Progress!

Sister Rios and me

The Sisters we went on exchanges with

This week has been great! We had a zone activity on Monday that was way fun! Elders are sooo crazy, though, hahaha, they make me laugh! Since I am the only new person in the zone they all introduced themselves to me, which was cool. We had exchanges that day as well and I went with Sister Sherwood and stayed in Cornwall. My companion, Sister Rios, exchanged with Sister Cuttler, who was her trainer when she was new to the field! That makes Sister Cuttler my grandma trainer since she is my trainer's "mom trainer" haha. ;)

I had to use a map to direct us for the first time and it was pretty scary but luckily we didn't get too lost! We spent Tuesday in Cornwall and then drove up to Montreal in the evening because we had zone conference on Wednesday. Do you remember how I said that Elders are crazy? Well, we get this call from the zone leaders and they are talking to Sister Rios, but the phone is on speaker so I can hear them, and they're like, "Is Sister Gonzalez there?" and sister Rios says yes and passes me the phone. Then they say," Hi, it's Elder Johnson and Elder Williams and we are missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints." All I could think was, "Yes. I know. I'm one too. Where is this going?" Then they asked me if I'm from Utah and I said, "Yes I am". After that they asked me if I could play the piano and I said that I could a little so they asked me if I'd like to play at the zone conference...I said yes! I went ahead and played the piano for Zone conference and I was terrible, but Sister Rios said I did a good job and it was my first time playing while people were singing! I played, "We Thank Thee Oh God for a Prophet".

The ward family

We had a lesson on Thursday with a new investigator, Elizabeth, and we invited her to be baptized...she said yes!!!! WOOOO! That was SO great! Here are some of the good things that happened missionary work wise, Lorretta and Kelly came to Church!!!! WOOOOHOO! AND I am starting to feel love for her! We also had a lot of 'less actives' at church and at the Relief Society activity, which was great!

Here are some funny things that happened. Sister Rios was like, "Sister Gonzalez, do you think if we fasted every week the weather would get nice?" Haha :) I also called Kelly on accident. Whoops. I asked for Elizabeth, thinking I was calling our new investigator's home. Turns out Kelly used to have a wife named Elizabeth because when he answered he said, "No, my wife has been dead for five years." I felt sooooo bad! ...But it was kind of funny, heehee. ;) Brother Hynes, our ward mission leader, called me Sister Rodriguez and Sister Gomez in the same day!! Haha, it was so funny

I love being a missionary and being out here in Canada is great! When I was with Sister Sherwood she told me that she was so impressed with my teaching and the fact that I made efforts to make calls and participate in lessons! That made me so happy because every day I try to be better and make this the Lords mission! I was thinking this week that I wanted to say that I gave my 20th year of life to serving the Lord, but the more I thought about it the more I thought that I want to say that about every year of my life. That way when He asks me, "What did you do in this year of your life?" I can say, "Lord, I served thee."

I love you ALL SOOOOO Much! I wish I had more time but missions are crazy time warps! You'll be seeing me soon! Next week is my one month in Canada! Can you believe I have been gone for a month, counting the MTC?! It's nuts! Thanks for the emails I love seeing a full inbox!