I Drove Over The Pacific Ocean

Guys, I love ferries.

In other news this week started out with our girl Ellie hooking us up with free poutine because Canada, leading my first exchanges with the Victoria 3rd English and then Chinese sisters (help me Micah), and a bunch of miracles, as per usual.

MORNING: Cutest new investigator from the Philippines. Walked into the chapel for our first lesson, read my Spanish nametag and realized that she had gone to our church a million times with her nanny in the Philippines (the Tagalog looks almost the same as Spanish) and fallen in love with how simple everything was. We pretty much want to be best friends with her because she's a brilliant chef/culinary school grad, the kindest human ever, and has a million great questions about the church and also is pure miracle if I didn't already mention that.

FATIMA: Other cutest investigator, a refugee from Syria! She showed up at the chapel for English class the other night BEAMING because she had learned to ride a bike for the first time. Fatima is 20 something. When she first started talking about it I had absolutely no idea what a moment that was for her, until she explained to me that in Damascus women are not allowed to ride bicycles. And that she had to cross a few oceans to be allowed that right. That privilege. Something I have literally taken for granted my entire 20 years. Ah, my heart.

MLC: THE BEST EVER!!!!!!!!! Spent all of Friday surrounded by some of my missionary idols and best friends. Just, like, drowning in the Spirit. My favorite comment was an Elder who told us that Satan works in this order: with our thoughts, then our hearts, then our hands and our actions. God, however, works in the opposite directions. If we want to KNOW something, if we want the way our minds work and see the world to change, we must start by moving. Then He touches our hearts and allows us to believe, and finally we come to know the truth in our minds. Brilliant. There were some real high expectations set, but oh how grateful I am for that. I walked out of that meeting with one thing ringing in my ears, "Raise up leaders to take your place."

I gotta go, we're off to Nanaimo (2 hours away) to work with some sisters there which means MINI ROAD TRIP!!!!!!!!!! Also I for sure messed up the address last time. Both the Washington and Richmond addresses will get to me, but my apartment is currently 

571 Warren Place

Victoria, BC

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I love you all dearly, couldn't do this without you. Also our discussion in Gospel Principles yesterday got me thinking about this, but I'm really feeling the need to thank some of you for every Sunday evening Facetime call. We talked about keeping the Sabbath Day Holy and how important PEOPLE are which is my theory as well and someone brought up facetiming family every Sunday and instantly I was thinking about my cute family and AJ and McCall and Madeline and the Pals and Tyler and Coon and all the rest of you reaching out again and again and again whether we were an hour away or an ocean away and I JUST AM SO GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF YOU and all the minutes and thoughts and prayers you've sent my way.

xxx

Hermana Reags