Photos and Mail

Sister Gardner with her first companion, Sister Schmuhl.

First roommates!

The whole district for the Canada Montreal Mission in front of the Provo UT Temple!

Bonjour everyone! It sounds like everyone is having a good week. This past week was not so fun. I have just been sick. Wed. and Thurs. I was very nauseous, enough that I even puked. Not cool and by the end of the week when I was feeling ok I got a cold. So now I just can't breathe or talk. But it's ok. I could have worse things.

So We taught Lupe her last lesson. It went well. My companion is picking up on the French faster than I am, but I feel like we make a good team. 

Funny thing about Lupe, her real name is Soeur Anna McKay and she was our teacher up until yesterday. So we had the final lesson with Lupe on Thursday and then on Friday she came in to be our teacher. My companion and I were not very surprised. We had been talking to some Elders and they said their first investigator was the head of the French language teaching her at the MTC. When talking to another teacher he said that he had played a male version of Lupe and that we would get to know Lupe very well. So my companion and I thought she will be our teacher. What better way to find out where we are on our lessons/French. She is awesome and I'm sad that she won't be our teacher anymore. When they bring in the new districts this week she has to go and teach one of them.

So we had like 30 people leave our zone on Monday. So the cafeteria, gym, and my building have been very empty. It is weird not to see people. Tomorrow we get 30+ people in our district so soon there will be people again. 

Choir has been fun. I was not able to preform last week do to being sick. This week we are learning Savior, Dear Redeemer. It is so pretty! I love the harmonies of it. Again I don't know who is speaking but I know it will be good. 

My companion's name is Soeur Schmuhl. She is from Taylorsville, UT. She is the middle child and the first out of her siblings to go on a mission. Luckily we like a lot of the same activities so we can go to choir or play something in the gym.  We added a new roommate this week. She is a solo missionary so she is placed in a companionship throughout the zone. Since her companions/roommates left Monday she moved in with us. 

The food is ok. I have definitely eaten worse but it is getting old, and I still have 5 weeks to go on it. We will see how long I last. They feed us such big meals. It would be ok if they were more spread out. Oh well.

As far as French goes my teacher Frere Sybrowskie says I'm doing great. He is playing a new investigator for us and he gave us feedback after the first lesson. He says I need to talk more. I prayed and gave my testimony. He told me that I knew all the words just have more confidence in myself. Soeur McKay told us it was a blessing to be learning a foreign language. It is sometimes hard to simplify a lesson. She said the blessing comes from knowing only the basic words means we can only teach basic things and so it doesn't get so complicated. I had never thought about it that way. It was nice to hear. 

Love you all. 

Thanks for the emails!

Soeur Gardner