tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25532995299809959442024-03-05T01:11:20.082-05:00 Paynes in OttawaWe are so thrilled to be called to serve in the Canada Montreal Mission and to work with CES Institute in Ottawa. This is an 18 month mission and we look forward to a new adventure together.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02921280259040009898noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2553299529980995944.post-70920126507222604872015-10-09T16:15:00.000-04:002015-10-09T16:15:13.712-04:00August – Less than one month of summer festivals left. Part 2<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We went to the Greek Festival here. This is for our Greek neighbors, Jamie
and Chris Petrigeorge. This festival is large, is located next to where we live
and lasts for 10 days. We went to have some Baklava. It reminded us of the
Greek Festival in Salt Lake. We had fun eating their delicious food.</span></div>
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them the town and had a great time. Thursday they arrived in time to rest, walk
around our place and have dinner at our apartment. We took them to see the
beach the locks and the falls near our house. There was even a boat in the
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Friday we toured the city walking some five miles around
all the great places. We saw the locks, the Champlain monument, the War Memorial
and changing of the guard there, the canal from the Laurier bridge, the East
block building next to Parliament and had a treat at Beavertails. We had
Poutine for lunch and after watching more boats we went to dinner at the BaJa
Grill on Dows Lake. The Northern Lights, a light show on the exterior of the
Parliament Building was a great way to end the day. Saturday Sister Payne and I
went early to get tickets for the center block tour of Parliament and then went
to a baptism while the family went to the museum of History. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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fireside, we had a potluck meet and greet. We had asked John if he would speak at
a fireside for the YSAs while they were here. Both Alisa and John spoke and did
a great job. We had promoted this even as the first monthly fireside of the
year. We knew that with summer we would have very few YSAs in our ward, but we
were hopeful. We were impressed that two senior couples from Montreal came as
well as our Stake President and his wife. We were happy that fifty people came. We
considered it a great success for the Institute and the YSA ward. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Monday was the Monson family’s last day with us and we
went to Alexandria Bay on the St. Lawrence Seaway and took a boat tour of the
1000 islands with them. Then, the hard part, we had to say good-by. They went
to Julies and we went home to go see the light show another time with the home
evening group. We were so glad they came, we had only a few months with Jaymes
after his mission and had not seen Tyler in two years. It was great because
Sister Payne can’t hug the Elders in our mission and she was able to give these
two past elders long and hard hugs. Megan graduated from high school while we have
been here. Jaymes, Tyler and Megan all start at USU in a couple of weeks and
Brayden is in 9<sup>th</sup> grade. How time flies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tyler asked what we like most about our mission. There
are a lot of answers. For today the answer for Elder Payne is the study time
and the baptisms. We have been able to study the scriptures more on the mission
than before and that has been great. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And we have been able to witness and be
part of new members lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> This is one of the two baptisms we told you about before but we want to tell you again. </span>The baptism
last Saturday was for a Chinese YSA. When Chinese come here or to the states,
they take on an English name. He goes by Bruce Lee. Some giggle at the name because
as you know there is an actor named Bruce Lee. No, our Bruce is not famous, he
is just humble. He just graduated from college and is now looking for a job so
he can extend his visa and stay here. He has expressed his happiness with
having been baptized and having the spirit with him and it shows. His smile is
much bigger now. That makes six new converts in our ward in the six months we
have been here. And there a number of others who have joined the church in the
last year before we got here who are equally exciting to know. The first year can
be a test of faith and they need support. The <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>returning members are just as exciting to see
and work with. We have three or four of those all with amazing stories of rough
times and recommitment. The point is the Church is alive here. It is not a place
where everyone is gliding along at the same level of commitment year after
year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We were helping Brother Turner and his wife out with
their house for the time they were gone. We stayed there a couple of nights and
enjoyed the space, the yard, the big windows with a lot of natural light and
the relaxing feeling at their place. They live in the country about 40 minutes
from where we live. When we went home we took the ferry across the Ottawa River
to Quebec and had dinner at a small restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The smoked meat sandwich and poutine were excellent. Smoked meat,
poutine and beavertails are all delicacies here in Ottawa and Montreal. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Our Institute Class was supposed to stop on August 12<sup>th</sup>,
giving us 3 weeks before Fall Semester starts. However, everyone wanted to
continue. They like Institute and they like seeing each other. So we asked 3
students each week for the next 3 weeks to teach. We assigned topics to all and
they did a really good job. They had fun doing it and everyone was glad they
came. We were glad that they enjoyed coming. That is what we want to happen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We have a new retired couple that will be helping with
the up-coming YSA Committee. They are pretty wonderful. He was the Montreal Temple President and she, the Matron from 2006 to 2009. However, they were in the Temple presidency before that. This committee will consist of two co-chairs,
representatives from each ward in the stake. The Institute of Religion Council
is also on the committee, with us, this new couple, Brother Turner and Brother
Martinelli from our ward Bishopric and a High Councilman. President Piper of
the Stake Presidency is over the Committee. We are excited for this committee
to be formed. It will help the stake find those YSAs that we don’t know where
they are as well as have a stake YSA activity once a month. They will be taking
over the Firesides that we started. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mission transfers were this month. We got a new elder
from Belgium. He speaks 8 languages and will learn Chinese while he is here.
Every transfer day they need Elder Payne to help shuttle the missionaries
leaving the area to the bus station so that they can go to Montreal where the
transfers take place. In the evening the missionaries coming to Ottawa,
Petawawa and Abitibi come back to the church. It is quite a day and starts at
5:30 am. We are lucky that we are Senior Missionaries and can go back to bed
when Elder Payne gets home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We have Mission district meetings every week. It is a
great experience to be around the missionaries as they tell stories. This
particular meeting the district leader asked if the missionaries had any
questions and no hands went up. Then he asked if there were any miracles to
report and everyone’s hands went up. The sisters in Dows Lake told that they
found a new investigator and felt that a certain new member needed to go with
them to a lesson. The first meeting they were to have fell through the next day
the new member called and asked if they had a lesson she could go to so they
set it up again. It was a hour and a half bus ride and a long walk but they all
got there on time. The meeting went so well they are going to set a baptismal
date on their next visit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Chapel Hill sisters reported that last week the
district leader encouraged them to lookup old investigators so they went
through the long list and picked one to go see. When they got there a girl
opened the door and said she had been waiting for them. Where had they been? As
the story unfolded a set of sisters had taught her a lesson or two about a year
ago and then were transferred and the new missionaries didn’t know to go see
her. With their visit the Sisters have a great investigator who has been
reading the Book of Mormon and is really ready. We heard more stories like this
throughout the hour and a half meeting. It is absolutely amazing. The Lord is
in charge and he works through us when we let him. The church is alive and
working in Ottawa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Saturday we got up early and went to see the changing of
the guard on Parliament Hill, very British and much pomp and ceremony. It was spectacular. Two groups of soldiers in red
coats, one group with white feathers and one with red feathers. The old guard comes to the Hill to be relieved of their duties and the new guard comes to take their place.
They march about three blocks onto the parade ground, the big lawn known as the
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Then they do several manuvers and line up for inspection. There are
two bands one Scottish and one brass band. After the inspection they march back
three blocks to the guard station room. During the summer they do this every
day at 10:00AM. But this was the last time this year. Sister Payne loves the bagpipes and is so excited that they use them so much in Ottawa. You know she is 1/2 Scottish and that explains a lot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At the end of the month Ottawa had the Olympic paddling tryouts. These included kayaks canoe races for both men and women. It was at the Moonies Bay on the lake by our apartment. It lasted for about 4 days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Institute is just around the corner. and we are getting serious ourselves about studying and
getting ready for our many anticipated institute class this fall semester. Institute has a welcome out week as well as institute and then the fun starts, getting time slots to teach at the Universities. Let the fun begin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We love this work. We are excited to spend full time working for the Lord in building His Kingdom here in Ottawa. The YSAs we meet are great. We love the missionaries we work with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Love, Elder and Sister Payne</span><br />
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because many of the festivals and events in Ottawa officially end August 23<sup>rd</sup>
even though elementary and secondary schools and higher education doesn’t start
until September 8<sup>th</sup>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Just to let you know we both now officially have bikes.
