Staying in Port Coquitlam!

Monday, November 03, 2008 11:56
Hello!
Thanks everyone for the emails! I really love hearing from you! Sounds like you are living fun, fabulous lives! I hope you realize how much i love you! So guess what? Im still here! And I am still with Sister van den Bosch! Crazy eh? Yeah its unheard of in this mission for sisters to be together for three transfers...but....the Lord knows best! Also the Lord answers prayers and Deanna, Sis. Lebrun, Sammy, and Sherry(our best friends here) all told us that they have been praying that we would both stay! Isnt that great? and apparently the Lord still has plans for us here. We have a lot of fun together....and though we are very different we each have strengths where the others weaknesses are so we work very effectivley together.
So 6 months in Port Coquitlam! Can you belive it? I just love the people here and we have many progressing investigators so it's best that we both stay here to help them along!
So.... we are teaching Patricks friend Taylor at the LeBruns house. He really likes learning and going to church. And we had a little neat miracle. Patrick lost his moms cell phone trick or treating and after our lesson the next day with Taylor, Sis. Lebrun asked me to pray for them to find it. We did and then left and a half hour later they called us and someone had called them to return the phone that they found! So it was really neat because Taylor, and the LeBruns were all able to see the power of prayer! God is amazing!
We will be teaching Davids friend Sam, with his family tonight! They have had missionaries before so the seed has been planted...The father is from Nicaragua and the mother is Italian! NeatI willl let you know how it goes....

We are also teaching a family from Mexico.....the spirit was so strong the last time we were there! Wow! We are praying for them to find thier answer....you can to... Arturo, Rosa, and Sara Ortega.
We found out from President that we have to call Salt Lake to get permission before any Muslims are baptised because thier family back in Iran under law is supposed to kill anyone in thier family that converts....this is very serious business and we have to be very careful..... So as you can tell we teach such a variety of people! it is so neat! I just love people! Well i wish i had time to tell more stories..... I love you !
Love, Sister Flake

Happy Birthday Sis. Flake

Happy Birthday Lindsey!

Oh Family!

So good to hear from all of you......Do you know how much i love and miss you? ALOT! Yes transfers this week more then likely one of us is getting booted out of here. I would love to stay here but i understand that God knows much better then I where i should be. We willl see soon! So yes this city is booming with missionary work.... we barely have time for finding anymore because of all the teaching we are doing....which is a huge change for this ward.... President Nelsons vision and inspiration have changed this mission! Seriously....the amount of baptisems are increasing rapidly....for instance in our ward they usually baptise one a year......since President Nelson got here we have had 4 with 4 more on the way in November! Yes...did i tell you about Mel and Kevin......they commited yesterday.....they are so golden.....and we love them they are so feindly and nice.....and both patrick and David who were baptised both have friends who have been coming to church who want to bea baptised at the end of November. so... i want to say thank you to my little brothers because they have prepared me for dealing with young boys:) God is pouring out his blessings! At Patricks babtism on Saturday the spirit was soooo strong as his father bore his testimony about the Book of Mormon.....its the first time he has ever born his testimony and he has been inactive for over 5 years....so it has been so satisfying and heart-warming to see thier family change and grow while the boys have prepared for baptism. I love them so much.....they have kind of been like a second family this past while. This is the true church! Our Heavenly Father wants so badly for us all to return to HIm someday! I love you! Love, Sister Flake

Thanks for all the birthday stuff! And man i got so many cards and the ward members are so nice to me! Deanna made me dinner and pie and got me balloons...the Danatos got me flowers and cheese cake.... Sammy got me lotion and took us to lunch....and Sherry is throwing a party for me on Tuesday! Wow i have never felt this loved. Thanks so much!

October 20th Email

Oh my goodness! I am so sorry again! Last week I wrote a long email and i tried sending it but the email service logged out for some crazy terrible reason. Oh man! Sorry, so quick recap of the last two weeks.....yes Deanna got baptised and it was the best day of my life! WOW! She is so happy and she found a great job two days after she was baptised! The Lord has been blessing her so much! She is soo happy! And it makes me so happy! And Daivd was baptised on Satruday. It was great. His father was able to do it and we set a date for his friend who came to watch him for November 8. We plan on teaching his whole family! and Deanna’s friend Larry we started teaching as well.... he really loves the Book of Mormon! So more excing events coming up! Patrick wiill be baptised this Saturday......we are busy and its great! The church is true and it changes lifes! We have been having such neat experiences lately and my testiomony keeps growing. I keep getting birthday cards! Thanks too all of you! This gospel is so great! God lives and we are His children.....He loves us more then will ever understand......i want so serve Him till the day I die and am so grateful for this time i have to draw closer to Him.....Jesus Christ did and does so much for us! I can't put into words how much i love Him and appriciate the great atonement that he did for us.... In the name of Jesus Christ...Amen.
Love, sister flake

Note from Port Coquitlam Member

Dear Brother and Sister Flake,

We wanted to write you and thank you for sharing your daughter, Sister Flake, with our ward. In her short time here in Canada, she has had a wonderful impact on individuals in our ward, as well as the ward as a whole. We love her bright, bubbly, positive outlook and find it a delight to be around her.

You have truly raised a wonderful daughter and can be very proud of the work she is doing her in the Port Coquitlam ward. She and her companion have truly gotten the missionary work rolling in the ward. Thank you so much.

May the Lord bless you and your family,

Best Wishes,

The Dunn Family

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October 6, 2008 Email

Hello! Its been another hardworking wonderful week! I love it here! I have an advantage being from the desert because i love the rain! Its pretty much always raining but its fun and smells good. We picked up four new investigators this week.... by tracting and refferals! Its so great when people let you in! I love it! So we have been meeting some really neat people. We are excited about this women and her 10 year old daughter that we taught the first lesson to on Saturday. After the first vision we asked them what they thought or felt..... the cute girl Annalisa said "It makes me feel special." What a wonderful way to express the feeling of the spirit! It makes me feel special too! We then asked them if the story was too hard to believe....Annalisa didnt blink an I and said "i believe it!" The mother said that she will pray about it. This is a good example of why the Lord has asked us to become like little children!... Maybe we can all take a look at our lives and ask our self what more we can do to become submissive to our Father in Heaven like a child.
As far as our progressing investigators go...... if every thing goes as planned Deanna will be baptised this Saturday, David the next, and then his brother Patrick the next week(he wanted his own special day). Wow! but we need prayers because Deanna is still struggling with the w.o.w. she wants to be baptised so bad.....she keeps slipping.....but if she can just make it through this week we know that the Lord will make it easier for her and she will have the Holy Ghost to help her. Pray for her please. She recieved a beautiful blessing last night from the elders. And then we all sang Amazing Grace together....which she wants us to sing at her baptism. The work is moving forward! The gospel is so true!
Guess what? Thanksgiving is on Oct. 13th here....so the Library wont be open again....so probably i will write on Tuesday next week.
So dad...thanks for the email....i totally agree with you about the making it simple thing.....i have been trying to do that myself. I am so glad that Eduardo is getting baptised...very exciting! Keep up the good work! I loved conference.....seeing the choir kind of made me miss home though....all those nice looking mormon people! HaHa.
Love, Sister Flake