It's officially cold

Richard McGuire

Oct 20

Dear Family,

I don't have a ton of time because emailing is always interesting when we go to the library to do it. It is like a box of chocolates from the Ganong Chocolate Factory-you never know what you're going to get. Nevertheless, I apologize if I am cut short again. Hopefully I'll be able to get back on, but for now, here's how the week went :D

I had a really great Canadian Thanksgiving! We had supper with the Bellis Family. They are like a normal Mormon family. It is the strangest thing because we don't have a whole lot of families that attend church. It is usually members that are older who have connections with Utah or Alberta or other places where the church
is strong.
                                                    All bundled up in my new coat.                                           

                                                           It's going to be so cold D:

 Sadly, the Bellis' are moving to St. John soon because of the economy and nothing really keeping them here. Brother Bellis served a mission in France and Sister Bellis is totally a young pinterest mother. They are great! After eating dinner which consisted of mainly English food-to describe Atlantic Canada I would say it's like England but without the British accent-and really great sweet potato pie. Go and feed your missionaries! They will love you for it!!! We also got those rad pictures from Sister Bellis who is a photographer. I wish they were staying, but hopefully some new family moves in.

We have been really blessed this week with dinner appointments. We usually eat dinner once a week at the Hansens. Sister Hansen just got rebaptized in January and Brother Hansen is still excommunicated, but they are both great people. They love us so so much and make a lot of tasty English food. We had breakfast and let me tell you, there are two people on this planet that could make me eat eggs: Grandpa McGuire and Brother Hansen. Wow they were good omlettes. I will say that cooking roadkill is kind of just the thing to do out here. Might I say that raccoon is not the worst tasting thing in the world. You just need a lot of butter.

I really feel like Brother Hansen is progressing. He has done some things that weren't too great, and doesn't think like he can repent, but his heart has been softening. He came to all hours of church this past week in a suit!!!! I was so happy. You're prayers are softening hearts I can promise you they are. Brother Hansen also wants to hold an FHE at his house for Halloween! We'll be shooting off fireworks and decorating pumpkins. Please pray for Brother Hansen, I really think that he could be baptized by the end of the year.

We had splits in Fredericton this past week with the Zone Leaders. I bought my winter clothes and had a stressful time. Never tell anyone you're from Arizona when buying winter clothes. We wasted like two hours trying to find the best clothes and then at the end my card didn't even work. So we had to go to the bank and I withdrew like 800 bucks. Gah. At least I'll be warm. My coat is a Helly Hansen from Norway. This is the real deal. Don't worry about me Mom, you can bet that your boy will be warm! The most expensive thing was probably the underarmour thermals. I needed three of them and they took up about half my total purchase. They are made for scientists that go down to Antarctica, so I'll be pretty warm no worries.

Getting kicked out again gah

Dennis is progressing

We contacted for 7 hours the other day and got three potentials!!!

It is cold

Alma 29:1-4!!

Love you all!

Elder McGuire 

The beautiful Fall scenes from St. Stephen

The libraries in Maine are really different. That is all I will say

Tricked out the back of my tag with the appropriate stickers

Juicing for the week :D Bought some kale. Going to go crazy and buy some chard



The most interesting missionaries in the world. This one member had moustaches and wanted to take pictures of us so we joined in on the fun. Canadians get pretty wiley when Thanksgiving comes along.