Welcome to New Missionaries and Farewell to Departing Missionaries

Today is Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Saturday, March 27, Berkley James Low turns 15!!

Happy Birthday to Berkley!!

Last week was Week 6, which means Transfer Week, and although it is nothing like Transfer Weeks we had the first year and a half of our Mission where we got to have big Welcome feasts, big sleepovers, temple sessions, farewell Testimony Meetings, and Farewell feasts; 

we still get so excited to welcome our new Missionaries, greeting them at the Mission Office, and orienting them there. 

New Missionaries arrivals are:

Sister Kathryn Gough - Calgary (by Calaway Park)

Sister Samantha Heske - Spruce Grove

Sister Savanna Smetaniuk - Beaumont - arrived last week

Sister Mikaela Widdup - Barrhead-Geoff Smith is her Branch President

Elder David Dalton - Morinville, Alberta

Elder Xavier Flynn - Saint Philippem, Quebec

Elder Zachariah Johnson - Edmonton - arrived last week

Elder Brendan Pierson - Taber  

We do get to have in person farewell interviews, and visits with our departing missionaries. Tears always come so quickly as we have to say goodbye to our beloved ‘missionary family members.’ 

Thursday night, our closing Testimony Meeting with our departing group was a spiritual highlight.

Sister Katie Twitchell - Meridian, Idaho

Sister Anuhea Margrin - Tahiti (delayed departing until end of May,                                            because no flights are going to Tahiti)

Elder Braydon Barrett - Edmonton

Elder Kaden Birch - Cardston (went home a month ago to be with his

dying Dad, who passed a week after he returned)

Elder Damien Foster - Portland, Oregon

Elder Joseph Roper - Sacramento, California

Elder Benson Wu - Taipei, Taiwan (flying home tonight)

My Dad, Robert Anderson Hamilton passed away six years ago, so all day Saturday we reminisced about his remarkable life!! We know he and my Mom are still celebrating their reunion of Last April when she passed. 

Elder and Sister Roberts, Sister Breckenridge, and Sister Mecham joined us (oh how we missed our Sister Little…)for our Senior outing on Saturday where we travelled out to L’Erabliere du Sanglier ,(wild boar) a fun commercial maple syrup Cabana Sucre attraction.  Quite the menagerie of animals including horses, rabbits, gobbling turkeys, pheasants, and boars. Joining the big mama boars were about 20 adorable striped babies. (We did not go poking our fingers through the chicken wire fence.) Much of the traditional food that is usually served at the Cabana Sucre was available for purchase, and we loaded our baskets with maple sugar cake, maple donuts, tortiere, split pea soup, and sanglier sausage! We are having so much fun experiencing many traditional Quebecois activities (those that are open) and we are loving all the scrumptious food! We were reminiscing about our last year Cabana Sucre outing where we had probably two dozen of our amazing Seniors loving the all you can eat traditional feast with maple syrup in pitchers on the giant picnic tables, all the while listening to folksy French music and watching such fun toe tapping dancing…so glad we got to do that last March!

Sunday was such a great day, and we were able to do so much!!! Thanks to ZOOM!!

9am We both Spoke in Lemoyne Ward - French

11am Sister Little reported her Mission - Fairfax, Virginia

1:30pm We both Spoke in Mandarin Ward - English with translator

2:00pm Sister Twitchell reported her Mission - Meridian, Idaho

3:00pm Elder Birch reported his Mission - Cardston, Alberta

4:00pm Area Presidency Meeting with all our NorthAmericaNorthEast

    Mission Leaders

6:00pm Missionary Fireside in Bridgewater - we got to speak. 

9:00pm Mission Wide Sunday evening Devotional

Although it was a packed day, we always feel invigorated and so fulfilled as we share the JOY of the Gospel! 

Monday Office Meetings were wonderful, and our young new missionaries who have joined us are doing great!! 

About once month we get to Zoom visit with some of our dear friends who served as Senior missionaries here; and who have returned home. What a fun treat to visit, and catch up on their busy lives! Such inspiring examples of devoted disciples serving, serving and still serving!

