Hello to everyone
that I love to pieces back in the states! How are you all doing? My goodness,
I'm missing everyone terribly! I may or may not be the world's trunkiest sister
missionary. But I keep it to myself... until glorious, glorious P-Day when I get
to plant myself at the computer and remember that I have a huge gang of people
back home that love me! Ahhh. So good to hear from everyone. How has everyone
been? I hope you're all enjoying your final days of summer! Make it count! The
leaves are starting to change up here already. Anytime I mention this to the
locals though they FLIP at me, so I'll just mention it to you all. But really,
I can't complain. This summer was glorious. I'm excited to see Quebec in the
fall (it's going to be gorgeous, by the way)! So, good things ahead before that
brutal Canadian winter sets in.
This week was pretty low key. No perverts, which isn't a good
thing or a bad thing, necessarily. I do enjoy feeling creeped out from time to
time, so my week was lacking there. But! We did have some fun little moments
along the way, so I'm not feeling too cheated. This week we discovered the
homestead/neighborhood of a zillion Nepalese immigrants. New FAVE ethnicity!
They are literally the sweetest people on the planet. They have no idea what
we're saying, so they just invite us in and let us sit there awkwardly on their
couch until we can't bear the awkwardness anymore and leave. But they just
smile at you the whole time! So great. This week we found the cutest Nepalese
boy who spoke French well enough to express his interest in learning more. We
suspect maybe he was just interested in the two cute sister missionaries at his
doorstep, but he let us in and we prayed with him and his mom, who was NOT as
interested in the sister missionaries as her son. Still! It was a sweet
experience.
We also ran into a lady from the Congo! And she didn't speak a
WORD of French either. Ha ha so she called up her daughters to come home and
translate for her. And we're just like... no, it's okay. You don't need to
invite us in. But she was INSISTENT! Well, it turns out this woman was already
a member of the church! And she had been looking for our meetinghouse, but she
only speaks Swaheli so she was having a hard time. So many miracles this week!
It was a cool experience. I had my French translated into Swaheli by a ten year
old for the better part of an hour. One of the coolest things I've experienced
on my mission. I seriously LOVE it out here. I meet people from so many
countries. I need some serious gift of tongues going right now so that I can
speak Nepalese, Swaheli, Spanish, and this really weird dialect of French
called Quebecois.
Speaking of the gift of tongues, I prayed in Spanish! Ha ha and
Sister Rios taught the rest of the lesson... but I'm learnding! We are teaching
the most amazing family from Honduras right now, but their French is no bueno.
So I just sit back and let my little greenie do all the talking. It's super
nice. They live forever away from our area though, which means we are burning
clicks like there is no tomorrow. The first time we visited them this week I
got SUPER lost on my way home. I ended up driving us through Old Quebec at 10
o'clock at night, THEN somehow to the other side of Quebec City to
Montmorency Falls, and then home... at a very unreasonable hour. Ha ha my comp
was dying. But I'm still alive! Yesterday night after our lesson with them we
had a similar problem. A member tried to give us a "shortcut" home so
that I wouldn't get lost again, but I ended up taking the wrong freeway
entrance and taking us to the North Pole practically. Adventures all around
when you're with Sister Cutler and her impeccable sense of direction! My
companion is learning that patience is a virtue.
This week was great! We worked hard and had tons of fun. On
Friday we celebrated our eternigator's 85th birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to
Lucie. This woman is seriously AMAZING! I love sitting with her at her kitchen
table for hours on end, and I MEAN hours on end... and listening to her
stories. My bum is super sore by the end, but it's like stepping into a little
piece of history. I'm going to be visiting EVERY elderly person I know when I
get back. Gosh, I'm such an ungrateful punk! :)
Well, I hope you are all doing amazing and having a stellar
week! Pray for me to have a better sense of direction, on the road and in life
in general haha. Also, SHOUT OUT this week to my fave childhood sweetheart (not
trying to sound creepy) MAUDIE for getting married this week! I'm sending all
of my love and best wishes your way! It was a delightful surprise getting the
wedding invitation in the mail, and you best believe that adorable couple is
hanging up on my fridge for eternity. Could've waited for me to get back before
the wedding of the century, but I'll survive. ;) Anyway, I hope everyone has a
fabulous week! Keep my spirit alive in P-town! Gros bisou to you all!
Love,
Sister Tradition
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