The weeks just keep flying by! I am praying that all is going welll at home and you are living life to the fullest. What a blessing it is to be alive! 

 

Lets see what did i do this week.... 

 

There are about 420 cans of baby food on isle 5B of IGA for 1.19$. For a fundraiser for the youth our ward counted everything in IGA for inventory from 5 in the morning until 10. So many numbers

 

Gave a training at district study on the importance of the Book of Mormon. So important. If the book of mormon is true that the church of Jesus Christ is restored on the earth again today! Its so important to find out for yourself because if you know the book of mormon is true that everything else falls into place. I know, IT IS TRUE! Do you? I dare you to find out

 

Saw the first snow flakes this week. It hasnt really snowed yet but this week it is going toooooo. Brrrr

 

Helped Gregory move to a new house. Im getting really good at moving people. Probably one of the best movers in Quebec right now. Luckily after the first load we had some pizza and fries. Pizza and fries is a common combo here. Try it. it is healthy and it tastes all right too. 

 

We had stake conference this weekend! The primary sang "I am a child of God" in 4 different languages. How cool is that! So many different languages and so many different people here. The whole theme of conference was the hastening of the work and missionaries and members working together to share the gospel. It is pretty cool to be a missionary during this exciting time! I hope you are helping the missionaries where ever you are! Feeding them, teaching with them, giving them rides, and sharing people that you feel might be ready for the gospel. We are thankful!

 

One thing that i have been thinking about this week is the choice to start or the choice to act. With missionary work and trying to learn a new language i have the choice all the time to open my mouth or leave it closed. But one thing i am learning is how much easier things are after you start. The Lord rewards people for their efforts. If you show him you want to be an instrument he will help you with the words or the actions that you need to do. The start and the fear is always the hardest part. But i promise you that if you take the first steps it will be easier from their on out. 

 

Its gettling closer to christmas so more Noel jokes. A lady at stake conference just walked by and chuckled at my name and the kids sometimes call me pere noel. soooo What do you want for Christmas???

 

Love you all!! Keep being awesome and choosing the right :)

 

-love Elder Noel

 

september 30th

tie your shoes

 

go moms! they are awesome!

 

be nice. everyone is human and they deserve a chance. you never can tell until you talk to them

 

happiness is a choice. choose to be happy

 

little acts of kindness go a long way. do something and you will feel better and someone else will feel better to.

 

if you stop caring about what other people think you learn a lot faster. harder done than said

 

snails actually dont taste that bad. i had about 8. very similar to mushroom and covered in garic and butter

 

poutine still tastes good

 

nature is pretty

 

 

 

parted my hair the other way today so i dont get lopsided

 

if you wake up and get excited you will eventually be excited to wake up in the morning. currently in the training process

 

there are some good some great missionaries in the bible. getting stoned and preaching the next day. props

 

 

Howdy All,

 

Well this week was what i like to call the "What have i gotten myself into?" week. So much has happened i don't even know where to start. My companion's name is Elder Castrejon. He is awesome. He is from california, can play the saxiphone?, played football and ran track, can speak spanish, english and is learning french, and apparently he has youtube videos or something... anyways we get along great.

 

We are working in the City of Victoriaville or as everyone says here Victo. The people that live here are from all over the place. Lots of quebecios, french, hispanic. The french that the people speak here is way different. I can pick up about half of what the french people say but when the natives speak i pick up about 2 or three words. They speak a mixture of french with a southern accent.  And if anyone talks fast i look at them and smile. Hopefully they didnt just tell me someone in their family died...

 

Oh and did i mention that my companion speaks Spanish. it turns out about half of the people that we teach about the church speak Spanish. During the French meeting i can say like one or two things and in the spanish lessons i sit there thinking "What have I gotten my self into". It looks like i might be picking up a little bite of spanish. hola

 

The members of the church here are super nice. We actually don't go door to door much at all. We teach referrals that come from members of the church or people that don't come to church as much. My companion actually has only been here for 4 months so he is just starting to feel comfortable in french. Im sure talking to us is very interesting. 

 

Some interesting things about Quebec... 

-The milk here comes in bags... yeah its like instead of milking the cow they just took off the utter. 

-people actually do say eh

-At wedding receptions the people bang there forks and spoons on the table until the bride and groom kiss. They do this multiple times throughout the night. 

-There is a delicious treat here called poutine. It is fries covered in gravy with cubes of cheese. Pretty sure it has 400000 calories in it but it tastes delicious. look it up!

 

Most interesting thing that happened was probably getting sneezed on by this guy that is kinda crazy. He isnt mentally stable but we visit him because lives by himself and needs help but anyways He sneaked and i felt a huge snot rocket hit my sleeve. My comp started laughing super hard but the sneezer didnt know what was happening so we said we were tired or something... yummmm dont worry i saved it so we could get a picture :)

 

Well, that was my first week. My head is kinda swimming with all the new stuff but hopefully i can start picking it up. Lots of good things to come! keep smiling and shaking peoples hands (that's about all i am capable of here haha well actually i am the backer upper (mission rule because so many missionaries hit stuff backing up there has to  be a backer uppers(i am a super good backer (i don't know if parentheses can be used like this))))

 

 

Love 

-Elder Noel

 

ps new address of a couple months should be 

 

51 Rue Girouard, Victoriaville, Quebec (sorry dont know zip code)

I think i leave september 3 or something. and dont worry about a calling card. They have them here!