Yesterday we had a bit of a pause day, and had appointments to have our first vaccination…our second appointment is July 13th…who knows where we will be?! 

Today we had a delightful visit to the Kirkland District Council, and joined the group of 11 missionaries as they met and discussed how to improve their missionary efforts.  With several new Atlantic Canada missionaries joining their district, they organized such a fun getting to know you game. We were grateful to be there!

And, this afternoon, we zoomed with our brand new missionaries for a training meeting.

What a marvelous experience it is to serve a Mission…we still comment everyday how incredible it is to be here rubbing shoulders with such incredible missionaries….young and old who inspire us and motivate us to be better!! What pure JOY!!

Have a wonderful week!

We send much love to all

Grandpa and Grandma, Dad and Mom, Richard and Gayle

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Miracles

Zarahemla Spanish Sisters:

Dear President. 

Miracles and miracles. My days are filled with miracles. :))

We have a baptismal date set! I am so excited. Mariel is golden and truly is changing and embracing the gospel in all the right ways. I am amazed at her spirituality and I am so happy I will be here for her baptism next month.

I somehow dropped my wallet on the bus. And lost it. And somehow just felt peace that it would be fine. I started going through the process of replacing it all. And I got a call and a stranger gave me back my wallet. I am just amazed.

Montreal Sisters:

We had a few miracles this week that really taught the importance of being persistent. Sister Pedersen and I have been trying to get into contact with a girl on AreaBook named Julianna. We always feel prompted to call her but she would never pick up. We ended calling this other person that was in one of the lessons with her and we had an amazing lesson and gave her a Book of Mormon. Then the next day we finally got into contact with Julianna and so we are now teaching her, her son and her friend Andrea.

It was really cool to see how God just waits for the right moment.

From an Elder:

This week has been all kinds of long. It's been amazing, but really difficult.

Elder ____helped me a lot. He helped me to have a fresh perspective and be conscious of the faith that I have had up until now. In doing so I felt prepared to finally ask the Lord in a prayer of faith if the Book of Mormon was true. I knelt down, with a real intent and understanding of what faith is, and asked if it was true. As soon as the question left my lips, I felt an overwhelming joy fill my entire body. This is the first time I've received such a witness, and it meant so much.  

I've realized that immediately following this, that all sorts of difficulties followed. A person we were teaching decided to try quite hard to destroy any faith or confidence that we had in the Book of Mormon. I felt so blessed to have received the witness when I did, as I was able to simply stand for what I know to be true, testify with all the feeling of my heart, and be led by the Spirit to say what was needed to be said in that moment. >

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'Temporary' Mass Exodus from Atlantic Canada

Today is Sunday, March 14, 2021

‘Pie Day,’ AND I HAVE pie shells made and frozen, ready to fill when we get to have visitors again!!

Wednesday the 17th we get to celebrate Porter LeRon Low’s 5th Birthday!! 

                                                Happy Birthday Porter!!

What another wonderful week here in the Canada Montreal Mission!! And oh, how fast it flew by!!

This weeks Highlights included:

Monday Office meetings, where our interaction with our missionary teams always excites and inspires us. Office missionaries deserve kudos everyday with all the efficient, cheerful service they give. 

Our biggest news of this week is that we are temporarily closing our Atlantic Canada areas, and moving all our missionaries over to Quebec and Ontario. Tomorrow the mass Atlantic Zone exodus begins with four Sisters and two Elders flying to Montreal arriving sometime in the afternoon.  Then Tuesday morning, 12 Elders in 6 vehicles meet at the Halifax Lacewood Building at 8am to begin the thirteen hour road trip; and travelling as far as Riviere du Loup, just over the New Brunswick border into Quebec, where they will overnight. Tuesday they will finish their journey. This massive undertaking with so many minute details was a team effort coordinated by Sister Little (before she left,) Elder Wentzell who is our Maritime vehicle coordinator, and Elder Garside. Besides bringing all their earthly missionary belongings, all food, and all teaching materials are being brought, and Elder and Sister Roberts prepared little powerpoint presentations on cleaning, and emptying apartment expectations. 

