Tales of a Freckle-Faced Ginger: This week has been a bit on the crazy side...

Hello Everybody!

Well this week has been a bit on the crazy side. Our "solid" investigator Adriana totally got anti'd hard core. Pretty crazy stuff. But we just kept working hard and we got 2 media referalls this week. Yay! Both seem to be really great. The best part of the week was Garlyn. She was one of those referalls. She is from the Philippines and we taught her on Saturday. She's roman catholic but really interested in learning about the church. We arranged a ride for her to come to church Sunday and the member picking her up was there waiting for her but Garlyn was late so the member left and came to church. Garlyn called us and said, "i'm here waiting now." and We were like nooooooo. So i ran out into the foyer and in walked a member that we've gotten to know cuz he's a bus driver :) and i said, "Bro. Jardine, do you drive?! We have an investigator waiting at Eglinton Square who needs a ride to church...would that be too much to ask?" and he went and picked her and her friend up. Yay for great members! So Garlyn and her friend Ryan were at church yesterday. She LOVED it! She even wanted to stay afterwards for choir practice. (that means you'd like her, huh mom?)

We're getting a bigger teaching pool too. Our investigators are probably the toughest i've taught my whole mission. They all love the Bible and want 'proof' from the Bible. They don't want to pray and ask specific questions but want to learn about the Gospel. It's made me have more serious personal studies in the morning. Things are going well though. We also picked up a mother and son that were former investigators. They're from Africa and are really great. We're excited to work with them more too.

I was reading the mission's newsletter and guess what I found? If you go back and read my letters from like mid August you'll see I wrote some about an investigator sis. Tuia and I started teaching in Brampton- Shannon Leblanc. She got baptized last month! I was so happy when i saw that! It's cool to see how just a few months or when circumstances change they're finally ready to accept the Gospel. So many people are looking for the answers that the Gospel has but don't know that the Gospel can answer them! :)

So, you've all asked if we went downtown last Pday. of course we did! It was everything I ever dreamed of! The next part of my email may sound like a bit of a travel log...but when you're in the best city in the world, of course you're going to explore on pdays! --

So after email we took the Subway to Union Station. Toronto is known for their 28 kilometers of underground city. We discovered this quickly. When you get off the subways there are stores and restaurants all underground. Not only that but they connect to the buildings throughout Toronto as well. So we came up through the Fairmount Royal York Hotel (which by the way is the coolest old hotel i've ever seen.) We walked through the city until we found the CN Tower (holy tallness!) and Blue Jays Stadium is right next to it. We walked down to the harbour front that overlooks the Toronto islands and ate at a pizza place (mady, you were asking about Pizza pizza- they're all over the place.) Then I had read about the Flat Iron Building in NYC and I found out that Toronto had one as well and it was nearby so we walked to it. On our way there we walked through Maple Leafs Square (where the Leafs hockey plays). Pink was having a concert there that night so they were getting ready for that. We saw the Hockey Hall of Fame and went through different shops and tall buidings and what not. It was a lot of fun! I'm excited to show all of those places to you guys some day soon :) I'll attach pictures!

You'll be interested to know that the Book of Mormon broadway play is coming to Toronto in April. We're hoping that will create some good publicity and finding opportunities :) haha

Well, thanks for keeping us in all of your prayers! We're being blessed as we strive to be more and more obedient every day! Talk to ya'll soon :)