Spring?

Dear all,

It was really warm this week. Like, above freezing warm, which means that there were people in shorts and t-shirts jogging outside. It was wonderful. The snow is starting to melt, and there's even some really sad-looking grass exposed. Everything is just really wet and dirty, but at least it's warmer. 

Good news! Three flying port-a-potties are a traditional sign of the coming of spring here in Montreal.

More important that the weather, Yang Yuan Lan got baptized on Saturday. She was really ready for it, and it was cool to see her finally take that step. She comes to church more regularly than the majority of the members of the branch, so hopefully she'll be a really solid member now.  Elder Tsai got special permission to come back for the day so that he could be the one to baptize her. It was good to see him again, and I think he was really happy he got the chance to actually say goodbye to everyone. It was a good day.

Here's a really bad picture of a really cool place. This is St. Joseph's--a really, really big building.

Since Elder Leung is our district leader, Elder Lehnardt and I had to go on a weird trio exchange with the zone leaders this week. The two of us went with one, while the other stayed in the Mandarin area with Elder Leung. Elder Lehnardt and I basically just took over their apartment, cleaning out the junk in their fridge and cupboards, and cooking Chinese food for all our meals. I hope they appreciated it. 

Transfer calls came on Saturday night. A lot is changing in the branch. I'm getting sent back to Central, the area I was in before, to be with Elder Furnesse, who's only a couple transfers older than me, and has been in Ottawa his whole mission. It's gonna be interesting just having two new missionaries running a really busy area, but I'm sure we'll make do. Elder Furnesse is at least partially from Taiwan, so his Chinese is better than mine. Elder Leung and Elder Lehnardt are staying together in their current area, and the other area in the branch is getting shut down. Elder Saunders and Elder Hsiung are both going to different areas, leaving us with only four missionaries in the branch. It's going to be a really interesting transfer. 

Here is my collection of name tags. I still need to get an English one to make the collection complete. 

(Yes, the Chinese ones on the left are different from the one on the right.)

That's pretty much it for me this week. Love you all,

Elder Hadden