April 27th

Hello everyone! I don't have much time this week. It was a good week. Much busier from last week. Most important and great news is that Ti is cancer free as of this moment! :) He had an MRI and everything scanned clean. They will keep doing MRI's every 3 months to make sure the cancer hasn't come back.

We were able to have a great lesson with Darlene, Terri, and Janice yesterday. Darlene said she would think about being baptized. Terri and Janice still want to be.

I hope that you all have a great week! Those who have finals coming up good luck!

Love you all!
Sister Gardner

April 20

Hey everyone!
I hope that you have been able to have a great week this week. The
weather was so nice here. I was in heaven. I think Spring has finally arrived. :) My other good news is we didn't run into any road blocks this week.

I met my new companion on Tuesday. Her name is Sister C. She is from California (this is my first non Utah companion). She speaks Spanish and English and now some French. She is amazing and is excited for this mission. The poor girl. This week was one of those weeks where people cancelled our lessons right and left. We didn't do a lot of teaching. We did a lot of contacting in the park and kept trying to set up appointments to see some people. Hopefully this week goes by better!

Darlene and her girls are doing great. We were able to talk with this week on Faith. We shared Ether 12:6 which talks about how often our faith isn't strengthened until after a trial. We just have to go forward and hope for the best. After it is all said and done we can see just exactly how it helped us gain more faith.

I hope that you are all having a good week so far! Thanks for all the support!

Sister Gardner

April 13 Transfers

• Well everyone, it's that lovely time of transfers again and there will be changes.  Sister H is leaving and going to the Montreal East Branch/working in the office.  I will be staying and training.  Yep that's right.  I'm getting a brand new missionary.  I won't know who it is until tomorrow at transfers. 

This week we were able to see Darlene again. We finished teaching about the Restoration. We invited them to be baptized. Terri and Janice said yes. That's exciting! :)

We were also able to see Rob again. Sister H even helped catch a fish while we were there. Rob said he would enjoy us coming back. Next time he would take us out for ice cream. 

My last adventure I would like to write about happened on Saturday. I feel like I lived 3 days in 1 and that it happened last week. So Friday night at 2 am we get a call from the zone leaders saying they need the address of the Kirkland sisters. There is another set of Sisters on the road and they got permission from Pres. Patrick to stay there since they were still a couple of hours from their area. We give them the address and go back to sleep. 4 am we get another call from the Laval Sisters (the one's trying to get to Kirkland) saying they were lost but knew they were in our area. They needed us to come and pick them up. Their car was practically out of gas. So we get up and go and rescue them. We got home and made them some beds and we go to sleep. Morning comes and we take them back to their car and then take them to a gas station. Then we start to take them to the freeway (they were following us in our car). We remember that the exit they need to take is closed due to construction. We call them and tell them we are taking them another way. We get them on the Freeway and we take an exit to get off. They did eventually make it home. 

Meanwhile we are driving through Upper Lachine and we put home into our GPS. So we start to go and come to a road block. No problem the GPS calculates a new address and we go. Well we are stopped at another road block. Both had been due to construction. We put in another route and we come across another road block due to some accident. But eventually we make it home and it's only 9 in the morning and we decide to take a nap.

Later that day we were helping at the Bishop's daughter's wedding reception. It started at 3 and I have no idea how long it went but we left around 7 and it was still going. We helped in the kitchen and took food to and from the tables of food. 

Then we decide to contact a referral that we had received since we had a few hours before we needed to be home. So we're driving along and we come across another road block. The road we were suppose to turn onto doesn't exist. It's a bridge over a river and the middle section was missing. So we put in a new route and go. It is a very long detour but we make it and contact our referral. So the time comes to go home. As we're driving we come across our final road block for the day, it being number 6. So we put in another route and head for home. This route was the longest detour and instead of the normal 20-30 minute drive it took us like and hour and 15 minutes. Needless to say it was a long drive and long day!

I hope you all have a great week and don't run into any road blocks. 

Love you all!

Sister Gardner

Pictures are of Rob and Sister H and the fish she helped catch!

April 6th

I hope that you all had a wonderful Easter weekend! I hope that those of you that chose to watch General Conference enjoyed it! I thought it was great. 3 new temples were announced. I love temples! I love the peace and the blessing they bring me to my life. I can't wait for the Montreal Temple to be open so that I can go again. Soon.

This week we saw Darlene and her daughters Janice and Terri. We taught them about the Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. Darelene had met with missionaries in the past but she said she never read from the Book of Mormon. She said she would give it a try this time. Her daughters went to mutual the next day as well. The leaders said they seemed to enjoy it. We will be seeing them again this week. 

I hope that you all have a wonderful week!

Sister Gardner