Now… lest you jump to conclusions and think we have pulled out of Atlantic Canada forever….that is the furtherest thing from our minds ….and our hearts. Atlantic Canada is where we started this adventure of a lifetime, and… we left a chunk of our hearts in Atlantic Canada when we moved to Montreal!  For over a year, our only interaction with our teams has been over zoom, and we are grateful for that, BUT it has grown old, and we need to see those missionaries, some of whom we have not seen for over a year; and they need to interact with all of us over on this side of ‘heaven.’ Missionary work is so different here…missionaries are busy finding people; and, we have baptisms every week! I also should clarify that if we ever wanted to go to Atlantic Canada, we could, but would have to isolate for two weeks once we got there. Obviously, that is not even an option. And so… the mass exodus begins tomorrow, and we can hardly wait to be reunited with our 18 dear ones. We dream of having a Mission Wide in person Zone Conference….hopefully restrictions will be lifted and that could be a real possibility!! Our furtherest team is in Petawawa, Ontario, about a five hour drive from here, and Quebec City next furtherest is four and a half hours away, so a Mission Wide Zone Conference is doable! Keep your fingers crossed!!! We hope to get permission from our Area Presidency!

Missionaries will continue to work remotely in their previous Atlantic Canada areas, so folks they have been teaching will still get to be taught!!I Area books(on their phone) is where they keep track of every person they teach, or talk to, their contact info, when and where they contacted them etc. etc. This is an incredible way of not losing any friends…SOOOO with this big move we aren’t going to let anyone fall through the cracks!

Last year in the midst of covid when all hair salons were closed; Richard and I were cutting my hair with a pair of red Christmas wrapping Scotch Brite scissors. Eventually, we found a hair salon supply shop that opened ‘by appointment only;’ we made the appointment and ventured forth. How exciting to purchase a beautiful pair of petite shears, and then to get a little trim, and get rid of the scraggly ends. That little pair of scissors has come in so handy as six sister missionaries have heard about the scissors, and the sister who ‘sort of knows how to cut a straight line!!’ and have trusted me with that little task!! I’m happy to save them $40.00 for a cut!!

Mission Wide Learning Conferences Wednesday and Friday mornings were stimulating, motivating and a delicious spiritual feast, not so much by what we taught; but by the testimonies of these missionary youngsters who know so much, and teach so well!! 

Our two new excited missionaries from Beaumont, and Edmonton, Alberta;  Sister Smetaniuk and Elder Johnson arrived Tuesday evening, and after our Wednesday learning conference we loved orienting them to their new lives as missionaries!  

And this week is transfer week where we welcome six more to our team.  

Our hearts ache again as we let Elder Barrett, Elder Foster, Elder Roper, Elder Wu, and Sister Twitchell return home. Sister Margrin who returns home to Tahiti will leave April 6. We remember fondly the days these dear friends arrived…. 

Yesterday we participated in two Funerals; the funeral of Jason Priest, son of our dear missionary friends Elder and Sister Priest who served as our Housing Couple when we first arrived in Nova Scotia. A sad funeral. 

And, Aunt Roxie Hamilton (Uncle Max’s wife) passed away peacefully last week, and we loved joining with our dear cousins celebrating her life. Again zoom technology made it possible to watch funerals in Toronto, and in Taylorsville, Utah. Aunt Roxie at 92 was the last of the Jack and Leah Hamilton offsprings spouses to pass through the veil. I love to imagine that huge joyous reunion…maybe Grandma Hamilton’s taffy candy was at the refreshment buffet!! I know my parents Robert Anderson Hamilton, and Patricia Maude McCormack Hamilton joined Uncle Max in the greeting party!! Knowing that brings a tear or two to my eyes. 

