A Beautiful Experience

A few days ago, we had a beautiful teaching experience. A Jewish woman in her 60's phoned the Halifax Temple and asked if there was anyone about her age who could come and teach her about our religion!  We jumped at the chance  --- her name is Lesly. She met a woman at a health retreat this past spring who she really connected with, and when she found out this woman, named Mary, was LDS, she decided to find out more about our faith.

We spoke with her for  almost two hours the first time we met and she came to church with us the next day. As  you can imagine, this is a HUGE step for someone who is Jewish to ask about and even attend a Christian faith. Lesly was  on the verge of cancelling more than once, but she persisted, and we are really loving getting to know her and to teach her. 

We all cannot help but benefit as we sit down and share and learn from each other --- it is Beautiful! The spirit filled the room and tears ran her cheeks and ours as we spoke together. 

We are looking forward to many more such times over the next days and weeks with her.

These four Missionaries represent another Beautiful part of our Mission. Sisters Fincher and Heirtzler, with Elders Blum and Tauffer came over to our apartment to practice a song for church services, titled "Fear Not". We learned it in three days and you have to know that the Spirit was helping us to learn a difficult piece and perform it that soon.  Love these Missionaries, their willingness to serve and their courage to act.

Here is Elder Blum following Elder Harding's direction to clean the stove during last transfer, even right down to wearing his own Tie Dye shirt! 

Elder Harding is having fun recording and posting "Cleaning" videos for the mission --- "toilet man", became "oven man" and soon will be known as "vacuum man" after he posts today's video! 

Of course, we have to mention one more "Beautiful" thing here in Halifax, and that is the flowers and the bushes that are in full bloom. They look so lovely.

There are many brightly colored houses around Dartmouth and Halifax. They make the streets look bright and cheery.

Tulips are quite popular, and can be seen in many flowerbeds, maybe because they grow so easily 

in this climate.

We continue to be busy and are looking forward to having more time to teach the Gospel in the coming months as we have been re-assigned to do Member and Leader support. We are training our replacements in the Mission Office this month, Elder and Sister Stewart, leaving us free to assist and help to train our new  Mission President and his Wife in July. We anticipate that the Pratts will adjust quickly, pick our brains clean in about 10 mins, thank us and then carry on ---  we will then move into doing more teaching and reactivation work -- should be fun!!