I MADE IT!! Holy cow. Im in Sherbrooke now, the farthest south the mission goes I think. It is a trilingual area, French, English, and Spanish, and its insane here. CRAZY. I wish I could write with correct punctuation but this is a French keyboard and I cannot find the apostrophe. rats. Anyhow. Im in a tripod right now, I get two dads! (Nevermind what they say about our church being narrowminded). Elder Perry and Elder Oropeza. Everything, absolutely everything is in French. Its mind blowing. And the French they speak here, not the same at all. gah. Its cool, it will all come...eventually...
This place is a huge melting pot. We had dinner my first day with a liberian woman, and in our english class there is a couple chinese women and an Iranian man, more to come, crazy eh' FOUND THE APOSTROPHE. Can't find the question mark. Hmmm....I had poutine for the first time on the first day, at Mont Royal Hotdog, a HUGE plate of double fried french fries, soggily drenched in triple thick gravy, cheese curds literally floating, stacked on top were about 7 strips of bacon, shredded and torn. It just destroyed me the first time I had it... yuck. So, much, goodness. Cannot be taken in all at once.
Knocked doors first day. Was not as bad as I thought it was going to be. Rejection is a lot easier when it comes to you in another language you do not understand- especially a pretty language like French. There are always these old men shouting such fluffy little comments of hate, it is like being slapped in the face with a feather. At least they try.
Nobody here likes religion. There are a couple nunneries, but everyone is either a non-practicing catholic or they believe in science. The catholic Church used to run everything around here, like, EVERYthing, until about...maybe..a generation ago everyone just walked away from religion, they had had enough of the catholic church taking control of stuff and telling them what to do. Look up the Silent Revolution, thats what we as missionaries are trying to fight. There is hope within the rising generation, the college kids. That is where we will most likely find success.
The first door I knocked on, I introduced myself in French, the lady spoke english. Ah ha. A lot of people here speak english. In fact, all my teaching appointments so far have been in english. Thank Heavens!
Apparantly there are a lot of gays and lesbians here in ol Kaybec. Gross. Hopefully wont run into too many.
Im sure Im going to be here for a while, we are an hour and a half from any other missionaries, so Im going to be setting up here for some long term stuff.
By the way, I really need money for my winter coat, its starting to get cold here, high 30s and such. As soon as possible, si'l vous plait. All the trees here are on fire! Such brilliant colors, the leaves are changing.
This last sunday was the first day I actually saw the sun here in quebec, its been raining nonstop since I got here. The river flooded over and shut down the bridge while we were teaching a lesson. It was a long lesson. and when we came out the apartment building had a moat. I have pictures, I am sending an SD card to Miss Bell today, hopefully it will get there soon.
Conference was AWESOME. especially in English, thank goodness. I could have used some cinnamon rolls, and it sounds like you guys had an awesome time, which is good! Due to the time change, we watched conference at 12-2 and 4-6 and then priesthood was 8-10. A crazy change for sure, but a good one. It sounds like chandler is loving the drums! does he have a practice set at home, and if so, has it driven mom insane yet? Found the Question mark! Good luck Noah in Ballroom dance, that's a sure fire way to get all the ladies!
HAHAHAHAH I cannot believe Carlie is working at Dr. Grants! Oh that is good! Has she gone insane yet? I bet she is not liking it at all. Carter is going to study abroad in China? Sweet! Sounds way cool, nothing like complete immersion in something you have no idea about to make you feel alive. I miss the good old days of DTV, sounds like Hayden is rocking the scene there. thats good, how is the old job for Hayden? Are the Allen's still alive?
I will let you know more as it comes, the mission field is a million times better than the MTC!!
Peace be the Journey,
E. Holm
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