"contact your investigators before Satan does"

Hey everyone!

Taking a new approach in sharing the Plan of Salvation!

The weather has been warming up and i have quite the tan line from my shoes...and my face is nice and red. Our appt doesn't have air conditioning but there is a window unit sitting in the closet I have to figure out how to work today...wish me luck. 

   We have been meeting with a few people and have had some good experiences this week. We have been trying to be clever with finding ideas. We drew with chalk on the sidewalk near the church he Plan of Salvation and a few other things but havent seen anything come out of that. Oh, the best one yet- I found a Messer in the yellow pages that lived out in East Caledon. That's in our area but we've never been out there because it's far with our kilometer limit. But we "tracted" into him. It was really funny. An old guy answered the door and I introduced ourselves and he was like, "wait! what's your name?!" and I was like, "...sister messer..." and he grabbed my hand and shook and squeezed real tight and sister anushya was like, "is that your name too?!" hahaha it was so funny. He was shocked. He was shouting for his wife to come and meet me. She was in the washroom and we told him we'd come back later. He was born in Russia but his dad is from Germany. His name is Victor. He told us his wife is really high up in the Anglican church and that we should come back later and we'd have some tea or something. (yum...) So later we came back and he answered and wasn't as excited anymore. He was just like," so what can I do for you?" I think his wife anti'd him a little bit. The leader of her church, Wendy, and her are going to Mexico next month to build houses. She's super big into her church so that was kinda a bummer. But the old guy was nice, i wonder if we're related!

   We've been visiting Carlos, the guy without legs we met outside the hospital, he was in house fire and he just got his 2nd leg amputated, that's why he's there. We're hoping to be able to share some lessons with him as we visit. He's a nice guy.

   As we were out in the Bolton area yesterday (we've only been out there 1 other time because of the distance) we got a call from the mission office and they had a referral for us! Her name is Natalie and she lives in Nobolton which was only 9 ks away! Coincidence? i think not! She requested a BOM online and so we went to deliver it to her. She told us she has been meeting with the Jehovah Witness lately but wanted to read the BOM. She seems really lost- looked like she had just had a baby or was prego and just wants to know why there are so many churches. As we talked to her by her garage and told her about the BOM and our church I said, "do you just wonder why there are so many churches?" and her eyes got big and she was like yessss! She said she would read and pray and we have an appt with her next week. Hopefully Satan doesn't contact her before we get out there again! That's become one of my fav sayings, "contact your investigators before Satan does" hahaha so true.

   Who else did you ask about...The guy at the bus stop who works in Toronto- Harjith- we saw him this week again! haha he's super nice to us now. We talked to him for about 10 min and it started to rain so he invited us onto his porch- wait, that was last week, i told you about him didn't i? He isn't interested but I think we've planted a seed w/him. I read a scripture today about the Gospel being spread to all nations, kindreds, tongues and people and it made me think of Brampton. We often pass people who we know are sikh because we know they won't be interested but w/out the Gospel they can't make it back to God again! So I know we need to talk to everybody no matter what.

   We went to Nanthini's last night. Her cousin got married and their house was decorated for this Indian  wedding. It was really neat. We met another one of her cousins and he seems interested so we're going to meet him next week. The old dad that we though was so anti against us has warmed up to us! He asked us for a ride to the hospital and we're going to have a member pick him up. He tries to talk to me in english and I just have to laugh. I can't understand anything. He keeps staring at my nametag and asking my name. Indian people are really into the question of whether or not we're married or not. They seem really concerned that we're young and single. But we assure them that we aren't nuns...i think we've comforted them some. haha

   We have an appt with Samantha tonight. She lives with a member family and loves the gospel! We taught a FHE lesson last monday and she was like, "I made a puzzle for you guys!" and we put it together and it was Joseph Smith finding the plates. She's awesome. We're going to help her be baptized. She just needs her moms permission, who is in jamaica. pray for her! We're really hoping that everything will go well with her.

   There were fireworks all over last night for Victoria Day i guess. Is it to celebrate her bday? We had bbq last night with a less active family for the holiday. We've been working with them since i got here and they came out to church on their own last week! cool, eh? Well, all is well i think. Sounds like you are all doing well too!

love and miss ya all

Sister Messer