"hellooooo" mom
This past week has been pretty stressful, and its going to continue next week, as we have another leadership training. My eyes bulge more when I'm stressed I find. We found an awesome new investigator this week, that makes 7 over 4 weeks, all from tracting. Her name is Erika, she's YSA age, but we're not sure if she's married. She is a nurse, and for the next week she will still be doing a night shift. She had taken a bit of a religion study, so she can aquaint herself with the religions of patients. She has questions about death, and doesn't believe that a child should go to hell if it's not baptized. It was awesome! We taught her a mixed lesson of the Restoration and Plan of Salvation, but since I was in Oshawa the Lindsey elders came over to teach her. I had told them to teach the plan of salvation, and they taught the restoration, which made it even more stressful for me. I really enjoyed the stuff you sent down,especially those sugar cookies, they were awesome. In Bancroft, brother Cook,he's French. He's a really neat character. He had us over for the night. That's because he lives too far away, and he had to drive us down. He's cool, he gave us a small can of maple syrup, so today I made myself some real good canadian french toast, my companion wouldn't even try it. I love you a lot
Elder Dumouchel
Monday, August 9, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
July 26th
Kent's family doesn't live in my area, they live in my district. I'm in Peterborough, and they live in Lindsey. So if you send it to them I will not be able to go pick it up until I am transferred to Lindsey. Next transfers are august 25th. the problem I am facing with my companion right now is his hope and faith, (not the tv show). He thinks that investigators never get baptised on their baptismal date, but with Gods help anything is possible. It's usually known as a miracle! You just have to have the right attitude toward everything that you do, then you will see the miracles and promised blessings that you were told would come. I went up to Bancroft yesterday. I was on splits with a Brother Rider. He served his mission in England, and he played a big part in bringing the Hinton Family into the church. Ask them if they remember brother Rider. With the humidity factor it has been up around 40 degrees down here, so it actually wasn't hot in calgary! I am tanning up nicely though. Just send the meds to me. I am doing fine, and I'm keeping the right attitude. I might use my credit card to buy something. (just as one of those every once in a while uses) it won't be expensive, just like 20 dollars or something. This week I should be repaid for the airconditioner, and I will put the money back in the account. We have an appointment with a former potential investigator named Candace, and I'm excited to teach her. She sounded pretty excited over the phone.I'm glad to hear you had a good time at the air show. You're getting burnt while I'm getting tanned, lol. I think Shaun will be a great mission leader, I hope all the young families are doing well. Tell them I miss them, and that they were excellent examples to me. I'm also extremely glad to hear things have picked up for work, I will continue to pray for you. I'm glad to hear that the work is still moving along up there. I'm going to keep the right attitude as we go to teach everyone and bring them unto Christ. If we can get at least half our potential investigators to commit to baptism (around 10 is half) I will probably explode with joy. Have an exciting joyful week.
love
Elda Dumouchel Eh!
ps. My companion is starting to say eh quite a bit.
love
Elda Dumouchel Eh!
ps. My companion is starting to say eh quite a bit.