We haven’t been able to ride them very much because there has been more rain
this month and it has been very hot several days. But they are fun to ride. It
is beautiful to ride along the canal. We are so lucky.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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August. Not much difference. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We started the month off with a baptism. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This YSA loves the Gospel and prayed and accepted
everything the Sisters taught her. She is from the Congo, but now lives in
Ottawa. The sisters met her on the bus as they are busing missionaries. Each
lesson the sisters taught her she accepted easily. She is grateful to be
baptized and we love to see her at church. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are so grateful that she has chosen to be
baptized. Our Mission Leader got to baptize her on Saturday, August 1<sup>st. </sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sunday Elder Payne was asked
to confirm her a member of the church and give her the gift of the Holy Ghost.
That was a privilege. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We are very
grateful for the 4 baptisms we have had since we have been here. There hadn’t
been a baptism since last November before the first of the four in April. It is
the good work of our Dows Lake Missionaries. They are spiritually sensitive to
those who are investigating. They love the Lord and His Spirit shines in their
lives. It is so good to watch these missionaries be so excited about the
church. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">one
recent convert of less than a year spoke on faith. It was very articulate and
one of the best most heartfelt talks I have ever heard on the subject. She said
that faith grows as you live it “just look at the Payne’s, who are lifetime
members”. That was special. There were over twenty people there and we were the
only lifetime members there besides the missionaries. It made me think how
special it is that we are here and how much they look to us as an example. (Elder
Payne writing). My thoughts went back to my own baptism. I was baptized in
Richfield in an old church building that had a concrete fount at the end of a
hall in the basement and I changed clothes in a classroom. I remember standing
to bear my testimony from the choir seats in the chapel on Sunday. That building
has since been sold to some other church and replaced with a newer bigger
building. Yes, I have been a member for a long time and my testimony has grown
a lot. I have had so many experiences, done so much service, made so many
choices and felt the spirit so many times that my testimony is indeed strong. I
am grateful that the YSA’s here can benefit from it. Frankly, I need to give Sister
Payne a lot of credit because it is her they love. After the talks a quartet of
sisters sang the primary song “I Feel My Savior’s Love”. It was another tear
jerker for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The same day we got to participate in Ella’s baptism (she
belongs to Kellie and Brandon) through skype just like we had with Eli (Heather
and Dan’s son.) in March. It was such a great experience to see these two
wonderful spirits want to be baptized and so happy to be baptized. We are so
glad that we could participate through Skype. Thank you family, for making this
possible. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We got to go to the
Garlic Farm again for Home Evening Group. This time it was to sort the garlic.
There are the good bulbs that are firm and together and there are those that
have started to split. The split ones they separate into smaller garlic. This
is the last step in getting ready for the sale the second week in August. They
also braid the garlic for the sale. We had two cute Chinese YSAs come that are
investigating the church. They had a good time. We ended the night with
popsicles courtesy of Brother Jones. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The second weekend we went to La Salle, by Montréal for
the mulit-stake single adult conference. The stake center was in the </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">southeast
corner of the island. It was a newer building on a commercial street. Our
assignment was to just be there and to be easy to find so nonmembers or less
active member could find us and ask questions that missionaries could answer.
We met so many great people all with stories to tell. We were like the instant
friend people came to meet. There were 150 or 200 people from four stakes with about
half speaking French and everything was translated. The chapel even has a
translation booth. LaSalle is a 2 hour drive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We met several interesting people and attended two interesting
workshops. We invited two younger people that were there with their mother to
our institute class. One of the older kids in our class this summer, who is
over 30, went and he is very outgoing. At lunch he was at the table near us and
he yelled out Elder and Sister Payne stand up. When we did he told the people
at his table, much to our embarrassment, that we were his savior. He is now listening to our Savior of which we are very glad. Later at a
break he tried to explain that he has only been coming to church and institute
for seven weeks and we have had a great profound effect on his life. He went on
and on about how great institute is. He told about the first day he met us and
asked about our mission. Elder Payne said the best part was his companion.
Since that he has set a goal of going on a senior mission with his wife some
day. Now that he is active in the church all he needs is a wife and a career, a
family and retirement. It is all very attainable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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YSAs that loves art. The picture shows a room that looks like a cathedral with
sound speakers on all four sides of the room. It is interesting that each
speaker has someone’s voice that when put with the others is an incredible
surround sound choir. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Here is a recent story of a tender mercy. We have a
faithful 19 year old sister in our ward that is planning to go on a mission.
She has a job to save money for her mission. One of the part-time jobs she has
is McDonalds and her shift is Wednesday night so she cannot come to Institute
class. The stake president just called her to be a member of our new IRC, (Institute
of Religion Counsel). She was worried about how she was going get out of
working on Wednesday night. The very next day, Monday, her boss at McDonalds
called her in and asked her to work full time on the day shift. Now she will
not only be able to come to Institute and accept the call but she will make
more money for her mission. When she told us the story Sister Payne told her
the Lord knows her and her needs and makes a way for her to do his will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Each transfer we usually do something with our district. This
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district before transfers. We have District Meeting every Thursday. The
District Leader gives a lesson, another missionary discusses a section of our
White Handbook, and we usually have a lesson from another set of missionaries
from Preach My Gospel. It is always a good meeting and we get to learn from
these well prepared missionaries. We only lost one missionary to Montreal. We are so glad we get to keep as many as we can. They are great missionaries.</span></div>
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Missionaries and another from Kanata, a YSA that comes to Institute. They were
both wonderful young people with strong testimonies. That is 6 baptisms since
the first one in April. We are really blessed here. Interesting to note, that
when a Chinese YSA is baptized, the baptism is done in Chinese with English
translation. We have a great Chinese missionary from Taiwan. This was his first
baptism and he got to both baptize and confirm him. The Kanata baptism in
English was supposed to be done on Saturday, but she ended up having to leave
Thursday to go to school in the states. An incredible young man that will be
serving a mission soon, got to baptize her and the Bishop confirmed her that
evening. There were about 20 people there. Elder Payne told her to be sure that
she looks up the church when she gets there. She said that she already had and
it was a 15 minute walk from the school. What a blessing these two will be in
the church. After these two baptisms, we know that the church is growing with
strong young people both members and new converts and that the Lord is in
charge. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We are lucky to have had several training sessions, both
with the Missionaries as well as President Patrick. This time it was the
S&I Training (Seminaries and Institutes). The talks were wonderful. We were
especially impressed with Elder Kim B. Clark’s talk. He told a story about his
life. He and his wife were doing well and were active in the church when he had
this distinct feeling he had to be better. He and his wife talked and reviewed
two questions. What are we doing that we need to stop doing and what are we not
doing that we need to start doing? With that they began systematically
improving. He said without that he wouldn’t be standing in front of us talking
now. His testimony was from the heart. Elder Clark was the president of
BYU-Idaho before becoming a Seventy and before that he was the Dean of the Business
School at Harvard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We are enjoying teaching institute and learning more
about the Savior. One week we only intended to cover one chapter, John 17, The
Intercessory Prayer. We had a lot of participation and the spirit was strong, except
for one moment when a girl on the back row broke out in laughter. So, I told a
story of living in the world not of the world. We were able to get through 2/3 of
the Chapter. The Savior loved His disciples and wanted our Heavenly Father to
help them because He knew that it was going to be hard for His disciples after
He was gone.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For our last night of the regular summer institute classes,
the lesson was from John 14, 16, 17, and 20. We thought it was important to
teach obedience, the Holy Ghost, the sacrament and the importance of the
witnesses of the resurrection. It worked out very well. 12 people showed up for
choir practice and 17 for class. Because our YSAs do not want to skip coming on
Wednesday nights until Institute starts again, we agreed to have institute
class but made assignments for some to teach a short topic each week. After
class the missionaries showed up and asked for a ride home so I took them home
and left Sister Payne to entertain and clean up. Then when I got back there
were five others who needed rides home, Sister Payne took two girls home and
came back, then we, took the other three home. We got home ourselves about
10:30. What a good night. </span></div>
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Celebrations (Not all we did was sightsee) Part 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We have found that getting to know Canada helps us to relate to the people here. The YSAs are excited when we know something abut their country. There are some really
interesting monuments in the west part of Westboro that run along Wellington St. where one of our YSAs lives. They are
marble fire hydrants with sculptures on top of each one. They range from an old
computer monitor to corn, asparagus and books. These fire hydrants were donated
by the firemen.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The second Wednesday in
