Great blessings this week!

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.

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

 soft but hoping she'll receive answers to her prayers. Gotta ask specific questions :)

   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

Key word of this week: URGENCY!

Hey Hey Hey!

   Well, in all honesty, it's been a pretty slow week. Jacob didn't get baptized and we went finding a lot. But we had a great comp study yesterday in which we set some new goals to help us be better and more effective. I was sitting at my study desk during dinner and I was like "gahhhh! We HAVE to be better, work harder and baptize this transfer! We're in flippin Toronto!" You'd think I would learn by now that God continues to make me grow in order to see blessings. Crazy how he does that, eh? He's like "oh, Sister Messer stinks at bus contacting so lets have the Spirit tell her she needs to do better at that. She'll deny it for a few weeks and then finally surrender and be the missionary I expect her to be. Then the harvest will come." Ya. So stay tuned, i'm hoping this week i'll gain some guts and yet again open my mouth. Key word of this week: URGENCY. We're going to have a sense of urgency all the time!

   We did have Alice at church yesterday, which went very well. She even brought a friend with her. She's been reading steadily from the BoM and she's very close to the Spirit. As we've helped her recognize the Spirit it's made a big difference in our lessons. We gave her a church tour on Tuesday and it was awesome. We taught the 5 steps of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as we did. For example, as we taught faith, we showed her classrooms that she would learn in and explained how that would increase her faith. Repentance, we talked about prayer and how leaders in the church help us to repent if needed. Baptism took us to the font where we also talked about the Gift of the Holy Ghost. We ended in the chapel and talked about enduring to the end and the sacrament. That was definitely the highlight of the tour. She used the words "peace" and "sacred" to describe the feelings there. We were able to point out that it was the Spirit and that really touched her. She said she would be baptized as she understood the commandments and knew that this was true. We were hoping to set a date at church but it didn't work out. Stay tuned :)

  We also taught Nora and Sylva. They're from Africa, we've been working with them for quite a while now. Working sundays is keeping them from church. Nora is a single mom and Sylva is her 10 yr old son. he wants to be baptized soooo bad! His dad who is in Africa says he needs to be older. However, Nora told us she could talk his dad into letting him...so mainly it's her holding him back. We taught them the Plan of Salvation and invited Sylva to say the closing prayer, in which he said, "Please bless the missionaries that they will have eternal life and that me & my mom can be baptized on time." We thought that was very sweet. He's such a stud. We wish he only had permission!

  We heard about the bombing in Boston on the bus right after we had gone downtown on Pday. That's crazy stuff! Boston isn't too far from Toronto, everyone has been talking about it. But the details you mentioned were crazy! I had no idea about the lockdown and finally finding the guy in a boat? So weird. All the terrorists seem to be muslim, eh? Which is weird- the muslim people here are so kind even though they're usually not interested. They all seem to be very family focused people too.

  Last pday we went downtown and wandered through Kensington Market- a multi cultural marketplace. We soon found ourself in China Town and had lunch there. Coolest part of the day- we rode a street car! They're all over the place. From the subway we boarded it and i felt like I was getting on Indiana Jones at Disneyland. haha but for real. It was  in this dark cave like place and we got quite excited.

  Well, today we're going to Target!!! They're new to Canada! I haven't been in a Target in so long. I've been looking forward to this day. ;) Have a wonderful week! I'll see ya soon!
Love Sister Messer

"Would you like to stand?"

Hey!

Well this week was great. Especially Sunday...here's why.

A cool hindu mural walked past. I'm telling it a secret.

It was fast & testimony meeting. A member in our ward got up because her little boy kept saying he wanted to. So they get up there and of course he just stares at everyone and doesn't say a world. You can tell the mom just is kind of embarrassed and our investigator, Jacob, was sitting with all the YSA in the front and says, "can i help him out?" hahaha he walked up to the pulpit and tried to whisper what to say in the little boys ear but he still didn't say anything. Well, Jacob stayed up there and bore his testimony too! It was classic I couldn't help but smile and he looked down and saw sister cross and I as he was speaking and smiled and said, "and these sisters have given me tools to help me quit smoking,

would you like to stand?" I about died. We both just shook our heads and S. cross audibly said, "nope." It was a classic moment for sure. Jacob is one of a kind. He tries to make things difficult as we teach, kind of making smart comments but you can tell he knows that the gospel is changing his life. His baptismal date is set for this coming Sunday. We'll see how following the WoW goes this week. We may move it back. Hopefully not!

