I didnt even know that wyatt was that old! i thought next year was his senior year or something, thats crazy. good to see him going on a mission though, that is awesome. speaking of mission people i heard fairly recently from paige (christie hokanson's cousin, goes to BYU-I) that scott card is or at least was assigned to the rexburg byui campus area.
I actually didnt remember hearing anything about nana and bumpa going on a service mission. maybe a slight little memory of mom telling me that they were but not much else, where are they again? up here there are missionary couples assigned to specific branches also and they stay in the same branch for a whole year and a half and they are essentially just told to do missionary work there until its their time to go home. they actually almost always make a huge difference in every branch they are at.
funny there is no school tomorrow there because here this week is everyone's "march break" which is basically their version of spring break... no i have no idea why they dont just have a spring break.
90: that is really crazy... straight up ridiculous. this week someone asked me where i was from, I said california, they said oh wow how did you survive this winter or something like that. this is an extremely common conversation. this week i said in response "yea i dont know, back home right now its about 20 degrees" (just under 70) thinking that was just a little exaggeration just to make them be extra surprised. i guess i should have exaggerated much more. that temperature right now feels just a tad unbelievable. that is about 32 degrees. it has been exceedingly warm here this week again, it has been between 5 and 10 all week haha.
yes here they do celebrate st. patrick's day here.we were very unaware of it happening this week until we walked in to the dollar store (dollarama) today and saw a bunch of st patricks day green stuff. also we saw squirrels outside today so spring really is coming, it is interesting seeing a squirrel for the first time in months.
Questions:
did you get a card in the mail from me?
nope, i fully expect to see it tomorrow as well. i did get a card from sister sotis this week though which was nice, i havnt seen any sister hagen programs in a while either, i've got a feeling there are probably 3 or 4 in the cobourg apartment. always nice to see those.
nope, i fully expect to see it tomorrow as well. i did get a card from sister sotis this week though which was nice, i havnt seen any sister hagen programs in a while either, i've got a feeling there are probably 3 or 4 in the cobourg apartment. always nice to see those.
how is your snow level?
gone down a ton, still a bunch of shoveling though. many people here have metal roofs so that they dont actually have to shovel their roofs in the winter. as the sun heats up the metal it melts the snow on top of it and it all slides right off. the only problem is that the old people cant shovel those mounds of snow so they ask us if we can do it.
still have to plug in your car at night?
this week we finally stopped doing it, i think we have done it for the last time this winter.
did you ask your mission pres about snow shoeing? you might be missing your chance!!
sadly i have missed my chance for this year, the snow is too shallow and too mushy, i will have to do it next year. :(
how did the potato cannons go last week?
I honestly dont remember talking about that... hmmm oh yes now i remember. sadly we did not make it in time, he had to help his wife with dinner and house work and stuff. but we did see them on thursday. there is a youth recent convert in the ward whose mom is a little crazy and just disappeared immediately after the baptism (like 4 months ago, some big long weird story, very happy and supportive then she just was suddenly gone) but we heard he had been coming the last few YM nights so we went last thursday... sadly he wasnt there but they were firing off some potatoes when we got there and it was really cool and they went really far (at least 100 yards)
that reminds me of a really quick funny joke that a lot of people like to say here. when they see elder yardley's name they go "youre in canada its not yardly any more its meterly" very funny
you said last week in your letter that a couple of less active people had you over for dinner. How do they let you know they want you to come to dinner. And that is so great that they have you over!!
they have been taught by the missionaries for a while the ward wants us over there. the husband is not a member and the wife is less active. they love missionaries so sometimes they will invite us for dinner when we ask to set up an appointment, its very nice.
How was your food this last week?
it was all good, nothing really too standout-ish. oh someone did make homemade poutine for dinner for us this week which was very good (cheese curds, gravy, fries). and someone else made home made butter chicken for us also. that is an indian dish, white people made it for us though. butter chicken is good. its like chicken and a bunch of butter mixed with other stuff, it is orange. so not just regular white people food this week.
What did you buy at the Walmart today?
we already have a bunch of food in our apartment for this week so dont be alarmed with the lack of real food from my grocery list for today: tissues, deodorant, cheese, nesquick, breakfast cereal, trix, milk, toothpaste.
that reminds me, interesting thing about trix. in canada trix has been banned because it is much too sugary for all the little children so it is against the health code. last week i randomly saw some trix for cheap and not knowing this last fact i grabbed one box and moved on with life. during the week i learned that is regularly wasnt on the shelves and was only brought back for a limited time (i think it is kinda like the way mcdonalds does the mcRib thing). this made me very excited so i ended up buying myself 3 boxes today 
please take a picture of your milk, it the bag, then what you put it in to pour it. thank you.
i am a little disappointed i have not done that yet, i will do that. also i will take a picture of a cheese block they are a little different here too. they are long and skinny.
are the streets more clear of ice and snow?
all the main streets are totally clear. the sidewalks all still have big piles next to them though.
do you get snow tires put on your car for winter?
no, we should though and every memeber says we should. actually this car here, right before i got here, the tires needed changing so they called the vehicle coordinator senior missionary, asked if they could get snow tires, he said yes. they went in the canadian tire (store) to buy them and got a call from the vehicle coordinator saying that he had called church headquarters and they said no to the winter tires... kinda lame. whatever. it is kinda funny driving around seeing all the schoolbusses and stuff driving around with the big huge snow tires on though.
any word on up coming ipads? (I would have thought that in this last round of zone conferences something would have been said about them!)
we will get them by 2021. that was a joke president clayton said to tell us still no new news (say those last 3 words 5 times fast). elder yardley's call letter tells him that he will have to buy a mobile device (meaning ipad) on his mission. so they will get here eventually.
do you have any sisters in your district?
there are no sisters in the sudbury zone. they dont want to leave sisters stranded alone without any real leadership around for hours. they had sisters here in bracebridge for like the first time ever for about 6 months this year, then they got emergency transfered out for some reason and it has once again been elders since.
eaten at Tim Horten's lately? If yes, what did you eat there?
We almost never get food at tim hortens, the food is kinda gross and too expensive there. sadly the doughnuts arent too good either. every year during winter though they have this big thing they do called roll up the rim to win. where with every cup of coffee or hot chocolate you buy, you can roll up the rim of the cup to win anything from another free hot chocolate to a new car. so a week ago we got hot chocolates there. i won another free hot chocolate.
over the last week, has anyone asked you about that badge you are wearing? (elder cole name badge).
actually i am surprised by how not often people actually dont notice the name tag. most of the time people dont have any clue i'm wearing one until i point to it when i tell them my name. it is kinda funny. the only place where people seem to notice it is at walmart, which makes them think i'm a worker there. hmmm i should give mormon.org cards to people who do that from now on.
alright thats it for today,
I love you!
Quinn
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