First off I dont think I ever thanked mom for those packages that she sent me in the MTC, Thank you! all the chocolate is long eaten, the cards are hanging up (one says "through strict obedience Jesus won, I had never heard that before, but we sang it yesterday in church) Also I have worn my turquoise tie several times since I got it.
how was your first week?
Really great, it was a little crazy though. I got to Pickering on Tuesday night at like 6. The next morning at 2:30 in the morning we got a call from the neighboring city sisters (Ajax) telling us they were in the hospital and they needed a blessing! All is well, one sister accidentally OD'd on some cold medicine apparently, she was totally fine the next morning. I am the driver also, Elder Wilson couldn't drive because he got yellow dotted (green, yellow, red) from this weird thing they have in the car called TiWi (tee-wee). It monitors your driving, if you go over 10 km/hr (about 6 mph) over the speed limit it tells you and records it and if you take turns too sharp. It is actually really annoying, but see how it is very helpful as well, very much a love-hate relationship.
tell us about your companion!
Elder Wilson, really cool guy, super excited about everything. He is about a year on his mission, he was actually totally inactive up until about a year before his mission. Apparently he went to Egypt to help his brother move in there (not sure why his brother went there), he ended up staying and his brother kind of convinced him to go to church finally, really cool. He is originally from northern Idaho. he has many relatives in Preston! they are the Peterbourges, ever heard of em dad?
how are you spending most of your time...like with planned appts?
not too many appts actually, the elders from a few months ago were a bit apostate apparently, so the ward members are just learning to trust the Elders again. The ward is combined with the city of Ajax as well and almost all the members are from there, so we cant get much help from them. we spend a lot of time with less actives, former investigators, and we've tracted a pretty good amount too. There is one recent convert who we visit a lot too who has started picking up smoking again and swears like a sailor, he also has a nonmember wife we teach. that guy, Patrick, is very Scottish and has a very thick accent, really cool, and he calls us jimmy and he'll say things like "i helped him out, so i did" all the time, its hilarious.
how was church?
good. the first hymn was some weird one nobody knew so it was very quiet, it was funny, i think it was hymn #125. set up lots of appts with members to come with us to other appointments with people. I actually forgot my name tag and didnt realize until I got to church. Luckily Elder Wilson had an extra name tag, so I wore an Elder Wilson tag for the rest of the day at church, pretty funny.
have you noticed the Canadian accent?
there is a very small accent for the canadians up until they say aboot very distinctly and they say eh a lot. lots of little hockey nets set up in front of houses. Also interesting thing about ontario, many immigrants and they really keep their culture, its cool so lots of different types of people. tons of cultures, a fairly decent amount of Jamaicans actually, theyre really cool, they call us Jesus boys.
Has anyone offered you poutine yet?
not yet but I did have tim bits (doughnut holes) at Tim Hortons. Everyone talks about them all the time, I thought they just tasted like regular doughnut holes, so still pretty good. There are Tim Horton's here about as often as there are starbucks in America.
Where are you emailing...the library?
family history center in the ward building
how are you sleeping? still taking along time to fall asleep at night, or are you more tired?
Actually sleeping very well, not taking quite so long as normal to fall asleep. it's nice.
How about dinner appts? Had any yet? If yes, what did you eat?
Had one yesterday. This lady was a convert from Jehova's witness from a long time ago. she came to the door acting like an investigator at first, it was actually pretty cool. We just had spagetti and some kind of white fish, some name I didnt recognize.
Have you heard if you are now considered a "driver"? I did get your DMV good driving record and I scanned it in the computer and emailed it to those nice elders. I believe they got it. So, how does the driving work with you and your companion? (Do you know that the elders called me?? It was exciting. They told me to text them!)
yes, i went online and printed out the unofficial one, which they were fine with, as they were calling you. The elder who called you told me right after that you were really nice. talked about the driving earlier.
Have you been the back up (as in driving) elder yet?
nope!
Are you doing the morning exercising? Yes? What are you doing?
nope, I'm too tired in the morning, we might try to go running this week though.
Will you get an opportunity to walk/run on that path across the street from where you live? It looks beautiful!
hopefully thats where we'll run! I definately want to go down to that path. also that water we are next to is lake superior, it looks like an ocean.
DO you live above a garage? It looks like someone built a set of apartments above a garage at your address. Is that correct?
that is incorrect, we are in a basement, the garage in not on west shore, we are a corner house.
How many elders do you live with?
just Elder Wilson
What do you do for lunch? do you go back home?
Normally go back home.
Have you had to cook for yourself?
Elder Wilson actually loves cooking, so he has made most of the stuff, it is great!
Like Zak, do you and your companion live the law of consecration?
yea, he asked in the beginning what we wanted to do, I said law of consecration so that I wouldnt feel bad for him cooking for me all the time.
What is the word on ipads....any word at all??
We are supposed to get them within the year.
Alright thats about it! I need to learn how to write these a bit faster! Happy Birthday to Mom on Wednesday! and happy father's day to Dad on Sunday!
Love,
Quinn
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