Baptism!

This week was an awesome week. Not only did it stop being so bitter

cold, but we had a baptism! Constance was baptized on Saturday and it

went very well. Everything got planned out well and members of the

branch helped out a lot. Yesterday she was confirmed by the branch

president, and then in relief society she taught the lesson! She's

definitely a solid convert. She's a perfect example of someone whose

life has been changed and blessed by the gospel.

Last Monday we had our Zone Activity at the Ice Hotel. It was pretty

sweet. They had a drumset made of ice with electric drum pads wired to

it. I thoroughly enjoyed playing it. That night we had 10 missionaries

sleeping in our apartment. There was barely any room to move around.

I'm glad we're moving into a bigger apartment this week for when the

other missionaries come down. Tuesday was zone conference which was

good. President Cannon gave us some good trainings and talked about

preparing for all the new missionaries who will be coming in starting

next week.

Yesterday we were out knocking and this lady of about 60 opened the

door and quickly invited us in and told us to warm up. We could kind

of tell something was weird from the get go but she had us sit down on

her couch and started talking to us and for the most part a lot of

what she was saying was nonsense. She asked us where we were from and

how we got here... and then she asked the same questions like three

more times. We were both quite caught off guard and were wondering

what was going on when we saw some medication on her coffee table.

We're hoping it was just by accident that she took too much meds or

something. We had to tell her we had somewhere else to be and get out

of there ha. We might try back another time when hopefully she's more

normal. As a missionary, you tend to wish that the number of people

you meet who are 'interested' was equal to the number of people you

meet who are 'interesting'. Great week! Je vous aime!

Elder Oxborrow

P.S. I haven't sent pics for a while so it's a bit of a catch up this week.

1-Saying goodbye in Ottawa

2-At the army base in Quebec (the elders quorum president is in the military)

3-Baptism

The rest- Ice hotel