O Canada

February 24, 2014 

Dearest Family,

It's been another great week -- especially since Canada beat the US in hockey in the Olympics.  So everyone here is happy!  We've even sang, "O Canada" a couple of times this week. 

Yesterday at the YSA branch's sacrament meeting they introduced a guy that just returned from his mission in Belgium/Netherlands, which is the same mission that Kristen is serving in.  After talking to him, I found out he was her zone leader!  So I got to hear all about her mission and how she's doing.  It's a small world!

Jodi Manyfingers is doing great!  We went with her to the addiction recovery program.  The spirit was strong in the meeting and she told us she felt it.  She says she wants her daughter Shanoah to get baptized in June and she is thinking about getting baptized with her!  We know she'll be ready before then.  So we're going to extend an invitation this week for a date for her baptism.  She has some challenges she still needs to get over.  So please pray for her and for us.  She also wants us to teach another one of her sons and his family.  It's hard because they live on the reserve.  But hopefully we can set that up soon. 

On Tuesday we had scheduled to give Bertha a blessing but no branch priesthood holders were around.  So the elders came and gave her a nice blessing which made "the pain go away."  It was a miracle that no one from the branch could come earlier because her brother, Phillip, was home the night the elders came.  They have been trying to meet with him for months because he was a former investigator that wants to be baptized.  They put him on date right then and there.  The Lord helps his missionaries!

Are Lehi Days this week or next week?  I hope someone wins a belt buckle for me!  As you can see in the photographs below, we helped with the calving this week.  See, I'm still having Lehi Days here in Canada!

I love you, family.

Love, Sister Crystal Gardner