Our Sabbath Day today was a marathon of wonderful meetings, starting with Quebec City Sacrament Meeting, where we each spoke about 15 minutes. Some of my message is well-rehearsed and I feel confident, but there are some scriptures, and a few paragraphs that are still challenging for me to speak. I know I have to keep practising!! Richard’s French is beautiful, and he can speak without even using his written text!! That is my dream!!

My brain relaxed when next we each spoke in Greenfield Park!! 15 minutes in English is a breeze!!  Gabrielle and Dan Hayward are in that ward, and Richard shared stories about Gabrielle when he helped teach her 46 years ago. We both get emotional when he tells her faith-promoting family conversion story.

Sister Murray from Highland, Utah invited us to her homecoming, and we loved hearing her feelings, and her testimony. 

And…it’s so fun popping into our home Westminster Ward, where we heard Megan offer the opening prayer, and Bella made a peep or two!!

Baptism of Milane in Trois Rivieres was another highlight of the day!

Richard had about three other meetings, and we ended our Sabbath discussing at our Mission Wide Devotional in small breakout rooms, Elder and Sister Cook’s fireside. 

Can you see why our Sabbath was a delight?

We continue to be so grateful for the incredible experiences we have every day. Our testimonies of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and His Atonement grow daily, as we teach, testify, and apply in our own lives. Oh how blessed we are! Thank you for your prayers on behalf of Missionaries everywhere! 

We send much love to all of you,

Dad and Mom, Grandpa and Grandma, Richard and Gayle 

PS We received word today that two of our missionaries tested positive for covid. They were our FIRST. 

                (We think they contracted it while serving at a 'CommunityThrift' store.)

March 14th, 2021 Missionary Miracles

This one from Sister Elin Walker, a senior sister, who, with her husband, are waiting in Alberta for covid clearance to come to our mission:

“Dear President Low,

 I know that your time in the mission will be coming to an end in a few months, and I’m not sure when we will finally make it to the mission and I just wanted to share something with you and your wife.  Sixty

-nine years ago, my parents lived in Ottawa.  My mother was a secretary working for your Grandfather ( I believe) Solon Low, the leader of the opposition party of Canada at that time.  She would often see young men coming to visit Solon Low,  and wondered who these clean cut young men were. She had been raised by good parents in the United Church and was actually a beautiful hard working young woman.  She was dating a lieutenant colonel in the Postal Corps.  I am not sure how she was approached but I am pretty sure your grandfather asked if she would like to meet the missionaries.   She agreed to do so and began to be taught the gospel.  Her boyfriend, who was from a very strong Presbyterian family, decided to take the discussions, mostly because the missionaries were so clean cut, and he was dating my mother.  They went through many sets of missionaries.  In the meantime, they got married and had a baby girl.  They took the discussions for 2 years, and my dad was converted first and then waited for my mother to be converted before they got baptized.  Your grandfather gave me my baby blessing. They were faithful members of the church for the rest of their lives and were forever grateful that a member of the church introduced them to the gospel of Jesus Christ.  They experienced some ostracism from their families, and we were raised basically without a lot of extended family around, but they loved our family and we all grew up together in the church, and in the Ottawa Branch until 1967 when we moved to Alberta.  Those missionaries who persevered and continued to teach my parents helped bless the generations of our family, and the gospel will continue to bless generations to come.  I am grateful for your Grandfather and the missionaries, and the members of that little branch that welcomed us and helped us to grow in the gospel.  I am grateful for people who have the missionary spirit and missionaries who serve and who may never know how much they have done for individuals and families. If you have a missionary who is discouraged you are welcome to share with them how wonderful missionary work has been for us and our children and grandchildren, and how much happiness the gospel brings to someone who has never had it before.

 

We may not meet you in the mission field, but if we are still here we would love to come meet you when you come home.  Thank you for serving where and how you serve. I am grateful for the continuing missionary work in that part of Canada.

 Sincerely,

 Elin Walker”

Terrebonne Elders:

Also, you can share this next part with Sister Low as well! We got in contact with our friend Gen. She hadn't answered her phone in a week and then the last couple of days we were able to get in contact with her and we had a lesson! She says she wants to be baptized and follow Jesus Christ still! We are optimistic about her progress in the future! Thank you Sister Low for all the good advice on how to help her!

