October 6, 2014

You guys, I'm like 1/13th done! I just completed my first transfer. Everyone says the first one is by far the longest so I'm guessing the rest of my mission will fly by! Right!?

6 WEEK FOLLOW UP: On Friday morning all of the new missionaries and their companions went to Brampton for a follow up. We were all supposed to prepare a 5 min talk and I was selected to give mine. I got way nervous so that's dumb. But I feel like I'm always being picked on! President only picked like 3 missionaries out of 35, and I was one of them. Anyways it was so fun to see my MTC friends. Elder Call is learning Farsi so that's crazy!! And all of my sister friends are loving their companions so that was nice to hear. We drove up with Elder Vang and McKennin and Sister Davis and Herfert. The drive up was way fun and we got there very early but that's OK. 

HONG KONG TEMPLE: Remember that one time when I was in Hong Kong and Lee told me that there was a missionary in his session that had his call to Toronto? Well I've been looking for that missionary ever since. When I meet Asian Elders I ask if they are from Hong Kong and how long they've been out. When one Elder said he's from Hong Kong and that he'd been out for a couple months I was like, "NO WAY! We were in the Hong Kong temple on the same day!" Well he didn't understand me and looked like he was scared of me so that's nice! And it turned out that it wasn't even him! HAHAHA But I did find that missionary at the 6 week follow up training. His name is Elder Woo! And he speaks English better and thought it was cool so it all worked out!! 

COUSIN ON THE MISSION: Apparently I have a cousin serving in Toronto! At the follow up meeting Sister Reeves said someone in her district has been looking and wanting to meet me because we are related!? And the worst part was she couldn't remember the Elders name! HA I was so confused for like 2 days trying to figure out who it could be. Then I remembered when I went to Mitch Henderson's homecoming I met his Aunt that said her son was in Toronto. I think we're related to Henderson's so that has to be it, right!? But I can't wait to meet my cousin out here! ha

I HATE RULES: So remember the Jardins that I wrote about like 3 weeks ago!? They are both old but so in love and it was adorable. Well Sister Jardin died and I'm so sad for Brother Jardin! We had been over twice and loved our time there! They gave us ice cream and lotions so that was nice! But I saw Brother Jardin on Sunday and wanted to give him a hug so badly!! He was crying and just shook my hand and looked at me for a long time. I felt so cold! And I can't even write him a letter, it kills me!! And we can't go over and visit him! AHHH! And we couldn't go to the funeral! Anyways I'm so sad for him!

I THINK I'M GETTING A HEART: We went to visit a less active lady in our ward named Hahn. She's been in the ward for about a year and hasn't been to church for the last couple of months. We visited her on Wednesday and she told us her story. She is married and has one child who is in college. Her husband got in an accident a couple years ago and injured his neck. His body is now completely disabled! She was telling us how he told her to stop taking care of him so she could become successful in life. She doesn't live with him anymore but they talk on the phone almost every day. Anyways she was telling us how hard it was and started crying and my eyes totally got watery! Ah man, I felt soooo sad for her! 

SCARY MAN: Yes, there are always more! I guess I haven't met them all. He was way drunk when we saw him on the street and really wanted to talk with us. He was asking us very strange questions like, "Do you have a boyfriend?" "Are you a virgin!?" And "Not saying I did, but if I did murder someone could I still be a member of your church!?" The whole time he was just talking to me and completely ignoring my companion. He was gross and I hope he didn't murder anyone!! Yikes.

CONFERENCE: Ah man, I love conference! I did get a little homesick! I miss Utah and watching it with family while we eat lots of bad foods! The talks were all really great and Jill came to the Sunday morning session and absolutely loved it! She said she felt the spirit really strong! YAY!

VIKAS: He's one of our new investigators and he's so awesome! He moved here from India a couple months ago but has been a Christian for about 5 years. He met missionaries right before he left India and looked online to find a church in Toronto. He just showed up at our ward and I'm so glad we went up and talked to him. I was like, "I'm so sorry, we're still kind of new to the ward and I don't know your name!" Haha we've met with him a couple times since and he is totally following his commitments! He's been reading from the Book of Mormon and praying about it. Yahoo!

BOOK OF MORMON: I finished it! Yep, it's true. and yep, I love it! I love reading the last two paragraphs of the introduction with investigators. It's powerful and so true! 

OK I love you all and miss you lots!

Sister Dayton