Bonjour Ma Famille! :D

So today was the busiest week of my mission by far!!!

Tuesday and Wednesday i got to go to a training with my trainer Sister Wilcox because i'm the greenie! sister burgi didn't want to go since it's her last week of the mission anyways so she went out with some other sister missionaries. i got to see the edmonton temple for the first time!!! we mett at the riverbend stake center which is litterally right upagainst the temple. and boy is that temple small! way smaller then ours. but it's beautiful! i got a picture of me and sister wilcox in front of it so i'll add it to the email. are you getting my pictures by the way?

so it was a fabulous training with all the district and zone leaders. i was among the noble and great ones of the mission haha. we did a lot of practices with teaching and teaching with an elder is definitely different! we learned a lot about how to begin teaching and how to explain to investigators what we do and what we expect as missionaries from them such as committments and blessings and the challenges they will face but that god will help them. we also then learn their expectations from the start which clears up the air that's for sure. better at the beginning then three weeks in!

so it has been beautiful weather! it got up to fourteen degrees and as you can see in the picture no snow and sunny and then thursday..... a snow storm! it snowed all day and we got something like 12 cm? it was brutal. it's still cold but the snow is melting slowly again :D no flowers or life at all.... but i did see a huge bunnie the other day! seriously they are the largest rabbits i've ever seen in my life and they are wild! they go white in the winters and brown in the summers and remind me a lot of chucky :D

Because it's sister burgi's last week we have had tons of dinner appointments which is so fun!!! except.... man do i get full super easy and you feel bad not eating desserts so i'm going to have to up my excersize that's for sure! haha

i called the president and asked about getting a french preach my gospel for the three french speaking investigators we have and he told me that i'm not allowed to teach in french at all because it's not my call. only native speakers. so we have to give our invstigators to the two elders from quebec and i'm not going to lie i was very upset... i thought it would be a chance to use my talents but they won't change my call so i have to move on!

we had a lesson with emmanuel and his mother joined in which was amazing! they are both from the congo and speak french and english so i teach them in english and then just correct anything they don't understand in french.... i don't know if that's cheating or not guess it's just hard to let go!

so many miracles happening... and i know it's because you guys have all been praying for me! as of last week we had zero investigators and now we have like eight? it's awesome!!!! we went to a dinner appointment on friday and the girl's brother brought his non member girlfriend and when we were about to share the short spiritual message he was like sisters can you teach the first lesson? we're like ok..... awkward! the girlfriend rene was very surprised but even though she's fiesty she made another appointment, is reading the book of mormon and came to church on sunday!!!

another miracle.... friday is our weekly planning from 10am to 5pm.... very long.... well the castle down elders called us with a potential and an appointment so we went and mett umu! she's from siera lyon (africa) and speaks excellent english! she's super funny and outgoing and is 24years old so she's a new investigator! we have another apponitment with her on tuesday so excited!

Danmar... the weird storey of the week! so this funny guy calls up the temple and asks to be baptized because of what he saw on mormon.org... so we get him as a potential arrange an appointment with him and meet him in his home. he's acting kind of funny though and shaking we just figured he was very nervous. he's 25 and phillipino :P well we teach him and he's super excited to go to church and then asks us how he should tell his actively catholic family, we tell him to pray! haha what else can we say? so he calls us back two days latter and sad day he wants to return the book of mormon. he seemed so awesome but i guess sometimes people just arn't ready for the change to effect their relationships witht heir family. it's understandable. we still pray for him :D

So here's the big news..... we got our transfer call from President Campbell today and..... I'm staying in Kingsway ysa!!!!!! :D:D:D:D i'm so happy i really didn't want to move! i finally know people and so much is happening! also great news is that sister wilcox is staying with me for her last transfer! so fun! i love sister wilcox!!!!!! the only sketchy thing is this.... we are going to be the only tri-companionship again in the mission with sister hayes comming over to be with us. she's currently in innisfail which is east of red dear out in the middle of no where haha. she's been out on her mission for 13 months and has served with sister wilcox in the past for 4months....so cool! she's from south carolina and has never served in a ysa ward yet! i'm excited to meet her and will pick her up on wednesday. i hope this tri-companionship will go better.

so on the mission you "kill" off your companion if you are with them on their last transfer so so far i will have killed sister burgi and then sister wilcox....haha it's silly but then if sister hayes stays with me till the end of her mission which would be five months and is super likely then i will have killed off ALL of my companions haha so weird! we have two new sisters comming in to the mission on wednesday i hope they are cool :D

well i love you all and it sounds like hockey is goingi awesome. our memeber trevor glover is keeping me updated with hockey kind of. i guess they won their two games against the blackhawks? dad where's the update!!!!!! mom that's so great about your meeting in the temples... i laughed how you have to practiced folding towels, so funny! are you the youngest one who works there? well i love you all and am really loving my mission!!!!!!!! i'm learning so much and can't believe i have less then 16 months left haha. i sent a card to dad in the mail for his birthday i hope it was awesome! :D

love you love you love you and miss you guys tons!!!

sister kara wotherspoon

p.s. here are some pictures o and sorry if my emails are too long i can shorten them if ya want :D

picture :

1: me with my second family the freemans! brother freeman is in the bishopric in the kingsway ward and they've had us over three times now since i've been here! they are so awesome and the kids are amazing (french immersion of course! )

2: me and sister burgi with some of the ysa people! they had us over for lunch on sunday and one of the guys is chris harker(the guy hugging the other guy lol) who actually was in my ward at byu when we lived at king henry, do you recognize him sam and kyle?

3. me with laurenne and sister dougherty, laurenne is in our ward and sister dougherty is her mom and she's from scotland! i love her accent and funny missionary stories from when she served in california.