Oh Canada! Week One.

This week has been so crazy and great all at the same time! So let me start off with the end of my stay at the MTC! On Monday, Sister Mendoza left and I was so sad to see her go! I am so glad that she was my companion. I had to be at the travel office at 3:30 in the morning and it was so crazy trying to fit everything in my bags! The night before I got like two hours of sleep! I left this bag that I had with my passport and wallet in it in the room and I realized this like right as we were going to get on the bus so I booked it back to the living hall, which was pretty close, and lucky sister Nambukara remembered too so she was at the top of the stairs right as I walked in! After that, we got on the bus and headed to the airport.

Sister Teddy in our new home in Canada!

My first night in Canada

Canada! SO snowy!

 Sister Jewel was the one I was flying with. The flight was good, it was basically JUST missionaries so I was able to sleep. They were playing the movie "In Time" so when I would wake up I would see the movie playing, so if you could watch it and tell me what it's about that would be great! ;) We arrived safe and sound in Canada and President Patrick picked us up with the AP's (Assistant to the President). They all helped us with our bags, which was great because mine were so heavy! We had dinner at the mission home and that was pretty good! We had some Canadian ice cream that was amazing! They took us to this awesome look out point in Montreal and we took some pictures, it was really cool and SO cold! We saw all of these missionaries at the Mission Office and we met the ones that were going to be trainers. When I met one of them I was like, "she is going to be my companion", and she is! Her name is Sister Rios and she is from Texas and El Salvador! At first, she reminded me of Allison, but later on she reminded me of Romina! Then I found out that her birthday is May 25th! I was like, "Gemini! No wonder she reminds me of them!" :)

My companion, Sister Rios

We are in Corn nuggets! Hahaha no it's called Cornwall but that's what Sister Rios calls it! It is English speaking, which is good I guess. Sister Rios and I try to only speak French and Spanish but it's hard, so we end up speaking all three to each other, haha! The area has been good so far! Sister Rios takes her exercise time seriously so we always work out, which is good! We are in a car mission which is also good! Its been kind of cold, it's mainly the wind that sucks, though! We went knocking my second day here and it was freezing, raining, and snowing all at the same time! Haha, but nobody wanted to hear about the gospel, which was kind of sad because you feel this great love for them and know that the Lord loves them and that they would be so happy if they would just let you in.

President & Sister Patrick, Sister Rios, and me

We don't have a ton of investigators, but we visit a lot of 'less actives'. The ward has like 250 members but only 60 show up! We teach them a lot! We have this one investigator, Loretta, used to be a member of the church, and she is now receiving the lessons so we went to her house to do some service and share the plan of salvation with her. Her house smelled like cigarettes and she has this friend, Kelly(boy), who was there just smoking this e cigarette! It was so hard to feel the spirit in there and I just wanted to cry! I am realizing more and more how much Utah is a bubble, like so different form the rest of the world, and how its a huge blessing to have lived there! Kelly asked us to bring him a Bible, though, and he seems interested so hopefully we could get both of them baptized! Yesterday was full of miracles! I have been having a hard time with culture shock, I didn't think it would happen but it did. Yesterday we visited Chantel, who was a member, and goes to the Catholic church now. We had such a great lesson with her and she really opened up to us! She stared to cry and said, "Yes, I need to go back to church" and so now we have a new investigator! Then we went knocking at these apartments and this lady, Sophie, let us in! We shared a short message about Christ, but her husband didn't seem interested so nothing happened there. We left a pamphlet and our card so at least the seed was planted! Yesterday was just the best! Sister Rios likes to write down one miracle a day so we can remember the great things that happen! I couldn't have asked for a better trainer and she really takes her responsibilities seriously! I am so blessed to be here and even though it is so different from Utah I know that I am here for a reason and that there are people that need to hear the gospel and are ready to receive it!

P.S. I am going to have a Tim Hortans donut today and I am going to have my first Poutine in March because we are going on exchanges in Montreal! I think that is everything, I'm especially missing Roku, though, because so many people have dogs like him that I see them and miss him!