Overcome All of Satan's Crap

Welp I procrastinated this email and I only have like ten minutes so here we go. 

It was really cold this week. It was around -18 to -20 all week and the icing on the cake coming Sunday morning with a nice -25. This week shouldn't be that bad and we are going around 7 hours south for zone conference so it should be nice and warm. 

I went on exchanges this week to Rouyn-Noranda which is in Quebec. French is Quebec's language of choice so I spent a couple of days not understanding anything. Thankfully most people there have decentish English and would explain most things to me. Elder Hunter, the missionary I went on exchanges with, kept turning to me after people would say something and tell me they didn't like my coat or stuff like that. It was really funny. 

My favorite scripture for this week comes from. Alma 16:1-2:  1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi, on the fifth day of the second month, there having been much peace in the land of Zarahemla, there having been no wars nor contentions for a certain number of years, even until the fifth day of the second month in the eleventh year, there was a cry of war heard throughout the land.

2 For behold, the armies of the Lamanites had come in upon the wilderness side, into the borders of the land, even into the city of Ammonihah, and began to slay the people and destroy the city. 

And while I was reading it, I just thought about how Satan tries his hardest right before something great is going to happen. He also knows where our weakest points are, and where we aren't expecting it to come. But I know that if keep our focus on the Gospel that we can overcome all of Satan's crap. 

Love you guys,

Elder Talbot 

Jesus Christ Was Born So He Could Save Us All

It is -22 right now. It was pretty not so warm all week. It is finally a nice temperature to walk around in. It is pretty fun when your car struggles to start. This week I'm pretty sure is going to be no better. 

I think the only thing I did this week was drive a lot. We went to a town called Kapuskasing which is two hours north to go visit people. So that was long. We didn't really have any luck up there with seeing people so we cut down a tree on our way back for Christmas.  Then we got to drive to North Bay for a district meeting and interviews with president. The drive was supposed to take us 4 1/2 hours but it took us 7 cause there was a huge accident and it blocked one of the two roads to North Bay so we had to backtrack a bit for a freaking long detour. But we got there and District meeting was really good. There was a really good spirit there. Elder Hunter who is my district leader, is from England and he is great. 

Thursday we got to volunteer at the Hospital some more and we were invited to the Pastoral Care lunch thing cause we were going to miss the actual volunteer lunch. But the lunch was pretty sweet. It was pretty much a bunch of Pastors from most of the Churches here in Timmins and then two Mormon missionaries. We tried sitting in a corner by ourselves but one of the pastors volentold us to come sit at the table with like three other pastors from I thnk C

Catholic and Pentecostal. AND then the freaking CEO of the hospital decided to sit next to me. It was pretty sweet to talk to all the really cool people from other churches. And get free food. We got a shout out during the lunch and Elder Bagley got a free baby pine tree. It was cool to get ourselves out there a bit into the community to show that we aren't that weird just a bit peculiar. 

I love this Gospel and I really love the Christmas season and all the good things people are doing. I am so grateful for Jesus Christ to be born so he could save us all.  

Love Elder Talbot 

Elder Talbot and the Christmas Tree they cut for their apartment.

Frozen Picnic in the Bush!

The weather was pretty warm and that was pretty weird. It was 2 degrees (35 F) most of the week and a lot of people kept saying how mild it has been so far. But I was sent the weather forecast by my little sister for this week and it is going to get pretty cold if it's right.

We had exchanges this week with some French missionaries from Quebec last week. It was pretty fun. I went with Elder Bichon, which, fun fact about him is that I went out contacting with him his first day in the mission in August! He is a really good missionary and we are fairly similar. He has only been in a French area for two weeks now so he came to Timmins with me. We spent most of the day doing service, some was at Sister Matte's farm, and we had an extra hour and we weren't sure of what to do. So we thought to go visit this less active out in a trailer park. We ended up driving past Roger's trailer and he was out doing stuff. We stopped by to say hello and we ended up helping him move some stuff which was really good. 

While we were exchanging back we had a picnic in the middle of the bush (forest/trees). It was quite nice. 

We met with Angie and Don this week, they are doing good. Some members came and they just talked the whole time so it was good.

That is all I have time to write for today. 

Love you all

Elder Talbot 

The third picture is Elder Bichon from August :) 

Picnic in the bush at the meeting point after splits

Frozen Picnic

Elder Bishon's first day in the mission field.