Pic of the week...

Saying goodbye to Elder Bonny

Missing Car Keys & other exciting Adventures...

Hey everyone! It was transfer week and it was definitely one to remember! I got my new companion, Elder Taylor, from Twin Falls Idaho. He's a really charitable missionary and I'm excited to work with him this transfer! I got to take all the elders around to the bus and airport and get them all sent off. We got everyone back to our apartment and sent them off. One companionship stayed behind and asked us if we had their keys. We told them no and then they and us started to get worried. We looked around everywhere in the apartment and the parking lot and couldn't find them.  Eventually we found out the Elder from that area who got transferred to Montreal accidentally took the car keys with him. We made some calls and the spare key got shipped to us for the next morning. Thursday night we did our best to have all 4 of us doing good work, but it was kind of interesting, because I was the only one who knew the area, so no matter what we did there was one companionship that had no idea about anything in the area. The Miramichi elders ended up sleeping over with us that night and then the next morning the package with the spare key showed up. We were excited we could get the elders sent off. We opened the box and gave them their key, they hit the lock button to see if it worked and we heard the horn, so we were relieved. It sounded oddly close so we went to the window and tried again. That's went the realization came that it was the wrong key. They had sent us the spare key for the Moncton car instead of the Miramichi car haha! Many phone calls later we came up with a plan to have the Miramichi elders take our car to Halifax, pick up their key and drive back. Meanwhile, Elder Taylor and I fixed up some old bikes and rode around on them for the day. Respect to all the missionaries who only have bikes! Eventually the Miramichi elders got their key and got back to their area so that was really good. On Sunday we had a class from a local Baptist University come visit church. After sacrament meeting we had a Q and A with them and it went super well! Yesterday one of the students texted us and told us she wants to learn more! We've been super busy getting everything going for this transfer and it's going to be a very busy one! We're working with a bunch of amazing people and I'm excited to keep helping them! I hope you all have a great week! Love you!

Love, 

Elder Tait

Pics of the week...

Saying goodbye...

Road Tripping & Happy Thanksgiving...

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a great week! It was a fun one here. We were out of our area for 3 days road tripping across New Brunswick! Last week we had a district pday in Miramichi where we did a hike, then we stayed in Miramichi and did exchanges with the elders there. Our exchanges continued all day on Wednesday after we had district council. I was with Elder Morrell and he took me to Tait street! Pretty cool! We had a grand old time talking with all 3 people that live on the street haha. Later that night I conducted a baptismal interview for a person being taught in Miramichi. It was a cool experience. I could feel the spirit really strongly. It was a fun exchange with the elders there. It's always fun to hang out with the other missionaries! 

On Thursday we got up and drove to Caribou, Maine for a district council. We gave a training there and spent the rest of the day driving back to Moncton and finally got home at 9:00pm. We drove 600 kilometers today haha, good times! We spent a bunch of time on Friday planning, because it's the first time in a month we've had a chance to sit down and do weekly planning so we had a ton of stuff to go over. That night we had a couple lessons with people we are teaching. One of them was completely in French, so that was a little confusing. I feel like I understand what's happening and what is being said in the lessons, but a lot of times I'm way off when I talk about it with Elder Bonny afterwards. Slowly getting better though! Saturday was super cool. We were finally able to get in contact with Jessica and Gustavo. They are the couple that we prayed for and then they just showed up at church awhile back. Things were going well and then they moved across the city and got super busy with work, so we hadn't been able to talk with them in over a month. We'd been praying that we would have another chance with them and then on Saturday they texted us back and we got to go visit them! 

Yesterday was Canadian Thanksgiving! We helped the Remi family move. They are the Swahili speaking family we are teaching English to. Their basement had flooded so they'd been living in 3 rooms with 12 people in their family. They were able to find a new house that we helped move some things into and they were so excited. It was so awesome to see how happy they were. I love that family! They are so cool! We got to have a good thanksgiving dinner with our ward mission leader and then ended the night with a guy we are teaching named Pierre. All in French... I need to go do some language study haha! Have a great week everyone! Love you! Au revoir ! 

Love, 

Elder Tait 

District Pday - last week

Sorry this is so late - I didn't ever send this out oops!! Here's Elder Tait's email from last week...

