Hello
everyone!
Newfoundland
is the coolest! Literally. It's -10 degrees.
I
hope everyone had a nice American Thanksgiving! I spent mine road tripping with
Elder Sortomme and Elder Siepert to Grand Falls for a zone conference in Gander
the next morning. Our Thanksgiving included a few pounds of gummy worms, peach
rings, and pies from McDonald's. It was SO MUCH FUN!
So
funny story. President Pratt and Sister Pratt finally flew out to Newfoundland
and the Edwards had them and the Corner Brook missionaries over for supper on
Saturday. At zone conference, President announced that we would be fasting on
Sunday as a mission.
So
we get to dinner on Saturday night and Sister Crump and I see cinnamon rolls...
SCORE. So we all sit down to eat and guess what it is. Chili. Both of us were
just like "ohhh no no no. It's okay, there will be cinnamon rolls
after." So after we swallow the chili, Sister Edwards brings out pie
(which was amazing). In Newfoundland it's common to have two desserts after
dinner, so we were like "okay okay pie then cinnamon rolls" but the
cinnamon rolls never came... So everyone is getting up to leave and sweet
Sister Edwards says "come to the linger longer after church tomorrow,
there will be cinnamon rolls!" and Sister Crump and I just looked at each
other and both of our brains screamed "WE'RE FASTING TOMORROW". Haha
we ended up getting our cinnamon rolls eventually anyways, it was just funny
how it worked out.
Later
that night we went to a community choir Christmas concert at one of the
Anglican churches here. So fun.
On
Sunday we went to the senior center and sang Christmas songs again, but this
time we brought Dennis. Dennis is a recent convert, he was a Pentecostal
before. We call him the PenteMormon, but he wants to switch it to MormonCostal
because now he's feeling "more Mormon than ever" haha. He plays the
piano AMAZINGLY and just by ear. He went to music school when he was younger
but decided that reading music is no fun and he is just so amazingly
talented.
We
have a recent convert here named Sarah, she is the best. I was telling her a
few days ago how much I miss cooking hot dogs around the fire with my friends.
She invited us over for supper on Sunday. It was snowing that day. So we pull
up to her house and we see her standing in her garage/shed with the barbecue
cooking hot dogs. I love her so much.
The
people in Corner Brook are amazing in general, I've never been called "mi
love" so many times in my life. Even if they're rejecting your message,
they will still call you Love. Or Duckie haha.
The
branch here is so small and spread out that people Skype in to church.
President came on Sunday and I was asked to bear my testimony and it's just
kind of funny to be talking to a camera as well as the people there. The gospel
is the same though and I love it!
I
hope everyone has a great and safe week.
And
a special birthday shout out to my friend KONOR CLEMENTS.
His
birthday is on Saturday! I hope it's awesome, Konor!
Thank
you everyone for your love and prayers!
Merry
Christmas!
All
my love,
Sister Park
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