First e-mail from Canada!

OH hello!I am here and it is amazing! Every minute is exciting and important! I am here at the Port Coquitlam library using the computer. That is our area and our zone is called Surrey. We are about an hour east from Vancouver. It is a beautiful city with lots of parks and trees. we went on a jog throuth the forrest this morning! i love it! I am so blessed to be here!Ok i will start from the begining. We said hello and goodbye to President middleton and his wife. They are very nice and served us dinner and then we stayed the night at a hotel because they were moving out of the mission home already. It is soooo diverse here! 90 percent of the people here are not canadians. Everyone just immigrates to this beautiful place.. and guess what? it is not even cold at all. Its way warm....and it has not rained since i got here. its like 9o degrees most the time. So my companion is sister anderson from Heber city....shes only been out three months and is a trainer. she speaks french and chinese...and so she gets an hour of language study each morning....so i do too...so i am going to finish learning spanish....that way whoever we talk to we will be able to speak to....well almost. wont that be awesome?Ok so we live in the basement of a really cute house in a nice safe neighborhood. nothing to worry about mom:) We wake up and do aerobics at the church for a half hour with a cute 18 year old member girl named Kristen. OH and we ride our bikes there becase its just down the hill from us. we have a car and bikes so we do a little of both....very fun riding bikes and its good PR. we have already had three member families mention that we looked like we were working hard on our bikes....and we are. We talk to everyone! We average about 50 contacts a day. WE spend alot of time in the mall parking lot testifying to people..many think that we are crazy. ITs not even scary beause all you have to do is start walking towards the people and then the Lord helps you know what to say... some listen some dont. IT is amazing! This is the Lords work . i feel him working through me and i use to be so scared to approach people but now its just like easy. Amazing! We have also been teaching alot....we dont have any progreesing investigators yet....but a few close ones....we had an amazing experience fri. a 16 year old boy named Edgar from El Salvador....it was a refferal. we stopped at his house and he eagerly let us in....we taught him the first lesson! we gave him the book of mormon. he just ate up everything we said. the spirit was strong.... i know he will read and pray about it....we will meet with him again this week. he wants to come to church next week. his family only speaks spanish which is one of the reasons i want to learn it....and i know the Lord will help me learn it fast. So it was great...he is golden.we were also able to teach a family from India...the Skotsvys! They are beautiful...only the 12 year old daughter knew english so she had to translate everything.... we sang to them I am a child of God and the spirit was stong. We gave the girl a Book of mormon and we are ordering one in the Farsee language for the mom. They were so nice...she wore like those really beautiful colorful india outfits and sat on the beatifull rugs on the floor...she also gave us cookies and tea...which we kindly refused to. really nice generous people...we were able to get a sewing machine from some members to give to them.....they are poor and were originally refugees from Afganastan. we look forward to teaching them more.We have had four dinner appointment with members. three of them have been hamburgers on the barbque! ha ha! but its fun to eat and be outside and with members. we have been visiting a ton of less actives too! This work is so great! oh there are two korean elders in our area that go to all the dinners with us...they are so funny. Last night we all sang at our appointment and the wife is going to have us sing for sacrament meeting.... the ward is strong here. they are so nice and great! we are going to make the ward even bigger though! i really love the people here and i am learning so much about other cultures and stuff. The Lord loves all His people.We are also teaching a new convert from Iran... he gives us persian bread from his dads store...so good. People are so nice to us. anyway i will talk more next week..this is so long. i did not even know i could type this fast! we are going to the peace arch for pday with a bunch of other missionaries..including sis. huffaker! its an arch between the borders...and we will see the beach! Love you! sis. Flake
3177 Sylvia Place
Coquitlam, BCV3E 2R4
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