Hey everyone. I hope you all had a great New Years. I
have to admit on the mission it is not a very exciting holiday. We still had to
go to bed at 10:30. But my companion and I set our alarm to go off at midnight
so we could celebrate the new year. Not that we did much because we were
tired.
This week has been good. We continue to teach and serve the
people here in Ottawa. Karen, Rick, and Xaiver and getting ready for their
baptism. I am so exciting for them. Yesterday we were there singing hymns and
such so they could pick out hymns for their baptism and then they asked the
elders to baptize them. So that will be awesome!
Oh a fun note with Karen, I had started to play the first to
measures of a Nocturn by Chopin, the one from Hallmark's Secret Garden. She
totally knew it. She said that sounded like the Secret Garden. I just stopped,
mostly because that was all I could remember, and said "you know it?"
She was like, "ya!" So then I quoted some lines to her and it made me
very happy. The second thing is Karen was looking at pictures of temples and
she came across one she really liked. It was her favorite one out of the group
she was looking at. When she showed it to me later that day, it turned out to
be the Vernal, Utah temple. How cool is that?!
The other cool thing that happened this week was meeting
Myra. She was a referral to us by the Chapel Hill Sisters. We were planning
for Friday. We had an open space and I thought we needed to see Myra. We
had never met her before. So when Friday came we knocked on her door. Her son
answered and asked who we were and what we were about. Before we had a chance
to answer him, she had come to the door and said, "Are you the Mormon
Sisters?" We said yes. While we were saying that I was thinking "Oh
no." Generally when people ask that, it's not a good thing. But as soon as
we said yes she told us to come in. We had a great chat with her. She is from
Haiti and speaks, French, Creole, English, and Spanish fluently. She has met
with missionaries before and even had a Book of Mormon. We had a nice chat and
shared a scripture on prayer with her that Sister G felt she needed. We
went back the next day and she told us that on Friday she had been having a
really hard time and was really depressed. She had been praying to God to help
her. That night we knocked on her door. It was amazing! Heavenly Father really
does care about his children and will put us in their paths if we just listen
to the promptings/ideas that come into our heads.
I hope you all have a great week!
Love you!
Sister Gardner
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