July 19th
Hello Everyone,
I'm doing well, we're stopping to eat out so much, my companion is trying to lose weight. I miss the stampede, but I'm glad you were all able to go. We found a couple of people who said they'd be interested, but one of them is going to Calgary for 3 weeks, the other is an investigator, who skipped our appointment, and "ill call you when ive had a chance to read." Keep scooter healthy, I want him to be there when I come back! The Tronto Est mission is still looking for more missionaries, maybe even an older couple, but tell Try that he'll have a lot more joy when he gets into the mission field. D&C 18: 10,15-16. I hope you guys are well. I hope Peter and Dad enjoy the air show, tell them to pick up another one of those movies.LOL. The airconditioner is going to be paid for by the mission, it was approved last week. Our house was just as bad as everybody elses was on the street. Good to see the house is all finally done, all the hard work is finally over. I will be praying for you, I have been everyday. Since you found so much stuff in the river, now you don't need to go shopping, you can just go kayacking to find what you want. lol. I would have thought that Greg would be the one to sink, I'm glad he didn't drown though, just last week there was a 4 year old boy who got swept in the current of the river and died, its always sad to hear stuff like that, but always good to know that we know where he is. We taught a 100 year old man, he said that he new in his heart that what we were saying was true, but he dindn't understand the part about being baptized by the proper authority, but we gave him a book of mormon, and a restoration pamphlet, hopefully he can actually read that really small print, he doesn't have too much time left to come unto christ, and his mom only died just last summer. We did find one guy just yesterday, and he was trying really hard to go against our temples and stuff, we could see that he felt bad about what he was doing, but we just gave him a card and told him to look up the information for himself, because we didn't talk to him just so we could start a fight, and I even told him that, I said contention is of the devil, and we're not here to start it. I said it very nicely as we left. So that was the good thing to do, and I'm glad that I did it properly. Thank you for your message, we are really applying it now, everyone that wouldn't progress we have dropped. I love you a lot, on one day we did 4.5 hours of tracting, that was a lot, but we need more people to teach, people who wont bomb appointments. I hope you guys are well, keep in the faith. I love you lots
Elder D
I'm doing well, we're stopping to eat out so much, my companion is trying to lose weight. I miss the stampede, but I'm glad you were all able to go. We found a couple of people who said they'd be interested, but one of them is going to Calgary for 3 weeks, the other is an investigator, who skipped our appointment, and "ill call you when ive had a chance to read." Keep scooter healthy, I want him to be there when I come back! The Tronto Est mission is still looking for more missionaries, maybe even an older couple, but tell Try that he'll have a lot more joy when he gets into the mission field. D&C 18: 10,15-16. I hope you guys are well. I hope Peter and Dad enjoy the air show, tell them to pick up another one of those movies.LOL. The airconditioner is going to be paid for by the mission, it was approved last week. Our house was just as bad as everybody elses was on the street. Good to see the house is all finally done, all the hard work is finally over. I will be praying for you, I have been everyday. Since you found so much stuff in the river, now you don't need to go shopping, you can just go kayacking to find what you want. lol. I would have thought that Greg would be the one to sink, I'm glad he didn't drown though, just last week there was a 4 year old boy who got swept in the current of the river and died, its always sad to hear stuff like that, but always good to know that we know where he is. We taught a 100 year old man, he said that he new in his heart that what we were saying was true, but he dindn't understand the part about being baptized by the proper authority, but we gave him a book of mormon, and a restoration pamphlet, hopefully he can actually read that really small print, he doesn't have too much time left to come unto christ, and his mom only died just last summer. We did find one guy just yesterday, and he was trying really hard to go against our temples and stuff, we could see that he felt bad about what he was doing, but we just gave him a card and told him to look up the information for himself, because we didn't talk to him just so we could start a fight, and I even told him that, I said contention is of the devil, and we're not here to start it. I said it very nicely as we left. So that was the good thing to do, and I'm glad that I did it properly. Thank you for your message, we are really applying it now, everyone that wouldn't progress we have dropped. I love you a lot, on one day we did 4.5 hours of tracting, that was a lot, but we need more people to teach, people who wont bomb appointments. I hope you guys are well, keep in the faith. I love you lots
Elder D
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
45 degrees with the hunidity
Hello,
