December 20th, 2010

Qu'est-ce que sup, family,

Woof, you guys almost struck out completely on letters this week, good thing pops pulled through with a letter from his blackberry. Thanks Pops! But I understand, it's a busy time and all.

So. Transfer calls. Crazy things happening. I'm going Senior Companion to an elder that is only one transfer old, and we are flushing into the VAL D'OR area, or more commonly known as Ahbitibi. It is the furthest north in the mission you can go.I'm going from the furthest south in the mission to the top of the top. In the dead of winter. I'm going to die. There's a super strong branch up there, of 8 people. heheh. But the work is turning around up there, they just had the first baptism in 4 years up there last transfer. My new comp, E. Johnson, and I will tear it up for sure. It will be fun.

I gotta learn french. It will be nice to be senior finally. Not that I'm shooting for position or anything, I just think I could be so much more effective in a senior position. I've had some good ideas shot down by some seniors that I know would have been effective. NOW IS THE TIME.

So, to get there from montreal is a 4 hour bus ride to ottawa, then 5 hour drive to val d'or. Yikes.

This past week has been nothing but tracting. Woo... But I have learned an extraordinary amount from E. Valido, especially about the bible. Like crazy things. Ah well, I still like the Book of Mormon better.

We got to help at a toy-donation event here at the church, and set up a missionary table and everything. E. Valido and I have been working very hard this past week, and a couple days extra. So this past week and a half. And in this time we have found 50 potentials. Crazy, I'm kind of sad to leave Drummondville after only being here for a week. The work here is going to explode. Man, it's already exploding.

Christmas this year will be kinda lame, seeing as we are flushing into an area. But I'm sure E. Johnson is cool, we'll have a blast. Thank you so so very much for the packages, I have to open them tonight though to make sure everything fits in my luggage.

VAL D'OR.

So, if you guys have a quilt handy, I promised a member I would ask for one before I headed out to Val D'or. If not, that's fine, I'm sure they have a lot of blankets up there. I feel bad asking for one right after you sent the christmas packages, but I might die.

I'll be calling Christmas Eve sometime, probably around 9 o clock for me, so 7 o clock for you guys. I might try a little earlier, like in the morning too. I'm just gonna call to let you know what time I'm calling on Christmas.

Um, that's really all we did this week, was tract, nothing crazy exciting or anything. Not even that many interesting people. It's been a long week. Ah well.

I'll talk to you guys on Christmas,

Joyeux Noël,

E. Holm