the Canada Montreal Mission welcomes us.

We arrived in Montreal and drove straight to the mission home and have been staying there ever since. Our mission President & his wife - Nelson and Shirin Cannon are from Salt Lake City and have been serving here about one year. They are absolutely THE most loving and caring people on the planet!

This big sign hangs just inside the door and welcomes all to the CMM - Canada Montreal Mission. They have been wonderful to let us stay here while we look for an apartment in Cornwall (where we will be serving - one hour away)

The home is a large 3 story. On the main level is a formal living room, dining room, kitchen with eating area, a large office, and a bathroom. Upstairs there are 5 bedrooms & 3 baths. (one is their master bedroom and bath, one has bunk beds for the sister missionaries during transfers, one 2nd master with a bath for General Authorities, and then 2 others. The basement has a large open area, their family room, a large storage room, and 2 baths. During incoming or outgoing transfers the elders stay down there in the large open area with a TON of aero bed mattresses! This is also where they hold Zone Council meetings & trainings for new missionaries. It's a wonderful home. We have felt very welcome here. Our third night here we went to the temple here in Montreal. We went with the office couple Elder & Sister Giles. That was fortunate, since we might have spent a long time trying to find it.
It is a smaller temple. It is on the same grounds as a stake center - just across the parking lot. It is not open all of the time. Tues, Thurs, Friday, Sat. it is open for 3 daytime sessions and 1 night session. Wed. it is open for one night session only. The temple president is David Gailbraith - he and his wife lived in Jerusalem for 20 years while he set up the establishment of the BYU Jerusalem Center for the church.
The rule here is that they take a poll of everyone in the session. Who would like it hear it in English, who in French, who in Spanish, who in Mandarin? The majority rules & the session is held in that language. Of course, the night we were there it was in French. Roger & I were asked to be the witness couple and we decided we'd be brave and try it with no English translation headphones - so we had to understand in French! We did pretty well. (All those years of going to the temple in English now comes in very handy! ha!) All senior missionary couples are set apart as temple workers - so we can look forward to that! Every six weeks when they have missionaries going home, all the couples come to the temple and all the departing missionaries & we have our own temple session and the couples are the workers. I hope we get to do this being so far away in Cornwall.
I think we're gonna love it here!