Busy = Lots of awesome experiences...with the odd weird dream thrown in...

Hey mom!

Thanks for the updates! The kitchen looks great! Is that a new fridge?  I love how sleek and modern it looks. Cool stuff!  So I just looked back at the picture and noticed the words underneath :P I like the lighting on top of the cabinets idea, it`s like the lights at church above the lip in the chapel, I was just looking at those on Sunday and said to myself, wow those lights really light up the room! (we did get a new fridge after our old one died back when we were in Africa...and we are getting new lighting to finish off the renovated kitchen...including LED above cabinet lighting and the florescent under cabinet lighting we already have will be switched out to LED as well.)

I had a LONg and weird dream last night. It invovled hoveboarding and teaching a man that had a pet mouse that tried to attack me. Anyhow, things have been great!  (This wasn't as random as it seems...I told him about I dream I had and we had a 'chat' about it...so then he offered me this...which is pretty weird alright!)

That would be cool if I could just transfer, Elder Smith said we could live together too! (He's thinking of transferring to the Y (BYU) when he gets home next summer and he and Elder Smith are great friends who already know they can live in the same apartment together and remain friends!)

We saw him again ya!(I asked if he saw the Haitian fellow again...) He has a wife and little son, we haven`t seen them yet, but next time hopefully. We are also teaching a family; mom, dad, 8 year old daughter, and another on the way! They really want to join a church but want to pick the right one... yes! And then mom with 4 sons, 15, 13, 10 and 8. Oh and a family of 7 that we found this week. They are really cool, all of the above are from Haiti. The mom with the 4 sons lived in Florida for a while, so they all speak English, which was great becuase we showed them videos on mormonchannel.org which are all sweet! Things are great in our area, the more we become committed to the work, the more the Lord blesses us with great meaningful experiences.

Food situations great, we figured out last week, if you buy a variety of vegetables, cooking is easier and more fun, also we don`t have to eat just rice plain... who knew? (now that is just crazy talk...like he didn't know these things before?  Okay people, his mother DID teach him about veggies, rice and everything else that goes with them and MORE!!!  Thanks T!  lol) We are eating really well. I am also excercising every day, I do a combo of streches and push-ups and sit-ups. 

Well have a great week! Love you!

Love Elder Heinzlmeir

Good Morning Montreal!

Hey mom!

Love you! We had an incredible week! We did see the Haitian guy again! He is super nice, we are seeing him again this week! We found like 3 families this week! unreal eh?! I love it! Teaching families about the Gospel is what it is all about! We have just been so blessed :) 

Anyhow! I'm so proud of everyone! Yay! Front page! Picture in colour, thats amazing!(Lewis made the front page of the paper last week so I sent T the jpg copy so he see his little bro in action.)  And Jenna! I'm beyond excited for her, seriously mission = best use of time! So at this point I have just been talking to the Senior Missionaries in the office about Lewis and Jenna and how they are awesome and going to serve missions! 

I love you lots!

I forgot all I wanted to tell you... and e-mail time always runs so short! 

I have a new friend in the mission. Elder Regnier, it is his first transfer, he is Elder Smith's companion and they live with us. He is from Weyburn Saskatchewan. He is a great missionary, we have tons of fun in our apartment. Mission life is hard, fun, and rewarding! 

We helped teach a primary class about missionaries on Sunday. Although primary kids make me think of the kids...

I think the thing I love about the mission the most is that your perspective changes, becoming more and more eternal and it is just amazing they way I see things now, compared to before. 

I love you so much! Have a great week!

Love Elder Heinzlmeir

A great update from Elder H.

Hey,

Love you so much! The kids can swim??? That's so cool! DisneyWorld?? I'm down, maybe we could stay at the Patrick's, except they are from Tampa Bay. That floor is the same floor we have in our apartment. Cool uh? wasn't expecting THAT though. Hopefully all goes well with the renos. Can't wait for the insoles. I was just thinking about how I want better posture! And I'll have more energy to knock on more doors! 