In Bancroft there is an apartment above the church, and it has a portable airconditioner, and queen size beds, very nice! With the humid ex the temperature was around 45 degrees celcius. The mission president approved a small airconditioner for all appartments( our appartment was usually hotter than outside when we came back in). The bill on my debit card will be refunded, so don't worry, I'll put the money back in. I went on splits to Lindsey area this week, and the dinner appointment as you may have heard was one of Kent's relatives. It was pretty cool. I'm staying in Peterborough for one more transfer at least, which is good, we have made really good plans for the members. We are having a Bar-b-que on July 27th, and the "condition of admission" is that each member has to bring a friend. Last night we had this cool missionary musical presentation in memorial park in Oshawa. It was really good, the zone leaders organized it and there was a really good turn out. Peterborough's less actives are more than double the actives, there are a few really amazing people though, like the Fukishimas, they're a really old Japanese couple, and they are so nice and awesome. They were both converts to the church when they were younger, and I could talk a bit about Samurai's with them. I hope all the house work goes well,
I love you a lot
Elder D
In Bancroft there is an apartment above the church, and it has a portable airconditioner, and queen size beds, very nice! With the humid ex the temperature was around 45 degrees celcius. The mission president approved a small airconditioner for all appartments( our appartment was usually hotter than outside when we came back in). The bill on my debit card will be refunded, so don't worry, I'll put the money back in. I went on splits to Lindsey area this week, and the dinner appointment as you may have heard was one of Kent's relatives. It was pretty cool. I'm staying in Peterborough for one more transfer at least, which is good, we have made really good plans for the members. We are having a Bar-b-que on July 27th, and the "condition of admission" is that each member has to bring a friend. Last night we had this cool missionary musical presentation in memorial park in Oshawa. It was really good, the zone leaders organized it and there was a really good turn out. Peterborough's less actives are more than double the actives, there are a few really amazing people though, like the Fukishimas, they're a really old Japanese couple, and they are so nice and awesome. They were both converts to the church when they were younger, and I could talk a bit about Samurai's with them. I hope all the house work goes well,
I love you a lot
Elder D
Bancroft
Mom,
Dad's whistle works on every dog, a while back a great dane had gotten away from his owner, so we got out and helped him catch it, I used the whistle and he came a running. Brandon visited with his grandparents so he didn't make it. On Friday before we went up to Bancroft, I taught this one lady, she had been taught by missionaries for 2 years, and didn't make any commitments, and while I was teaching the spirit was upon me so strong, that I started to shake. I know that she felt the spirit testifying to her of the truth, but in the end she still wouldn't commit to anything. It was very sad to see that happen. We went up to Bancroft (total population between 3500 and 4000 people) and they had like only 20 members, but they fed us every single day. Everyone in Bancroft is older than you (except for the Branch President who is leiah's ageish), but they are amazing member missionaries, they're always spreading the gospel, and giving out Books of mormon. It was invogorating, and now we're even more set on getting Peterborough more missionary oriented. In Bancroft they give you like five names as referels. There was also an investigator in Bancroft, and they are prepared for the gospel. I am excited to go back, but I am going to work twice as hard to get Peterborough in motion. I also tracted Evans st. this week. We are going through all the former investigators and all the streets, we will find those who the lord has prepared for us. I'm doing great, Im actually starting to tan, its great. I have been very clumsy on my mission and have missed the curb on a step or barely hit the curb causing me to almost fall, but I haven't hurt myself yet.
I love you a lot
Elder Dumouchel
Dad's whistle works on every dog, a while back a great dane had gotten away from his owner, so we got out and helped him catch it, I used the whistle and he came a running. Brandon visited with his grandparents so he didn't make it. On Friday before we went up to Bancroft, I taught this one lady, she had been taught by missionaries for 2 years, and didn't make any commitments, and while I was teaching the spirit was upon me so strong, that I started to shake. I know that she felt the spirit testifying to her of the truth, but in the end she still wouldn't commit to anything. It was very sad to see that happen. We went up to Bancroft (total population between 3500 and 4000 people) and they had like only 20 members, but they fed us every single day. Everyone in Bancroft is older than you (except for the Branch President who is leiah's ageish), but they are amazing member missionaries, they're always spreading the gospel, and giving out Books of mormon. It was invogorating, and now we're even more set on getting Peterborough more missionary oriented. In Bancroft they give you like five names as referels. There was also an investigator in Bancroft, and they are prepared for the gospel. I am excited to go back, but I am going to work twice as hard to get Peterborough in motion. I also tracted Evans st. this week. We are going through all the former investigators and all the streets, we will find those who the lord has prepared for us. I'm doing great, Im actually starting to tan, its great. I have been very clumsy on my mission and have missed the curb on a step or barely hit the curb causing me to almost fall, but I haven't hurt myself yet.
I love you a lot
Elder Dumouchel
Monday, June 28, 2010
You think that's Hot!!!
