June 18, 2012

Hey all you Family and Friends! Well I hope you all had a fabulous week! I had a pretty good one! It was kind of busy and some exciting things happened! I can't wait to tell you all about them! So first we have Monday...it was p-day, but it didn't really feel like p-day...because we had to clean our car for car inspections...and we wanted to get 100% so we worked really hard! We even took the time to handwax our car...so I can't lie...it looked really good! But it was still a good day. That evening we had supper with the Root's and they are great! Then we had a lesson with Kenzie! Love that girl...and her family. She is still on for baptism on July 7 which we are excited for! But we gave her a Book of Mormon Stories book with the pictures to help her understand the Book of Mormon more! She loved it! Tuesday was a bitter sweet day...we had Specialized Training and Car Inspections....we only missed one point on our car by the way...and it was a really great training. Of course we had the role play portion...Sis Garner was convinced that the other Sister's would have to do it...but nope...we did! We only did a Lesson 2...and our last training was on the importance of memorizing the doctrine points at the end of the lessons so it will help us become better teachers. Well Sister Garner and I have been working hard on memorizing them and practicing teaching and we did a good job. Right after our roleplay President Archibald got up and said that it was the first time that he had ever heard all of the doctrine points said in a roleplay! We were really proud of ourselves...all of our studying is paying off...and is definitely making us better teachers. But unfortunetly it was our last training with President and Sister Archibald because they leave Canada on June 29...so they brought cake for everyone and we took pictues and did some mingling. They are so wonderful and I will miss them. But I am sure President and Sister Nicholas will be just as wonderful as well! The rest of the day we just did some tracting and stop-bys and had supper with the Quaifes. We did have a PI lesson set up, but as usual he wasn't there...one day we will find the prepared people that will let us teach them. Wednesday we had DDM's and it was a gongshow as usual. When they were over, we headed back to our apartment to study and guess what they were doing....testing all the fire alarms in the building. Not the greatest study environment. After that we had lots of "fun" tracting in the pouring rain! They say it might help people have compassion on you...not the case for us that particular day. We did have a lesson with Sister Chase where we read from the Book of Mormon. I promise one day we are gonna get her to church. And all the LA's we are working with. That evening we had supper with the Fremstad's and it was a great evening as usual! Thursday was one of the best days of my mission! Why you might ask...well we had a Special Training for all the Sister Missionaries!!! It was the best to see all the sister's in one place and be able to spend a few hours with them! It was such a great training! It was all about our role in the open house of the Calgary Temple! It is seriously going to be some of the best 3 weeks of my life! I can't even wait! All of the 20 sister missionaries in our mission will be at the temple everyday! 5 companionships will be working on each of the 2 shifts! It is going to be incredible! Bro. Stonehocker...who is incharge of the tours of the open house...came and talked to us as well as President and SIster Archibald! After the training they fed us lunch and then sent us all away again...Here was the best quote from President "There is one thing the Elders are better at...and that is leaving!" It is true...we all get talking and we never want to leave! But it was so great to see all the sisters! I think that is one of the reasons I needed to come on a mission was to meet all the amazing people I have met that I never would have if I hadn't come! I love how the Lord really does have His hand in our lives and puts us where we need to be when we need to be there! After our training we had a lesson with Cristina and Achai! They are just as solid as ever and have such a strong testimony!! After that we had supper with the Piersons and then were able to drop in at the RS activity. It was a mother/son activity this month...so a little more rough than the last one, but is was still fun! Friday we had to do our weekly planning and it was a gongshow. But the rest of the day wasn't very exciting either. We had supper with the Hernandez family and then we were going to go do some visits that we had planned, but we felt like we needed to go see Sister Leavens because we hadn't seen her at church for a few weeks and we just felt like she needed a visit. Sure enough she did! It is wonderful to listen to the Spirit to know where your Heavenly Father wants you! I love it! So we were able to spend a little bit of time with her and just have a good visit! On Saturday we just did some tracting and stuff before we had a lesson with Sister Sonnenberg. She is just the same as always. But then we were able to go to the Williams house and help them paint their basement! It was actually a lot of fun. We got a lot of it done, but then it was time for us to go to our dinner appt. We ate supper with Betty. She is great....and she is such a talker. But she really is a nice lady. After our appt with her we went back to help finish up the painting. It was fun and it looked really good by the time we were done! Sunday was Fathers Day!! So happy Father's day to all you fathers! We had a good day at church and then Bro Williams invited us over for lunch for all the help we gave him. After that we had a few PI lessons set up and we took our new ward missionaries...Shanita and Scott...but none of them were home or let us come in and teach them....it was kind of a bummer. But we did have a lesson with the Guardados...they too are some that we are going to get to church one day! And then after that we had supper with Kenzie's family! Love them so much! They are coming to Utah this weekend and I can't lie...I am kind of jealous...but oh well Canada is great too and I love it here! I am glad you had a good time at youth conference! And way to go Sager for being a stud! Thanks for hitting a homerun for me! Good luck with all the final wedding

preparations!! Have a great week!! I sure do love and miss you all!! Love, Sister Kaitlyn Marchant Here are a few pictures! 1- Me and my daughter Sister Brower 2- Me and the Sisters from my MTC family...Sister Newby and Sister Hoyt 3- Painting!!