June 15

Hello everyone! I hope that you all have had a wonderful week. This week has been good.

This weekend was the most eventful. On Saturday we went to go and see our investigator Rob at the pier in Lachine. While we are there this man comes up to us. Sister C asks how his is. He doesn't answer. She asks again and he says something like, "Do you want me to answer that good?" That's what started the whole thing. Please note that all of our conversations did not happen in one setting. He would leave and come back, leave and come back.

In Sister C's words this is what happened, "Later that day, we were teaching Rob at the pier. It was a great lesson. But we met a very interesting person. We'll call him "Sir". I don't even know how to describe what happened. Sir just kept leaving and coming back to talk at us. He kept calling us nuns and wanted to know if we could "Save him". Sister Gardner said "No. Only Jesus can do that." It was pretty funny. He kept staring at us and wanted "our souls to connect". At one point he asked Sister Gardner "What do you see when you look into my eyes?" and she replied "blue... and hazel." It was pretty great. He then wanted to know our names. So we replied "Sister C" or "Sister Gardner". So then he decided to give us names. Sister Gardner is now Suzanne/Shirley. And I am Consuela. At one point Rob had to leave because he had a customer and so "Sir" kept talking to us. In the background was this man and he watched us the entire time until Rob came back. He even got up and moved from where he was originally sitting so he could be closer and get a better view at what was happening. All in all, it was an interesting experience.

We now know that there are good people in the world. We may not get to talk to them often, but they are there. Making sure creepy men at the pier don't get too crazy." There were some other questions he asked but I will just have to tell you when I get home. :) 

Earlier that day we had a literal scripture chase. I had left my scriptures at an investigators house. We realized this and so we went back to go and get them; only to find that his mom had left with to come find us. We searched everywhere for her. We would go back to their apartment and she still wasn't there. On the final time we went she wasn't in the apartment and as we turned to leave she came all sweaty and out of breathe. Apparently she had ran several blocks and streets stopping at the bus stops looking for us. Funny thing was we didn't leave the apartment building. We had just gone upstairs. 

The most important thing to happen this week was Val's baptism. It went well. I played the piano and gave the opening prayer. Val was baptized in a dress her Grandma had made for her older sister when she was baptized. She was so cute. The ward helped out a lot and we had a great turn out! 

I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Love you! Sister Gardner