"Here comes trouble!"

Hello Everybody!

   Well, this week was pretty good. We found a couple new investigators  this week. One of them we found Oym and seems pretty good, One of them is on house arrest. End of story. And one of them came to church on Sunday! His name is Jacob, he's YSA age and has a very logical way of thinking. He's studied business and Law  at U of T. He's a funny guy. The missionaries were in charge of a fireside during the 3rd combined hour about Preach My Gospel, the role of members in teaching and finding through the members. He was present for all of it and still seemed interested to hear more! haha Afterwards we were asking him some questions about what he thought about church and he said, "Well, I didn't expect to be back on the path to God any time soon...but it may be sooner than I expected." So i think that means good things, eh? We're supposed to be meeting with him on Wednesday night, hopefully things go well! 

At the Temple

   We got to go to the temple on Saturday! We rode in with a some elders in the mission's classy mini van. haha We went to the 6:30 session so we had to get up super early! But it was a lot of fun to be back in Brampton! Most of the temple workers were from the Brampton ward and it was great to see them again, as well as other missionaries too. I saw Sis. Tuia! :) She's training Sis. Prescott (the one who read my blog before she came, and I took a picture with her so her mom can see her! she's great. and super lucky to be sister. tuia's comp!) 

Sister Prescott and me!

   Other great news is that I found out Anne & Amanda (both baptized in Kitchener/Waterloo) did baptisms at the temple on Friday! How sweet, eh?! Also that Kevin (we taught in Kitch YSA) who I said looked like Sid, is getting baptized! So many great things happening. 

   We had some funny experiences this week. A member is a bus driver for TTC and we were waiting at a stop for the bus and up he drives and honks twice when he sees us. We get on and he says, "here comes trouble!" If the people on the bus weren't staring at whoever he honked the bus at were staring at us now. Then we were walking down the aisle and someone on the side said, "oh, yup, trouble. " IT was our gospel principles teacher! Haha. If you need a grand entrance on a bus- that's how to do it. We had a good convo with a potential out of it. 

   We had lunch with a great mother/daughter in the ward yesterday. We claimed it as our Easter dinner cuz no one invited us over on Sunday. I had vegetable soup with cut up hot dog in it. hahaha yum! But the family is from Poland and are super great. She walked over to us while we were eating and all of a suddent started flicking water on our heads. We were like what in the...and she started laughing. Apparently in Poland it's a tradition for the boys to sprinkle water on the girls or pour buckets on them when they're not looking. It gets their Easter dresses all wet but symbolizes health and beauty for the year. I'm thinking of implementing that tradition forever. 

   We were walking down the road a few days ago and there was a lady sitting on a bench. Sis. Cross was on the phone but as we approached her one of her bags fell off the bench and I bent down and picked it up for her and started talking to her. Long story short, she had been baptized years ago and we helped her back home with her groceries and shared a message with her. She's not  on the ward list but hopefully we can get her back out!  

   Our pool of investigators is growing but we're having a hard time getting them to progress! This week will bring great things though. I just know it! We've got General Conference! holla! and Transfers!....Mom, you asked what I thought would happen- I think i'll die in Toronto. (missionary lingo) Fine with me! My international drivesr permit expired and they called to tell me what I had to do to update it but i called the office back and told them i'm in a bus area and only have 1 transfer left and he called back the next day and told me not to worry about it. Soooo not that i'm taking it as a hint...but ya never know!

   Last Pday we went exploring downtown some more. We were going to go to the zoo today but clouds came in and it's quite cold. The giant panda exhibit was enough to spring our curiousity. But last week we went to Dundas Square (the times squaure of Toronto) the Eaton Center (a huge mall, the biggest Sears i've ever seen) Nathan Phillips Sq. and the old Toronto City Hall.

Dundas Square in Toronto

Thanks for everything!

Love Sister Messer