Hello mom, you think that is hot!!!! We've been getting 28 degrees, with ten times the humidity. Even when it's raining the temperature is still 22 degrees. This week I will visit brother Humphreys, he wants his 11 year old son to choose for himself whether this is the right church, and he wants to know where in the scriptures it says we have to attend church, so I'm going to read with him D&C 59:9-10, and D&C 68:25-28. I hope it helps. This week we did 18hrs of tracting, thats a lot. I'm starting to feel it on my legs. There is a book called tracting and member missionary work, in that book it says that we should pray for streets to tract, so my companion, Elder Williamson and I went and picked out six streets. The first one on both our lists was Nicholls street, and when we went and tracted that street we found Nicole, she had just moved that day, and was having a house warming party, but she said it would be great if we came back another time. So we'll have to see how that goes. do you remeber a brother Loose, back when the ward boundaries changed brother loose gave the closing prayer(i think, i can't remember.) we are teaching someone who is afraid of going outside, his name is Brandon, he wants to come to church, but needs a familiar face to pick him up and be at the church. Luckily we're familiar faces, so now we just need somebody to pick him up. Thats everything interesting this week. I'm enjoying the work
Elder D (thats what everyone calls me, because i told them they could).
Elder D (thats what everyone calls me, because i told them they could).
Monday, June 21, 2010
All is well.
Hi Everyone,
I'm feeling fine, don't worry. There is really no greater joy than to see souls come unto Christ. I'm still living off the joy of just finding a potential investigator! I can't even imagine yet how joyful I'll be if they get baptized. I'm glad to hear that the roof is pretty well done. you can tell everyone this story I'm about to share. In my ward there is a slightly older fellow named Shawn. Shawn is completely blind, and lives on his own. Now something not about Shawn. Scientists have proven that there should be no way a bee could fly; the problem is that nobody told the bee it couldnt fly. Back to Shawn. Someone forgot to tell Shawn he was blind-- because he just does everything! In priesthood they announced a service project that would require a lot of physical labour, and I swear that Shawns hand went up before the sentance was even finished. Not only that, but he has been really good with his house. He bought a couch and 2 coffee tables for $35, and I've checked them out and their nice. He also bought a really nice ceiling fan for $50, it was on sale $100 off at Canadian Tire or something. He is completely fixing up his house for really cheap. Not only that, but he keeps inviting us over to eat, (he didnt do that before I was here, apparantly) he is also our home teaching companion (yes we're home teachers) and we are going to bring him to share his conversion story with an investigator. What a great guy, he's an example to all of us. I have been cooking. I've done 2 meals, they turned out alright. This week we only have 2 days that we're not being fed. tThe members here are really great. These computers don't have a USB or anything, so I can't send pics. They have a zoo here, we are making it a tradition to go to the zoo each P-day. They have a white Bobcat that looks really cool. It's pretty sweet for a small town. I love you lots
Elder Dumouchel
I'm feeling fine, don't worry. There is really no greater joy than to see souls come unto Christ. I'm still living off the joy of just finding a potential investigator! I can't even imagine yet how joyful I'll be if they get baptized. I'm glad to hear that the roof is pretty well done. you can tell everyone this story I'm about to share. In my ward there is a slightly older fellow named Shawn. Shawn is completely blind, and lives on his own. Now something not about Shawn. Scientists have proven that there should be no way a bee could fly; the problem is that nobody told the bee it couldnt fly. Back to Shawn. Someone forgot to tell Shawn he was blind-- because he just does everything! In priesthood they announced a service project that would require a lot of physical labour, and I swear that Shawns hand went up before the sentance was even finished. Not only that, but he has been really good with his house. He bought a couch and 2 coffee tables for $35, and I've checked them out and their nice. He also bought a really nice ceiling fan for $50, it was on sale $100 off at Canadian Tire or something. He is completely fixing up his house for really cheap. Not only that, but he keeps inviting us over to eat, (he didnt do that before I was here, apparantly) he is also our home teaching companion (yes we're home teachers) and we are going to bring him to share his conversion story with an investigator. What a great guy, he's an example to all of us. I have been cooking. I've done 2 meals, they turned out alright. This week we only have 2 days that we're not being fed. tThe members here are really great. These computers don't have a USB or anything, so I can't send pics. They have a zoo here, we are making it a tradition to go to the zoo each P-day. They have a white Bobcat that looks really cool. It's pretty sweet for a small town. I love you lots
Elder Dumouchel
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