10.26

Hello and Happy Halloween!

I hope that you all had a wonderful week this week.

We had a few small miracles. May reset her baptismal date to Dec. 5. I'm ok with that. It will give her husband more time to be ready to baptize her. She feels like she knows now without a doubt that this Gospel is true and that it is a good thing for her family. 

Our other miracles this week had to do with a less active and her non-member husband. We had dinner with them on Friday and we were able to listen to Mack say the prayer. Sara pinky promised Sister A that she would say the prayer next time. Next time ended up being the next day at her parents house for dinner. At first she wasn't going to. After much convincing, Matt convincing her too, she said the prayer. 

I know that I'm doing the Lord's work and it's by the small things we do each day that we can really feel his love and really know that he is our Father in Heaven who loves us. 

I hope you all have a good week! Sister Gardner

10-20

Hello everyone!

I hope that you have had a fantastic week! This week has been awesome!! Sister A is BACK!!!!!! And she is back in Sherbrooke!!! TAG team has been reunited. :) 

We also were able to set a new baptismal goal with May. It is set for Nov. 21 but we hope to move it up a week due to the temple open house. The best part is she said she would even be baptized even if her husband can't confirm her since he doesn't hold the Melchizedek Priesthood. That is what was holding her back before. That was a miracle. 

I feel like I have been on vacation this weekend. I left for Quebec on Sat. afternoon for exchanges, Stake Conference and Zone Conference and didn't get home until 9 pm yesterday. Talk about mind blown!! Elder Golden from the 70's came and did training. There is so much to do. I think one of my favorite parts was his testimony on Joseph Smith. So powerful! I wish I had time to tell you everything I learned. But alas I do not. 

After Conference we took the time to do a little site seeing. We spent most of the time in Old Quebec and we drove through the Plains of Abraham. I love doing things together as a district. :)

Today I went to Stanstead and visited a library that was build in 1906 and it sits on the border. So today I technically left the mission boundaries and went into the States.

Then this afternoon we played Walleyball as a district. Needless to say it has been an awesome week. 

Love you all and thanks for all the prayers, love and support.

Have a wonderful week! Sister Gardner

Pictures from the library and going into Vermont

Canada!

United States!

More Oct 13th

Our last walk with Lolita because she will be leaving 

Sherbrooke, and photos eating famous ice cream with some of the sisters in the zone.

10-13-15

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! I hope that you all have had a wonderful week and a great beginning of this one.

This week was a good week. We went to a "German Party". Really it was a district party with H, a member in our ward. He made us all a German dinner. We had sauerkraut, sausages, homemade rolls, real mashed potatoes, red jello and coconut salad, and blueberry cake. It was delicious. He told us some stories from his mission. All I can say is wow! 

We also had our training in Quebec for the Open House. It was a beautiful drive. Although we didn't get any time to do any site seeing. From what I saw it is a beautiful city, full of culture and history. Hopefully this upcoming trip this weekend for Stake and Zone Conference we will be able to see more. 

With it being Thanksgiving week here I would like to share a quick thought on Gratitude. There is a story in the bible about the 10 Lepers. All come to Christ and ask to be healed. Christ tells them what to do to heal themselves. They all go their ways to be healed. 1 Leper comes back after he has done his things and thanks the Lord. Christ ask weren't there 10 of you? Where are the other 9? The man replies he doesn't know. All he knows is he came back to thanks His Lord. How many times have we been like the 9 Lepers and haven't given thanks for the blessings He has given us. I challenge us all to become like the 1 Leper and return and give our thanks to our Heavenly Father and Christ for all they have given us. 

I hope you all have a good week!

Sister Gardner 

Pics: German Party!! Does H look like anyone to you? Your hint is Disney animated.

10-05-2015

Happy October everyone!

I hope that you have had a great and wonderful week. I hope that you were able to watch and enjoy General Conference. I enjoyed conference and am thankful for the inspired council we received. As Elder Rudolph put it, "We were spiritually destroyed by the spirit."

As a missionary this was the first time I did not watch all the sessions at the church. The Women's General Broadcast I watched at the P's. They couldn't get the English transmission to go through. So we left with Sister P to go watch it at her apartment. We had 3 other members join us. It was fun.  Saturday I actually watched conference from my apartment. Sister T. woke up at 3 that morning puking and didn't stop really until 9. She couldn't move from off the "couch/bed". I called the P's to see if they had anything and to let them know we weren't going to make it to the church. Sister P came up armed with Essential Oil things and Elder P gave her a blessing. Then between them and the Elders someone talked to Pres. Patrick and got permission for us to watch conference from our apartment. So the P's brought up their iPhone and I watched conference while Sister T. slept. (The P's live below us and their WiFi comes into our apartment and out into the parking lot.) 

Good news is she was feeling much better by Sunday and we were able to go to the church. They had the English transmission going in the gym. So we watched conference with a couple of other members on the TV and we pulled in the comfy couches and pulled up chairs for our feet to watch. John and the P's brought lunch for us, which was really sweet of them.  All in all it was a great conference.

I would like to share apart of my ponderizing scripture. It comes from 2 Ne. 2:2 "thou knowest the greatness of God; and he shall consecrate thine afflictions for thy gain." When we trust in God we will be blessed. He sees the bigger picture. Any trial he gives us is to bless us and make us stronger and into the people that we can become. He sees our full potential. 

I hope that you all have a wonderful week. Just a heads up my next 2 p-days will be on Tuesday due to Canadian Thanksgiving and then Zone Conference the next week. We will get to have a sleep over in Quebec. On the 18th we will be going for Stake Conference and then the next day is Zone Conference with the Elder Golden of the 70's. That should be exciting.

Oh and my other exciting news is I will be going to Quebec City for training on Thursday because the Sister Missionaries get to be temple workers for the Open House. :) I'm pretty stoked about that! 

Have a great week! Sister Gardner