Soo ya Zone Leader is a pretty fancy title, not too crazy though.  Any missionary can do it. There are 6 Zones in our mission: Ottawa, Mount Royal, Montreal North and South, and Longeuil North and South. Elder Yunack and I are the Montreal South Zone Leaders. Our area is the island of Montreal, for French and Spanish. There are 3 Districts. Every district has a District Leader. Our role is mostly to help them. We meet with them regularly to discuss needs in their districts and we go on exchanges with them. They report key indicators to us and we report those to the Assistants. I love working with other missionaries. The mission is incredible because it isn't just helping people who aren't in the church to come unto Christ, but EVERYONE, including other missionaries. I'm grateful to play a role where I can work with them. Pretty cool.

This week has been crazy! Transfers were Wednesday, staying with Elder Yunack! He is the best. But it was crazy because we had 6 new missionaries in our zone! We spent the day making sure everyone was getting settled in appropriately and had a meeting with the Bishop to meet the 2 new teams of Sisters in our ward! There are now 10 missionaries in the ward! Cool eh? Could you ever imagine that? It's a lot, but it's great! 

Friday we had Missionary Leadership Council.  Thats where all the Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders have a meeting with President and the Assistants. (We have 4 teams of Sister Training Leaders. They go on exchanges with all the sisters and help them with stuff, not really sure, they kind do there own thing.) But ya, we all met and President gave great trainings on his vision of the mission (it was our first with President Patrick) and on how to work with Ward and Stake Leaders, it was super interesting.

Saturday we had a ward activity, a free car wash! It was fun, but I got sun burned on my neck and arms, next time I'll remember sunscreen. 

Yesterday we had a cool experience. We were out knocking and met a ton of people from Haiti, who had family members that were members! Then we knocked into a bunch of older Italian people, they are usually not interested, so we prayed to know where to go and felt it would be good to go to an apartment building down the street. On the way we passed a bunch of Haitian guys on a porch that weren't really interested. The apartment building was all Quebecois and they were all very frustrated. We finished the building and were heading back, past the Haitian guys, but before we reached our car, there was a lady struggling to walk with a bunch of heavy bags, so we stopped to help. We passed the Haitian guys for the third time, and they were joking like "Oh looks like you found a job to do!" and stuff. They lady was super grateful, and then on the way past the guys for the 4th time they stopped us and said "Hey, you guys really are disciples of Christ, do you have any books?" so we gave one of them a Book of Mormon and had a nice chat, we will be going back this week. Super cool how service can soften the heart, and how the Lord works His work.

Looking forward to another great week, hope all is well for you!

Love Elder Heinzlmeir

Another week in the life of Elder H.

Hey!

Looks like your having a good time, you should go to Guadeloupe and visit Elder Jason's family! You are in the neighbourhood. Cool stuff, hopefully everything is going well at home as well.  (I sent Taylor pictures of the cruise Jenna and I were on last week.)

This week has flown by! It was super busy, but great! So much has happened, lots of little blessings everyday, well not little...huge! We went to teach Marie-Betty and we had planned to bring the Bishop with us. We got there before him, and as he was driving up, Elder Yunack said, oh hey, I'll get the Bishop and then Marie-Betty had told me that she was just thinking that she wanted to speak with the Bishop right before we got there. We didn't tell her it was the Bishop that was coming with us! Super cool right? I went on exchanges into the Spanish district on Wednesday.  Elder Arias and I had a blast, and I got to use the Spanish Elder Gamez taught me back in Ottawa. 

One of the coolest things this week was service. On Thursday night, we got a call asking for volunteers to help the next day. It was for Red Cross collecting money in Metro stations for relief for the people that live in Lac-Mégantic. There was a train that derailed and exploded there this week, destroying the town, and many people were killed. It was last minute preparation but it was so cool, we stood in the Metro station for 6 hours, we were so sore, but it was really cool to see the generosity of all the people! Crazy that a tragedy happened so close to here.

Saturday was a full day of lessons, and when lessons fell through, we were blessed with other lessons to take their place.

Over all a great week. Oh and we had cake for Elder McCook and Elder Smith's year marks.

Well have a great week!

Love Elder Heinzlmeir