Hi mom
Thanks for the picture of the house being built.The house looks pretty shabby right at the moment, but I think with a bit of work it will come along nicely. It looks like it was a beautiful day in Calgary as well. I will try to be shopping at a fudge store in town to see if they do sell any caramel spread,if I find some I will treat my companion to a beautiful taste, if not I already treated him to some groc, and a hearty big meal of rice peas and groundbeef with montreal steakspice. My companion Elder Sanders is from Auburn California, its a small town about 1 hour east of Sacramento. He has 5 acres of land, and is spelling all his words the canadian way, like Colour Saviour etc... We went up to Bancroft this weekend and it turns out they got around 4 friends to come to church. They are really showing their appreciation for missionaries by making more work happen up there than down here. Bancroft is absolutely beautiful though, I love it up there, I forgot to take pictures though, so I will the next time I get up there. This week we did a ton of traveling to go and see the inactives that live on the outskirts of our area, we probably spent 15 hours in the car, Bancroft itself being arounf 4 hours. So that took a lot out of both of us. I might need a stake directory, because I have finally gotten to writing the Surdu's back, when I noticed there is no return address on their envelope, if you could send me their address and postal code I would be greatly appreciative. I love you a lot
Elder Dumouchel
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
August 30 2010
hi mom
I have been taking lots of pictures, but I haven't filled up the card yet, I am going to take more pictures with the members and try to fill it up as soon as possible. My new companion is Elder Sanders, he is shorter than me, weighs about 20 pounds more, but not overweight in any way. He's been out for 20 months and I am really enjoying working with him. He's an awesome missionary.Thanks for elder Nilsons email address. Not too much happened this week. I am going to start teaching the members the discussions to try and help them become more excited in missionary work. I got the idea from a talk in this months ensign. I hope everything goes well. Take Scooter on long walks so he can remember me. I had a good newphy dinner last night, but nobody signed up this week. Oh well. Anyways I love you a lot, keep up the faith.
I have been taking lots of pictures, but I haven't filled up the card yet, I am going to take more pictures with the members and try to fill it up as soon as possible. My new companion is Elder Sanders, he is shorter than me, weighs about 20 pounds more, but not overweight in any way. He's been out for 20 months and I am really enjoying working with him. He's an awesome missionary.Thanks for elder Nilsons email address. Not too much happened this week. I am going to start teaching the members the discussions to try and help them become more excited in missionary work. I got the idea from a talk in this months ensign. I hope everything goes well. Take Scooter on long walks so he can remember me. I had a good newphy dinner last night, but nobody signed up this week. Oh well. Anyways I love you a lot, keep up the faith.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Staying in Peterborough
An awesome thing happened this week. We visited an investigator that was dropped by us, and we brought a member along. We taught 3rd nephi 18: 1-25, and afterwards commited him to come back to church, I really thought he was going to get up and give me a hug, (and say something like, man I will come back to church, I need it in my life, something like that) but instead he just gave me a really firm handshake. It was awesome, it's the first time he's really understood the spirit and what we teach. This week was transfer week, my companion Elder Williamson is heading back into Oshawa, and my new comapnion in peterborough will be Elder Sanders. Peterborugh isn't an area where I get fed a lot. Amazingly enough I am keeping up my weight, and I am working out my upper body, that's the good part about Peterborough, they have some good weights. This week seemed to go really slow, probably because transfers were this week. We taught a young man,18, who I had given a book of mormon to. It turns out he has actually been reading it. He has had a really tough life, and he lives in a group home, but his mom was a church girl and he wanted to get back into religion. We taught him about the book of mormon and about baptism, but we didn't commit him to baptism. I want you to tell all the people leaving on missions real soon to commit investigators to baptism, don't be afraid, just commit to baptism. We have a talk out here called challenging and testifying missionary, it comes from a general conference a long time ago. (I believe.) My suggestion is if you can get a hold of it before your mission, and study it thoroughly, even practice it, you will see a lot more success on your mission. My advice to prospective missionaries is to become challenging and testifying missionaries, it is hard, but it will help you give your all i know that if i do apply it I will see miracles happen.
Take Care All,
Elder Dumouchel
Take Care All,
Elder Dumouchel
Monday, August 9, 2010
August 9th
"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
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, 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
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