This week was a bit slow, in the sense of how much work we got done.
But still, little miracle by little miracle the work progresses.
Monday we had a zone pday at the beach in Montpellier. It was sooooo
hot, and I made a huge mistake in wearing black, but it was fun. We
played ultimate frisbee in the hot sand. It reminded me of going to
the beach in New Jersey.
But Monday ended up being a wasted day because our train got delayed
over an hour home, so we didn't get home with anytime to do
proselyting... So that sucked. We had to cancel the rdv that we had
planned.
Anyways, some cool things this week, we had a blitz in Perpignan (that
means for the exchange both sisters came to Perpignan and we both
stayed and spent the day there) so I was with sister Holmes, and we
had some really cool conversations. We were walking to a rdv and this
girl and her boyfriend stopped us asking if we were témoigne Jehovah (
this happened a lot. Jehovah witnesses, there are a lot here and
people on average don't really liked them) we said no, and the weird
thing this time is she asked "Mormon?" Usually we have to say who we
actually are and they say they have never heard of us, or that they
heard lots of not so good things.. Thanks to lying TV shows. Anyways
we said yes, and she asked us a few questions. Mainly if fornication
was a thing that our church worried about.. Haha. But we answered
their questions and then got their numbers and hopefully will see them
soon, they don't live in Perpignan so we'll have to see. But that was
cool, and then later on in the day we started talking to this lady and
her daughter. We asked about the family and the importance and then
got onto what we were doing here, and the lady says to us, my whole
family is Muslim, but I'm christian and I know I need to get baptized.
SO COOL! And as we talked she started crying and she took off her
glasses and she showed her black eyed because her boyfriend of
something hit her. So sad. We said we could meet again and talk, so we
asked for her number but she said she didn't have one right then
because it had been broken by her boyfriend or something, so sad
again, but the her daughter says, give them my number, give them my
number! So we got her number and when I called a few days later she
was soooo happy to hear from us, right now is hard though because she
has a lot of things, so we weren't able to fix a rdv, but we'll call
again :)
And then the cherry on top this week was that one of the less actives
that we have been working with texted us Saturday night asking when
church was and saying she was going to come! We hadn't even been
pushing church, it was so cool! And she actually came!!!!!!!!!!
And then today was fun because we did a picnic with her and lucie and
another member. It was fun. I'm so happy because she is making friends
in the church and that is what she needs. Missionaries are great and
all, but she needs people in the church to support her and help her to
come back fully.
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| In this pic Myriam is laughing at us for sneaking photos |
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| I love Lucie! she is the one that has us over every Saturday night. |
I just really love the people here. No one is perfect, well Jean
brousse is pretty close :) but they have so much good and I just want
them all to understand the gospel and really live it because I know
that is how they will be the most happy.
This week was cooler than the past while which was so nice, it even
rained once! It's scary to think that summer is almost over. It's
almost OVER! Ahhhhhh. This is too fast.
Also, this week we tried to make a tarte aux pommes for the first
time. And it was sort of good. Haha, I really need to work on learning
this whole French cuisine thing.
And I can't believe I almost forgot. One of the elders Amis was
baptized this week! His name is Jean idris. He is super cool! He came
to the missionaries wanting to get baptized because he had done his
own research and had pretty much gained a testimony of the restoration
without even being taught it. We had to do the baptism in a members
pool because of the renovations at the church, but when I walked into
the room I was really touched by the spirit because I could really
feel what this day meant to him, he knew what he was doing and when he
came out from the water I could just see the change it was really cool
for me.
Everyone needs the gospel! It changes hearts, it heals broken hearts,
and it is the way for us to really become the son or daughter of God
that he sees us becoming. The gospel helps us reach our divine
potential! Everyone needs this!
Love cam, sister Christensen!
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