CANADA Week 14-October 31, 2017

The "Last Supper" with Elder Roundy. It was his last night in Gatineau, so we all made a big dinner and ate together. He had been in Gatineau for 9 months!

Bonjour ma famille! I can't believe it is already Halloween! Happy Birthday Perr!  You being 12 kinda blows my mind, and when I see your pictures you look so grown up! The time is already flying so I'll see ya soon. I hope you got the letter I sent, and I love ya tons... I still need to find a sweet costume that I can wear to support Miss P on her BDay, and I am thinking that one of those banana suits Asher had is a good choice... The funny thing is I think more people would listen to us if we wore those here than our missionary tags haha. People really don't like churches here. 

This week was SUPER gratifying. We found some really great families to teach and to help, and one of them has 10 kids! It would be so much fun to bring them all into the church building and see the kids go wild. We also have a friend of the church who wants to be baptized Dec 2nd! We met him Monday, and we had 3 lessons with him this week. After we taught him a lesson about the example of Christ and how He wants all of us to follow him, he asked if he could be baptized. I am super excited for him to have the experience of baptism! It is such a great choice we can make and blessing we have been given. We also have been a lot more involved with the other missionary teams here in Gatineau now that Elder D is the District Leader, and it has been great to hear about their successes, and failures, and miracles. We really are blessed here.  

This squirrel was going beast mode on the spider webs haha. He wasn't having any of that on his tree and it was hilarious to watch. I have seen more squirrels here than I ever have before in my entire life. 

The weather has been awesome! It has been raining for such a long time I don't even remember when it started, and I love it! We have had like literal floods here, and I guess it must be normal because nobody here even blinks... Crazy Canadians haha. I have had to bust out the hat and scarf here though, because the wind here is intense, and I never knew how magical scarves were until this week.

It was a little different contacting people this week, because once it gets cold here people lock themselves indoors and hibernate until the sun is back haha. I am excited for the snow though, because we will have a lot of service opportunities if we can find ourselves some snow shovels. 

This is food from Palais Libanis. We can only go there like twice a transfer cause it is really expensive, but it is SO good! They have like 4 foot tall skewers of meat in the back that they chop pieces off of. 

Also, Elder Lundetta is the new zone leader in our apartment and he is great! He is from Ecuador so I have been practicing my Spanish with him (which is nonexistent). He is pretty close to the end of his mission and has a lot of experience, so he has been able to give us a lot of good advice. 

There was a baptism this week! A 9 year old boy in our ward named Loic decided he wanted to be baptized, and so Elder D and I were asked to be his witnesses. He was so excited, and as soon as he was pulled up out of the water he was so bright. He knew that something was different and he didn't even know how to express it, but it was pretty great. The sisters in our ward are working with their family, because his Dad is inactive but he is starting to open his mind and heart a little because of the example his son set for him. 

We met some really incredible people this week, and I would describe them all to you if I could, but I'll settle for just this one story. Wednesday we decided to pass by some potential friends of the church that we found all the way down in downtown Ottawa (it's like 40ish minutes from us). We set out and passed by a few people we already knew there, but when it got to the time to visit the potentials we realized we forgot our area book. Which means we didn't have the addresses... But right before we left I thought to open my personal agenda and in the middle of the page for that day was all of the addresses we needed. I know that in the mornings we are pretty tired so maybe I did, but I really couldn't remember writing those down. But anyways with those addresses we were able to talk to the people who needed the light of Christ in their lives, and who needed it that very day. It was cool to be a part of. We even had to bust into an old person`s home to talk to one guy haha.

Elder D and I living the luxurious missionary life. We had to take the car into the shop to fix a tire and transmission problem today, and they had hot chocolate and a massage chair haha. 

Thank you so much peeps for all of your support! I pray for you every morning and every night and most of the time you guys are what make me get up and decide to do just a little bit more. Remember to try and see things as God does... Sometimes the little things really just don't matter. Love ya all and have a killer week

Elder Wilson

P.S. Crash- is that old man still alive? Sometimes I wake up in the morning delirious because it is so early and totally think he is in my bed like the good ol days haha. 

You guys are in my thoughts always, and help me more than I thought was possible. It is so good to hear that life at home is peaceful, and remember to enjoy every moment of it. You are where you are for a reason and you have a purpose. Love ya and Happy Halloween!