institute, we were teaching by ourselves. Brother Turner had finished his
spring semester and we had decided to continue to teach until August 12 as we
said before. We finished Matthew 27-28, the crucifixion and the resurrection. This
finished Matthew’s account of the fulfillment of prophecy. Some of the greatest
words ever written were said by the angel at the burial site. “He is not here,
he has risen, as he said.” This was our testimony to all who were there, that
He lives, that He atoned for our sins and died that we might live again. We are
grateful for that testimony and the knowledge we have as well as the
opportunity to teach the Gospel to these wonderful YSAs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Did we tell you before
about how great our District Meetings are. We love working with these
missionaries and appreciate their service. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">It is always great to
meet with Brother Turner, our Institute Coordinator. We love to hear his
knowledge of the Scriptures. We turned to John 3: 15-19 – “whosoever believeth
in Him (Christ) should not perish.” And “God sent His son into the world not to
condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.” We talked
about these two sentences for some time, It was a good meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Museum of Culture to see two exhibits. The Magna Carta was on display but no pictures were allowed. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They
only let 30 in the room at a time so as we waited in line a university student
came to get in line. He told us how excite he was because this was a once in a
lifetime opportunity and how he has read a lot of different religious texts. So
we told him who we were and gave him a quick lesson on restoration and modern
revelation and the book of Mormon. I was just going to offer to have the
missionaries take a Book of Mormon over to his apartment when they called for us
to go in the room. So, Sister Payne quickly gave him a “He is Risen” pass-along
card with our number on it. After that we went into the exhibit on Canada
history and of the confederation. The exhibit started in 1838 and progressed up
to 1867 when Canada became a country. Canadians are very proud of their
history. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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the light show called Northern Lights. It is a patriotic light show shined onto
the parliament building every night in the summer months, through part of September. We were very
impressed and glad they are so proud and happy with Canada. It was quite the
light show. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We have helped initiate a monthly fireside in our Dows
Lake YSA Ward. We are really excited about it. We asked the Bishop and he
thought it was a great idea and asked the ward council. They thought it was a
good idea too. So, onward and upward. Since we do not have a YSA committee or
an Institute of Religion Council yet, we were able to help pull this off. John
and Alisa and family are already coming to visit in August so we asked John if
he could speak at our first fireside in the series. He said that he would be
glad to. We made flyers to put up in the meetinghouses from Kingston to
Montreal. We don’t have a lot of YSAs come during the summer and it is about
10 days early for the school crowd to come, so we know that the numbers might
be few. We will see. We are excited about it anyway. We remember going to
firesides all the time when we were at the Institute of Religion at the U of U.
These were times that we could date and not spend money but have a great
spiritual experience. We hope that this is so for the YSAs. Time will tell. We
have been making the flyer for the fireside series both in English and in
French.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Singing on Mount Royal<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We had a great experience meeting with the other eight senior
couples and the mission president and his wife. We hardly ever get to see the senior missionaries and were glad that they decided to have this get together since Elder and Sister Christensen were going home. We went to lunch at a little
French restaurant, Restaurant Café La Petite Marche, then to Mount Royal, the highest hill in Montreal to see
the view of the Montreal Valley. There is an ordinance that no building in Montreal can be built higher than Mount Royal. Mount Royal is the place where President and Sister Patrick bring all the new missionaries. They take pictures and sing President Patrick’s favorite hymn, "Let Zion In Her
Beauty Rise". We then had time to drive around Montreal and stopped at Montreal Museum of Fine Art. We walked around outside the 3 buildings. There is an alley between.</span><br />
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President’s home. We loved hearing about each of the couples' assignments.
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With them leaving we won't have any couples close. All are 2 hours away or further. We
also met the CES couple in Montreal. They have loved teaching. One teaches
Institute in English and one in French. They do a dinner for two wards of YSAs
every Friday. After dinner we had a meeting (counsel) with President Patrick.
One couple does not speak English and we do not speak French, so President
Patrick translated. It was very rewarding and good to know there are so many
couples that want to serve a mission. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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each Wednesday through until August 12. We decided to teach out of John because this is
the gospel that was written for the saints. We averaged about 20 YSAs in July.
They have a thirst for learning the gospel and like Institute. It is fun to
teach them and we enjoy being around them. After one of our lessons we had time
and turned it over for testimonies. Out of the four who bore their testimonies, two were new members and one was a
returning member. The three told the same story of how the church changed their
lives and how extraordinary it is to know God and enjoy having his spirit with
them. They just want to be around the church because it feels good. It was like
they were trying to convince us that it is even better than we know it is. The member also bore a powerful testimony of his knowledge of the church and how grateful he was to be a part of it. We
count that institute class a success, a blessing, a spiritual experience, a
tender mercy and thank our Heavenly Father for the opportunity to be here on
this mission. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">As we said, our
car is on this mission too and we are very glad we have it. We sometimes, more
than once, wish that we had a car with more seats. Our church building sits on Prince
of Wales, between Heron/Baseline and Carling. There is no bus that goes in
front of our building. It is about a two block walk from the bus stop at Heron/Baseline to our
building. It is not so bad in the summer but in the winter it can be brutal.
Also, if our YSAs live in Little Italy, Westboro and China Town they have to
take a bus downtown in order to take another bus to a bus terminal and then get
the bus that goes along Heron/Baseline. Even though they may only live 10 to 15
minutes from the ward by car, it takes them about 1 hour to get there by bus
and on Sunday, the bus time is extended. They stopped this part of the bus
route about 3 years ago. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We have had the opportunity to help these YSAs with blessings, heart to heart talks, listening, listening and listening as well as offering advice when asked.</span></o:p> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We are having a baptism
on August 1<sup>st</sup>. Let you know later. We know that the Lord needs us
here. We know that this Church is true and we are being greatly blessed here in
Ottawa. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Short Spring, a Summer of Festivals as well as Construction. We don’t know yet about Fall. We just
know that there are a lot of Festivals in the summer and a lot of construction. Does the construction sound familiar. Every ethnicity has a festival ad there are festivals at the lake, downtown, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Wednesday, July 1, was National Canada Day. It is like
the 4<sup>th</sup> of July for us in the USA. We went downtown to walk around
and see the festivities. Most of the streets were closed so we drove part way
and parked the car on the street where there were no parking charges or meters
and then rode the double decker bus into town. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tours so we went in. We found it very interesting. Canada has nine Supreme
Court justices, three from Quebec because they are French speaking and three
from Ontario because they have the most population of all provinces, two from the
west and one from the Atlantic side. All the judges are required to be
bilingual in French and English. They are required to retire at age
seventy-five. The building is high quality, French in style and very well
finished with wood and stone. The presentation was given in English and French
alternately. We both enjoyed the tour very much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We walked on Parliament Hill and watched a Secondary
School band play. We were on the grounds when a RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted
Police) told a couple that he had to leave because it was going to really come
down in about 5 minutes. It did and we had an enormous rain storm. We were
prepared with an umbrella and our raincoats and we and everyone else ran toward
the Rideau Mall. By the time we got there Elder Paynes pants were soaked below
the knee. His shoes seemed to be Ok. Sister Payne's skirt was soaked at the bottom and my
shoes were swimming. We finally got in the mall and headed for Nordstrom’s. Sister Payne
went into the washroom and wrung out the bottom of her skirt and tried to dry her
shoes in the hand dryer, after which she put paper towels in the bottom. The
operative word here is try. We decided to eat lunch with about 1,000 people in
the food court with no seating. We went around and around and finally found a
place to sit. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Again it was very interesting. The mint in Ottawa makes collector
and investment coins for countries all over the world. I think he said they can
make two thousand coins an hour. And they had two hundred million dollars’
worth of precious metal on supply. We lifted a gold bar and of course took a
picture. We bought some collector quarters for souvenirs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and finally boarded the bus to go home about 7:30 or 8:00. When we got home we
went up to the sports (24<sup>th</sup>) floor of our building and watched the
fireworks through the window. The fireworks were spectacular.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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go and help sort the garlic. We would make sure the garlic bulb is solid and
not splitting and put them in the proper pile. The garlic had been picked and
was drying on these large wooden shelves. We had a couple of Chinese YSA
investigators helping with garlic. They are both really sweet. We hope they
keep coming to church and keep progressing in the Gospel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interested in the Church; but, from outside influences, they read decide not to listen any further. We have a
quite a few Chinese members on our YSA rolls that we cannot find both here and
Montreal. Many have gone back to China. We hope when China is open to
proselyting, they will come out of the woodwork and be good members in
China. However, we have one great Chinese sister that is absolutely darling.
