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Alright, I am done translating my testimony. The important issue is that I will practice the pronunciation so that when I speak, people will hopefully understand me. My mentor wants about a 10 minute range, so with more practice, I will see roughly how much time I take. In addition, I have been asked by Simon (see the previous entry if you don't know who he is) to share my testimony. Friday night on the 25th is the date for my sharing with Café Recontre, I don't know when I'll be sharing my testimony with my youth group (Brillez), but I do know it will be sometime before the 25. Please pray that people will understand what I say and that God will use this message to move their hearts.

Last week as I was working at Café Recontre, a missions team from Oklahoma came to help at Café Recontre. I was very excited to see some other people my age do a missions trip here. This group of people were involved with many of the things that we do at Café Recontre including, but not limited to: preparing the food, handing out food, making conversations and cleaning up. At the end of their 1 week stay, I managed to get a picture of them:

Café Recontre is located on the first floor of this building. On second floor is where we took this picture, it is also the sanctuary for Mosaïque Church.

Since this is Quebec City's 400th year of existence, there has been and will be numerous celebrations throughout the year. One such event took place last Saturday and Sunday. I went yesterday and this was an event that attracted a huge crowd.

From where this picture was taken, it was a 3 and half hour wait to go inside Old Quebec. To the right of this picture is the parliament building.

Don't know if you can make it out, but this is the entrance, or at least so I thought, it took another 15mins before I got into Old Quebec.

Inside, there were various dance parties and light shows.

And various reenactments of what it must have been like to live during that time. (Above, a fire to keep people warm, when there were no heaters) (Below, I don't think you can see it, but this was a enactment of WW1 trenches.)

This picture just has some people jugging fire things, but I liked how this picture turned out.

There were tons of other things at the festival, but unfortunately most of the pictures were very blurry. Nevertheless, this just to say that there so many celebrations going on here right now, I think there is something next week.

Finally, the weather has been a bit warmer. IT RAINED TODAY! that is how warm it is right now! Apparently this trend of warm weather is going to keep going on for this week, and for the next 14 days, the low is -8c!

Reminds me of Calgary right now...

posted by Willyz @ 4:42 p.m.