transfer calls were last night and the horrendous waiting for phone calls experience is over



20 Nov. 2017
 
Sis Hudson and I 
     Hey everyone, transfer calls were last night and the horrendous waiting for phone calls experience is over, and we are stoked to stay in Stratford!
     we had a pretty great week!
1.) We went bowling with the Elders Monday for Pday. It was so fun! 
2.) One of our investigators played the piano in sacrament meeting for us. It was a little too jazzy, but it went really well! haha!
3.) We invited Murray to play for us, and Sam our other investigator to watch, President Olson thought that was pretty smart. haha. It was great and Sam wants to come back!  
4.) We had the face to fact broadcast with Elder Oaks and Elder Ballard. (two of our Apostles) It was super good and we watched it at the Pitman's, with Britney our super awesome investigator! So that was super fun! 
5.) Two minutes before the broadcast, we wanted to find a new investigator, and we hadn't all day. So we prayed, and walked down the street for a minute, and we met this guy named Josh, who we are going to meet with this week! Miracles!
6.) “Light the world” initiative is coming up, and I am so excited, so everyone get prepared! The video and calendar is so great! I encourage you all to participate and serve those around you! 
Love you all,
 have an amazing week!
Love, Sister St.Onge!


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Stratford City Hall

Stratford Branch 

Me with an Echinechia flower

Sis Hudson and I downtown.


Full of smiles


Staying over with the Sis. of Guelph. Sis Smith & Daniels

With one of the family members in Stratford

With our Stratford Branch Pres and his family!


Waterloo-Kitchner district! Sis Hudson and me, Elders Hansen, Elder Bakker, Elder Cook, Elder Hafen, Kneeling Elders Garner & Gutierrez

It snowed here!!!!



13 Nov. 2017

It snowed here!!!! In the Stratford Park

Hey everyone! The snow has hit here in the heart of Stratford! Most of it melted, but it snowed again last night. We have seen some pretty amazing things this week!

1.) We had zone conference with Elder Kevin W. Pearson and his wife. It was so amazing and he taught us a lot on how to act in faith and be converted. He showed us some pretty cool tracting skills. Zone conf. was fun!
 
Elder Kevin W. Pearson of the Seventy
2.) We stayed in Guelph on Monday night with the sisters there and it was great to see Sis Jenny Smith from Home!   It was nice to catch up with Jenny and it's hard to call her Sis Smith. I forget alot, but so does she. haha. It's weird that I am almost done training, and I have been out for 3 months and a week! It's going by so fast, this transfer was a blink of an eye.
McDonnal St. In Guelph, Ont. 

Sis Hudson, Daniels, Smith and me, staying in Guelph before Zone Conf.
Sis Jenny Smith and me
Sis Daniels and Me.
 3.) We got one of our investigators to play the piano for us next Sunday, while me and Sister Hudson sing a hymn, but he doesn't read music, he plays by ear and he used to play in clubs so its a bit jazzy but, IT'S GOING TO BE AWESOME!

On Wednesday we met an Amish minister and got to learn more about his faith! So cool and interesting. That evening we were tracting and met some other cool people - hunters, who had three deer hanging in their garage that we got to check out.
4.) We were at Tim Horton's the same time as Justin Beiber! ( but just the wrong one in Stratford...) 
5.) This same investigator(#3) which by the way is 75. He was at the right Tim Horton's and was so excited to meet him(Justin Beiber). He is a really big fan and petitioned that one of the streets in Stratford be named after him!!! :) He told him this! hahaha He has always wondered if he would ever run into him in Stratford, he finally got his wish. 
Justin Beiber- born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Raised in Stratford, Ont.
 6.) I got to give a talk in sacrament meeting on acting in faith! Dallin H. Oaks said " Testimony is to feel and believe, conversion is to act and to become." 
 7.) Tracting miracle! Sister Hudson and I were talking about how sometimes you hear about missionaries getting let into someone's home while tracting. and guess what the next day it happened! The second house we knocked on this guy was like, "Yeah come on in and share a message!" We met his wife at Walmart last pday and she is super nice. She grew up Lutheran but was excited to learn more! We taught them the message of the Restored gospel - that our loving Heavenly Father called Joseph Smith to be His prophet in the early 1820s, and that since then we have had a living prophet at the head of Christ's restored church ever since. 
           I love Sister Hudson so much and I hope we get another transfer together. We bought our transfer predictions this week. We buy a kinder egg and what ever is in it you prophecy your transfer... I got a car, and she got a dinosaur. I think I'm leaving, or maybe she is, and I'll be driving, but I think it's me that's going. That is usually the pattern. After you train you follow up training someone else, so we will see or I'll just get a new companion. 
     I'm excited, and I hope I am in Stratford for Christmas though. The branch here is the best and I love them all so much, and we finally have some solid investigators!
It was a pretty busy week!
 Love you all, stay warm !!! 
Sister St. Onge <3
YW in Stratford Branch