She helps a lot in missionary work as she studies at U Ottawa. She is
definitely amazing and we love her to death. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This month we had a couple of days to travel. Brother Turner had told us that we really needed to see Jones Falls. We drove
down to Jones Falls and saw this beautiful set of locks. There is a 54’ drop in
the river at this point. The locks are huge. We watched some boats going
through a couple of the locks. Then we hiked up to the top lock, then went back
to this quaint little village with its boat docks, a very expensive old hotel
and a small, older fast food sit down restaurant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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day we took a one hour boat tour of the thousand islands on the St. Lawrence
Sea Way. This is something that Elder Payne wanted to see since he served his
mission on the US side of the St. Lawrence River. It was beautiful. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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Thousand Islands, land within the channel must be at least 6’ square and have
at least one living tree and one bush or two trees and be above water level
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we are not going anywhere; but, our grandson Tyler, Alisa and John’s son is
coming home. We are so excited for them. We see the missionaries as they are
transferred both to another area and home. We love to be these missionaries and
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mention that the YSA has no boundaries within our mission in Ontario and
Gatineau, Quebec. Our Dows Lake missionaries also get to use Facebook to
communicate with the YSAs, since that is their main form of communication next
to texting. It is a good thing they can use Facebook, because they can keep up
with their investigators, their less actives and their new converts. The
missionaries keep in touch with the new members for at least two years and the less
actives as well. The church hopes that they can be friends for life. That is a
great opportunity for the missionaries as well as the members, because they can
see them progress and know how they are doing. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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endowments in August and is so excited. She is a great member and a wonderful
YSA. What a blessing we have to see her progress and her love for the Lord as
she prepares herself for the Temple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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evening group)/institute combined activity at Brother Turner’s home. We roasted
hotdogs and s’mores in the fire pit. One of the counselors asked if anyone had
a spiritual thought. My mind went blank, but Elder Weber, one of our Chinese
Elders assigned to our ward, offered to tell about the scripture he had
recently read. It was an excellent end to the night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Our very busy June – Installment #2</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hHWP4GbFBntmnketGy_4bSmbcDCZStzAQhI6UEQcfY1ZygdR7KgAsrHRxs9040KGfPER8KtNDzUO95to-uxta3JvgNSQfuaEomDu3oTqwFL4I3uHKazNFbh8I3s3DXMqmSTwAbWnCYc/s1600/P1040132.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hHWP4GbFBntmnketGy_4bSmbcDCZStzAQhI6UEQcfY1ZygdR7KgAsrHRxs9040KGfPER8KtNDzUO95to-uxta3JvgNSQfuaEomDu3oTqwFL4I3uHKazNFbh8I3s3DXMqmSTwAbWnCYc/s320/P1040132.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There is a lot of work to be done here. We are starting
to work on the list of all the YSAs in our ward. We have a list of about 181,
but during the summer we see about 40 coming to church. Some on the list are at
home for the summer, but the majority we don’t know where they are. Let me
review the numbers. The stake has 540 YSA members of which about 50 chose to
stay in their home ward for one reason or another and 12 are on missions. So
we, mostly Sister Payne, are going over the lists making notes and getting help
from the missionaries in each ward to find out where everyone is. It is a
daunting task but necessary because the Young Single Adults are vulnerable so
we need to support them in any way we can. We hope that soon the Stake will
call some people to be on the YSA counsel and the IRC counsel who can help with
the effort. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sand volley ball on Moonies Bay. We also brought our Kubb set. They have had a
lot of fun with it and It is fun to see the energy of these young people. We
hope to continue to get to know them better. Picture of Moonies Bay with the sand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We had appointments to take the Chinese Elders shopping
at 2:30 and bring our Kubb set to the HEG activity later at Moonies Bay. We
headed downtown to find the Elders. We called to find where to pick them
up and found they were very close to where we were. As soon as they got in the car I,
for some reason, asked them if they had had lunch, I don’t normally do this. No,
was their answer. So, I said, how about Subway? There was one right where we were and
there was a parking place right in front of it. That never happens. I parked
and instantly a lady walked up we recognized as the mother of a new convert.
She was so happy to see us and agreed to come to church next week. She was
Chinese and the elders spoke Chinese with her. Just as she was starting to walk
away and Sister Payne was putting money into the parking meter, another Chinese
lady came up and asked her for directions. As the missionaries started going into Subway.Sister Payne called them to come back, Collectively, we were not
sure with which way to send her, so Sister Payne got the GPS out of the car and
the elders found the street she was looking for. It was close and instead of
sending her on her way, these smart Elders offered to walk with her to her
destination. By the time they got there they had explained that they were
missionaries and she had expressed her interest in finding a church so they set
up an appointment for a lesson. The Elders returned so excited that they had
found a new prospect. We bought them lunch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now on to Moonies Bay. We picked up a YSA and went to the
beach where the HEG activity was to be but when we got there we couldn’t find
any ward members. So I set up the Kubb game and started playing with him. The
missionaries and a couple of other YSAs started coming while we were playing
Kubb and Sister Payne was sitting on a bench close by. A young man came up and
sat by her. He was from Iran, a Muslim and was working on his PHD at U Ottawa.
He finally starting asking Sister Payne about girlfriends. Which one should he
date and how do you date. He had never had a girlfriend before and had never
dated before. Sister Payne was so impressed with his beliefs and his moral
standards she told him he believes a lot of the same things we believe in our
church. They talked for the longest time and he was so grateful for the talk,
he asked if he could possibly call her if he had other questions. She gave him
a pass along card and we hope that eventually he calls to ask about the church.
