Keep Your Ax Sharpened: Smart Phones 'n' Stuff

Dear all,

It's been a week full of busy interesting changes. On Tuesday, we all got our new smartphones, which means we can do cool stuff like use Facebook and text people in Chinese. Now we don\t have to try to understand the horrible toneless pinyin we've been using to text so far. Now we can communicate much smother with everyone we teach and I'm getting a ton better at reading. All is good.

In other news, we met with Oliver again this week, and he actually admitted to us that he was looking for God but didn't know how to find Him. This means he's actually admitted that he has desire to view the Gospel in a non-worldly way, and actually can be open to the Spirit. Woooh! We told him to keep reading, praying, and coming to church, he would eventually get his answer. He said he was willing. He still has hope

Last Monday, Elder Furness and I met up with Cedric to have a P-day party. Neither of us have actually seen any of the sights in Montreal, so Cedric said he would take us to see some of the cool stuff. Cedric is the crazy, short, Vietnamese guy I met on my first week.

Here's Cedric probably saying something dumb about me.

He really likes to work with all of the missionaries and spends a lot of time especially with the missionaries in the Branch. He took us to St. Joseph's Oratory on Mount Royal

Here it is in all of its massive glory.

(pictures included) and gave us a very in-depth lesson in Catholic theology since he used to be Catholic before he joined the church. The Oratory was built in the first half of the 19th century and is absolutely massive. It basically looks like what would happen if you built a European cathedral in the 1900s in North America. Really, really big, and very, very Catholic. It was pretty cool.

Other than that, Elder Furness and I are still having a party every day. Our Chinese is getting better every day.

Hope you all have a good week.

Elder Hadden