Sister Rivera goes to Canada

happy Halloween everyone!! i hope your week has been great! this week was good and this coming week is going to be even better with a new missionary and a baptism!! Sister Hall and I will be tripan training for at least a week with a sister that is from Toronto waiting on her visa to go to SLC Temple Square mission!! Super stoked about that!! :)) transfers are next week so we arent sure who will stay and who will leave but we will see :) There is snow on the ground today!! We will be having a Zone Halloween party, carving pumpkins and what not so that should be a blast- then we have to be in our house by 7 tonight! where do i even begin? haha so Keita. He is so pumped to get baptized, holy cow. Its legit!! Anyway, while preparing him to be baptized.. we had so much to teach him and we definitely didnt think we could get it in on our time table. So we pushed it back to November 18th. Then we have a lesson to tell him about pushing it back and he tells us that he calle...

heyy everyone! i hope that your week was great and that you stayed warm :) This week was a good one! we had a total of TEN investigators in our ward on Sunday. TEN! 5 of them were ours so that was the coolest thing ever. YSA (young single adult) is sooo prime, holy moly. We found alot this week on the LRT! Other than that, nothing crazy happened. Our investigators are doing well and what not. We have Zone Conference tomorrow so that will be fun!  Hahahaha one of the investigators we took to church, I was sitting right by him and I was wanting to explain something to him like a term someone used or something so i started whispering to him and he gave me a big ol "shhh!" in front of everyone. I was trying not to bust out laughing because usually its the missionary trying to tell the investigator to be quiet, not the other way around. It was hilarious haha!  Sister Hall and I have been companions for 2 months so we celebrated at a restaurant called Coras! It. is. the. b...

heyyy everyone! i hope you all had a great week. it was reallllyyyy weird when i realized that it was Thanksgiving and we were gonna have turkey dinner a whole month early. But it was awesome and I am so grateful to be here in Canada, even if its just a tad chilly! this week was a bit of a tough one but there was a lot of miracles for sure! there always is :) we found 2 new investigators! Ones name is Keita and he is from Accra, Ghana. Haha ya I about died when he said he was Ghana if you couldnt picture that! He is really awesome and sooo prepared. I met him at the bus stop and I got to talking to him and made him miss his bus (oops). Hes been reading the Book of Mormon and he has no doubt that it is the word of God with the Bible. It was really cool because he started talking about a scripture in John that talks about how Christ is our shephard and the next verse is when Christ is talking about how he would visit the people in the Americas (John 10:16) and how there are other ...

Hey everyone!! I hope that you are all doing awesome. It sounds like it was such an amazing weekend in the valley! Im so thankful for Heavenly Fathers hand in my familys life...I love my little man Rev and im so excited that he is "officially" ours. and of course.. welcome home Elder Jarvies :)) Sister Hall and I didnt get transferred so that is super awesome :) Our area got a set of elders so well be splitting the work in half! I hit my 5 month today so thats cool :) I dont even know where to begin with this email. There was so much that went on this week: Sister's Conference with all of the mission, General Conference, and SO. MANY. MIRACLES. So leading up to this week, holy moly you know those weeks where its like "my oh my things can only go up because everything is seeming to go wrong". Well...Sister Pattison is so amazing and I know that we are called to the Mission President and his Wife for sure. They put together this conference for us and we got the...

Hi everyone!!! I hope your week was super awesome!! Mine was pretty great!! Sooo Caitlin was baptized this week and it was so awesome!!! Our other investigator backed out last minute. It was really sad but we know that she has a testimony and that she will be baptized one day. But Caitlin. Holy moly she is awesome!!! Idk how many of you saw her testimony on Facebook but the growth she has made because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ... ITS SO AWESOME. When we first met her, holy moly it was so awkward because the Spirit was so strong in each lesson but she didnt know what in the world she was feeling because it was so foreign. Once she accepted that it was the Spirit and realized that this was Gods plan for her, she dropped everything that would hold her back in the blink of an eye. I love her so much!! We had a really cool experience at the library downtown the other day. So we had an appointment set for someone else but they ended up cancelling and we were just g...

hi everyone!!! I hope that you have all had a great week and are safe from all these natural disasters!  This last week was good :) it was very busy and its going to get even more busy with the 2 baptisms coming up this weekend and 12 preset appointments we have. Its going to be a fun week! Our investigators are doing great and we are so pumped for this next Saturday!!! so life is good for everyone :) nothing really crazy happened this week. We have really grown close to the woman in the hospital and it was so cool to see how much she has grown. The first time we visited her, she was hiding the Book of Mormon around her roommates and was embarrassed of her religion. This last time we went and visited her, she had us bring extra copies of the Book of Mormon so she could write her testimony in them and give it to them! It was so awesome :)) I am so sorry but I really cant remember what even happened this week so here are some pictures. Oh we had Zone Conference!! That...