We count that as special spiritual experience. During that time the RS
president came and told us that she read on facebook that the activity had been
cancelled. She and another couple of YSAs had come and the elders and sisters
were there because investigators were supposed to come. We ended up having
eleven people there. So I said, let’s sit on the grass and make a home evening
out of this. We had prayer and passed a book of Mormon around and each read a
verse or two. Then we had a closing prayer. That was significant because HEG
activities almost never have a spiritual component. I felt great about it
because one member was less active and another boy and girl sat by
each other and seem to be developing a relationship. We hope so, they would make
a great couple. We are on a mission and the Lord is in charge around here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a large art gallery and the building inside and out is
just as much a piece of art as the art in the building. There is a large spider
sculpture in front. It is amazing, we couldn’t believe it, because we saw this
same sculpture in Sao Paulo, Brazil i</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">n the park while visiting Sister Payne’s
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grounds. We got some good pictures of Ottawa City from a point overlooking the
Ottawa River. We could see the back of Parliament Hill. </span><br />
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surrounding buildings are in Uppertown. They don’t use the term Uppertown
anymore, just Parliament Hill and centre-ville or downtown. However, it is the
highest point in the city. This part of downtown was settled by the English and
Scottish. To the east of downtown is called lowertown and was settled by the
French. It includes Byward Market, a quaint artist and farmer’s market area and
has Ottawa’s famous Beaver Tails. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There is so much of it. When we walk to the falls, we have to laugh because
there are always ducks up on one of the ridges of calm water next to the raging
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its way down the canal and brings up the grass that is growing in the water,
puts it on a conveyor belt and dumps it into a hopper. This keeps the weeds and
grass down in the canal so the boats do not get it in their props.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Obscurity” and Brother Goldthrop from Toronto was the keynote speaker. He took
a fascinating hour to introduce the theme. Then we had a dance, which all YSAs
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our ward helped with those
who came from out of town to find someplace to sleep or billeting as they call
it here. The members of the stake were very gracious. Saturday we had six
workshops and two service projects. Provident living, the Temple, one
completely French speaking class, the power of influence, dating 101, and
social media were the workshops. The service projects included the garlic farm
and making sleeping mats out of plastic bags to send to 3<sup>rd</sup> world
countries. That was amazing.</span> <br />
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resort turned water park in the summer and had a great time.</span> <br />
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Mission President, President Patrick, as well as Brother Goldthrope speak in
our sacrament meeting. We had YSAs from Toronto, Montreal, and in between as
well as a few from New York. Friendships were formed and testimonies were
strengthened.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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trials can be overcome with the help of the Lord. We know that Jesus is the
Christ and is the Son of the Living God. We know that Joseph Smith was the
prophet of the restoration and that through him the Church of Jesus Christ was
restored to its fullness in this the last dispensation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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month passes; but, so far we are a month and one half behind. We feel that it
is still important to write.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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until August 12. We are really enjoying it. The YSAs are receptive and offer a
lot to the class. In June we continued to teach in St. Matthew. It is a great
experience to learn more about the Savior and strengthen our testimonies. We
taught them that Matthew wrote for the Jews to show them that what was foretold
came to pass through Jesus Christ. That Jesus Christ was the promised Messiah
that the Old Testament Prophets prophesied. We have been able to teach His parables,
His miracles, the Mount of Transfiguration and Priesthood keys. We have been
able to use power point, video clips of the Bible Videos as well as video clips
of modern day Prophets and Apostles. These are very powerful resources and we
are glad that we can use them. We have had about 8 in our class. On Wednesday
night at Institute there also continues to be a mission prep class and a class
Brother Turner is teaching. All in all there are about 25 students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of locks next to our apartment that move boats between the Ottawa River and the
Rideau River at Hogs Back Locks. this canal is called the Rideau Canal. We went for a walk down by the
canal and over to the beach. Coming back the locksmith (ranger) was standing by
the lock so I asked if boats have started coming through. He said yes one is
coming in just a few minutes. So we ran home to get the camera. I mean Sister
Payne walked fast but I broke out in a sprint. It felt good and we got back
just in time to get some good pictures. We were able to see this huge boat that
sleeps 200 and comes from Kingston, a city by the St. Lawrence Sea Way, up the
Rideau River, through several locks including the Hog’s Back Locks by our place,
to the Hartwell Locks. It is a five day trip up and five days back. As you will
notice, this boat had to pull up its bough to get into the lock. It was fun and
we stayed about 45 minutes watching the process. It was the first boat we saw
going through the locks. One note is that the locksmiths crank the winches that
move the gates by hand. There are no modern gages or radios or engineering or hydraulics or other
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been raised as a Mormon but quit going to church ten years ago because she
works on Sunday for Costco. I think some good seeds were sown during this
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we would get to know the members that come in the summer better because it is
so small. We are looking forward to that. We have a big diversity of members in
the Dows Lake YSA Ward. Not only do we have several colors of skin, but we have
every level of socio, economic, education, testimony, and church experience in
our ward. It would be very challenging to any bishop; but, our bishop has been
a bishop before, has been a counselor in the Stake Presidency and is very, very
good at it. We are here to help him. </span></div>
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Falls Trails. We have the Dows Lake Sister Missionaries, the Dows Lake Chinese
Elders, the Chapel Hill Elders and the Chapel Hill Sisters. They are so great!
We are so lucky to know such incredible young men and young women. The church
is in good hands in the mission field. They are so ready to teach and preach
the Gospel and their love for the Lord is very evident. We cannot say enough
about them. It was about a 4 hour hike to the Fire tower at the top. There was
a beautiful look out place with a view of the Gatineau valley. </span></div>
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enjoy being with us. We certainly enjoy being with them. Luskville Falls Trails
is in Gatineau Park, a large park with several lakes, trails, as well as canoeing,
kayaking and camping. Last month we went to Pink Lake. </span></div>
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house every Saturday every other month. Also, we get to go help at the Garlic
Farm. The money earned by this farm helps to supplement people with
disabilities. It helps provide some housing and other expenses not covered by the
government supplement. The land is owned by Canada and they lease for </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1$ a year. The farm is run by a
retired church member. Each ward in the stake volunteers one week at a time and
other churches and charity service groups also volunteer time to help. This
time we weeded. This is an ongoing project that many of our YSAs grew up
helping with their families. Those that have been doing this for a long time feel
a great satisfaction and love doing it. In our assignment, we would weed and
then make sure the little garlic mound was covered with hay. This keeps the
garlic plants moist and helps keep out the weeds. We had about 16 there. Sorry
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was Open Door day in Ottawa so several historical homes, buildings and churches
were open for public tour. We went to see the Royal Canadian College of
physicians and surgeons that is located in an old nunnery. This is where they
make the rules and regulations for the doctors. We also went to see the Laurier
House the historic home of a Prime Minister. We also went to see the Saint
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girl and travels 1 hour to get to church and Institute and 1 hour back home.
She is the third baptism since we got here. It is great to see the Gospel
change lives. She was baptized by her friend who helped convert her, at 6:00 just
before Institute. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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will be a great benefit to both the church and the community wherever they
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sister that was recently baptized speak. What a powerful testimony. After the
session the visiting area 70, Elder Jack N. Gerard asked new converts or those
investigating the church to meet in the Relief Society room. There were about
12 with either the missionaries or a bishopric member there. It was neat to
hear about their interest in the church. They were well taught by him and our
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May. The trees are just starting to leaf out. They have been preparing the
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end of April and all of May were full. Every day something happened. On Mondays
we work on our lesson and go to HEG which is Home evening group. The YSAs have
fun playing different types of games at the meeting house. Sometimes we join
them, but most of the time we watch. One night they had kick boxing and each
YSA was pared off. Sister Payne was pared with the trainer’s assistant. Some
looked like they had done this for a long time and some were very timid and
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the day we usually spend time taking the sisters and elders to Wal-mart to
shop. They are bussing missionaries and don’t have cars. They would rather not
have to bus their groceries because it would require two busses and so we take
them. We have a lot of fun going with them and doing a little shopping of our
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great experience to learn more about the New Testament and the Ministry of
Jesus Christ. It has strengthened our testimonies and we hope it has done so
with those who attend. We have anywhere from 3 to 8 or 9 every Wednesday night.
We are using a power point to augment our lessons. We are also able to use the
Bible Videos and little segments of the Prophets and Apostles for our lesson.
It is a great experience for them to hear and see videos directly from the
Prophets and Apostles. We had one YSA say that she liked the power point and
the videos, etc, because she is a visual person and can learn better with the
videos, power point, etc. One Tuesday, when Sister Payne was doing her facebook
stuff, she found one of our YSA girls had posted her Testimony. It was very
strong and to the point. We were impressed that she felt so deeply about Jesus
Christ and Joseph Smith. Sister Payne complimented her about her testimony and
she said that she had 14 responses and two were not members, so she felt good
about having posted, since she is on our missionary committee. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">We love studying the New Testament. We are in Matthew and will finish that on July 8</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. We will study John after that until the middle of August.</span></div>
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far as Institute goes this summer, many of the YSAs have gone home, others are
always going places, like Dubi, Iceland, New Brunswick, etc and are in and out.
