Happy Thanksgiving

I want to share with you the three things i am thankful for this year and you can read it at the dinner table at grandmas at thanksgiving. Oh my im getting emotional just thinking about all you sitting there.....its like my favorite thing of the whole year....anyway.....

1. Family: yes...all of you! I have never felt so much love for you in my whole life! Every time i see something neat or have a cool expereince i want to call you up and tell you about it. Thank you for suppporting me, appriciating me, and loving me. And i have such a wonderful legacy to live up to. The more i think about it....i realize my extended family has had such a great influence on me. i look up to so many of my wonderful cousins, my grandparents who are pretty much the best ever, and my aunts and uncles. Thank you so much for living what you beleive and being such great examples. Honestly. Sincerely. Thank you.

2. Gods Love: There is no better feeling in this world then the feeling of love that i feel from my Heavenly Father. Especially when i pray. I know He knows me and is molding and shaping me into who He wants me to be......when my soul hungers...He is there to feel it. When i am down and depressed he lifts me up. When i feel unworthy He lets me know that i am a daughter of God and that my Saviour Jesus Christ has suffered for me, sister Lindsey Rose Flake...He knows me, my name, my strenths, my weaknesses, my trials, and my heart. And He has that same love for all His children on this earth.

3. The truth: So many people are wandering to and fro in this wicked world looking for something to fill the hole with in thier soul.... How blessed we are to have the truth....about God and His plan for us... we must never take these truths for granite..there are many who do not have them and feel very lost....we must treasure up the truth and share it with all that we can!
Sorry i have ran out of time.....ilove you all! the week went great all is well! Ill tell you more next week!

Sister Flake

November 17 Email

Wow! another great week of teaching and learning! I really loved zone conference...President is so inspired....the things he told us were answers to questions i have been pondering. Can i just tell you how much i love studying....its like theres never enough time...the scriptures have become a treasure in my heart and when i read them it feels me with courage to go and do the things the Lord has asked me to do. We also had stake conference this week and it was so great to see so many faithful saints out here in this worldly part of the world. There is alot of excitement about the temple being built.....and i am so happy that i will be able to be here when it opens. and the blessings from the temple being in the area is already changing things. The number of baptisms in BC has had a dramatic increase and is on the rise. Its really neat to see Gods power and miracles here.
Please pray for Larry....he was doing so good but Deanna called us on Friday really sad because Larry went on a drinking binge....and he was finally getting off of the Boos. But hopefully this will be the last time cuz he will realize it does not bring him happiness.... Deanna went through the same thing and she came out strong so i am sure Larry will be able to as well....and still be baptised in December.
Well we are getting some amazing refferals and teaching all kinds of different people..... We taught a man from Sri Lanka yesterday....he was just eating it up....also we will be teaching a man named Rudy from the persian gulf who is ready to be baptised. And a really neat thing... we were teaching our investigator Mel at a members house and a construction worker was fixing her door..... we introduced oursleves and then he left before i could talk to him about the gospel....and i was like dang i should have said something...but then he came in aagin because he forgot something....wow....so we ended up getting his number.... well we taught him on thursday and it went so well! He told us that though he was catholic there was still something missing in his life! Thats a great thing to hear as a missionary.....bingo! So we have another appointment....his name is Fernando and his is from El Salvador.....Yeah isnt it great how many differnt kind of people we get to meet with!? also an Iranian lady from english class invited us over for lunch. so we mad persian food together and talked about Jesus Christ because she is interested in becoming Christian! Wow sooo things have really taken off here and it is so fun and wonderful...
I love testifying to so many of Gods children here on this earth....also something that president has taught us to do is when ever we finish an appointment we explain to them about satan and how he will try harder to tempt them and lead them astray from the truth.....we have to do this because i cant explain to you how hard it is to help people remeber what they felt with how hard satan is working on them here....it can cause great dissapointment sometimes....but we all know that the Lord is stronger...we are on the winning side! We must stay close to the Lord in these latter days! Well the church is truer ever! Christ is our Savior!
Love, Sister Flake

November 10 email

Well hello!
Another great, and wet week here in Port Coquitlam! Miracles are happining! I never know where to begin but.....yesterday a man from an island near the Persian gulf came to church and told us he has been going to the mormon church on and off for ten years and he now wants us to teach him so he can be baptised.....apperently he was once on a business trip to salt lake and was invited to church there. he travels so he has been goint to church in many different places...but now he is living in canada. wow!
Sis. Huffaker and i went on exchanges here this week....both our companions were sick so we were covering two areas while they slept and watched church movies it was really exciting to be all over the place....it was awesome and i learned so much from teaching with sis. huffaker.....we hadn't done it since the MTC and we are both alot better now:) . one of our investigators ended up in the hospital so we asked the Burnaby elders to give a blessing for her and then we taught her about faith in Jesus Christ and what it can do. Her mom was there too and now might be interested in learning too! I just realized how much i love teaching! it is so fun and brings so much satisfaction to bare your testimony to those who are just begining thier own testimonies. oh and guess what? President spent two hours with sis. Huffaker and I studying and answering questions! We appriciate him so much!
The gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored! I know that my Redeemer lives! I dont have words to explain how wonderful it feels to know He loves me and has a plan for me. Keep the Faith!

Love, sis flake

So i heard Jenn Olsen turned her papers in! I want to know where she gets called!

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