Sunday night we were walking to an appointment from the subway and met Gidey, a younger guy from Ethiopia. We were introducing ourselves and telling him what we do and how we teach about Christ. He was like, "I want that. I was Christian when I was young but fell away and now the devil holds my life. I was at my apt and he was tempting me to do bad things and so i left and came on a walk." That kind of sounds fake but he was so sincere! We taught him about baptism and how he can have a fresh start and he basically asked when he could be baptized. So we prayed, taught and committed for baptism on the sidewalk. We're meeting him on Tuesday-that's when we'll see if it's all for real.

We also started teaching Alice this week. She's from mainland China. She's very sweet, we hope things start progressing for her. With great things come bad ones too...haha We met a false prophet on the bus this week! I heard there were false prophets in Toronto. It was pretty classic. We got on and I saw him and you know how sometimes you can just tell someone isn't very nice? Ya. So he read our tags and scooted to the nearest seat to us and pointed directly at me and yelled, "Sister, sister, when you go home you need to pray..." and then went on about all sorts of wonderful things. You know me, If I started talking back to him I'd get feisty so I just smiled and kind of shook my head and then said, "have a great day!" and got off at the next stop.  Oh crazy people. I also had someone ask me if I was a nun this week. I told him no and he said, "well that's good, i didn't think you looked very much like a nun!" We taught him the Restoration on the bus. He's super cool but lives out of our area.

I guess this week was full of cool experiences. One of the bus drivers smiled really big at us as we were getting on. We exited at our stop out the back door and were waiting at the stoplight when he pulled forward at the red light and opened the door and yelled, "where are you from?" I responded and he said he had member friends who served missions and that they always told him to watch for people with tags get on his bus. We prayed that we would be able to meet him again (we'd never seen him before now) and the next day, on a different bus route, he was the driver! We rode it to a subway station and everyone exits the bus there. So we got off last and talked to him for a minute, gave him our information and stuff. THEN we saw him a couple of days later pass us and he just smiled and waved really big. It's great.

At ESL this week there were only a couple of students at our class and they were both at very different learning stages so we did a one on one lesson. I taught a man named Jimmy who is from China. He came to General Conf last week and noticed the prophets picture on the wall in the classroom. That started a big discussion about who he is etc. He had never prayed before so I was teaching him about prayer. at the end of the class he said the closing prayer! He was so excited, had a huge smile on his face. The mandarin speaking elders are teaching him and he's actually progressing towards baptism now! yay!

So it's been a pretty good week. We've found some great new investigators and the weather is getting warmer...i'm not wearing tights today! Sadly my nice tan from last summer isn't showing anymore. haha I'll have to work hard for one in the next few weeks ;) Pray for Jacob! Hopefully he'll get baptized soon!
Love Sister Messer

p.s. Sister Chidester fwd this in her email- i thought it was pretty cool!

“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is making adjustments to the way its 405 missions are organized, to better utilize the skills and abilities of all missionaries in training and leadership….. Each mission in the Church will organize a Mission Leadership Council that will include both elder (males) and sister (females) missionary leaders. The new mission leadership council will consist of the mission president and his wife, assistants to the president, zone leaders, and sister training leaders — a newly created role….. The role of sister training leader has been created as more female missionaries serve in missions around the world. Sister training leaders will be responsible for the training and welfare of female missionaries assigned to them, and will be members of, and participate in, the new mission leadership council. Assistants to the president and zone leaders will also participate in the council, and those roles will remain unchanged. Missions will continue to be organized by zones and districts, with district leaders being responsible for baptismal interviews, but the Mission Leadership Council will replace the Zone Leader Council….. Sister training leaders will continue to proselytise and will also spend time each week training and evaluating the needs of female missionaries. They will report directly to the mission president on the needs of sister missionaries. Additionally, the wives of mission presidents are now being asked to play an enhanced role in training and caring for sister missionaries….. Councils assist in Church governance at every level. In councils, assigned members meet to discuss individual, family and organizational needs and work together to determine how to respond to those needs effectively. Full expression from all participants is invited in council settings, unifying the efforts of both male and female council members.”