 

I got you letter today about ym camp! I am sorry that you miss it. I know you miss it because you really put your heart into it. I guess you learned all you need to learn with that calling and you have something else to learn in a different one :) It was talked about yesterday how this church is a church of becoming. We should be contantly turning our hearts to God and increaseing or desire to serve or increasing our conversion to him. In other worlds repentance

 

I got a email from  Mckaye and Romney has a new car! What an amazing thing! Thank you for puting me on the temple role! I was able to go this morning and missed seeing the family. Wasnt the new film awesome! keep me posted on how the dentist goes :) and the girbels.... name them Ham and Milton :)

 

i sure love you mom! thanks for being so awesome and raising me to be obedient. It is such a blessing not having to worry about trying to follow rules or know how to take care of myself and stuff.

 

As far as mtc life goes nothing to excitng is happening. We are teaching our teachers who pretend to be investigators. One is a really accepting wanted to be baptized the second lesson and one is an atheist that we have to explain everything to. It sounds really easy until you realize that we do it in french. Which means the people we are talking to dont always understand and then we dont understand the questions they ask back so our lessons sometimes dont go so smooth. Last time i asked the atheist if we could pray. i said i would pray first and then she could pray second. She said something i didnt understand ( apparently she said okay sounds good) and my companion didnt know what i was asking her. So he started talking and she got really confused. hahahahh oh wellll good thing it is practice.

Our other investigator always changes out of his jacket and tie to get in the acting mode. So before we into teach him I sliped on his tie. When i walked in he was kinda confused and then complimented my tie. He actually ended up telling me to keep it and we just swapped :) But dont steal tiesss

 

I am really likeing it here though. the people are way nice and the teachers are awesome. The only things that frustrate me is people being distracting or not following the rules and when they try to teach us how to teach. I need to know how to teach but i get frustrated because i feel like it is all review and is just taking away from my french studying time haha but patience is a virtue right? In all honesty though the teachers are amazing and challenging us to do great things.

 

Love ya!

_Elder Noel

 

hey do you think you could do me a favor?? i have a companion named elder Choi from korea. He is the first korean missionary to go to africa. He just finished a year at byu idaho and he has already served the mandiorty time in the korean army. he is an amazing kid, really funny, smart, and spiritual. But because he lives in korea he doesnt ever get any letters. Could the family send him a letter? Just use my address and put his name on it! thanks!

 

Lets see...

 

This week has been good. The time is starting to fly by. Not sure if that is good or bad. i am excited to go but feel like i have so much to learn. Most days include about 6 hours of class room instruction and another 6 hours of personal/ companion/ district study. We study about half french and half spiritual topics and sometimes we talk about managing stress or other things that missionaries might be struggling with. I love the teachers here and my district is really starting to bond. We are usually pretty productive when we have a teacher but when we dont some times it gets a little off topic.

 

Every day we have about an hour of gym time. My companion is trying to get baraque or in english stronger. So we either lift weights or go shoot hoops. Before you guys know it i will be in the NBA. I do get pretty soar though. Luckily there is unlimited chocolate milk at meals. Weirdly we eat at 630 and 11 and 4 so at dinner i am never hungry and at bed time i want food.  But ya win some and you loose some.

The district leaders in my district got called up to zone leader so i am now the new district leader. Following the rules personally isnt that hard but getting six guys crammed in a 12by 12 room to follow all the rules might be more interesting. but i am excited. This past week we had about 20 elders and sisters leave the zone and this wednesday we get 40 new french speaking elders and sisters. Wahooooo

 

Besides that the MTC isnt that exciting. I saw elder shanklin and elder woodfield. Also shout out to the Svedins for sending me Donuts :)

 

Love

elder NOel

First letter from MTC

My companion is elder yan. he loves basketball and is from texas. He already speaks chinese and english. I am behind.... ahha french is harder than i thought. I am learning to not think about myself so much and study it for the people. Also i will need help from Christ. French is hard did i say that? We have tried teaching an investigator who really is just acting but most of the time we just read of a script or stare at eachother in silence. it is very frustrating because i feel like i have so much to say in enlish but in french all i am worried about is learning to talk.

 

Sure love ya!!

 

Elder Notspe ken French

and im outtaaa here!

Hey, soooo I am leaving on a mission!! I will be in the Provo training center for the next six weeks and then in Montreal Canada. If you want to contact me I put the information below. I will not have facebook or a phone and my wonderful mommy will be updating this blog. God be with you tell we meet again!

 

 

Email: hamilton.noel@myldsmail.net

this is me

 

Missionary training center next 6 weeks: 

 

Elder Hamilton Scott Noel

SEP03  CAN-MON

2011 N 900 E Unit 238

Provo UT 84602

 

Mission: 

 

Elder Hamilton Scott Noel

Canada Montreal Mission

470 Rue Gilford, Ste 300

Montreal, QC H2J 1N3

Canada 

Canada