Missed this one from August 8th - Zone Conference, Exchanges and driving

Hey everyone! This week was really good! We had exchanges with the Rimouski, Quebec elders which was a lot of fun! I was with Elder Croft who's been out for about 6 months but has never served in English, so it was a big adjustment for him. It's weird being the more experienced missionary on exchanges these days! Lots of fun though! We met some really cool people while we were together and ended up having a really good surprise lesson! That night on the way home we picked up frostys and gave Elder Bonny his first ever frosty! This week we also had zone conference! Everyone in the zone came to Moncton and we had interviews with pres Low and a great zone conference! Elder Bonny and I gave a training about faith and it went well! We had a lot of good things going on last week, we started teaching 10 people which is super crazy and really exciting for us! Yesterday we traveled out to Charlottetown, PEI to go train at their district council it's always really fun to get to see other missionaries. The training and driving took up most of our day, but now we are in our area for the rest of the week so we should be able to have some good lessons with all of our friends and continue helping them grow closer to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ!

It's super crazy that this week will officially be 1 year as a missionary for me! Mission time is wack it's flown by! I've learned and grown so much in the last year it's insane, but awesome! Missions are hard work but such a great opportunity! I'm so thankful to be a part of God's work and to try and be an instrument in his hands! Have a great week everyone! Love you! 

Love,

Elder Tait

Zone conference 

Zone conference and the Ann of Green Gables hat

Another busy week

I did a lot of missionary work this week. It was fun ! I am looking forward to doing more missionary work this week. Love you all! 🙏🔴⚪

Love Elder Tait

Elder Tait's mom here...

We talked to Elder Tait for a few minutes this week and he is doing really well. 
It's transfer week and they had Elders coming from all directions to stay with them and then had to make a few trips to the airport and drive others to their new areas. 
It was fun to hear him talk about the many memories over the past year and the many ways he has grown. He has some great goals as he moves into the second half of his mission. I was a little emotional as I listened to him and felt of his love for missionary work. 
He received news from President Low, the one of the people he and his companion taught in his first area (Cornerbrook) was getting baptized this week.  
Also, they are blessed to have a large teaching pool right now and have seen miracles as they pray for very specific things. I'm sure he will tell you more about all these things, but this week didn't have a lot of time, so just wanted to send a quick update of what we heard from him. 

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Teaching the Preacher, Crossing the Border, another crazy & busy week...

Hey everyone! Things are still going really well here in Moncton! We are teaching a lot of people right now, so we are super busy and having lots of fun! At one of the lessons we went to this week, the guy we were teaching brought his preacher friend to set us straight with the Bible, but his friend ended up being nice and had some sincere questions so we are going to be teaching him now too! This week we also had exchanges which are always great! On exchanges Elder Wai and I went finding in downtown Moncton. There are some very interesting people in downtown Moncton haha. It was a fun time. We each got a big hug from this lady who was super out of it! Good times! We also got to travel to Maine for district council again. It was awesome, except for getting stopped at the border because it was Elder Bonny's first time crossing the border, but eventually we made it! More good things on the way this week! Have a great week everyone!

Love,

Elder Tait

Planes, busses, taking care of business...

Hi everyone! Hope you are all doing well! This week we had transfers and it was pretty crazy with the merged mission now! All kinds of flight and buses we had to help people get to it was a lot of fun!

On transfer day I took Elder Kennedy to the airport and then waited at the airport with a couple other missionaries for our companions to get in. Most of the missionaries coming to New Brunswick missed their flights, but Elder Bonny made it. Us and Elder Schluchter and Sister Bromley just hung out around the airport for a few hours waiting for the other missionaries to get here. Most of the day was correlating everything so everyone in the zone made it safely to their areas with their new companions. We finally picked up the last missionary at 10:00pm on thursday night. He had to take a 10 hour bus ride to get to us.

Other than that it was a weekend full of planning! We had to get everything planned for the transfer and that took a lot of time. We got to do some finding a went to a cultural festival. We felt really good about going, but it wasn't very good while we were there, until as we were leaving we offered to take a picture for this family and then started talking to them. We taught them and set up a return appointment in a couple weeks! That was a good reminder that when you feel prompted to go somewhere, there is a reason even if it takes a while to see it! We also had a lesson where we were planning to read 2 Nephi 32 with the lady, but when we pulled up in front of her house we decided to change the whole lesson to reading in 3 Nephi 11 and talking about going to church. Then lesson went amazing and the change was perfect!