Busy, busy, busy. It is hard to keep up with where they go. However, we did
have a great spring/summer Institute kickoff BBQ. Elder Payne had signed up to
give blood. It took over an hour to give his blood and he basically missed the
BBQ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we also have District meetings in the morning, as well as getting ready for our
class in the afternoon. We have 5 sets of missionaries in our District
including us. We are so happy to be there and be able to participate. These
missionaries are wonderful (have we said that before). Their knowledge of the
Gospel and their desire to serve the Lord is great! We learn a lot from them.
We have learned a lot and hopefully have been an instrument in the Lord’s
hands. After Institute, the YSAs like treats or some kind of food. They also
like playing games inside and talk, talk, talk. It is a great way to socialize.
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Thursdays we have had meetings with our CES Coordinator, Brother Turner. We
discuss his review of last year’s accomplishments and this year’s goals. In one
meeting he asked us if we would like to study the scriptures together. That was
a great teaching experience. He is a really good teacher. He said when people
think or talk about the Atonement, far too many people only talk about keeping
the commandments, sinning and repenting side. President Benson emphasized that
there is another side to the Atonement, that of changing our hearts and
becoming more like Christ, the pure love of Christ and wanting only to be like
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That was a powerful explanation of the Atonement. He then gave us Elder
Bednar’s talk, “The Atonement and the Journey of Mortality.” He quoted
President David O’McKay who said “The purpose of the gospel is...to make bad
men good and good men better, and to change human nature.” Elder Bednar said,
that “Most of us clearly understand that the Atonement is for sinners. I am not
sure, however, that we know and understand that the Atonement is also for
saints---for good men and women who are obedient, worthy, and conscientious and
who are striving to become better and serve more faithfully.” We may mistakenly
believe we must make the journey all from good to better and become a saint all
by ourselves, through sheer grit, willpower, and discipline, and with our
obviously limited capacities.” We also read John 14: 15, 16, 17 and Mosiah 3:19
and other scriptures.<o:p></o:p><br />
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beautiful buildings and cities here. We have to remember that this is the
Capital of Canada, and is like Washington, D.C. It has the Bank of Canada like
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Payne had a neat experience going to the Archives and found the paper that
shows that her Grandfather William Hunter, who came from Scotland to Kemmerer,
had signed up to serve in the Canadian Army during WWI. He left Grandma and two
children to serve. Many Scots did the same thing because it had close ties to
England. It was neat to find out that Grandpa did feel a desire to serve and
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is a city and is actually in Quebec; but, is just over the Ottawa river from
Ottawa and it is a French speaking section. Pink Lake is a very pretty lake and
is surrounded by trees. There are lots of trees and green, green, green is
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are pretty much the same; however, one Friday was extra special because we had
Zone Conference. What an amazing experience. We were with 28 sisters and elders
being taught by the Zone Leaders, Zone Sister Trainers, President Patrick - our
Mission President, and President Nemeth our Stake President and Brother
Woolsey, the counselor over Ottawa. They are amazing and work so well together
to further the work of the Lord in the Ottawa Vineyard. The missionaries love to get together. We
have lunch and of course the missionaries get their mail. Good times. We learn
a lot, it strengthens our testimony and everyone goes away very full of ways to
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during May consisted mostly of cleaning our meeting house. One Saturday, late
afternoon, we took a less active member to see his mother about two hours away.
(It has been a great experience helping him come back into the church). He
needed to get a copy of his passport so that he could get a job and it costs
quite a bit of money to do so. He was hoping that his mother would help pay for
it. She told us that she had been praying for a long time for him. She was surprised
that we would make such an effort to bring him such a long way. Sister Payne
gave her a big hug and explained that we were just trying to help her son come
back to church. We visited with his sister and grandmother for a while. His
mother expressed that we may just be the blessing she has prayed for to help
her son. He is excited to learn more about the church and we have spent many
evenings with him while the sisters have taught him beautiful lessons. He has
born his testimony in fast and testimony meeting and is really glad that he has
decided to come back to church. He told us that he had been praying for what to
do and what church to go to when a friend he knew told him that she had joined
the Mormon Church and he should look into it. He felt like that was an answer
to his prayers and he called the sisters to teach him. He is a member but has
not been active for over 10 to 15 years. We took him to Montreal and he applied
for a copy of his passport. We were able to get his church records transferred to
our ward and he was also able to get this birth certificate. It took 5 weeks
for this passport to come. Patience is always a virtue. Hopefully, he will be
able to get a job and won’t have to work on Sundays. We have enjoyed getting to
know him better and are glad we are able to help. </span></div>
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festival is about when Canada helped the Queen of Holland during the war. She
stayed in Ottawa and had her baby here are well. They designated a part of the
Hospital in Ottawa, Holland, so that the Queen could have her little princess
in Holland. Otherwise, her baby would not have been able to be King or Queen of
Holland. Each year Holland sends 1 million tulips to Ottawa. Ottawa adds to
that amount Dow’s Lake area along Queen Elisabeth Drive is planted to the hilt.
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church as well as see part of the Tulip festival. It was fun to have them here.
When they got here we had walked down to the locks, walked along Moonies Bay
and went to the water fall. This is the late May spring picture we took from
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kids went swimming in our indoor pool on Saturday night and we got to have
David, Rachel and Daniel stay with us. We drove them around Ottawa and showed
them the beautiful buildings. On Sunday, we had the Sisters and Elders come to
eat as well as the Lentz’ and we had a lot of fun. The Elders stayed and skyped
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are full as well. We have correlation meetings, ward council, Sacrament
meeting, Sunday School and Relief Society/Priesthood meetings. Once a month, on
fast Sunday, we have Break the Fast dinner and another time we have Munch and
Mingle. We hope that besides feeding them, they actually talk to each other and
get to know each other better and are spiritually fed through the meetings. On
May 31<sup>st</sup> we had a rebroadcast of the CES Fireside with Elder
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Jessica, is a wonderful young woman. She was really ready to hear the gospel.
She knew the church was true from the get go and she asked the sisters if she
could be baptized. She is amazing. We are so happy to know her. She graduated
this spring from Algonquin as a law clerk. She is now deciding what it is she
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was cold. We helped or rather watch as 3, 20 somethings set up the girls tent.
We then stayed at the Manchester Inn. This was the same Inn that Sister Payne
had stayed at 50 years ago when she went to The Pageant</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> for the first time.
Elder Payne was a missionary there and Sister Payne went with a group from
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class to the Grove the same day. We walked through with 4 of our grand-kids, we
got to listen to their testimonies before heading over to Chill and Grill for
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Eric and Julie’s before heading back to Palmyra to Sacrament Meeting. As we sat
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we said something happens everyday and even on a slow week we have found ways
to help the Lord bless lives. We feel a great satisfaction in our missionary
work. The Lord has blessed us and we love working with these young people. We
hope we can find others whose mothers are praying that their children will go
back to church as well. We hope that we can be an instrument in the Lord’s
hands and help touch the lives of our Heavenly Father’s children, the YSAs that
live in the Ottawa area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and reasonable temperatures. We have taken walks down to the river and have
enjoyed views of the falls, lake, canal and locks. This is close enough that we
can see it all from our 10th floor deck but we didn’t know how pretty it was until
the weather got better. There are buds on the trees. This past week, however, is colder and rainy. Next week
it should be better. It is interesting. When they say it will rain, it rains,
when they say that it will be sunny at a certain time it usually is. There are
no mountains to mess with the weather. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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really called on this mission. We live only about half a mile from the our
meeting house and less than a mile from the classroom at Carleton University
and only about five miles from downtown but we still drive a lot. Since
entering the MTC we have driven 4,552 miles. Since we arrived in Ottawa we have
driven 1,621 miles or about 200 miles a week. Where do we go? Some of that is
going to church or to the store. But most of it is giving people rides. We are
often asked to pick up someone and give them a ride to church or take someone
home from church. We pick up the Elders and Sisters and take them to the store
or somewhere else on P-day and take them home again or to the Church or library
so they can email their families. And sometimes we meet them for lessons with
their investigators. Saturday we took an investigator home to see his
grandmother in VanKleek. It all adds up. Actually, we like giving people rides
as it gives us a chance to talk and get better acquainted with the young people
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the quality of local leadership the church has here in Ottawa. Yesterday at
church a young woman spoke who just took out her endowments and who will get
married soon. She talked about the role of women in the church. It was a
fantastic talk and a fantastic testimony. I was very impressed with her
readiness and couldn’t help but think that she will be a great church leader in
her ward. After she spoke, a young man, who is a returned missionary, a student
and who will get married in June, spoke. He talked about power and the keys of
the priesthood. His talk was well documented and heart felt as he talked about
fatherhood. He spoke with the spirit. I couldn’t help but think about what a
great church leader he will be. Then I remembered that all three of the members
of the bishopric in our YSA ward are past bishops in family wards and love
these YSAs. They know that some of the YSAs have major hurdles to overcome but are
willing to help each and every one. They truly know that these YSAs are
children of God and it is important to help in any way to strengthen their testimonies
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Stake meeting, the meeting was organized superbly by the new stake president
who is also a CEO of a national company here in Ottawa. And the mission Zone
leader does his job well, he surely will be in charge of more things in the
church and in business as well. Another example is the ward mission leader who
comes, with his soon to be wife, to correlation meeting prepared with a book of
progress reports and asks about individuals and makes follow up assignments.
