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| This is my favorite picture from my mission so far. |
Another normal week for Elder Burton and me. We did all the normal missionary things like eating, and sleeping, and studying, and talking to people, and all that good stuff.
We're currently teaching a couple people who are particularly interesting. One is named Jasper. He is from Quebec, but he's anglophone. In his thirties. He's really good about coming to church and reading the book of Mormon, but he's still working on building his faith in Christ. He believes in reincarnation and a lot of other spiritualist things, and often has trouble seeing how Jesus fits into everything.
The other particularly interesting person we're teaching is named He Lin. She's a lady in her seventies from China and has a story about living through pretty much every event in the last 70 years of Chinese history. Listening to her talk is kind of like watching a Chinese version of Forrest Gump, but if Forrest Gump was dominated by things like the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward (look those up if you have never heard of them. China is a messed up place). She has a lot of trouble believing that God really loves all of his children if He lets such awful things happen to everyone, and she has even more trouble believing things without proof. Talking to her is kind of like talking to a holocaust survivor or something like that, but she lives a surprisingly happy life. She really likes coming to church and being with all the members.
I don't know if I mentioned this before, but Elder Tarati, Elder Burton, and I all went to the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum the other week. I found it to be more of a Canadian Aviation and Chris Hadfield Museum, but I'm as big a fan of Chris Hadfield as any Canadian, so I enjoyed it nonetheless. The museum was a lot like the Hill Airforce Base Museum, but smaller and with more British planes and pictures of Chris Hadfield. It was probably my highlight from my time in Ottawa so far. Pictures below.
Love you all,
Elder Hadden
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| Super cool Lancaster from WWII. |
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| Genuinely pretty cool Nazi rocket plane from WWII (they were crazy dangerous) Messerschmitt Komet |
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| Super cool candarm from the space shuttle Endeavor. |
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| Super cool Chris Hadfield's actual guitar used for super cool David Bowie covers in space. |
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| Elder Tarati and me in front of a super cool recreation of Yuri Gregarin's Vostok spacecraft. |
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| Chris Hadfield doing his thing. |
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| Super cool Chris Hadfield's actual Russian pressure suit from his last flight. |
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| Super cool spitfire from WWII. |
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| Super cool Nazi jet fighter from WWII (it's made of wood. The Nazis made some weird stuff. |
The Cultural Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
The Great Leap Forward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
Chris Hadfield: First Canadian to walk in space https://chrishadfield.ca/
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