May 3rd already! Letter16

Happy birthday yesterday my sweet Barbara sister! Spring in Canada is very nice and unpredictable. Someday's it's sunny and humid and really warm other days it's chilly and rainy and WinDy!! Sister Simons was having the hardest time keeping her skirt down the other day.. it was pretty funny. The blossoms and leaves are awesome though... everything is so green! I'm really excited this is such a beautiful place when it's all alive. We played ultimate frisbee outside the other morning and it was soo nice. I love being outside. This past week was really good. I found another accent that i just can't understand and that is people from Nigeria.. good thing my companion has figured out how to tell what people are saying. Eli gave me a persian candy at church yesterday and it was yucky.. The persian people have amazing food but when it comes to cookies and candies I don't know what happened. Their cookies are like sand and whatever I ate yesterday tasted like soap. She is so sweet though she has to go back to Iran next week and I'm sad about that. She has been such a fun person to get to know and she's so faithful.
We had our Zone Conference which was exactly what I needed. It was all about not being afraid to jump in and just do the work and also about waiting patiently. Every month we pick a Christlike attribute to work on and last month was patience and I sure got what i was praying for. The best way to learn patience is to have a lot of things try your patience. I know that God's hand is in all things. His timing is the best it's just not the easiest. Pavani gave a talk in primary yesterday and it was amazing! She has almost finished the childrens Book of Mormon. I love the people we are teaching so much. Srini and Sara fasted for the first time yesterday and Srini came up to me at church all shocked and said " I don't even feel like fasting!" meaning he wasn't even hungry and he was pretty amazed. We watched the Prophet of the Restoration movie with them and talked about how we have to sacrifice sometimes for what is right and I think they are coming to understand that being baptized isn't going to be easy but it's what they should do. The scriptures are amazing. We are blessed everyday to have the opportunity and freedom to learn from them and it makes me think how easy it is to not take advantage of that. We truly come to know God and Jesus Christ when we study the scriptures and live what they teach. I love you all so much. I am so excited to talk to you soon. Keep doing the small stuff that will make an eternal difference. Love me :)
Dear Mom I haven't sent you a letter yet so it'll probably come after mothers day but I can't wait to talk to you I love you so much and i'm so grateful you are my mother. You've taught me so much about being compassionate and it has blest me so much as a missionary.

From Sister Savage

Two transfers already! (Letter 14)

So transfer calls were last night and i'm staying in Don Valley with Sister Simons! yay! I love it here. We have a great Zone and we're working with such great people so i'm excited to have at least another six weeks here! It was a pretty normal week till saturday. On saturday we taught english class and then we met this lady at the church who had called the elders and wanted to meet with missionaries. She talked for about two hours and us for about ten minutes.. there really was no way to stop it.. we tried to end the conversation but she'd start reciting something or talking about something else. Sweet lady but she had a lot of conspiracy theories all involving her. so then we went to the Duodo's for dinner they are an amazing family from Ghana. She fed us foo foo in peanut butter soup with meat chunks in it... the soup and meat i liked a lot but the foo foo was a struggle for me. It didn't taste like much but it was like this big white potato glue ball.. we got to eat with our hands which was fun. I was trying to take big bites of foo foo to finish it quick but I couldn't swallow sometimes. Then our lovely mission president's wife came out teaching for the evening. Our first appointment wasn't there so we were writing a note when marysusan called and wanted us to come over. It was great to have sister Eyre there because she has a lot more in common with marysusan. Then we went and taught srini and his family the word of wisdom and it was awesome! Oh ya something exciting did happen before sat on friday i met up with someone aunt Jana met on her mission, Ruth Jarvis! It was way fun to sit and chat.. she is awesome and brought us flowers and pure maple syrup. Oh and saturday afternoon a member of the bishopric called and asked me to give ten minute talk on the restoration the next day.. so even though it was last minute is was ok because I talk about the restoration all the time! we dropped by Srini again last night and they invited us to eat dinner with them... wow it was some spicy indian food but really good. They just sat and laughed at us.. Sister Simons was struggling more than me and we did look pretty funny. Our eyes were watering and we were sniffing a lot. I kept finding myself blowing on it like that would help some how but it wasn't that kind of hot. I love to spend time with this family. We talked to them and they really do want to get baptized but they are nervous about telling their families in India.. it's a big change but we told them to keep praying and have faith that everything will work out. So this morning we did laundry and when I went to get my cloths out of the dryer they were still soaking wet! It didn't work and we didn't have any more money on our laundry card. bummer. We played sports today at a park for Zone lunch and I think I got a little sunburned which is nice cause I love the sun! We will hopefully have time today to go buy some summer clothes cause all of mine are for winter and it's getting way to warm. I really love and appreciate all of you. I love this experience and opportunity and privelage so much! I hope all the best for you all! Keep in touch!
Love SIster SAvage!