Adventures in teaching

Bonjour!

 Non oui c'est bon votre français! (no, your french is right) C'est 'je suis fatiguée'!(I am tired..) You'll be fluent in no time :) Oh, they were adventurous let me tell you! We decided one night just to stop by a less-actives apartment that we hadn't seen yet and as soon as we got out we met this young man who was interested in our English class and really was quite open to things. He had a friend who had a broken hand. He told us he had a decision between hitting his friend or a trash can and he chose they trash can. Good choice haha. Then, we knock on the door and say hi and things and we ask him, the less active, if he has the priesthood then he goes off about how he does and how he hadn't drank in 5 months and how we'd see him at church Sunday, but he was all pumped about it! We were just thinking after, 'what just happened??' It was awesome though! Then, right after we met the nicest man in the world and we are teaching him right now! This was all in the span of like 30 minutes and the whole day people had been canceling or weren't there so it was just crazy, but in an amazing way! Anyways, that's one of them. It's hard to describe how awesome it was! 

I love that quote you gave me. I am going to write it down in my planner! 

Anyways question answer time! (Pretend I made up some awesome jingle to that statement) 

Question #1: 1,000 brownie points for pictures- I loved each of them. I looks so gorgeous where you are! Have the leaves started to turn?

 Oui, but they are falling now :( It's super pretty! If only you could see the sunsets! WOW! Really the pictures aren't even close to the real deal!

 Question #2: Tried to look up your address, but I don't have the full address. Could you send it again?

 I don't have the full full address either. Well not with me here. I will send it next week! Oh wait! I have it right here! It's 365 Rue D'Anjou Rimouski, QC G5L 5A4. There you go! Question #3: Do you get to attend the temple on your mission?

No not until the end basically. Sad day but hey we got other work to do! 

Question #4:Tell us about a great teaching moment this week...

 Oh teaching S.., our investigator who is getting baptized, was amazing teaching experience! We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Preserverance jusqu'a la fin) and he was just SO excited about knowing it finally! (the 5 different parts to the Gospel that is) and he was so excited about getting the lesson manuel for Priesthood and you could tell something was changed in him. He was happier and he wanted to pray and he had this light in his eyes. It was awesome!

 Question #5: Do you mostly teach inactives? Do you teach gospel essentials on sunday?

Ya we are strengthening the member here because there are a lot of less-actives and the actives are still a little new in their testimonies. We haven't taught yet on Sunday, but I'm sure we will because we are practically the Branch Presidents councilors so ya.

 Question #6: What did you do today for pday?

We haven't done much yet. We are going to play tennis if they weather gets better but probably not. Most Preparation Days we just shop, clean and then relax for a while. Soon we will have to do something super fun though because we are running out of time to see the sights! 

Question #7: My lesson next week is on service, any missionary stories that I could use? Do you do service for member/non members there?We had this cool experience with doing service for a part-member family. They live out in the wilderness, but we went out to help move logs for the husband, who is the non-member, and we just worked really hard and made some jokes and just showed him that we really cared and we really worked hard. You could tell that it built our relationship with him and that he sees us as friendly and helpful. I'm positive it will either help us to teach him or someone in the future I can just feel it! Well, have a good week! 

Love you tons! 

Elder Kimzey the Younger 

Dear Dad,

It's going great here! It's not actually THAT cold but I get cold sometimes because I am skinny and from sunny St. George but it's really nice most of the time! I can't wait for the winter...sort of. It's a love-hate relationship because I'm excited for  the season and the snow, but I'm conflicted about the temperature. Umm because 

 I love those parables! Today I studied more in the 4 Gospels. Just kind of jumping around and reading cool things Jesus did and how he helped people and all those good things and I forgot how amazing it is! We focus so much on the Book of Mormon, which we should because it's the most correct and contains the fullness of the everlasting gospel, but we neglect the New Testament a little bit. Well, at least I do in my studies. It's been really fun! Like today I was reading the story at the end of John with Peter and some other Apostles going fishing after Christs' death (the one Elder Holland made reference to in a conference a little bit ago). It's interesting that when Jesus tells them "Children...cast your net on the right side of the ship" the Apostles humbly followed (or maybe with a tiny bit of reluctance in their hearts) and they saw all the fish in the net that they weren't able to draw it up. Then they were able to realize that it was Jesus talking to them. I think it applies to us. Although Christ calls and invites us to change or do something, such as a calling, we just need to do it. Then we shall see the fruits, or in this case fishes, of our following him. Then, after we do His will we shall see Him for who He is with more clarity. If that makes any sense. I'm still working out the bugs of describing it well but c'est la vie! I'm excited for all those senior boys to get their calls! It's an exciting time and it will be even more exciting when they arrive in their mission! I've been out one whole transfer in the field now! Crazy how fast that goes. I have one more transfer left with Elder Heder which is really sad and scary because then I could be training and I have to do all the talking! Yikes! But I bet I could do it. It'd be hard but I would learn SO much faster! This week has been really good! I've been super tired some days, but that's a good thing! I like being tired it means I have been working at least semi-hard! Things are amazing in Rimouski and I hope I never have to leave! People just cross the street here wherever and whenever. I think they have a death wish. I'm starting to get use to the smell of smoke, because it's like France here, but...not it's Quebec! Oh and I thought I'd tell you because I was told this, I don't serve in Canada I serve in Quebec. There is a HUGE difference. People are different here than your stereo-typical Canadian. It's awesome! You hardly ever see a Canadian flag being waved (unless a government building) they are just the Quebec flag! It's awesome! We still do a lot of less-active work and it's fun. We are strengthening the core then working our way out. I love our Branch President! He carries with him his authority and it's awesome. He is originally from France (more south I can't remember what part) but he travels 5 hours or more each weekend just to do his duty and he doesn't just do it but does everything he can! It's amazing! His wife is awesome too! Well, have a great week.

 Love you tons and think you're the best dad I could ask for!

Elder Casey Kimzey