once a month to the temple with members from Toronto ward in it. She was interested in the gospel! Sadly for us she lives in Scarborough which is not in our area but we had a great chat with her and referred her to some awesome sister missionaries there. It was cool!
We have started teaching a woman named Nanthini. She's from Sri Lanka and speaks Tamil which is the same language sisterA speaks. She came to church on Sunday with her 2 boys! She's great. We were sitting at a park teaching her and she touched my legs and said, "so nice"...see? President put me here because of my porcelain whiteness! hahah whatever helps the work!
Wanna know something cool? The bishop's wife in this ward helped to translate the BOM into the Tamil language. She's tanslating the D&C right now...cool, eh?
Dad asked how Sis Anushya joined the church. She was 16 and she worked nearby the chapel in her town in India. She said they walked in and were interested. (golden!) She said her mom stopped worshipping idols and what not a couple of years earlier. They were Hindu and worshipped idols! So that's basically it...the rest is history!
We're trying to teach a few yw aged girls in the ward who aren't members...this area is open! The people have been really nice, even if they aren't interested. YEs, i AM getting sick of the indian food smell...I'll have to burn a candle...i did this morning!

love and miss ya!
Sister Messer