Email 4-11-2016

Hey everyone! Hope all is well for you. I just got transferred this week. I was in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and now I am in Regina, Saskatchewan. I miss Saskatoon a lot but I am happy to be here, the temple is here! And it is close to Moose Jaw, one of my previous areas, so I may get to see people from there! Yay :) I was sad to leave Sister Alder, but I am now in a tripan with Sister Kearl and Sister Lau. Sister Kearl and I are Sister Training Leaders and Sister Lau is with us until her companion gets here. She is in the Philippines and waiting for a VISA to get here. So not sure how long it will be, but we will see I guess. Never a dull moment in mission life. I have been out for almost 15 months left and have 3 transfers to go, so I am just trying to love the work and keep going strong. I love you all, thank you for your love and support. Hope you all have a great week!

Love,
Sister Martin

Pics 4-4-2016

On our way to watch General Conference and enjoying the sunshine and the warmer weather :)

We cleaned a hoarders house this week...... yuck.... this is the before pic

and after :)

after day one of cleaning the hoarder house and not knowing what we were getting into, the next day we came prepared

Went street contacting on the Broadway Bridge after conference on Saturday. It was SO WARM, like 20! And suuuuuper windy.

we made milkshakes and watched Ephraim's Rescue last night :) 

Hahaha this is Bella :) She is the daughter of one of our investigators, Christine. She is a cutie, but usually a diva and never seems to like us haha she wont high five us or sit by us or let us touch her toys haha BUT she just came and sat right down in between us! So we took advantage of the moment and got lots of pics. 

Waiting in line at the car wash haha there is ALWAYS a HUGE line. Today wasn't the worst it's been though so that's good.

Pics 3-28-2016

Easter!

I opened my Easter package yesterday morning. So many fun things that I love, my family knows me well :) These are our comp unity fuzzy socks that we got in my package haha :)

THE GOLD PLATES! :) So we went to the Slocombes last night for Easter supper and Sister Slocombe is a seminary teacher so she had her husband make her this replica of the gold plates years ago and they showed them to us :) SO NEAT! They are actually super heavy haha and he even engraved actual reformed Egyptian engravings on the front plate 

Exchanges with Sister Smith. Could be my last exchange as an STL. I guess we will see what happens with transfers next week.

we found the Mystery Machine! haha

there was a cute little birdie stuck in walmart when we were shopping last week. hopefully he gets out and finds his family

running from our crazy neighbor Leslie in our apartment building hahaha

we got Kinder Surprise Eggs and they had cars in them! And we got to put the stickers on it too, it was fun :) 

We went to the Kennedy's and colored eggs last monday :)

Pics 12-21-2015

I SAW THE NORTHERN LIGHTS!!! IT WAS AMAZING!

The Aurora Borealis! It was so Wonderful!!!

I may or may not have screamed and flung myself out of the car when i saw it..... 

I got to go on exchanges with my mission daughter Sister Bersie! I've missed her! It was super fun :)

I love the snow :) 

The days are so short here. This is how dark it is at 8:30 AM! and it gets dark by 5!

like my canada mittens? :) i love them :)

Email 12-21-2015

From Me:

"Glad to hear things are going good. We love you. We sure miss you right now. It's hard to have you gone at Christmas. We keep saying stuff like, "Next year Maddy will be home for Christmas"

We love you

What are you doing on Christmas?"

From Maddy:

"haha I CANT WAIT TILL NEXT CHRISTMAS ALREADY haha seriously though like this christmas is fun and all, but it just keeps making me a little homesick and excited for next year to come already. But I am trying to live in the moment just like usual haha. It's a daily struggle sometimes. I just miss you all so much. But the time will fly by before I know it. On christmas I get to sleep in till 9, if my body will let me haha, then make crepes and open presents :) And then skype home at 1 (11am for you) and then at 2 we are going to a members for games and supper at 4 and then in the evening we are going to another members I think to watch a disney movie which will be fun. :) So that's our christmas. everyone in our ward is out of town and we hadn't been invited anywhere so a lady in another ward invited us over. so it will be good. :)"

Email 11-26-2015

Transfers and the new area has been good. I like Saskatoon, it's pretty. The ward is fun. They are all young families from Alberta where the dad is going to school here. Mostly law, med and dental students haha. Its fun though. Things with the comp are good. Not too much to complain about haha. The sisters are fun, I love them. It's nice not having so many so we can actually get to know them :)

Lots of Pics, Dec 7th 2015

I've been slacking off in posting to Maddy's blog.

Here are some pics from the last few weeks.

Sister Wray and I, We had a lot of fun <3

Brother Pepin and Sister Maple, i love them so much. We got her that scarf! :) Please keep them in your prayers, her chemo is taking a lot out of both of them <3 It was really sad to leave them

This is Mandy and her kids, I love them! We found them tracting not too long ago, they are the best :)

I'm gonna miss Barb and her birds :) 

This is Annie, she is a cutie eh :) 

This is the Drozdowskis, I love them too :) They were fun :)

oh no, they are gonna burn the church down hahah 20 candles puts off a lot of heat haha

my surprise bday party :) it wasn't really a surprise though haha but it was fun :) and very nice, i felt loved

the tays are wonderful, they got me a really nice timex watch so "whenever i check the time i will think of them" :) cute 

these are the Tays :) The elders invited them to the little surprise bday party haha :) they are so cute Brother Tay is our ward mission leader

These elders are the best :) They made me yellow cake with chocolate frosting and threw a little surprise bday party for me on my last night in winnipeg :)

opening my presents! :)

love it! Im wearing it right now and it is so pretty :)

all my bday presents, i love my fam <3 they know me so well

BDAY SELFIE :)

This is the Barlow family. They are really nice and let us come over for family home evening and help them decorate their neat christmas tree. It was nice :)

This is our christmas tree hahaha we were so lucky to have a full size one in our apartment. Only half the lights work and As you can see the decorations are a little iffy.... notice the glittery deer antlers hahahahaha Those are what mom needs for her woodsy tree ;p But even if it isn't the prettiest, it still makes me happy :)

It was a rough night so we tried making snow angels haha. 

My first Starbucks since I've been in Canada. It was so good. Tasted like home :) haha #TypicalWhiteGirl