I can't believe tomorrow is the first of May. what ? Where is the time going ?
We're spending a lot of time driving places, knocking on doors , hoping someone will let us talk to them. Sometimes we get lucky. They open the door , talk to us nicely and send us away. Occasionally we are invited in for a few minutes. we invite them to come back to church. They nod their heads and say:"yes, we've been thinking about coming to church. Maybe this Sunday."  But they don't come.
Today we did have some investigators come. One from Greece, one from Egypt, one from Iraq. It's interesting how people from all over the world come to Canada in hope of a better life.
        This week we attended the funeral of a 96 year old woman from Indonesia . She was born and raised there but when her two daughters were school age, the family moved to Holland so the missionaries could find them. They were all baptized into the church. At the funeral the daughters gave her life sketch . It was interesting and full of love for this woman who gave up her homeland for her daughters to find the church. It was an awesome funeral. It was 30 minutes start to finish. And so good because it gave us the biography of a wonderful woman who made a difference . The flowers were the most spectacular I've ever seen. Each bouquet had over a hundred flowers in it. They were breath taking. Then today , one of her daughters, Anjka, who is in our ward brought a bouquet to church. She told everyone to take a flower home in honor of her mother. I picked a huge lily with three big blossoms on one stem.
       Also today we met the new senior couple who will be living in our apartment. They are from Canada and were just stopping through. They are so delightful, I wish we could serve with them. This will be their third mission. Each one has been for two years. They are so dedicated .
       Both our English classes are doing well, the Chinese and the Arabic one.We are really enjoying the opportunity we have to teach. We love our students. On Friday we were able to go to the temple with our old branch in Hope . Lisa, a member we began teaching the temple prep classes to before we were transferred , received her own endowment . We were able to see our old member friends. But we miss seeing our old non-member friends from there. I think we will take a p_day and drive the four hours for a visit.
      Our mission president is getting released the first of July. We are in charge of doing an open house for him & his wife. There will be two wards and three branches invited. That is going to be  a huge undertaking. I am in charge of the food.  We will have a new mission president for our last month here. He is from China, Elder Wong of the seventies.
       The mission president gave a couple of new assignments as well. We are to transport the missionaries for three days next week for transfers, old missionaries going home, new missionaries coming in. We stay in a Hotel for two nights with the missionaries. Tuesday for the ones returning and Wednesday for the incoming missionaries. Also on Wednesday we are in charge of cooking a meal for between 30 to 50 people for the incoming missionaries. Too bad it's on a day when we have transporting all hours of the night and have about two hours sleep. But as Nephi said : "I will go and do ", we will as well. Our other new assignment is prepare a meal for 50 people once a month for MLC (missionary leadership council).  These will be our added assignments for the coming months. Who ever said going on a mission as seniors is boring, are so wrong. But we love it. We love being missionaries. We love the work, the missionaries and the people we serve, It's all so good.
      Have a great week. We love you all so much ! Keep the faith always.
love, Elder & Sister Fisher