General Conference

All the maple trees hooked up to the automated collection tubing

Dear All,

Despite the speculations of other missionaries, a member family in Drummondville, and my father, my mission is still two years long. So, here's another weekly email.

We started off pretty excitingly with Zone Leader exchanges on Tuesday night. I was with Elder Leudtke from Davis County, UT. Elder Leudtke and I were in the same district in Ottawa so we're already homies and we had a grand old time wandering around Granby knocking doors and going to Branch meetings. Manon and Marie-Soleil took us out to eat at the Québécois Chinese buffet in Granby and I impressed them by being able to use chopsticks to eat my orange chicken. It's been a darn long time since I've had westernized Chinese food. It was pretty weird to eat it again. But still good.

Later on in the week we knocked into a family from Syria who were super nice and welcoming and made us sit down and eat fruit and talk to them for an hour or more. They didn't really speak English except for one of their sons--sort of--so it was very difficult to communicate. They speak a dialect of Kurdish that doesn't exist on Google translate, so we used Arabic instead. In our conversation, they told us that they really liked reading the Bible and that they had a Christian missionary friend in Lebanon. We gave them a Plan of Salvation pamphlet in Arabic, and they said they had read it all already, so we got really excited thinking that they had already met the church somehow and we're open to hearing more. We went back a couple days later with a Book of Mormon, and after further talk we realized that they hadn't met the church and weren't really open to meeting with us. They were super nice, though. Maybe we'll run into them again when they speak better French.

This weekend we watched most of the sessions of Conference with our Elders Quorum President at the church, but we watched Saturday afternoon and Priesthood sessions with the Wongs and the Bergerons. The Bergerons fed us all dinner before we watched the priesthood session together.

I really liked Elder Holland's talk about the sacrament. I've been on a big kick with symbolism in the scriptures and the church recently so it was cool to hear him talk about how important and meaningful the sacrament ordinance is.

Yesterday that Wongs took us to cabane à sucre with their shuffleboard group. It was a big mapley brunch with a bunch of old anglophone quebecers and a Chinese couple. Very very enjoyable. Pictures included.

That's all for me this week. 

Love you all! 

Elder Hadden 

General Conference - The first weekend of April and October, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hosts a conference for all Church members and welcomes visitors.  Topics range all over the board.  Here's a lengthier description. which includes a description of the Priesthood session Saturday evenings.

Elders Hadden & Tarati eating maple syrup taffy

Sister Wong eating maple syrup

la cabane a sucre