The teacher of our Sunday school class and the Elder’s president and the Relief
Society president in our ward are all young singles and are so capable of
leading. They are willing to learn and help. I am so impressed that the Lord
raised up a whole generation of leaders and the church is not lacking in this
area. It is a privilege for us to serve among them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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people to church. These investigators are being welcomed. It is easy for me to
visualize the Church growing to double its current size in the Ottawa area
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YSA. She was baptized on April 12. The service was in both Chinese and English.
Those in the program would say the talk in Chinese first and then in English.
Her mother has supported her 100% and Sister Payne was able to have such a good
experience and a good friendship with her mother. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Dows Lake. He was being transferred to Montreal. He only has 3 transfers (6
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and Elder Weber are staying and lucky to have Elder Jules as the new District
Leader and companion to Elder Weber. He is from Alberta, Canada, but his
parents are originally from Haiti and then Montreal. He speaks about 4 or 5
languages. He is a good teacher and he also has 2 transfers left. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On Friday, April 17, we had Institute Recognition (graduation)
Night. We had around 50 YSAs that have taken Institute at least one semester
this past year and went to class at least 70%. This includes the Mission Prep
class as well as the other five Institute Classes offered each semester. A
couple of the talks were given by the graduates. They were strong testimonies
of the Gospel. After, we had an ice cream social. There were about 20 people
there. It was fun for us to put the social together. We tried to make it
special so that it would be a memorable evening. We had yellow strips of paper
with each of the graduate’s names on the wall and used smiley faced balloons
for the tables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had some great peanut
butter topping, caramel sauce and strawberry sauce as well as the traditional
chocolate sauce. We got the ice cream from Costco that was wonderful – Moose
Tracks and Vanilla. After we took the names down we put them in the hall on our
bulletin board. The YSAs went to Sky Zone (trampoline place) for an activity
after. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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closed, so we got to go into the House of Commons. We went through several
metal detector machines and had to check our coats and bags. We watched someone
present a bill (not many MP – Members of Parliament there). This bill just
happened to be to make marriage between a man and women part of the law of the
land. We were only there for 20 minutes and have not heard anything else about
it, but it was interesting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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French fries with a poutine gravy and cheese curds. It is a lot like mashed
potatoes and gravy with cheese on top. At this little shop they had several
different types of toppings with roast beef, chicken, pork or a Mexican style
Poutine. All in all it was an interesting afternoon and a lot of fun with our
District. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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share a few highlights. This week we taught our last class for the semester at
Carleton University, but Algonquin College and Ottawa University still have one
more week to go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on April 17<sup>th</sup>. There about 50 students who will receive some level
of recognition. It could be from one semester class to as much as 8 semesters of
institute classes. We have been assigned to do an ice cream bar after the
meeting. A lot of the students are now starting to go home or away for the
summer to work so we will have a smaller crowd during the summer. We will have
one wedding in May and three weddings in June. Things can be exciting around
here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This week we got to attend the missionary zone meeting
and were so impressed with the level of leadership in this mission and it was
so fun to be in the presence of so many great young missionaries. We also were
able to attend the seminary in-service meeting with the early morning teachers.
Elder Holland said that there is a throne in heaven for early morning teachers
and I think they deserve it. But even better is the Seminary and Institute
coordinator who is so great. We are going to go help Brother Turner with training
at his home this Saturday for some Seminary students who are having a
multi-stake activity.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Kiffyn DeSouza. She will be leaving next week for a French speaking mission in
St. George. If any of you go to the visitor’s center, she will be there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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going off on a Wednesday during the day to test it and make sure it was OK.
Unfortunately it also went off at 2:30 am and it was no drill. There were about 3 or
4 fire trucks and we walked down 10 flights of stairs and went outside in our
pj’s, and warm coat. Sister Payne picked up her purse. It was cold and we finally
went in the stairwell on the first floor to keep a little warm. We knew we could get out easily if
needed. There was a family with a little baby and another with an 18 month old in the stairwell.
The alarm finally turned off after about 45 min and we hiked back up the 10 stories to
our apartment. They said that there had been smoke on the main floor, but they found no fire.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We have planned our lesson schedule for this summer and the school year and are now starting to read and prepare for those classes. It is
overwhelming if you think too much about it, so we have to bite off only as much
as we can chew at a time; but, progress is very exciting. We are going to teach
the New Testament – the Four Gospels for Spring and Summer at the Institute
(ward meeting house) on Wednesday nights. We hope to offer a couple of classes next academic year at each
school, teaching the same subject so that more students can attend Institute. The
thing is, we have only club status at any of the schools and we depend on the
students to reserve study rooms. We, then come in and teach, or more like lead
discussion groups, as invited guests of the club. I dream of a time when we
will have enough students to justify a better facility arrangement. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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and a new member over for dinner so we did that. We learned her story. She has
been a member only about eight months and lives on her own. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has given up much for the church and is
glad to have our friendship. She graduated as a civil engineer and was in the
middle of a master’s program when she joined the Church. Her parents are atheists, are not at all happy that she joined the church. They stopped supporting her and have made it impossible for her to live at home. She works at Nordstrom ad Subway and is saving money so that she can finish the
one year she has left this fall. We went to see her at Nordstroms and are grateful that
we know her. We hope that we can help her even more. Several of these YSAs have given up a lot to join the Church. </span></div>
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the missionaries who we gave a referral to a few weeks ago. They reported that
the lady we sent them to only wanted money to Haiti. Apparently she thought missionaries
got paid for our work. Anyway it was fun for us to be involved. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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missionaries in Gatineau, just across the Ottawa River but are in the same Stake as
we are. We were able to go to a great restaurant, St. Hubert, with them and
enjoyed their company. The funny thing is they live close to Albion middle school and are in
a neighboring stake. It is amazing to our members here that we can live so close,
not know each other and not be in the same stake. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It snows or rains a little almost every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have had above freezing temperatures
several days and the sun came out a few times but it is still cold, at least to
us. We tell the locals that the weather is like living in the
mountains of northern Utah or Idaho so we are used to it, at least the end of their winter. Everyone is ready
for spring to come.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
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and watched all four sessions, Elder Payne – 5. It was great to be around these
wonderful people in this part of the Lord’s vineyard. We had a few
investigators that came to a couple of the meetings. One is going to take the
discussions and is very interested in the church. It was a great and powerful
weekend. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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to tell about some of the adjustments we have had to make. It has been
interesting to wear a suit every day and even more interesting to wear a coat
and scarf over the suite every day. But I did wear a suit when I worked in a
bank and I do have a coat so that was not hard. Wearing a skirt every day is harder
for Jeanette when she is so used to wearing pants. She loves keeping warm with her fuzzy lined tights, mostly her white coat and the two beautiful scarves she got, one from Alisa and one from Rita. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Our apartment is small so we have to live in confined
quarters, at least more than at home. We only have one bathroom and the
fixtures remind me of my first mission. We park in a designated spot on the
second parking below ground and need to walk 200 yards to the elevator, not
like home. We do not have a dishwasher so we wash all our own dishes and we
don’t have a disposal so we need to scrape the dishes, now that is a big
change. We have to do the laundry in a coin operated laundry on the top floor
of our building. It takes a special credit card so we need to load money into
the card every once and a while. It cost about $10 to $20 a week to wash clothes.
