Today is Sunday, February 14, 2021.

    Happy Valentine’s Day dear family and friends!!

And this week we celebrate exciting birthdays!!

Happy 39th Birthday Jennie tomorrow, the 15th

Happy 8th Birthday to Charlotte Anne on Tuesday the 16th

Happy 32nd Birthday Jonathan on Wednesday, the 17th, and

Happy 82nd Birthday to Nancy on Thursday, the 18th!!

continued….Monday, February 15, 2021.

Our whirlwind weeks continue to blow by.…read on for a little report!!  

Mondays are very predictable, as we spend every Monday at the Mission Office; in meetings with Senior missionaries, Office missionaries, social media teams of missionaries, zone leaders and sister training leaders, and our assistants, Elder Calabuig, and Elder Dial.  We always come away so inspired after meeting with these dear friends in person, and over zoom. Many days we feel like we are living in a sort of celestial bubble with so many cheerful covenant keepers who show us the pure JOY of living on, and continuing to create their own covenant path.  We can’t even imagine a more wonderful Church calling!! 

Tuesday and Wednesday we spent the day zoom-interviewing and zoom- visiting Mount Royal Zone missionaries, and although it IS a lot of talking, we are delighted creating these wonderful friendships! Thursday we zoomed the Mount Royal Zone Conference. Prayer was the focus of my teaching, including emphasis on proper prayer language. President Dallin H. Oaks gave an incredible conference address in April 1993 entitled ‘The Special Language of Prayer’ which teaches perfectly this very subject. 

Friday we headed out the hour and a half to Drummondville, Quebec for another interviewing and visiting day with half our Longueuil Zone, but this time we were in person!! Anytime we can meet in person, (even with masks!!) it is such a treat to be together! By the time we finished we were excited, in honour of Chinese New Year, to find a Chinese buffet, where we ordered, and waited about 45 minutes for our food, by 7:15 we were having a blessing ready to dig in…as soon as I finished the prayer Richard exclaimed….’we forgot about the Montreal curfew!’ (which is 8pm) sooo we stashed the warm yummy smelling bag, and hit the road…not speeding too much, and half way home I prayed again for safety, and the power to get home in time…we had heard stories of people breaking curfew receiving $1500 fines. Richard decided to stay on Highway 40 till Acadie and Rockland, and his tricky turns through our subdivision had us pull into the garage at 8:09pm. Another miracle…and no ticket!!

Saturday seniors adventure included Richard and I, Elder and Sister Roberts, Sister Little, Sister Mecham and Sister Breckenridge.  With outdoor temperatures hovering around -15, our extra quilts, and blankets, kept us cozily snuggled!! Sister Roberts even quipped that it was just like riding in a one horse open sleigh!! Driving out to Oka to the 111 year old Fromagerie which was first started by monks, was so fun. Snowcovered forests, and hillsides, vineyards, and apple orchards kept us gawking at every new vista…I could hear my Mom saying “Look at the view!!” The fromagerie was great fun, and we were all happy with our little sacks of cheese. A darling 10” terracotta nativity called to me too!!  Baguettes, and french pastries at any boulangerie  always call to us so we were happy to load up on more carbs!! Oh brother!!! We even made a little side trip over to a village called St. Scholastique, which is where Sister Roberts mom was born!!  Such a delightful day for all of us!!

Sunday was a spiritual marathon, and first up we listened to Teresa’s husband, Brother Andrade in the Zarahemla Ward.  Next we visited the Vista Ward in Burley, Idaho and listened to our wonderful Sister Marshalyn Moosman report her mission. She shared how she had arrived in the mission as a super timid, scared young woman, and as she applied the doctrine of Christ into her own life is confident and excited to continue a life of ministering!! Westminster Ward was next, and we loved listening to Ryan and Sean Williams…Sean is heading to Edmonton while he awaits border opening before going to the Oregon Portland Mission to serve. Another one of our missionaries - Elder Zach D’Eon reported his Mission to the Coulee Ridge Ward in Lethbridge (which is Mark and Britt’s!), and we were thrilled as he shared his testimony, in French and English! And last night we participated in our Mission wide Sunday evening Devotional. It was another remarkable, memorable day, and again we were so grateful for zoom!! 

We are so grateful for your prayers for missionaries all over the world. Those prayers are being answered…today in our ‘call in’s’ we were thrilled to learn that we have 31 people on date to be baptized!!!

Have a wonderful week! 

with much love, 

Grandpa and Grandma, Dad and Mom, Richard and Gayle

Here are a few February 14th, 2021 Canada Montreal Mission Miracles:

Saint Hyacinthe Sisters:

« For Sister Low too:

We taught a self referral named Mathilde who studied religion in school and the first lesson she said she knew Joseph Smith was a true Prophet and she is in Mosiah 14 for reading and has a baptism date for March 20th! I have never seen someone so ready and excited and finding us as missionaries. We look forward to teaching and getting to know how she found such a profound testimony before ever even meeting a member of the Church! »

Kentville Elders:

« It's been an awesome week president! Please share with Sister Low! We have seen a lot of miracles from things and it's so wonderful to see! We've started teaching 4 new people recently in our different areas.

The first one was Muriel, a 69 year old lady in Moncton! She was found through the page. She said she saw an ad that said "need a helping hand?" and she decided to reach out! She is such a nice lady and it's been amazing to testify to her that she will see her husband again! We are so impressed with her reading comprehension of the Book of Mormon. She read it on her own and took notes on it! We were able to have a member join our call with her and she's really excited to be able to meet the member at church.

Another two people were also from the page: Mat and Shan in Amherst. They wanted to have a Bible study with us and they are super nice! Mat actually has a lot of questions about the church and we were able to ask them to read from the Book of Mormon!

We also received a referral from some sisters in Billings, Montana for a girl named Brittany in Kentville area. We have had a couple lessons with them and her and we felt prompted to ask her to be baptized. She accepted! We put her on date for March 13. It's awesome! »

Ottawa Elders:

« And one last thing we had such a cool miracle, on our second night of the transfer we tried contacting so many people and no one would pick up and it was getting close to 9 time and we felt pretty bummed out, but just when we thought it was over someone called us back!! And he hasn't talked to missionaries in a year and he said that he needed someone to talk to because of the problems that he has been having so we got to reschedule with him and we plan to talk to him soon!!! We are so excited!! »