I'm in Canada!

Yup, you got it! I’m in Canada. The weather is great! ; ) I love it, especially after how dry Utah was. There has been so much going on and I’ve been trying to get it all down in my journal, but it’s just too much to send in an email. Again, no pictures today sorry. There are no SD card slots on these computers so I can’t get the photos off the camera. So I’m going to need to get an SD to USB adapter later today.
I’m in the chapel right now, they have a family history center with computers so Elder A and I can email home. Elder A is my Companion/trainer. He’s super cool. We're both super excited about this transfer.

It is a little tiny branch of about 32 active members with over half of those being primary and nursery kids. But there was a group of sales guys in town this week selling home security systems so there was more people at church.

I’ve had a chance to tract and street contact a little bit in the last few days (Elder A and I are trying to increase our teaching pool) and to my surprise have found that I like tracting better. The people are actually nicer when you come to their house than when you stop them on the street. Of course it could also have been that it was pouring rain when we did both, so when we stopped people on the street they just got grumpy because they were getting wet, but when we came to peoples doors they took pity on us and let us talk. One family even invited us in for tea! :D We politely declined because we said we don’t drink tea, they said "hot chocolate?" then and we went inside and talked for a good half an hour. Their son had just done a report on all the different creation stories so we talked about that a little bit, and also about where they worked and the members that we knew that they worked with. They said we could come back sometime and talk (just talk, not teach, mind) about what we believed.

SPEAKING OF TALKING!!! Everyone here talks awesome! They are SOOOOOO Canadian, it’s amazing. One of our Zone Leaders, Elder A, is from England, he talks awesome too.

Like I said it has been raining pretty nonstop, actually the first day was sunny and awful, but after that it’s been nothing but beautiful rainy weather. ; P My suit got drenched yesterday because I didn’t have a rain coat, but it dried out okay overnight. I wasn’t able to get a coat or boots from anyone leaving the Mission, but Elder A needs a better rain coat as well so we are going shopping after this. I’m going to need to get a waterproof bag too, or else I won’t be able to carry anything without it getting soaked. Also, umbrellas don’t work as the rain comes at you sideways. :P

I don’t know yet if I’m going to ship my other bag home or keep it for traveling with because it’s so nice and big. Also, I can’t use my iPod. It’s not President T’s rule, apparently it was voted on at a Zone Leaders conference that we can only use CDs. So, I’m stuck with the four CDs I brought and whatever Elder A has. So I was wondering if.... cause you love me...you could burn the contents of my missionary iPod (The Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Preach My Gospel, Jesus the Christ, every Hymn ever, and all the EFY CDs etc.) to disks and send them to me??? :D Maybe as a Halloween or Thanksgiving present? ;D

Also! Mail is really slow here. I should be here for at least the next three months, but after that I may be transferred, so my whole mission is going to look like 4 week periods of probably-safe-to-send-it, followed by 2 weeks of wait-to-see-if-he’s-still-in-the-same-place. Sorry about that, but that just the way it is. :D And Elder A says packages don’t get delivered here. He doesn’t know where they go, but they don’t come here. So anything that isn’t a letter, send it to the Mission office. We do get letters though! :D Elder A got one today, I was jealous. ;P

Thank so much for the “Greenie” box. It was waiting for me when I got to the mission office, I opened it there, but we had to fly out from there and then drive the rest of the way. I panicked a little when I was trying to figure out how to get all the goodies into my luggage and unfortunately left the Apple Jacks in the transfer van, :( But Elder A was able to take the box as his carry-on so it was okay in the end. The other Elders helped me enjoy some of the goodies. There were 8 of us staying in the one apartment that night so it was a party. We had the apple spice pancakes in the morning and then Elder A and I drove out. I wouldn't have survived the last few days without that food. All we had to eat at the apartment was some frozen chicken and leftover peanut butter. We would have lived, but we wouldn't have been as happy. We're going grocery shopping today, so we should be good on food from here on out, but that box was a lifesaver! :D

I love you guys so much!

I miss you tons, but it’s a ton of light fluffy feathers. ;D

Maybe I’ll be able to get a handwritten letter out today as well... but I wouldn’t count on it. :/

Until next time!- Elder Thomson

P.S. How cool does that sound, eh? Elder Thomson? I'm still not used to it. Are you guys?