Hello Everyone!
Our sense of urgency and positive attitudes brought
great blessings this week! Where shall I start? Hmmm well, we hit the standards
of excellence set by Pres. Scott! If I haven't explained that before, he sets
goals for us in our member present lessons, new investigators, baptismal dates
and progressing investigators. We hit all of them! We found some new
investigators this week that we'll continue working with, hopefully helping
them to progress towards their bapt. dates. The greatest blessing came on
Sunday. We've been working hard these last 2 transfers opening a new area and
all, seeing success but no baptisms. I have 3 Sundays left of my mission.
Saturday night I prayed and told Heavenly Father about our troubles and my
desire to baptize before I go home. I told him that I know baptisms take 3 Sundays (in our mission at least they have to come to church 3 times) and that
right now it's not looking like we have a SUPER solid one...and that the only
way that would happen is if someone showed up to church Sunday that is
prepared. A boy named Gabriel just showed up to church. He's been coming to
sports nights/institute on Fridays and no one told us. He said that he felt
like he wanted to finally come out to church and he just wants a good influence
in his life- He's getting baptized May 12. He's moving to Quebec on May 13 for
boot camp. He's an engineer for the Navy. He's YSA and super cool. Has tattoos
all down his arms- he's quite the guy. Heavenly Father definitely hears our
prayers and prepares people. Now it's up to him to progress- we'll be doing
everything we can do!
Remember Gidey? From last week or two who had
left his apt to get away from temptation? Well we knew the complex where he had
told us he lived so we went tracting inside. We weren't able to find him so we
left, took the subway to a different area and start walking when he crossed us
on the crosswalk! We turned around and started talking to him. Since then we've
run into him every day. We have an appt tonight with him but we think he'll
bomb it again.
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| Toronto Blue Jays doughnut! |
Funny street contacting experience of the week-
we were standing on the sidewalk talking to a nice lady and I could see a
homeless person coming towards us, pushing a shopping cart kind of mumbling to
himself, so i stepped aside to let him pass and he creepily whispered, "I
like your thighs." Everyone stopped talking and looked at him, let him
pass and started laughing. The lady we were talking to thought it was super
funny. Toronto never fails to impress.
Alice is doing great, she's progressing well.
We found out this week that she has cancer. So the decisions she makes are of
course really important to her because the Dr. hasn't given her more than a
couple of years max to live. She received a blessing a few days ago and she's
reading the Book of Mormon like a mad man! She's great! We love her! She has a date for
May 12. It's pretty
Our other investigators are doing well too.
Jacob came to church yesterday as well. So it was a great week. We're excited
for this coming week as well. Good things happenin'. Riding the rocket 'til the
end! Speaking of riding the rocket...you asked about the Toronto terrorist
alert. hahah yaaaaa. Apparently they found a plan to bomb parts of the subway?
We were told to just listen to the spirit and be careful. They have the guy in
custody. I think we're good :)
Love Sister Messer
Love Sister Messer
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