I intend to continue wearing short sleeves for as long as possible, the humidity still makes it feel like it's a lot hotter anyway.
Questions:
Is Bastille an individual or a group?
I strongly believe that bastille was once an individual when he first started but now is a band and has been a band for as long as they have been famous. dont remember the 1 guy's name though, hes british.
Did you get you get your b-day package? have you opened, or used the GPS? I put the instructions to the GPS in the box somewhere. Make sure you find them. There was also a car power cord that you plug into your car and the GPS. AND there is a mount for your car and the GPS. Hope you figured all that out. Did you find the camera SD card? It was tiny! What about your contacts, do they look fine? I can't even remember what else was in that box!
All was great! i got it on friday at zone training (which president now wants to be called zone council). Yes I have opened the GPS and tried to use it. Apparently I have to update the maps though because it doesnt know where canada is quite yet. i will do that today. and i saw all that other gps stuff in there, i havnt tried to do much with that yet because i dont have a car right now but it will be very useful in the future. thank you! yes i saw the SD card, i will try to take some good pictures and videos on my old sd card and send it out to you as soon as its full. saw the contacts, that should be great, according to what i have in boxes I have about 2 and a half years worth if i through away the contacts i'm wearing every week, which i tend to wear them significantly longer than that. Also in the box was the short sleeved shirt, which i am currently wearing, a reese's bar which has been eaten, a starburst packet which is half eaten, and 3 ties which are awesome. there is the bright yellow stripe one which was sweet, the stripe green one which was cool too, and my favorite one, the orange polka-dot with fish on it which was awesome. not super sure the orange one is totally approved but i am going to wear it as long as someone doesnt tell me not to. I am currently wearing the green one and have already worn the other 2.
So, you must have had zone conference! Tell about that? How far away did you have to drive, or did you take a bus to get there?
this was zone training (council) so it was just our zone there. we met in the chapel that is an 8 minute walk from our apartment. something interesting was that president and sister clayton showed up and the 2 assistants. i think they came to be a part about the talk about the Book of Mormon play coming to town (oh yea that is coming i think friday in 2 weeks). that chapel is a super old chapel but its pretty cool looking, it is at 851 ossington.
Do you have/know your address today? Nana wants to send you a letter! (I do too!)
yes!
357 Rusholme Road #105
Toronto, ON
M6H 2Z4
Talk about doing your laundry!! I think $7 is a lot each week to do laundry! Is that a shared cost with your companion? Zak said that he always did his laundry with his companion.
thats pretty cheap here. you have to remember that everything is super expensive in canada. that is 7 dollars per person, 2 small washer loads and 1 dryer load. we would do it together except our loads were pretty full most of the time.
Do you live in an apartment? Are you many flights up? Is there an elevator? Do you have to walk up?
apartment on the first floor, pretty lucky. there is an elevator.
Are you still grocery shopping at Walmart?
yes
Do you walk to the grocery store?
yes, thats about 8 minutes also.
Do you then just carry those grocery bags back home?
sort of. we have a weird cart thing that we can fit most of our groceries in that we can roll home, then we just carry the rest. there normally alrent too many groceries anyway.
Makes the walk from the car to the kitchen not so bad, I suppose! Do they have regular plastic bags for your groceries there? Or do you have to buy and use special easy environmental bags? You know, that is what you have to do when you shop in Pasadena. NO plastic or paper bags. You can buy them for 10 cents each if you like.
i just found out today that it is about 3 cents per plastic bag! they say nothing about it, it just gets charged. so i guess there is, i never see anyone do any environmental bags though.
did you have your baptism on Sunday?
nope :( poor gerald is just in a weird situation and has not been dealt with well. he lives about an hour away by bus now since he moved. technically he is in another ward boundary but hes told us he wants to be baptized here. something new that has changed since zak got back is that we now teach the 5th lesson (laws and ordinances) before baptism instead of after (which was how it was before). basically all gerald needs is that lesson and an interview and he can be baptized and we were supposed to do that on friday and saturday but he had to bomb both, random rescheduling for work. he did come to our ward on sunday and he bore his testimony! he said that he knows this is the true church and cant wait to be baptized to gain even more blessings than hes already received since first being taught. sadly after sacrament meeting he kept having to meet up with different ward members (bishop, job finder person, etc.) and by the time he got done with that we couldnt find him to set up an appointment to finally get it done! very sad, he needs to be baptized asap. we will call him today and figure some things out with him (how he needs to meet with us before he can get baptized already, whether it's worth it for him to be baptized in this ward, we have been trying to pass him off but it hasnt been handled well). hes an awesome dude, i feel bad for him, he'll be baptized eventually. really hoping for this sunday whether its in our ward or the one he lives at.
so you played sports with different elders last week! How did that go? What did you play? What do you think you will do this week for P-day?
kinda lame, it was raining that day so people didnt really feel like coming (no one in the zone has a car besides the zone leaders) so it was us and 2 other companionships. played a little basketball.
How many sisters in your zone? do they ever come to your p-day sports playing?
8 i think.
I just google mapped the Church in Toronto - 2 locations - Ossington or McCowen. Which one do you go to? The Ossington Location has a BIG Russian Catholic Church right by it. Very interesting.
yes ossington, we walk by that church all the time. when we try to describe where our church is people think it's the catholic one a lot, its kind of funny. the ossington one actually looks kind of like a catholic one too, there are stain glass windows and stuff everywhere, its interesting. it is super old too apparently 3 different men who eventually became prophets spoke from that pulpit.
Got a little bad news, last thursday we found out we have bed bugs! they have obviously been there a while, i'm guessing the last elders just didnt say anything or something, i dont know. so we had to work like crazy to get rid of them. we were told to get this bed bug powder and spray it all over the bed. we thought it was only on 1 bed because elder burton was the only one who got bit for a while and my bed looked totally clean but just yesterday i found some bites on myself! very sad. our apartment is being sprayed some time this week and at the same time we will basically have to wash all of our clothes and probably end up getting a new bed for myself and elder burton.
on a better, cooler note something awesome happened yesterday. we were visiting a former investigator and knocked on the door. some other guy answered the door and he told us this was a home brought together by several churches for refugees! as we were trying to talk to and see if this guy was interested another guy came up behind him and started listening. the first guy had to leave but then the other guy started asking some questions and was legitimately interested in what we were saying, as we were talking another guy came out and started listening, then more and more people. all of them were listening and asking questions with interest. eventually we were basically standing on the porch teaching the restoration to about 10 different people, we felt kind of like alma and amulek teaching the crowds, it was cool. a couple of the people who stayed through the whole time told us they were very interested and really wanted us to come back so they could hear more. so that was very cool.
oh and on saturday we met the guy with the internet's largest database on John 8:1-11 (the woman caught in adultery) and he asked for us to come back. Super knowledgeable about the bible apparently had read it about 40 times. cool guy.
Alright thats it!
I love you!
Quinn
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