'Cabane Sucre' to go.....and Nova Scotia exodus due to covid

Today is March 7, 2021

We have enjoyed another delightful week in the Canada Montreal Mission with pretty much a carbon copy of most of our weeks, but we never tire of our predictable service!! 

A quick summary of our week includes: Monday Office meetings, Montreal Zone interviews, and visits Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday we loved our new missionary orientation meeting (which we usually do twice in our six week transfer cycle) where we talk about things like adjusting to missionary life,  goal setting, planning, how to find people to teach, and how to use area book. Thursday afternoon, we drove to Drummondville to attend, and participate in their District Council. In Atlantic Canada we had the luxury of attending a district council every week, but given the geographic expanse, and the pandemic hitting a year ago, this was only our third opportunity to attend this special meeting with a small group of our missionaries, and what fun it was to physically be together!

Friday we finished our final Zone Conference in this transfer joining with the Montreal Zone for a morning of teaching and testimony.  Repeating our teachings five times never gets old. No two zone conferences are the same…but what always is the same is the faith, and understanding of our young missionaries who always inspire us with their experiences, their comments and their testimonies. 

Friday afternoon we had a special mission wide Devotional where we announced the temporary leaving of our missionaries from Nova Scotia. 

Missionaries that were serving in Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and PEI were transferred from there in November and December. 

Some of our dear missionaries serving in Nova Scotia, we have not seen for over a year. Covid has wrecked havoc with our ability to see these stalwart missionaries, but, enough is enough! For at least three months the Spirit has been reminding us to ‘temporarily’ move these teams, and  finally we listened, and are obeying!!  8am Tuesday, March 16th, twelve missionaries will drive six vehicles, over two days, the thirteen hours to Montreal, overnighting in Riviere du Loup, while seven others will fly directly here. Before leaving last week, Sister Little thankfully, organized the mass vehicle exodus; and our housing Elder and Sister Roberts are currently working tirelessly getting apartments ready for the nine relocating teams! Having all our missionaries within arms reach is going to be so comforting; we can hardly wait to see them in living daylight!! Having an in-person Mission Wide Zone Conference…(if covid regulations ease up, as well as getting Area Presidency permission) is our dream!!

Happy to report three Baptisms this week..Francis, (Longueuil) Lisa, (Laurier) and Kathryn, (Villa Marie) We all celebrate we have a Baptism!! 

Our key indicators show we have 35 more friends on date!!

Watercolouring is still one of our favourite relaxing activities, and Richard’s landscapes get better with each scene he paints. This week he finished a darling PEI cottage that I would love to move in to!! Painting flowers has become such a happy thing for me, and doing it with Sister missionaries from 9-9:45pm is awesome!! About a year and half ago, one of our Family service counsellor missionaries told us she had repeatedly suggested to missionaries struggling with anxiety or depression to start watercoloring!!! When she heard that we were doing it in the CMM she was thrilled, and so …we continue to paint!! Someday we will take lessons so we know what we are doing!! 

PEI Cottage

View from our bedroom window

Richard's sunrise out our bedroom window

                                                   

We see everything in Montreal..even bikes hanging from 'No Parking' signs!!                

Yesterday our Pday adventure was a little drive out to Granby to pick up our preordered ‘Cabane Sucre’ box which was filled with a maple sugar feast. For almost 200 years, to celebrate the maple sap starting to flow from the maple forests that sweep across Quebec and Ontario, Quebecois created a wonderful celebration involving a lot of eating, singing and dancing!! Last year, the afternoon before covid pretty much closed the world; we attended such a festival!!  We watched cheery dancing, heard traditional Quebecois tunes, and ate so much…split pea soup, omelette, maple ham, maple sausages, potato wedges, bacon, french toast, maple chicken, maple pudding, sugar pie, and more. On our long picnic tables were tall pitchers filled with maple syrup which we poured over everything!! Our take home ‘box supper’ that we picked up at ‘Erabliere La Grillade' was much the same…we just had to warm everything…you can imagine it was a ‘very sweet supper!!’ No toe tapping music, singing, or dancing though! They packed enough food in our box for three meals!! Look at macabanealamaison.com/en/ambiance-101 to see how to create your own homespun sugar shack ambiance!! Such a fun tradition! We hope to take our Seniors out to another Cabane sucre on the 27th!! 

