Hey Family and Friends!! How are you all?? Well things are going pretty great up here in Canada...we didn't have that exciting of a week, but we did stay busy! So here goes...I will tell you all about it!! Well Monday was p-day was just normal...like usual, after we did everything we needed to do, we went to see the Sisters in the office and then went to the church...while we were there, we watched the Elders play basketball. But when Laura got there, we played some games with her! It was fun. Then we had supper with the Gough's. It sure was yummy...like most food here in Canada!! Tuesday was FREEZING COLD!!!! -35C! It was so cold. But we were still missionaries. So we had DDM's and then lunch. When we got back to our area, we had to make a bunch of copies of some ESL material for Sonia. Then the Stanfords brought us dinner....you will never guess what they brought us!!! COSTA VIDA!!!! It finally made it to Canada...and it was so yummy! I don't know how I have lived without that food for this long! It was just like I remember! Then we were headed to ESL, when we got a phone call that it was canceled because it was 'too cold' outside....we live in CANADA...nothing is too cold here. But since we didn't have ESL, we were able to go meet with Sonia and talk with her in English. She is doing so great!! She is so funny and she told us all about how her and Enrique, her husband, met! It was a pretty great story. Wednesday we started our day at Sister Ford's house! She needed some help moving some heavy boxes...so we were able to offer our services. Then after lunch, we went to see Carmen. Today we took someone with us. She is from 4th ward...Sister Nystevold...her sister-in-law was in a tragic accident and has a severe brain injury. One of her friends had given her a copy of Carmen's book to read and she was loving it. She wanted to purchase 15 copies for her family!! So we took her to meet Carmen. It was great! And it was incredible to hear about both Carmen's story and Sister Nystevold's sister-in-law as well. Carmen was ecstatic that she wanted to buy her books! This is exactly what she wants her book to do!! She was just so happy. Well that night our dinner canceled, so we had a fun cold night of stop-bys. Thursday was weekly planning! I am not going to lie...I can't wait to not do that anymore!! That night we had supper with the Larsen's. Their grandson is Elder Merrill who is now serving in Grandma's mission!! Then we had a lesson with the Fords. They are doing great! That night we were just enjoying ourselves when the phone rang. It was the Assistants...we were expecting a training call for Sister Rice. But they didn't say anything about it...they were just asking us about details for our next p-day because we have something fun planned...well as soon as they hung up, Elder Ferrell called and asked if Sister Rice had gotten a training call...we explained what had just happened and then he said, "Oh wait, I have someone on the other line that has something they need to tell you..." It was the Assistants and they told her that she was going to be training! She is going to be a great trainer!! Friday we got to go to the East because we had to get our oil changed. That was fun to drive around over there again. Then we had a lesson with Sandra. She is so great!! I love her so much. So she is definitely progressing. For our lesson we watched the Restoration movie, and we were a little nervous because of the last time we tried to teach the Restoration and she was very defensive, but she really enjoyed it and had a lot of comments! She told us how she feels so welcome at church and that she thinks she is headed in the right direction!! Then that night we had supper with Sister Sells. She is great and showed us all of the sewing projects she is working on! She is very talented! Saturday was a fun day because we went to the Trainer's Training. That was really fun because we got to see all of the other Sisters that are training. I really thought that Sister Brower would be training...but she isn't. Next transfer. It was a great training and then President Nicholas gave all the Sisters permission to go out to lunch at Peter's. It is a famous Calgary Drive In. It was really good and it was fun to have that experience...especially with all of the Sisters. Well then we went to see the Ivany's one last time before I leave. Sister Ivany is so great and her kids are so cute! They are just so loving! That night our dinner canceled, but the Stanfords called and asked if we could come over. It was great, and we had so much fun with them. That night we had a lesson with Christy. We talked about Agency and Accountability in the FSOY. Sunday was just a normal fast Sunday...except for the fact that I realized it was my last opportunity to bear my testimony. I am so grateful for this opportunity I have had to serve here in Canad!! Well after Sacrament we went to Gospel Principles. Brother Walters was going to teach...since we still have no WML, but he forgot, so we quickly threw something together as we went. Sandra came to church again and this week she wanted to go to Gospel Doctrine. It was great! I have really missed that class. That night we had supper with the Salleh family and then we had a lesson with the Fords. Monday was a crazy day!! We had a zone meeting where we had to go over some zone/mission business. It was less than exciting and then we went to lunch. On our way home we stopped by the office to give them some cookies and some paperwork to Elder Wansgard. Every time we go to the office Sister Rice asks if she has any mail...she often doesn't, but for some reason I do...I am going home soon...so this happened again and I am still getting mail!! It is crazy...I expected that to stop over a month ago. But thanks to Grandma I still am getting letters!! It is just kind of funny. Every time Sister Wansgard gives me a letter, I tell her it is going to be the last one. Well then we went to Sister Sells and vaccumed her house and then we had supper with the Istvanffy's. They are great. Well then I had to start packing...because we are getting a new missionary, I have to give up my bed, dresser, closet, and desk...that means I get to live out of suitcases for the next week! yay me! Well I hope you all had a wonderful week! Have another great week this week!! I sure do love and miss you all!!
Love, Sister Kaitlyn Marchant
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