Wattttt theeeeee hecckkkkkk!!! My first area is part of the Greater Moncton Area, it is Dieppe, which is about as French as New Brunswick goes. Luckily the people here speak English well enough to talk to us and then reject us haha. In many ways Canada is like America. I'd say it's exactly like America minus how absolutely everything is in French. Pleased to let you all know that the Canadians are not planning to invade just yet. We are in the heart of Acadia and the people here are fairly nice, kind of depends on who you meet, but they're very open to talking to us. Most of the maritimers here will tell you their whole life story so I'm learning the art of polite interrupting. More on Dieppe as things come to my mind. Look it up on wikipedia or something. Oh yeah! Robert Maillet lives around here somewhere. He was the large frenchman in Sherlock Holmes named Dredger. I will find him and he'll be the first member in Dieppe!
My trainer is literally me in like 17 months. His name is Elder Collett from Kaysville, Utah. He has served all of his time in New Brunswick as he was called French-speaking so when we run into French people (Which is like all the time, I'd say 3/4 of our contacts are French) he takes it away. I kind of just smile and nod and say the limited French that I know. I have contacted once in French before and it went fairly well. Roughly translated it went something like (Imagine a poor French accent):
E. McG-Aloooo, how arrrre youuuuuu today! (Alo comment ca va aujourd'hui!)
Contact-It's good (Ca va bien)
E. McG-That eees very gooood (C'est tres bien!)
Contact-Ya (Oui)
E. McG-I'm Elderrrr McGuireeee and I'm a missionary from the LDS Church! (Je suis missionaire de l'eglise de Jesus-Christ des Saints des Derniers Jours!)
*Contact runs away because I might of said some swear word as all of the French swear words are just religious words (Sacres Blu!)
Anyways, this area could really use your prayers. There are no members in Dieppe and they haven't seen like any success here. I'm hoping it doesn't get shut down because seriously these people need the gospel. As you might guess, these French people are all catholics so they're very confused as to why Mormons would preach to them. It's kind of like a Catholic coming from France and preaching in Utah to all the Mormons. It's cultural though so we'll see some success.
Elder Collett has been here in Dieppe for about 4 months and has gotten a few contacts with his former comp but as of now our teaching pool is two people. So if you could pray for Dieppe that would really help us out. We still haven't taught any lessons but we're going to change that. Our vision is to do things that have never been done before in Dieppe. Should be fantastic!
Speaking of doing things a little different. We found this family moving into one of the apartments and decided to help them with their move! It's actually only this woman and her daughter but they had some friends helping her. They were all from Edmundston, NB which is an entirely different ethnicity of French people, The Brayons, as they told us. We moved in all their beds and book cases and they just looked super confused as to why two boys in white shirts would just come in and help them haha. We did ask permission though. After two hours of moving and sweating like crazy we finished (By the way long shirts were a dumb idea for the Summer! I am dying from the heat and humidity!) they invited us for water and smoking, but because we don't smoke we told them no. The woman Nadia wants to invite us over for ploy which is this kind of Brayon food that's like potato cinnamon rolls-weird I know. And she wants to know where she's at with Jesus Christ! WOOHOO!
The Moncton Ward really needs your help. It's smaller than the Grand Canyon Branch and is mostly old people (Not that I don't love old people) but their attendance is hurting. We have 6 missionaries in the ward so we're going to make some changes. Please pray for the Greater Moncton Area that would help out the most.
Anyways, I'm living with 3 other missionaries-the other companionship are both from Canada and then there's Elder Collett and I. They all have at least 17 months and are either District Leader or Zone Leaders. The sisters in riverview are also the STLs. All of them are nice, but it's intimidating. I'll be just fine.
Well I want to send some pictures, so talk to you next week!!!
I love you all so much and I love that you're so strong in the Gospel. We'll make Atl-CAN into the BoM in no time ;)
Hurrah for Israel!
Elder McGuire
Dieppe has what I need!
Newfoundland looks great eh?
My new favorite hymn: Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy
Brightly Beams Our Father’s Mercy: (Men’s Choir)—Vocal and Instrumental 2:46
Lyrics
1. Brightly beams our Father's mercy
From his lighthouse evermore,
But to us he gives the keeping
Of the lights along the shore.
(Chorus)
Let the lower lights be burning;
Send a gleam across the wave.
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman
You may rescue, you may save.
2. Dark the night of sin has settled;
Loud the angry billows roar.
Eager eyes are watching, longing,
For the lights along the shore.
3. Trim your feeble lamp, my brother;
Some poor sailor, tempest-tossed,
Trying now to make the harbor,
In the darkness may be lost.
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