This upcoming week promises to be another wonderful one…we receive two new missionaries - Sister Smetaniuk, and Elder Johnson, and we have Mission Wide Learning Conferences on Wednesday and Friday, so we will keep busy…no twiddling thumbs!! 

Here are a few of my framed favourite quotes..but I have no idea where they came from…

“If the Lord can do great things 

with a single loaf..

Imagine what He can do 

with a single life.”

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“What if you woke up today 

with only

the things you thanked God 

for yesterday?”

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Have a wonderful week…all of you!

Our weeks are flying by too quickly!!

with much LOVE,

Grandpa and Grandma, Dad and Mom, Richard and Gayle

Keep Smiling!!! 

March 7th, 2021 Missionary Miracles:

This from a Sister who had to return home early due to health reasons (persistent headaches that had plagued her for years prior to her mission and which had baffled all doctors she had seen pre mission):

“Hi President and Sister Low! How are you? Sorry it's been this long, lots of things have been happening so this will be a long email! 

I am loving being a service missionary! It was slow at first trying to figure out where I can volunteer and my service leaders were training the first couple weeks I was back home, so we've all been trying to figure this service mission out. Two and a half weeks ago I started working at the CEM mission office and I'm loving it! They have me doing the mission history for all of last year, ordering supplies, taking care of the mission cell phones, and starting up the weekly newsletter that stopped when covid came around. I definitely have my work cut out for me but I love it nonetheless. Heavenly Father definitely heard me because I once mentioned to Soeur Vaiho that I wanted to work in the mission office and asked how I could. She then said, "revelation." 

I've also been doing lots of family history, practicing my flute, and I'm learning how to animate! I have a goal of animating myself playing ‘If You Could Hie to Kolob' on the flute like I did with ‘Peace in Christ,’ but since I know next to nothing about animating, it's going to take a long time! 

I want to thank you and Mission Medical for denying my request for an MRI in Montreal. I know that sounds a little weird but honestly it was a blessing in disguise. So many miracles have happened here because of that decision and the decision to allow me to see a neurologist. Two days after I returned home, I had a doctor's appointment with my family doctor. I was a little skeptical because she had denied me medications for my headaches in the past but I went nonetheless. Instead of seeing my family doctor, a resident saw me who was so caring, thorough, and gave me the care that I needed. It was incredible! Definitely a tender mercy from the Lord. The resident had initially wanted me to go see a neurologist there, however when I mentioned to her that I had already seen one in Montreal and showed her the requisition he had given me for an MRI, she immediately sent a requisition to the hospital here. After years of being denied an MRI, that piece of paper that I received in Montreal helped me immensely. She then warned me that there are patients who have been waiting for months, even years and it might be the same for me. I was okay with that, at least I was on the list! The next day (on Friday), I received a call from the hospital. They had had a cancellation and they could fit me into an appointment that Sunday!! I wasn't even home for an entire week and yet I was already getting the help that I needed! I broke down and cried because I knew it was Heavenly Father who orchestrated this whole thing. He is honestly so kind, it boggles my brain thinking about how much He loves each of us. On Tuesday, I received the results from the MRI. My doctor told me that the ventricle on the right side of my brain (a little pocket that holds, distributes, and drains cerebrospinal fluid) is inflamed due to an increased amount of csf. There is an obstruction preventing it from draining properly and so it's pushing against my brain. They don't know yet if this is the cause of my headaches but it's a pretty good guess. They also don't know what the obstruction is but they told me it's almost 100% not a tumour so that's good! They sent the images to a neurosurgeon to see if surgery is necessary to remove the obstruction or if it can be resolved by medications. I have an appointment with the neurosurgeon the beginning of April so we'll see what he says. Again, thank you for the decision to not let me get in an MRI in Montreal and for all the love and kindness you both have shown me.