The Lord is hastening His work, and it's a joy to be a part of it!

It's officially my last transfer as of today

Hey Everyone!

Our district. We all serve in the Don Mills ward.
Don Mills South: E. Orr & E. Rowley
Don Mills North: E. Cragun & Lacoste
Don Mills East: Sis. Cross & I



   Yup, conference was pretty great! My favorite talk? I really liked Sis. Dalton's. There were so many on marriage and commandments and yes, missionary work! It was all pretty great. Our investigator, Jacob, came for 1 session on Saturday and both on Sunday. He's progressing pretty well- he's an interesting guy. He's just grown up thinking about way too many options about God and different religions and stuff. He likes to confuse himself. haha But we love him. We love him a lot. We really are hoping to find some solid investigators this week so we can have a couple of baptisms this transfer! It's officially my last transfer as of today. That's super weird but I don't think it'll hit me until i'm off the plan in the USA. Until then, not much is gonna change! I'm just determined to make it the best transfer in the history of the Can-Tor mission.

   So, yes- transfers are tomorrow! Calls were made last night. We're staying here! In fact our entire district is staying which we were all pretty shocked about. Not many changes this transfer but rumor has it that next transfer is another big one. It doesn't really apply to me :)

   This week we had dinner with a great family in the ward- the Lim's. We invited Jacob and he came as well. After sharing a message, Bro. Lim said, "Sister Messer, I have a gift for you." He handed me some caribeeners (sp?) and I was like, "gee, thanks bro. Lim...what are these for?" He said, "I noticed your purse straps were breaking." It's true, one side is tied with a red ribbon and the other is safety pinned. haha Now I don't have to lift my bag up as I run for the bus hoping that the strap won't snap again. haha I continued to show them the lining of my coat which is torn and taped back together and the dirty-ness of my coat that I claim to be all the bus's fault. It just came to my realization after that how worn out my stuff is. I can now relate to all missionaries who wear their shoes 'just a couple more weeks...' in hope that they'll actually last their entire mission. So know that i'm in good hands, the ward takes care of their old, dying missionaries.

   Did I mention to you that Subhash recieved the Mel. priesthood a few weeks ago? Now he is in India for a few months. I don't think he gets home until end of July/Aug.



   Last Pday Sister Cross and I went downtown and visited the Hotel lobby of the Royal York hotel. It was super duper fancy. They had this book that was signed by the Queen and Pr. Charles a few years ago. Then we went to St. Lawrence Market, a big indoor farmers market and vendors. We shopped around and had lunch at a Greek place.

   Well, this week is going to be fantastic. We'll be working hard to find those solid gators and talking to the fantastic people here in Toronto. Have a great week!

Love, Sister Messer

 

"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

Maria and Shaun are getting baptized this Sunday!

Hey Hey Hey Everyone!

   Well, I have good news! Remember Maria that I taught in London? She got baptized yesterday! Remember Shaun that I taught in London? He came to church the 1st time the last week i was there and had his coffee mug and cigarettes with him... he got baptized too! Sa--weeeet! It's always good to hear that news. We had a leadership training on Thursday with trainers/trainees/District leaders and zone leaders. I saw my zone leaders from London and they said, "guess what?! Maria and Shaun are getting baptized this Sunday!" It was great news!

   This week we've been trying to find people to teach! Story of my life :) We're still working with Garlyn. She's been sick this weekend so couldn't come to church but she's the most solid gator we have right now. We have an appt with a potential tonight that should be interesting. His name is William, he's an alter boy at a church nearby but is stoked to read the BOM. He used to be homeless but has a cute little appt that he is so proud of! It's really cool to hear people's story about their journey to God. Especially when they've overcome so much! We'll see how it all goes.

   Gma, I got your package! Thanks :) I also got a CAKE from the Carson's...so thank you! It's so great to get mail :) Just think...when I get home and see all those people that want to be my friends but never wrote me a letter....hahaha jk. I'll still love you. probably.

