19 months to go!

Dear Awesome Mother,
Ya, weather here is getting cold fast! First bit of snow! Oh no
don't get sick! At least you learned well from whoever this wise one is :) Ya, I heard you made caramel apples and you and dad ate carli's haha. Italy?? Awe man I've always wanted to go there!
Italian is on my top 5 languages to learn! But that'll be fun! Ya, I'm sure you could pick up Corey, but wouldn't you want to go to Italy in the summer not March? Ya, missionary work is a hot topic! It's so cool to see how people are starting to work together more because of this hastening of the work! Well, question answer time! 

#1- did you get a package from the Hall's? they were pretty excited about it.

Yes!!!

Will you tell them thank you and to email me or give me their email so
I can write them all because I don't have their address anymore (I threw away the box before I thought this through). Thanks! 

#2- I sent a very small envelope directly to your apartment this week. Will you let me know if/when it gets there?

I didn't get an envelop...hopefully it gets here soon! Oh by the way use regular mail not FedEx...FedEx is so much more expensive to send here! (Wisdom of Elder Heder) 

 #3- Did you hear about the storm in Philippines? It was really bad, but Mike and Kole Wilstead are fine and Elder Wilstead said that his mission president told all the missionaries that for the remainder of his mission (so at least 7 months) that they were all changing to service missionaries.

Oh ya I saw that on a TV (I wasn't watching just saw a giant storm and caught my attention). What

happened? That's good that they are all ok and that'd be a cool experience to be a missionary there right now!

 #4- Are most of the citizens in Rimouski from Canada? Or are some immigrants?

Some students are immigrants but out here it's mostly Quebecois people. In big cities it's A LOT of immigrants. Elder Heder was saying that he's gotten to

know like 130 different nationalities of people while he served in Montreal area. 

 #5- So I just looked up when Canada's thanksgiving is- October???? What??? I missed it! Do they have Turkey? 

Ya, it's in October. Not really. They don't really even celebrate it. They do that sort of thing mostly for

Christmas! 

 #6- when is the season for Hockey there? Do people really play curling (please say yes!)

Every season is hockey season! Just kidding...sort of. I don't think in the summer, but the season started about when I got here I believe and it's still going so ya. I haven't heard a lot about curling, but I'm sure they play it I just don't hear about it.

#8-When does your companion come home? 

He goes home in the next couple weeks. Sad day! But we still have a while together luckily!

  #10- tell us your favorite story of the week-

well, yesterday we had mission conference and Elder Pieper of the 1st Quorum of the Seventy came to talk with our zone (like 30 missionaries about) and I got to have an interview with him! He was super cool! He answered my one

question I had before I even had a chance to ask! Also, it just
really clicked for me this week that I've been thinking too much about myself and not about others. I worry too much about what I'm going to do or what's going to happen to me instead of how I can help THEM and things like that it was just a cool experience. 

 #11- send mom some pictures? 

I'm going to send some of the snow, but all the cool pictures are on Elder Heder's camera so I will try to get them, but who knows! 

 #12- are you needing a warmer coat? boots? have you seen snow yet?

 No, we bought everything I need here at the Friperie (it's like the DI of Quebec).

And ya snow and it's falling as we speak! Aw man...it's
tuesday...well now this week tuesday is your favorite day! Love you tons,
Elder Kimzey du Quèbec