A new week and raining still but at great week at that. It was Thanksgiving in the states so we celebrated by making a turkey dinner with all the trimmings for our District with the young missionaries. They seemed to enjoy it all especially the homemade pumpkin pie. I'll add a picture.

      On Monday we made lots of  big fat yummy cinnamon rolls for about ten non-members. We delivered them hot. We actually gave some plates to our favorite printer in town who helped us with the food drive. Also gave a plate to the auto shop who repaired our smashed car for us after the "hit & run."

   It's fun being a missionary.  Our neighbor Marlene , a 79 year old widow knocked on our door and asked for food. She said she hadn't eaten for two days & could we give her a potatoe ?We had her come in. I gave her two grocery bags and told her to help herself to anything in the fridge and our little pantry. She was ever so happy. She choose potatoes, chicken, noodles, apples, eggs, blueberry pie. She was reluctant but I talked her into filling the bags.  Later in the week we took her shopping in downtown Hope. She had described a pretty rug she wanted for her bathroom so we bought it, a few bananas ( which by the way) she eats bread with sliced bananas on it for lunch. She doesn't have much. It's really hard for her because she is a very classy lady. While in the store, Christmas music was playing so I started dancing. She laughed  and showed Stan as if he hadn't seen me.  A few isles later , she started dancing herself. It's so fun to see her laughing. I love it !

   On Thursday we drove the 2 1/2 hours to take Jack to the family history center. He is the only member of his family. We also worked with him and a Japanese man, brother Hara, who is a family history gruru. Success !!! We found a treasure trove of names. So we made an appointment with  the temple to reserve the baptistry so we can take the branch to help Jack baptize his ancestors. He is so excited.

       We talked with our mission president  this week. He is working on a plan for a transfer in the future. We will see what happens. He called to tell us he enjoys reading our letters. Ha ! Fun !
      We also took our non member friend  Lucy for a fun day in Chilliwack. We went to lunch at the Chinese restaurant and went shopping until she was tired. On the way home we stopped for a small ice cream. It was $9.86 for 3 small  ice cream cones. That's Canada...expensive.
   I llove  the Thanksgiviving holiday. I think it is my favorite. I was quite melancholy missing the big family dinner with all our family. But, I made a long long list of all the things I'm so grateful for. Including the miracles we received when I got Cancer right before our mission. There is such an abundance of blessing we have in our life....it's beautiful. We hope you had a great Thanksgiving and that your Christmas holiday will be happy. We love you all.
    Always always go forward with faith.

Love,  Elder & Sister Fisher