We enjoy gathering with the other senior missionaries in the Canada Toronto Mission.  We’ve had some fun activities with them!

Dinner at the mission home with President Shields.

Dinner at the mission home.

Dinner with senior missionaries at the mission home.

Dinner at the Mission Home – March, 2017

Jason at the same mission home 10 years earlier – April, 2007!

Tour of Mennonite Community – April, 2017

St. Jacob’s Farmers’ Market – April, 2017

Service Project at the at the John Freeman Walls Historic Site – May, 2017
Mormon Newsroom Article

Canada’s National Prayer Breakfast was an inspiring event to participate in.  The keynote speaker was His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, who is the formal representative of Queen Elizabeth in Canada.  He is a good, humble man.  He quoted the queen saying, “I know just how much I rely on my faith to guide me through good times and the bad. Each day is a new beginning. I know the only way to live in my life is to try to do what is right, to take the long view, to give of my best and put my trust in God. ”

Mormon Newsroom Article

We enjoyed spending a week in Ottawa, Canada’s Capital attending the annual Canada Public Affairs Council conference, and an interfaith “Our Whole Society” conference.  Both of which we were heavily involved in logistical planning (feeling relieved it all went smoothly)!

It was fun meeting the Public Affairs Directors throughout Canada!  Lucky gave a great presentation on managing national Mormon Newsroom articles for Canada.

Canada Public Affairs Coordinating Council Members

Lucky presenting

At Parliament Hill

With Canada’s Public Affairs National Director, Sandra Pallin

At the famous Women’s Monument

I loved this stained glassed art work on the Relief Society room door in the LDS Prince of Wales Chapel we attended.

We enjoyed working with many other faith leaders during the “Our Whole Society” Conference.  The Highlight of the conference was the plenary session on Parliament Hill with members of parliament participating as panelists. They discussed how their faith informs their political life as they work to promote the common good.

Lucky wrote this Mormon Newsroom Article about the Conference.