WHAT NEWS FROM THE MARK?
So...Big week. Baptism of an investigator. Great guy, super solid. The baptism was excellent. Felt the Spirit, all that good stuff. It was actually very difficult to get to, you see. It took place in Rouyn-Noranda, an hour away and we had an extremely NASTY Blizzard that morning. Yup. Our third one last week. We passed 3 wrecks on the Highway on our way over to the baptism...."And if the very elements arise to hedge up the way..."--Not correctly quoted at all, I'm sure.
And that same night, after the entire branch had bonded at the baptism, and it seemed as if the heavens had just opened up and doused this branch in joy and unity, we received transfer calls.
I'm leaving Abitibi.
Sunday was a very emotional day for everyone really. Half the branch cried when the investigator received the Gift of the Holy Ghost. The other half teared up as I said my good-bye testimony. No one knew really what to feel. I've never worked harder with a small group of people. I know all the members of the branch here extraordinarily well. It makes it hard. Impossibly hard to leave. I am the Batman of missionary work. Dunk 'em and disappear, with the window open and curtains blowing in the wind.
But my mission president must have known this. Because he helped me leave here in the fact of who he placed me with, and where.
Mascush, is my new home. 20 minutes north of the Island of Montreal. Hometown of Celine Dion, and the Largest French ward in North America. Largest French primary in the world.
Needless to say, Big changes from Abitibi.
But that's okay, because my new comp is none other than Elder McRoberts. Yes, Payden McRoberts. From Kaysville, Utah. The Alto Sax section leader, a good friend of Elder Holm before the Mission. How insane is that? I am very excited, very much so. It's going to be a blast. We will do good things for the city of Mascush. (Mass-Coosh)
I'm being replaced by a good elder and Elder Holbrook is staying here. It's too bad, we were having a lot of fun together, him and I. Despite his strangeness. I love him though.
I've got some good pictures attached here, the last sunset I'll see in Abitibi and other such stuff.
Martin is the one with no arms or legs--he's the branch pianist. Crazy eh?
Yan looks like he's going to kill someone. And he could, fifty different ways. GANGSTER.
As for Mom's package...I'm good on food, don't need any of that, but I could really use some short sleeve shirts. It's getting warm fast. despite the snow. hmm.... I'm going to die this summer. I'll send an address as soon as I have one.
Hayden Got his mission call, that's crazy! Paraguay is legit. Like. Super legit. That's crazy cool. I've had a lot of opportunity to contact in spanish, and I'm bound to have more closer to montreal, I'll have to try and get good so Hayden and I can chat.
I'm proud to say that I left this place better than I found it, Abitibi. Even though it took all my spiritual strength and all my physical strength as well, I did it. I'm excited for the future. And I'll be talking to you people in about two weeks time. I'm hitting up the doctor in Montreal after transfers. I've been losing weight again. I haven't the slightest why, we've been eating like kings. Lots of casseroles and burritos.
On to spring, it's about time.
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