The heat is radiant so it takes several hours to warm up and cool down. It has
been difficult to find a good sleeping temperature. Not only do we wash our own
dishes we clean the whole apartment ourselves and iron shirts (Isn’t that
amazing?) Learning to text on an old flip phone has been an adjustment. From
the tenth floor the sky can look blue and warm but when we go out it is 15
degrees Fahrenheit and cold. Here is a picture of the still frozen river from
our balcony. The lakes and canals are also still frozen.</span><br />
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driving takes a little getting used to. There are high-rise buildings all over
in the suburbs as well as downtown and the downtown is three or four times
bigger than Salt Lake. We have also had to get use to how much things cost. For
instance it costs $4 per hour to park on campus, $16 to park at the public
library, $4/gal. for gas, meat is terrifically expensive (we found a 3lb roast
that was $23.00 at Wal-Mart) and some food is about double what we are use to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and helpful but they still honk if you are slow at a stop light. All in all I
think we have adjusted very well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I have been studying the Gospel more than before. We have
taught institute lessons on Education, Marriage, Health and from CES Devotion
talks on Real Intent, Tuning to the Spirit, and Understanding the Spirit. This
week we are going to teach Truth and Tolerance. They all take study and prayer.
We teach four times a week and since our classes are small we try to get the
students to talk about their experiences and we try to add some of our own
experiences in a round table discussion format. So far it has worked well. We
have had lots of spiritual experiences and have gotten to know some wonderful
people, including members, missionaries, returned missionaries, new converts, and
students away from home and living at home as well as investigators. It is
Interesting that they speak several languages. Most know at least 2 languages
and many 3 or 4. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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complimented us on a fast start and hitting the road running. You know we had 6
months to get ready and decide on lessons, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and took 5 YSAs along with 2 other car loads to the Toronto Temple That was a
great experience. We were able to do several baptisms. Julia Yuan, one of our newer
Chinese YSA converts was able to have baptisms done for her great grandmother
and great grandfather. Akinwumi Abiodun Akindele (Abbey for short) was able to
do the work for his father. He was really grateful for that opportunity. He is
from Nygeria. (Side note – he was able to go to Salt Lake City and translate
General Conference into his native language. He was really excited about it and
loved Salt Lake. Also, he is getting his master’s degree in environmental
engineering) The Temple trip was pretty special. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have the routine down yet. We have had something to do every day and it seems
busy. We do have time in the morning to read and study, something we have not
had much of before. In case you are interested I will tell a little about
Ottawa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about 40,000 students and is located in an urban area with tall buildings
crowded together and surrounded by older apartments. It has a commuter train
and almost no on campus housing. It is a highly desirable University and draws
students from all over the world. It’s reputation is more for liberal arts
subjects but it has a big medical school and a lot of other medical related
schools as well as a good Law school and accounting, thus a good percent of the
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like Salt Lake Community College. It has 2 year and 4 year degrees and
certificate programs in things like graphic art and art automation as well as
radiology tech and hair styling. We have 4 or 5 students coming there. In a way
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single new YSA convert. Guess what, he was converted by a man from Sigurd, Utah,
who is married to a cousin of mine (I think). Tomorrow we will go to the Missionary
District meeting in the morning and have a meeting with the Institute Director,
Brother Turner in the afternoon. Saturday we are going to drive a van full of
kids to the temple in Toronto and back. Sunday we are going to speak in church.</span><br />
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nationalism. Canadians move around between cities; but, always north of the
border. They do not move into the US or out of the US. Most of them do not have
visas to get into the US other for short trips to Utah. That is why we are
going 5.5 hours to the temple in Toronto, instead of 4 hours to Palmyra this
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stores sell a lot of the same things but with different names and everything is
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instance our fridge is a Crosley but it looks like a Maytag. Our range is a
Moffat but looks like a Hotpoint. Or our crackers are Vinta by Dare but they
look like Kebbler. Since 9-11 it has been more difficult to get a Visa to cross
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(Jeanette) teach the Gospel. She is wonderful. She teaches the missionaries and
the investigators as well as our students and bears strong testimony she even
commits them to action. She got one new member to commit to come to the temple
with us. She got one young man to come to church. She told the story of Heather
with real emotion twice. Sister Payne has learned the names of most of the YSA
ward already and in not afraid to get into their lives. Yesterday she teamed up
with the Sisters to commit a man to pay his tithing. We were all blessed to
hear her testimony. Any wonder why I love her so much. I couldn’t ask for a
better companion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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met by the missionaries who carried our things into the apartment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The senior couple, Elder and Sister Adams,
who we replaced, showed us around the city for two days. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">That was VERY helpful. They took us to </span>Beavertails. They are a scone with any type of topping. They were very good. (This picture was taken later. You can see Elder Payne by the FedEx truck.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
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coordinator, Brother Turner on Saturday. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Brother Turner took all three of the
Senior missionaries to a Sugar Shack in the mountains, where they tap the maple
trees and make maple syrup. It was a great breakfast/dinner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rearranged the boundaries. This change will allow each ward room to grow. The
Stake President, President Nemeth, is a wonderful person. He has a vision for
this stake that the Stake Presidency will present during our ward conferences.
He is an amazing man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We immediately dove into the work. Monday was the first
day to teach a class at Carleton University. We were lucky enough to have
Brother Turner teach that class with us there and we were introduced to the 5 YSAs
in the class. We taught 5 YSAs at Algonquin College on Tuesday and at Ottawa
University on Wednesday we taught 3 plus the missionaries. Then Wednesday
evening we taught at the institute at our ward <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and had two in our class. So we have had a big
first week. But that is not all, we have had four good missionary experiences
this week. One resulted in less active committing to come to church and one
resulted in a new referral for the missionaries. It is amazing that people want
to know about the church. They ask a lot of questions. We find it much easier
to talk about the church here because people do not know much about us and are
interested in the topic of religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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busy and have hardly been able to sit down. We are adjusting to everything and
loving our mission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;">The world
has changed this week. We entered the Missionary Training Center (MTC in Provo)
on Monday. We got our name tags and have been inspired and taught and inspired
and taught some more. We were privileged to be there among so many excellent
people where the spirit was so strong. Among our training was several roll
playing situations that opened our eyes and helped us become effective
missionaries. We had fun meeting people from all over going too far away places
to serve in many missionary assignments. There were, I think, 36 couples and 8
single women and two of the couples were newlyweds. Some had been on 3 or 4
missions before so we were not the youngest or the oldest by far, but we were
beginners for sure. We have emerged from the MTC confident that the Lord will
bless us to help him invite others to come unto Christ.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;">In our
district group was a man that had been a convert, a stake president and a
Mission president and both he and his wife were PHD professors at BYU. Not only
were we paired with them but we were also paired with a wonderful couple from
Calgary, Canada. He was a farm laborer and she was a house wife. We totally
loved both couples and were inspired by their testimonies. We were inspired by
the video clips of the apostles who spoke, including Elder Holland and Elder
Bednar and others and by the young people who helped us learn about missionary
work. We look forward to three more days of training next week.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;">We are
going to take our testimony and our experience and knowledge combined with our
MTC experience and training to Ottawa and dive into the work. We know something
about what we will be doing, more than most Senior couple missionaries, but we
will not know everything until we get into it and it happens.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;">We met
Sisters Allard who are from Gatineau in Ottawa. One is going to Calgary and one
is going to Boston. It was fun to meet them.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you all very much. What a blessing it is to be part of your family. We pray
that each of you will do well while we are gone.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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