July 30, 2019

Salut tout le monde! Great week! Don't know where it went but it was great! We drove to Montreal last Thursday for MLC! It was so much fun because we got to stay the night with the Victoria sisters, sister Roux and sister Nelson! My MTC comp!! It was so fun to talk with her and catch up. I sure do love her. We all sat on the floor and told stories and just laughed our guts out until bedtime. So much fun! That is one of my favorite things to do haha:) MLC was awesome. We were able to put together our zone vision. We decided on: "We are all Enlisted" focusing on working with members to move this work forward. I am really excited to implement it! After zone conf, we went to Mascouche for an STL exchange! I was with sister Stephenson! This is her first time being an STL, so I got to be her first exchange! It was so special! It was so much fun to be in a French speaking area again. I was pleasantly surprised at how naturally it came back. It was still a little hard, but I loved every minute of that exchange. There is something so special about being reunited with old friends. It reminded me of Alma 26 (pretty much my favorite chapter in the Book of Mormon) These are the days where the best memories are being created. I have been so blessed with such wonderful friends to share them with. I love all of my comps so very much and I am so grateful that they have been placed in my life. We have been really trying to find more creative ways of finding this week. We posted some bible ads on Facebook and they have just literally exploded!! We have been running around delivering bibles all week! And this morning alone we had 25 more!! Oh mon do!! But it is awesome because usually these people are searching for something so it is a good chance for us to talk with them about the gospel and Jesus Christ. We have a lot of great appointments set up for this week so hopefully they all stand! We have been trying to meet with our friend Rebecca since sister Johnson left with no success. But yesterday she texted and asked US to meet! That was cool! She has a lot of potential, she is just so shy! But her testimony is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard:) Sister Newman and I are such great friends! We laugh and sing literally all the time and its just so much fun! I am loving it here so much. I just seriously feel like my heart has reached its fullness limit haha. But the Lord has a way of making it grow for the joy that is to come. I just know that this life was meant for us to be joyful. This gospel that I am proclaiming brings purpose and joy. I don't ever want to let it go. I know that Christ lives. I know that more than anything else. I love you all! Sister Bates