Hello to my
beautiful, amazing, foxy family and friends! I just need to start off this
letter by letting everyone know just how much I LOVE you all! Thank you for all
of the birthday wishes and good vibes coming my way today. It has been such a
great birthday so far! Still plenty of fun things ahead. Now that I'm legal I'm
taking my greenie to club it up, maybe call up some of the French Canadian
honeys I contacted into on the streets last week... It's going to be a PAR-TAY!
Ha ha just kiddin. ;) We're keeping it PG here for my 21st. I promise I won't
get into too much trouble...
This week was fab!
The Great White North is slowly turning into a colorful, peaceful, CHILLY
wonderland of autumn and beards, piping hot poutine and Tim Horton's hot
chocolate and donuts. Fall is here! I'm feeling pretty blessed that I get to
spend my birthday in the beautiful city of Quebec with the most amazing people.
My peeps in the Quebec ward have been pulling out all the stops for me on my
special day! To all of you wishing you could give me a birthday phone call
today, my lovely ward family has been taking care of me on that end. No
worries. :) But still, I'm missing everyone back home SO MUCH on my special
day. I wish we could all be celebrating with crêpe parties, Pocahontas
sing-a-longs, hiking, autumn drives, disco-tequing, nude leotard fests, and
dare I say... *clubbing* .... haha but that will all have to wait until next
year! For now I am content to spend my 21st year serving the Lord, spreading
light and love to all of his children here in La Belle Province. It's probably
a good thing that I'm a missionary for my 21st birthday... who KNOWS what kind
of trouble I would be getting into today if I didn't have this missionary tag on!
Today has been pretty
great so far! I made birthday pancakes for my companion... oh, and me... lol.
So that was fun! Then we went on a little shopping spree, and now I'm basking
in birthday love and emails until we leave to visit Montmorency Falls this
afternoon with the District! I have the elders at my beck and call today... ha
ha okay, not really. They just love/are scared of me enough to do whatever
P-Day activity I want. So hiking it is! Then later tonight I'm
going to the Relief Society President's house for dinner (she is seriously
amazing), and after that we'll see where the wind takes me! Painting with all
the colors of the wind today. My B-Day P-Day (haha y'all are so clever) is
going to be fabulous, to say the least. :) In case any of you were worried, I
still know how to have a good time, EVEN on the mission!
Anyway, enough about
me and how lucky you all are that I was born. On to more awful things. This
week we went to chill with Sister Foniciello all day because her companion was
getting transferred. We were invited to eat lunch at this lady's house, and I
think I can officially say that I've encountered my first horror with mission
food. I'm not lying when I say that this lady made us omelettes with a dozen
eggs each! AT LEAST! Stuffed with mushrooms, bacon, peppers, four cheeses
and onions onions onions! Allllll burned to a CRISP! I was in AGONY!
And poor Sister Rios... oh my. Poor Sister Rios. This woman would NOT
let her stop eating it, even after she started gagging. Ha ha. Too, too funny.
Afterward they brought us out half a cantalope each. Also not
exaggerating. We managed to survive, but my sweet little companion was
horrendously sick the rest of the day. Tooooo awful! I never want to
live through something like that again.
In other news, our
new investigator is doing so great! We had three amazing lessons with him this
week. He is just a rockstar. He wanted a drawing of the plan of salvation
because he's going to teach it to his coworkers this week. Seriously, this guy
is just a walking miracle. The bad news of this week though is that our perfect
Quebec ward got SPLIT! I am in emotional turmoil over this. ALL of my favorite
families are leaving me!!! Okay, not ALL, but so many people that I love to
pieces. (cough cough Roxane... because I know she's reading this). ;) No really
though, it was a tragic day for everyone. It reminded me of the time that our
ward got separated, and how earth shattering that was.
Well, that's all I
have for you today. I will for sure be updating you next week on all of my
awesome birthday adventures! The day is just getting started. :) No,
birthday WEEK is just getting started! I still have plenty of partying to
do over the next couple of days. Also, before I forget, I hope you all survived
the flood of the century!!! That is nuts. Also, one other thing, SHOUT OUT to
everyone who has sent so much birthday love my way! I have the best friends and
family in the world. :) Also. BIGGEST SHOUT OUT IN THE HISTORY OF
SHOUT OUTS for my main squeeze Ellie Parker for bombarding me with SOOOOOO
much birthday love this morning! I was weeping tears of joy.
Literally. And then I saw my chica shirt and weeped some more... HA HA! My
birthday is complete. But really. I am so, so, so, blessed to have so much
support from loved ones! You all rock!
Keep on doing your
thang! May the good Lord bless you for making my birthday so special. Peace and
love! Smooches galore! Loving and missing you all more than my heart can bear!
Love,
Syl
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