Canadian Thanksgiving

 In the Canada Montreal Mission there are 7 zones:  Ile De Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, Rive Sud, and Mont Royal.  The Mission Home and our apartment are both in the Ile De Montreal zone.
Today is Canadian Thanksgiving. It is also P-day for the missionaries.  Imagine my surprise when first thing this morning these two sisters showed up to do their e-mails dressed up like this.  They were so cute.  They arranged a Thanksgiving celebration to which we were invited even before we got here.  Everyone had an assignment to contribute to the feast.

 These two sisters showed up next.   Every Monday the Elders and Sisters in this zone come to the mission office to do their e-mails home and their letter to the Pres.

 Here are Brother LeVitre and Elder Arhets at their desk training.  Elder Arhets is trying to learn all there is about running a fleet of 43 cars and 1 van.  There is a lot to learn.  Today the fleet manager for all of cars in Eastern Canada and through Rochester N.Y. in the US, Joe Paul, came.  Tomorrow he will be getting together with the men to get all kinds of records, receipts, reports, etc.  I met him briefly and he is very nice.

                                                           More Elders

                                                     Sister Conway is the other sister in the office.  Both she and her husband have been so nice and welcoming to us.

 Sister LeVitre is a most wonderful woman.  She has been patiently training me in my multiple duties.  They are leaving on Thursday and I hope I will remember what she has been teaching me.

 Elder Conway is the financial secretary.  Here he is in his office behind glass.  His office is separate from the other three of us.

                                                  These Elders went all out in their dress.

                                                           These not so much.

 After these 2 arrived there was lots of shooting of the arrows.  Boys will be boys even if they are missionaries.

 These 2 came to the mission home before seven to put the turkey in to cook.  Their own oven is way too small.  They had never made a turkey before, but it turned out just great.  When I told them that now they could be the official turkey cooks after they got married, they both said "Oh no.  This is our one and only time cooking turkeys."  Haha.

 The Elder in the middle is Elder Sam Lopez.  It's so funny that he knows the Correa family. They are from the same stake.  He said he knew Pedro best.  It is a small world.

                                                 Elder Arhets began carving the turkey.

   Pretty soon Elder Conway joined him.  The kitchen is on the main level of the office building.  The building has 3 floors.  The top floor is the office and the office for the CES guy. The middle floor has classroom and conference rooms.  The first floor has classroom, a huge gym/multi-purpose room, and a kitchen.  The basement has a very large chapel and some classrooms.  The church purchased this very nice building approximately a year ago.

                                              Here are the missionaries who dressed up.

 And here is the entire zone minus a few senior couples and me.  I am the photographer.

                                                  The table was laden with food.

 Missionaries from all over the world:  France to the left, Tahiti in the middle and USA on the right.

                     Everyone  ate a lot, talked a lot and laughed a lot.  I am sure they had a great time.

                                                             Here  we  are.

                                                            The dessert table.

  

 More missionaries.  These two were purposely serious and wanted to be sure that I included their moccasins.

                                  These two were just happy.  Really they all were just happy.