BONJOURHI

dear everyone,

this week was great!

we are kind of at the point in our area where we need to build up a teaching pool so that we can have investigators that progress and come to church so that means lots of contacting! which is easy when you are bus/metro because people can`t get away from you (mwahhaha).

this week i had some really cool contacts. on the bus i was able to teach someone the plan of salvation and on the metro i was able to teach about the book of mormon and testify that it will change that person`s life. it`s crazy in the loudness and bustle of all the people in the metro you can still feel the spirit! another amazing this is that in the metro you meet lots of people and most of the people you talk to will not be people you end up teaching because there are 4 different languages of missionaries here in montreal and lots of wards/branches. i`m always amazed about how when we give referrals to other missionaries, we receive so many back. Heavenly Father blesses our efforts!

this week we were also knocking and we ran into a guy who is muslim. we started talking to him and he told us that we need to talk to his friend who was walking up the stairs. we started talking to him and he pretty much wanted to bash christians vs muslims but we didn`t want to do that. we started testifying of Jesus Christ and everything changed! we were able to have a really cool conversation with him and there was a lot of respect. we realized that there were many things similar about our religion, especially in the plan of salvation. they even let us say a prayer with them and we fixed a return appointment!

this week we also had zone conference which was fabulous. i got to see all of my favorite missionaries and i had to give my "final testimony" and i didn`t cry! so that was a success!

i read a talk by elder c scott grow from the last general conference yesterday and there was a quote in it that i LOVED,

"In April 1985, Elder Bruce R. McConkie spoke in general conference—just 13 days before he died. He concluded with this testimony:

`I am one of his witnesses, and in a coming day I shall feel the nail marks in his hands and in his feet and shall wet his feet with my tears.

`But I shall not know any better then than I know now that he is God’s Almighty Son, that he is our Savior and Redeemer, and that salvation comes in and through his atoning blood and in no other way.`

Those of us who heard Elder McConkie speak that day have never forgotten how we felt. As he began his talk, he revealed why his witness was so powerful. He said:

`In speaking of these wondrous things I shall use my own words, though you may think they are the words of scripture. …

`True it is they were first proclaimed by others, but they are now mine, for the Holy Spirit of God has borne witness to me that they are true, and it is now as though the Lord had revealed them to me in the first instance. I have thereby heard his voice and know his word.`"

how powerful is that? that is the power of the Book of Mormon. in preach my gospel it says that if there is someone who knows nothing about Jesus Christ, they can read the Book of Mormon and know of Him and know Him. I know this is true. I have seen the Book of Mormon transform lives. i have seen miracles in my life because of the Book of Mormon and i have seen miracles in the lives of those i have served here because of the Book of Mormon.

montreal fact: every single store you go into they will say "bonjour hi" because it`s a bilingual city and everyone who works in a store has to speak English and french.

i love you all! have a great week!

love,

sœur paine

pictures:

milk comes in bags in canada

sister dinge and i at zone conference

we had to fill up the font for a baptism in the ward and there were bugs everywhere that we had to fish out. gross.

SISTER DAMPT AND I ARE IN THE SAME WARD AGAIN (not companions just same ward)