    This morning we had just woken up and we had our window cracked and heard someone talking to someone on the parking lot level outside so we looked outside and could hear someone groaning. There was a lady laying in the parking lot at the bottom of the stairs. You could tell she couldn't move her arm and couldn't get up very easily and the person talking to her was yelling through a window communicating with her and we heard her say, "i'll be right down." So we figured she was on her way to help but a couple minutes passed and still no one had shown up and she was trying to get off the ground and was crawling to a wall for support so we hurry and put our coats on and ran down in our Pj's. The lady couldn't move her arm and was in a lot of pain but was totally conscious and talking to us so we called the ambulance and she had dislocated her shoulder. So that was our excitement for the morning.

   Well, things are chuggin along. I forgot my camera cord so I can't send home any pictures! :( But I will sure try my hardest to remember it next week. Lo siento! Mom, you asked about Nemo...we have gotten snow this week but today it's the perfect day! The Torontonians say that it's been a bad winter towards the end here cuz it just keeps snowing. Spring is supposed to be here though, eh?!

Talk to ya'll soon! Have a grand week!

Sister Messer

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 :)

The Blue Jays Stadium

Sis. Cross and Messer in front of the CN Tower in London

Flat iron building, which means it is really skinny!

Old London district

Sister Messer

I LOVE TORONTO!

Hey Everyone!

Toronto skyline mural

   Where do I start? My new comps name is Sister Cross. She is from the Seattle area. She was also a student at BYUI. She's been sick this week with a sinus infection which hasn't slowed us down much but it's a rough start for her! Hopefully she'll feel better soon! On Thursday we got to take a trip downtown for a doctor's appt. I love Toronto! So about my new area- there are 3 sets of missionaries in the ward. I didn't know this last week but on transfer day I showed up at the Brampton stk center to get the bag with keys/phone and the elder in charge said, "are you opening a new area?" Long story short, President didn't mention it over the phone but we are. They split the ward into 3rds and we cover Don Mills East! So we got a new phone with absolutely zero numbers in it, an area book that was totally empty and an old apartment that used to be the Korean elders. haha I met a sister missionary that just came in (There were 36 new missionaries that came in, 29 were sisters) who came up to me and said, "The day I left for the MTC i found your blog!" So shout out to Sis. Prescott (and her mom if she's still reading it. haha)

Toronto Stake Center-It's huge!!!

   About my new area- it's great. Our ward meets at the Toronto Stake Center and it's the biggest church i have ever seen. It's 3 floors, has an underground parking garage and it's made to be able to fit an entire stake there on Sunday. However, we're the only ward that meets there! haha It has the old Can-Tor east mission office and across the hallway from that is what we call 'narnia'. It's this huge room that the old mission used to store BOM's in every language, pamphlets in every language, pass along cards, movies, even old missionary clothing. It's got everything you could ever need so we get supplies out of Narnia. haha From a window in that room you can see the CN Tower perfectly. It's my wildest dream come true! haha SO ya, that church is crazy. Members have told us that it could be turned into a temple in the future. That may or may not be a myth. We are on bus/subway. The subway is really neat! They call it 'the rocket'. So you'll see advertisements that say "ride the rocket!" We're mainly on the bus though. This week we've been trying to figure out who's in our area and been learning how to get around. We've found a new investigator- Karthi. He's from India and is Hindu. I was able to use some tamil that sis. anushya taught me when we street contacted into him. He just laughed and answered in english but it totally broke the ice. haha

  A member in the ward just returned from his mission in Kennewick WA. So i remembered that E. Solomon and E. Maughan were serving there and I asked him about them. He told me exactly what they were up to and where they were serving. He was the AP in their mission- Elder Lim. Small world, eh?

  My new address-  

2 Swift Dr. #412

North York, ON

M4A 2A2

Canada

Mom, to answer your questions about the apt, we have lots of Korean material...and no, we cannot see the CN tower because of another building and some trees that are in the way but I see it as we walk around our area in the distance. I was hoping to be able to go downtown today but we have a lot of cleaning and shopping to do. Hopefully next week and if the weather is clear- the CN tower for sure!

  This are is really diverse and I guess i've gotten used to it over the past year. But i'm continually reminded as Sis. Cross is in amazement of all the different accents and people. haha It's great. Our ward is actually mainly Filipino, the bishop invited us over for Baloot (spelling?) there's no way i will ever eat that.

   Hope I updated you well enough :) have a great week!

Sister Messer