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| Cemetery from Ville Marie |
Again, another very normal week. Elder Burton and I sat down and did a lot of record keeping, and in the end took over twenty names off the ward list. It was very tedious, but we got something solid done.
In addition to removing names, we're working on sending letters to a bunch more so we can take them off in a few weeks. Or just get in contact with them again. Whichever ends up happening.
We took the sacrament to Brother De Guzman again on Sunday night. He and Brother Brao told us mission stories from their missions in the Philippines. Afterwards, we ate dinner with the Braos and Sister Constantin (another Filipina sister). As always, it was a grand old Filipino party, complete with Filipino spaghetti. They invited us to an even bigger Filipino party next week. It's gonna be good.
Last week, Elder Burton and I went to the Pointe-à-Callière museum, and were pleasantly surprised to find out that it was actually really, really, really good. It's build on the excavation sites for the first European settlement in Montreal--Ville Marie--and they have all the dig sites open to public view. It pretty much just walks through the whole history of Montreal based around one very small area of the city. The museum was well designed, the lighting was great, and the sound design was incredible. Super good.
We're going to the Musée des Beaux-Arts today.
Love you all,
Elder Hadden
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| The town of Hochelaga, the native camp that Jacques Cartier discovered on the island & then could never find again. |
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| An Expo '67 Passport |
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| An Olympic torch from '76 |
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| Selfie of us on the set of "La Petite Vie", a very influential sit-com that only people in Quebec know about. |
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| Set from "La Petite Vie". If you want a feel for Quebecois culture, look it up. |
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| Selfie of us on a pirate ship |
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| A piece of the American pavilion from the Expo (this is part of the big sphere we saw on Jean Drapeau) |
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| Weird shepherd's pie. They love shepherd's pie for some reason, except they call it ''paté chinois'' |
Dear Elder Hadden,
ReplyDeleteDid the Montreal museum mention that Benedict Arnold took the city in 1776. He and Ethan Allen went on to try to take Quebec City. But for a lucky cannon shot, you would be in Upper Vermont now. 35 years later, the US tried it again and lost every battle in Canada during the War of 1812. All battles except the Battle of York, where the US sailed across Lake Ontario and burned Toronto, the Capital of Canada at the time. The Capital was moved to Ottawa to keep it out of the hands of the filthy Americans. We get along better today.
The world is going well even though the Federal Government is shut down, and by 'shut down' I mean several departments have no budget and so can't pay their employees. So they still have to work. The others are on vacation until the budget is passed and signed. I am paid with federal funds, so if this goes on for months, I might be out of a job The same is true for Barney. Heather works for an unnamed government agency but it is part of DOD and they have a budget, so she has to work.
The English Parliament is voting on the Breixt deal today. Form what I hear, no one likes this deal. The Left wants to stay in the EU,
the Right wants nothing to do with the EU, and Labor wants their jobs back. If it fails and England takes a hard Breixt, they will try
to increase trade with Canada and the US and not with Germany and France. Europe has found that it is easier to import labor from Africa and Turkey than to raise kids that will work in jobs no one wants to do, and now they are scared of the new immigrant population, whereas Canada and the US where founded as nations of immigrants and as such, if you have the values of the country, you are a citizen. The countries of Europe were founded one race. Funny thing is as we learn more about DNA, we know that there is no German race, nor is there any difference between Swedes and Norwegians. However, there is a difference between Turks and Germans, or Swedes and Afganies, that makes it hard to assimilate. So the immigrant populations rebel against the host population and we get national parties, and rape gangs. Not very European of them.
Montreal might be the most diverse city in the World, yet they all like hockey so they are Canadian.
Love
Dad