Keep Your Ax Sharpened: A Very Normal Week

Dear all,

It's been a very normal week. No holidays. No parties. No crazy adventures. No foxes. Just wandering around Montreal in the cold looking for long-lost less-active members.

Speaking of the weather though, that has been pretty interesting. So far, this winter has been very, very mild. It keeps swinging wildly between about 33F to about 10F. There's just been a lot of freezing and melting, and a ton of ice everywhere. It's been super ugly. But yesterday it finally managed to make its way down to below 0F with wind chill and dumped a bunch of snow all over the place. So right now, Montreal looks beautiful and not like a dirty ice apocalypse. The temperature is still just about freezing, but at least it looks nice outside.

Artsy picture of a snowy Montreal street

We're actually teaching someone who is not already a member of the church now, too. His name is Elijah and he's a Bible scholar from Nigeria. The English YSA Elders found him, and we volunteered to teach him since all the other teams in the ward are super busy and we don't really do all that much. We have had one lesson with him and the YSA Elders so far. He was pretty excited about the idea of having more scriptures, and thinks the Book of Mormon is some really good stuff. It will be fun to actually teach someone again.

Elder Burton and I are planning on going to the Montreal Museum of Archaeology (or something like that. I really don't know what it's called) today. The museum we went to last week was a total bust. It was super expensive (20 CAD, the same price as the War Museum in Ottawa which is massive and beautiful) and all it was was a couple of lame exhibits for kids. If it was free, it would have been fun. But it was not free. Elder Burton described it as a ''lame museum for plebeian kids.'' Hopefully the next museum will be better.

That's all for me,

Love you all,

Elder Hadden

1. Cedric the King at his dinner.