Hey everyone! We had a district p day today so I don't have much time to write. It was a great week! General conference was definitely a highlight! So good! One of my favorite quotes was from Elder Johnson "if we do not understand who we are, it is difficult to understand who we can become" we all have such great potential, but in order to work towards it we have understand who we are as children of God. Find your potential and then go work for it! Have a great week! Love you!

Moving with no moving truck, and a few other adventures...

Hey everyone! I hope you are all doing well! It was a fun week! We had exchanges this week and I did an exchange with Elder Hatch, my first trainer! It was cool to be back together again just like the good old days. He's a super funny guy! He and his companion brought a ton of tiny pictures of Alex Boye and hid them all over our apartment. Haha, it was pretty funny to be doing something and then we just find a random picture of Alex Boye wherever we are in our apartment. On Friday we got to go to PEI and give a training to their district. It was super fun to see all of them and we got some amazing ice cream on our way off the island! That night we had our church sports night and then watched the Book of Mormon videos. They are so good! Go check them out if you haven't already! On Sunday we visited the other unit we cover. It's a small branch in Amherst, Nova Scotia. The pianist for the branch wasn't there, so I was chosen to fill in. Haha, good times! The piano had auto play though, so it all worked out. The Lord provides. That afternoon we got back to Moncton and found out how church went. It wasn't the best and there was a problem with one person we are teaching and the member who was supposed to give him a ride not taking them. We were pretty salty about it and then all of our lessons for that night fell through. The opposition was having a hay day and we had seen enough. We prayed for some help and set a goal to go find 4 people that night. We went out that night and found the 4 people! It was another testimony builder to me that if you align yourself with God and work hard with a good attitude you can't fail!
Yesterday we helped a guy move. We got there and heard the bad news "I thought I'd save a couple bucks by not renting a truck since it's just down the street." So, we helped this guy move his entire house (bed, dressers and all) - from his 2nd story apartment to his other 2nd story apartment down the street! Haha good times! Lots of sore muscles after that! Things are going great here! Have a great week!
Love you!

Elder Tait

Zone Conference, traveling, teaching and blessings. Another great and busy week...

Hey everyone! We've been crazy busy, so it was a super quick week! We're teaching a lot of people right now in our area and we also had zone conference this week, so we had to get travel plans and everyone settled in for that. The day before zone conference one of the missionaries had to go to the hospital for an emergency appendix surgery, so that was a curveball in our travel plans for them. The surgery was successful and all is well now, haha. That was a crazy call though!
Everyone in the zone came to Moncton Thursday night for interviews with President Low. We took a couple elders out with us and worked with them for the night. Me and the elder I was with did a family history booth downtown and then went to a Bible study. The Bible study fell through so we went and visited a lady we are teaching. While we were walking there we met Eric. He's so cool! He's from Rowanda and was super excited to meet us and to hear about The Book of Mormon. He ended up coming to church with us on Sunday! Thursday night we had 6 other elders stay with us at our apartment, which was super fun!

Friday we had a great zone conference, we talked a lot about planning and having a vision and learned a lot of great things! After the conference we took the Lows to the airport and then had a sports night at the church and also watched the new Book of Mormon videos!

On Saturday we had 5 lessons fall through, so we spent most of the day on our backup plans. We had lots of great laughs all day, mostly because we were so tired, so everything was hilarious to us. That night I was writing in my journal and when I finished I had written about the same day twice in a row haha!

Sunday was good. We had 4 people we are teaching come to church. That was really exciting! Later we had a really good lesson with Eric. He is so prepared for the gospel!

Yesterday we drove a couple hours to Fredericton, visited a district council there and then came back. We had a great tender mercy. One of the sisters gave us some chick fil a sauce, so we stopped at KFC on the way back and used the sauce. It was so good! We got back for the evening and had another good lesson with Eric. We taught him the Plan of Salvation and he wasn't sure about some things, but we were able to read some good scriptures and he really liked them. Then we visited Rémi and Angelina and their family. We are trying to teach them English. They were watching some Swahili to English videos on YouTube and then Rémi handed me the remote and pointed to the TV "English video" so I put on an English video. I put on the primary song "A Child's Prayer" with the lyrics and Rémi sang along with it! haha it was a great time!

Everything is going great here! We keep finding lots of cool people and are teaching and traveling a lot! Lots of fun! Have a great week everyone!

Love,

Elder Tait