No Email

I'm not sure what happened, but we did not get an email from Elder Hadden this Tuesday.  Maybe he forgot to hit 'send'. 

I did talk to him yesterday. 

Elder Hadden said the people in Granby were nice, and that various families had invited them out for dinner already.  He reported that it is still cold in Granby, no leaves or flowers.  He is working on his French, with the assistance of Elder Tarati, his companion, but everybody there speaks English as well as French. They have a distinct accent to their French, putting -ng on the ends of words ending in 'n'.  It adds a nasal quality to their speech. They also intersperse their conversations with English words.  Elders Hadden and Tarati are, of course, the only missionaries in the town of 67,000, of which 0.01% is LDS.  They have lots of appointments scheduled. 

He also explained the history of religion in Canada, where the Catholic church was in control of the government, and put only non-French-speaking people in positions of power and/or work, so that today, most people in Canada do not trust organized religion, even though there is separation between church and state now.

I guess they have their work cut out for them.

Hopefully, we will get two emails next week.

Rose, the Editor