I am a horrible mother

Before I forget, this was a picture Calvin sent in his last email. Notice the hat! When I saw 

Last week was a little weird, and a lesson for me. Sunday night I felt like I should write to Calvin, but I dismissed the feeling because I figured I'd have time on Monday morning to write to Calvin. Very often we need to listen to those little whisperings and thoughts telling us to do good things. As I opened my email to write to Calvin, THERE WAS ALREADY A MESSAGE FROM HIM!!! At 7:30am!!! They had Zone Conference in Quebec, so he had written to me BEFORE he left for Zone Conference! AGH! Don't I feel like a horrible mother?! So here's the email he sent:

Hey Momm!!!!!
So, what a crazy week we had!!!!!! Let`s start at the beginning.

MONDAY: We got up at 6:30 in the morning to go to a cross that is on the top of a hill at Chicoutamie, to watch the sun rise. Then, we went (after emails and shoppiing) to La Baie, because the lake at La Baie is famouse for freezing over. The Quebecquoi drag huts out onto the lake to go icefishing, or just to hang out on a frozen lake, and they make what are almost like little communities out there. So we contacted someone on the lake just to say we had. We walked on this awesome frozen lake!!! Oh, by the way, dad, I found out that the air force base is in La Baie, and we saw several jets fly by. it was SOOOOO COOOOOL!!!!!!!! Well, I`ll have to make an abridged version of what happened, because we have to get going to Quebec for zone activitie, and zone conference. [Wait a minute, he's walking out on a frozen lake?! I have to add here that a universal rule in missions world wide is that missionaries are not to go swimming, or wading or be anywhere NEAR water unless they're baptizing someone. Some missionaries may need to be in boats to get to where they need to be, so they may have an added rule about that, but generally missionaries are NOT to be on the water!!! I wrote back to Calvin: Um about you going out on the frozen lake: ICE IS FROZEN WATER, AND YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ON OR IN THE WATER UNLESS IT'S A DEDICATED FONT!!!]

  I asked myself several times this week as well, "Why do all my great mission stories concern big Quebecquoi guys who wear no shirt??" Literally, I dont know if its a custiom here to strip before answering the door, but they answer the door with no shirt on, no pants on, only in boxers, you name it! But the best was one day, i think it was tuesday, we were tracting, and we knocked on this door, and my comp looks in the window next to the door. He does that at just about every door. So he says to me "Elder, you gotta seee this, they have a dinosaur!" So I look over, I cant see anything, I'm at the wrong angle.The dogs in the house have been barking this whole time, and then we hear this guy scream a swear word at them, and they stop barking. .  So I knock again, and he's still look ing through the window. Then he says " oh my....." And I see a shadow coming to the door, now I'm expecting a big, angry Quebecquoi man to come to the door. Instead, it's some chick in a tanktop, and those really short underwear shorts that they wear around the house. My comp's freaking out because she then procedes to pick up the little dog, having to bend over to do so. We start our contact, " Bonjour, commont ca'va? Je m'appele Elder Messinger, et lui, il s'appelle Elder This" You know, the regular door contact, well then her boyfriend comes around the corner. he's wearing nothing, except for a towel, which he's holding with his hands. It was all we could do not to bust up laughing, as he screams some profanity at the dog (who hasn't yet stopped barking) and tells us they aren't interested. 

   Miranda, I love the Totoro thing you made!!!!!!! It's soooooo awesome!!!!!

I love you all so much, and I hope you all are doing well!!!!!!!!

LLLOOOOOVVVVFEEEEEE

Calvin

P.s. Oh, momm, how do you make those  scorpion things out of egg cartons? We have tons of egg cartons, and I thought that might be fun. a good thing to leave at peoples hous3s with a note written on it, or something like that. Oh, that's another thing we did, we made bannana bread, and left it at members' houses, mission impossible style. more about that later  [scorpion things? I have no idea what he's talking about, and why would he think leaving an egg carton scorpion thing at someone's house is a good idea?]