It was a fun week and we are off to a good start this transfer! My new companion Elder Bonny is super cool (besides the fact that he warms up his milk to eat cereal. must be a European thing haha) I was a little worried about how we would talk to each other since english is his third language, but his english is really good! He's a great missionary and we get along well! Have a great week everyone! Love you!

Elder Tait

Transfers - busy week

Hey everyone! Not much time to write, but this week was great! We had a couple exchanges this week which was fun! Elder Kennedy and I were able to start teaching 7 new people and saw lots of miracles! Therese came to church for the 2nd time and really loved it! She's already started doing come follow me! Transfers are here again and elder Kennedy is leaving to trois revoirs, Quebec. It's sad he's leaving, but next transfer will still be great! We are now officially merged with the Montreal mission and my new companion has been serving there. He's from Geneva Switzerland! I'm really excited for this transfer, next week we'll fly over to Montreal for a leadership meeting which will be sick! Tonight we've got a few companionships sleeping over at our place and then I'll spend tomorrow helping all the missionaries in the zone get to their new areas. Have a great week! Love you all!

Elder Tait

miracles & Blessings, Listen to the Spirit

This week was awesome! We traveled all around the zone for exchanges and trainings and it was a lot of fun! We had a really good lesson with Barbara on Tuesday night and then Wednesday we started the road trip! We did a big lap around New Brunswick, with a couple stops in Maine and also made it out to PEI! 

Wednesday- We drove 3 hours, had district council and then started exchanges with the Edmunston elders. Edmunston is mostly a French area so I knew I was in for an interesting time haha. We drove another 3 hours, had a dinner appointment with a really funny old french couple and then to finish, drove the rest of the night back to the Edmunston apartment.

Thursday- Elder Pierson and I went and did service at this soup kitchen. We were serving the food and everyone there spoke French except for me haha. It was an adventure! Later in the day I got to cross the border for the first time on my mission. It felt good to be back in the promised land! We went to Fort Kent, Maine for the rest of the night and met with a few people and had a 4th of July bbq! 

Friday- We got up and drove a couple hours to Houlton, Maine where we went to their district council. We gave a training about faith and it went really well. I also got to see 3 of my old companions who are in that district, so it was a really fun time! Then we drove all the way back home just in time for a lesson before we had to be in for the night. 

Saturday- Today we had a church open house. It wasn't the turn out we were hoping for at all, but we still had some great things from it. Therèsé is a lady that we met awhile back, she wasn't interested in our message, but accepted a card for the open house. She decided to show up and loved it! As soon as we stepped into the chapel she identified the spirit and was asking lots of great questions. She also got to meet a bunch of members so it was really good! There was also a big car show going on where a whole bunch of cool old school cars were parading down the main street in town. We saw some pretty cool looking old cars! We had some extra time, so we were calling people that we had numbers for and accidentally messed up one of the numbers, but the lady who answered was interested and we are going to meet up this week!

Sunday- Therèsé came to church and seemed to really enjoy it! We spent the rest of the afternoon planning and catching up on everything that we missed being out of our area for 3 days. That night we went and did a bunch of following up with people and enjoyed the nice warm weather.

Monday- Today we went to another district council. This time on Prince Edward Island. It was a super cool place to visit! We gave a training about the merged mission and how we can help things run smoothly. Everybody is pretty hyped about the merge! On our way back to Moncton we stopped at this ice cream place that some members own and got some ice cream. It was some of the best I've ever had! So good! Later we had dinner with some members and had a lesson right after so we were going to have to leave early. We felt like we should stay a little longer and the person ended up calling us a few minutes later to tell us she needed to reschedule. As we were leaving the member's house we saw a lady taking out her trash so we went and talked to her and tried to help. We asked if she would be interested in hearing our message and she said yes! She moved here from the Congo and said that she has been waiting for guys like us to come! Miracle!

Things are really good and busy here! We have a couple exchanges this week and a lot of lessons with new people set up so it should be another great week! Always listen to the spirit and do what it tells you! Have a great week everyone!

Love, Elder Tait