Truthfully, I miss Montreal and the CMM family. I will forever cherish the time I spent there, albeit shorter than expected. I love sharing with my little sister all of my mission stories, she has heard them numerous times to the point of her loudly sighing when I start a sentence with, "when I was in Montreal..." But secretly, she likes story time. I'm using what I learned in the field with my family and every second day we switch between Come Follow Me for scripture study and reading Safeguards For Using Technology. I love the positive impact that I am having on my family as a service missionary as well as the people who are interested in potentially serving a service mission.

I want to finish with my favourite scripture. It is in 1 Nephi 20:10: "For behold, I have refined thee, I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction." This scripture has new meaning for me now. He has chosen me for this great work and He loves me despite and because of my afflictions. Trials are a refining process and I thank my Heavenly Father for loving me enough to give me these trials, because if we didn't have trials and hard things to work through, we wouldn't progress. We would just be the exact same person and not grow into who we need to be. It is amazing to me that Heavenly Father loves us so much to give us these experiences to grow our faith and our testimony because He knows that as we are refined, we come closer and closer to being like Him. We have the possibility to become like Him, to become gods ourselves, which is amazing to think about. When I think of the typical god portrayed in films and media, that god is selfish and they just want to keep all their power for themselves. But Heavenly Father is so selfless and loving and kind because He gives us these opportunities in life to progress into our full and eternal potential. If Heavenly Father didn't love us, He wouldn't give us challenges in life that stretch our faith; everything would just be easy going and we wouldn't grow. 

Anyways, I miss you both! Love you! “

Sherbrooke Elders:

Hey President! I've been super excited to tell you this super neat miracle Elder Salmon and I had this week. You are welcome to share with sister Low as well. Oh I have the story of a lifetime!! This week we had this bible drop off this week 10 minutes out of our area so we go and drop it off at this older couples house because they live with the person we gave the bible too. But the older man had a glow and touched my little soul. So we depart from their house and we get about 5 minutes out and we feel the spirit super strong telling me to go back. So I said elder flip this car right around we gotta go back! We go back and all the butterflies start coming right? So we get there and the man said "i was hoping you'd come back!" He said he was the only Christian preacher in the tiny town of Weedon Quebec. He said he prayed for us to come back. Well when he came back he said he knew we had a message for him that he needed to hear. Well we very briefly explained the Restoration by using our 3 minutes and under skills that we had previously been challenged to do and he said he wanted to visit our church! Isn't that crazy? 

Riverside (Ottawa) Sisters:

We had a little miracle on Sunday. We met with a member and she was having a hard time with family, living away from them and different choices that they were making. When we were meeting with her I thought of a quote that I had written in the front of my scriptures during my MTC training. My MTC teacher had shared this and I thought I would share it a lot as I taught but I've never read it in a lesson until this Sunday. It was a quote by Elder Eyring who asked a prophet once and expressed his concern about family members making choices that would make it impossible for their family to be together forever. The Prophet said "you are worrying about the wrong problem. You just live worthy of the celestial kingdom and the family arrangements will be more wonderful than you can imagine." This quote seemed to be just the thing she needed and it was cool to see how after 8 months I finally found the one person who I knew would need to hear it. 

Villa Marie (Montreal) Sisters:

We had a cool experience this week, we were on the bus and I pulled out my phone to contact someone, my screen saver is a picture of Jesus Christ. Immediately a man behind me saw and got so excited and said wow is that Jesus, where did you get that picture?! It started out just as a conversion about Jesus and then he realized we were missionaries and we talked about the Bible and his religion and what we do as missionaries for “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.” Then when we hoped off the bus Soeur Vaiho pulled out the Book of Mormon and he took it graciously and we were able to swap contact info and everything! It was a miracle and all because of my phone screen! This proves even more how divine all the rules are, and the safeguards for technology!