Me with our pet snail Shibby!

Sis Hudson & I downtown Stratford on Pday

Sis Hudson on our Pday!

My Bro. Morgan's St. and he served in Simcoe, Ont. on his mission
Snow in the park in Stratford, Ontario

Souls or Soles?

Shiblon, Downtown Stratford

6 Nov. 2017

Shiblon, Downtown Stratford

Hey y'all! 
     So this week was pretty great. We had a pretty open week because we had a few appointments fall through but it made for some pretty fun experiences!
1.) We had a bit of time one evening, and went to finish a street we had started tracting a few days earlier. We met Todd. He says; "He has found Jesus:! ( by the way we are 100% sure he was high when he answered the door.) But his cousin was at the back door smoking and he wasn't high. Todd was like; "I think Derek needs Jesus though."
"Hey Derek do you need Jesus?" 
So we found a new! He has been looking for a reason to get back to church and was interested. 
2.) We had Nick and Lindsay finally come to the church building. We had a church tour with them. It has only taken 7 years for them to come, but they felt the spirit and want to come on Sunday!
3.) Kevin W. Pearson of the seventy came for stake conf. and it was great! He got down to business and talked missionary work and having faith. It was amazing!
4.) We went to a multi faith concert last night at the Catholic church and we sat beside one of Justin Bieber's high school teachers. haha. He told us he kicked him out of class a few times. haha. 
5.) Nick our investigator grew up with Jeremy Bieber, his dad. so yeah! haha. 
It's been a great week! 
Love you all!
 Have a great week!
Love Sister St.Onge

Insert from Sis. Hudson's letter this week about their area. 
     We have been meeting every week with an investigator who's preparing for baptism, she is so cool! Amidst everything she is going through right now she reads the Book of Mormon every day because she know's that's what the prophet President Monson has asked of us all and it's what Heavenly Father has provided for our days to find understanding and truth in our lives.
      Of all the people we teach, one of my favourite opportunities has been to meet with an older man who's investigated the church for years and insists he won't join. Well, when we sat and listened to him this week, he kept having to say "not that I want to get your hopes up, but..." and then he'd say something about his desire to go to Stake Conference or about the good things about the church.
       Most people here don't want to hear our message so it was a miracle one night when, after much praying and hard work, we dropped by a former investigator and the man who answered said she moved elsewhere in the city. As we ran in the car (it's like, super rainy out here), I had a prompting to call her phone number right away. (To our somewhat surprise) she said she would like to meet with us this week! So we are looking forward to meeting her :)
      We met this guy on the day we visited Shakespeare who was all like "I don't need you to come back and share your message," but he really wanted to explain to us why God doesn't exist and as we talked more we told him if he reads the Book of Mormon that it is evidence of God, we asked if we could call him next week and see how it went and he was like "No you'll have to come back so we can talk about it more after I read a bit." haha so we are meeting with him again after all! 

 our Snail Shibby (Shiblon)

Pumpkin parade Nov 1st
farm tracting and the view



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