Victoria!!!! {week 4}

Hello everyone!

I have so much to say I don't even know where to begin!!!

So I've been assigned my first area!!!!! I'm in Victoria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I an soooooooo happy to be here! My companion and I are actually whitewashing so it's been pretty awesome. We got to Canada on Thursday but weren't assigned our areas until Friday. On Thursday I was talking to the AP and he was saying that one of the new sisters would be whitewashing in Victoria. I had a slight feeling it would be me. But I just pushed it aside because EVERYONE was hoping to get assigned to Victoria. When I met my trainer I also had a feeling she would be my companion. So when I was assigned I was pretty surprised it ended up being what I expected! But I'm so grateful to be here! This area is so amazing! And it's pretty cool to be whitewashing because it's kind of like going on a scavenger hunt all day long looking for people we can help! We're both clueless so we have to figure everything out together which is so awesome!!!

The ward here is SO awesome! They are so missionary minded! The bishop is absolutely incredible too. Both the Ward Mission Leader and the Bishop are so involved! It's great!

I feel like I'm living in a dream!!! Being a missionary is SO AWESOME!!!!! Not to mention it's GORGEOUS here! It's super touristy so there are a lot of visitors all the time so that makes it really interesting! 

It's so culturally diverse here too! I've already tried lots of different food and a lot of the people here have English as their second language. Or they don't even speak English. I wish I spoke Chinese! And Tagolog! And Punjabi! 

Lately I've been noticing the little miracles that happen everyday. We had no clue who to contact or what to do the first day we were here but then this lady called us 3 times saying "hey will you please come over I want to talk to you guys." She's a new investigator and we're teaching her and her boyfriend. Talk about a miracle! She literally called asking us to teach her!! It was amazing! 

I love the people here so much! I wish I could talk to all of them! I can't even believe how blessed I am to be here! I was able to get to Canada safely which is such a miracle and I'm just so grateful.

One other thing is I love my mission president! He is soo funny!! Him and his family are from China which is so cool! He's also so kind! I love him! I am so blessed to be in this mission! It's amazing how well God knows me. I needed to be here and no where else! 

I love the gospel of Jesus Christ so much and I know He has a hand in this work! I'm so grateful to be able to participate in it! 

Thank you for the emails and updating me on things back home!! Oh dad! Later today I'm going to get my first taste of Poutine! I'll let you know if I like it haha! Also there's some people from Winnipeg here so I always tell them about you! 

Love you! Sister Bloomfield