December 3, 2012

Hey Family and Friends!! Oh my goodness! I don't even know where to begin with all the things that happened this week. It sure was an eventful one! Are you ready to hear all about it? Because it was kind of a gongshow, but it was great!! Well Monday was p-day. It wasn't too eventful. And nothing too exciting happened. We of course went to the office to visit the Sisters there! They made me so happy because now Grandma Wayment is doing exactly what they are doing!! It was fun. Then we just went to the church and hung out with the Elders. Ya our p-day was kind of lame. We watched them play basketball for awhile and wrote a few letters before we played UNO. Sister Rice was so excited to play...she lost 2 times, so she had to go to the wall. But lets be honest the Elders are too afraid to hit a sister with a soccer ball, so it wasn't that bad. Then we had supper with the Gough family. They are nice and we had a great evening with them. Tuesday began with our DDM that was a complete and total gongshow. The Elders were crazy and they were totally on one all day long. Well after we tried to learn something from the meeting, we all went to lunch and then we all headed to Jennie's house. She needed us to install some door stopper things on some doors and do a bunch of other random things. We cleaned up her basement and got everything put away. She was very grateful for all the help, so she gave the Elders a bunch of food, she gave us some really nice blakets and some lotion and shampoo and conditioner. She is great! She is so kind and her family just doesn't appreciate her. But I am grateful we get to help her. Well when we got home from Jennie's house, we went home and assembled LA treats so we could deliver them for the month of November since the month is basically over. Well then we had supper with the Stanford family. And then headed to ESL. It wasn't that eventful of a day...the good stuff is still coming. Wednesday was the offical beginning of winter in Canada I think. It was freezing cold and we got a bunch of snow! Of course it was the day we spent a lot of time outside! First thing Jennie asked us to come and fix something the Elders did wrong and do a few other quick things, but then we had the majority of our day to deliver the LA treats we had put together. We got so many of them done. And then we had a quick visit with Carmen. She is so cute! She had some questions about the Book of Mormon! It was adorable because she asks us to type up the answers and then print it off and put it in a sheet protector. She is just adorable. When we were out delivering treats again that afternoon, Jennie called us and asked us to come help her build a new desk for her son. We got it done and did a few other things for her before all her family got home. Then we had supper with the Highams!! It was great as always! I love the people here in this area! Then we delivered more LA treats! It was great and we got a lot done! Thursday was a great day, but it was also the beginning of the eventful weekend! Well do you remember how our car got keyed while we were at the temple? Well guess what, they picked the coldest, snowiest week to fix it!! So first thing in the morning we had to take our car to the shop. Then the sisters that are serving in Queensland/Parkland came and picked us up and took us back to our area for Mission Tour! It was great! Elder David Evans of the Seventy was there with his sweet wife. The first thing he wanted to do when he got there was shake all of our hands! It was such a great training/meeting! I learned so much and the spirit that was there was just incredible! Well the other great thing was that all the missionaries in Calgary were there...so that meant lots of Sisters...and also Bro and Sister Palmer were there!! It was such a great day! Then when it was all over, the Sisters took us to our dinner appt with the Remillards. It was great and we were all set to walk home, but she found out we didn't have a car and didn't want us to. We didn't want to ask her for a ride because she has 5 little kids under 9 yrs old and her husband was with the youth on their temple trip...but she was so nice and gave us a ride home and then we just studied. On Friday we prayed SO hard that our car would be fixed, but it wasn't. Luckily it was weekly planning all day and then we started calling people to give us a ride to places. The thing about our area is that it is so huge and it just isn't feasible to walk to lots of places. Well I thought we should call Sister Thomas...even though she was supposed to be at work...well she wasn't and she was able to take us to our lesson with Christy. We gave her a For the Strength of Youth pamphlet and then talked about the standards of the church. Then Sister Thomas picked us up and took us to our dinner appt with the Loewers...the ones that just moved in! They were great and their kids were adorable all night long! Then she took us to the RS activity. We were a little bit late and we were worried because we were supposed to sing, but we got there during the song right before ours. It turned out great! I have never been so grateful for a car until Saturday. I didn't know how we were going to survive! But we did. It was freezing cold and we had a lot going on...well kinda. We had to cancel one appt because we couldn't find a ride...luckily it also didn't work out for them and they were going to have to cancel anyways. Well we were supposed to go to a baptism later that day and Sister Rice was supposed to play the piano. Sister Walters...it was her sons baptism...called and confirmed some songs and they weren't the same ones, so we needed some time to practice...what option did we have...we walked to our church! It is about 2.5 km away and it took us about 30 min. We were all bundled up and our hair was frozen, but we made it. When we got there, the Johnson family was there cleaning the church and they offered to take us to the 17th Ave chapel...that is where the baptism was going to be. So we went there and Sister Rice was able to practice and we had some extra study time. Then we had the baptism of Brady Walters. It was great and Sister Rice did a great job at playing the piano. Then Sister Nicholson drove us home to our apartment. And we were home just in time for Sister Penner to come pick us up for supper. We had a quick supper with her and then we helped her wrap a bunch of Christmas presents and do a few other things because she is leaving for France next week and will be gone for 1 month. It was great and then she took us home. I hate asking people to give us rides to places...it makes us feel like we are so inconvenient!! Sunday was another busy day. We got a ride to church from the Fleck's and then we had a great day there. We taught gospel principles in Richmond ward and it went really great. Then when church was over, Sister Morgan came and picked us up and took us to her home for supper. She is great and we got to help them set up their Christmas tree. Then she took us to the Stake Center for the Christmas Devotional. It was a great devotional!! I love listening to the prophet! We got a ride from the Archibalds to the Ford's house and after we had a lesson with the, Sister Ford took us home. I really hope we get our car back soon!! It is crazy how much we rely on those things!! Well that was our eventful week! I am so happy it is December! The countdown for Christmas is on!!! Well I hope you all have a great week!! I love you and miss you all so much!! Love, Sister Kaitlyn Marchant Here are some pictures... 1- where our car should be parked, but its not...hence the sad face 2- our successful walk to the church...notice the white frozen hair!