So, lots happened this week. As usual. So one of the things was that
as a mission we wanted to have 200 Amis at church, so double what we
had last week. It would round to about 2 Amis at church per missionary
Equipe. And.... We succeeded!!!!
Except Poitiers choked. We planned on having about ten Amis there, 5
is a normal and they are all solid, and then we had met new people who
said they would 100% come, and we called the, and saw them through out
the week and on Saturday night everyone was confirmed to come. And
guess what happened Sunday. Everyone was sick. Our 5 solid there every
week were super sick, or their kids were (I think a bug is going
around, a little girl threw up during the sacrament prayers, my eyes
were closed and all of a sudden I hear just wrenching and then
splashing... It was gross, there's a first time for every thing
though!) but Sunday was awesome none the less. Our one ami Nathalie
came, she lives in California most of the time, but she is half French
so she is often on France and her family has a home here (the most
beautiful home ever)! And she really liked it I think. We did the
lesson for gospel principles. It was supposed to be about how we are a
covenant people. But I didn't really like the manual, and so we
focused of what that means to have the Lord's promise of rest when we
take his yoke upon us, and how taking his yoke upon us is done through
making sacred covenants, it was awesome!! We started off with the
video about "dayton's legs" where the guy does a triathlon pulling the
whole time his friend with cerebral palsy. And then right after we did
the one called lifting your burdens. And we made the connection of how
much we need to be connected to Christ. There were 2 less actives
there that I had never met before, and it was awesome because everyone
participated, even Nathalie, sharing experiences where the Lord
strengthened us and how important our covenants are. The spirit was so
strong and when class ended and the relief society started coming in
one Soeur said, "oh la la, l'esprit est fort, on le ressent " it was
cool. And the relief society lesson was about missionary work and a
big part of it was focused on the Book of Mormon, and at the end
Nathalie said to us, "we'll I guess I really do need to read the Book
of Mormon." Yes!!!!! One other thing, Nathalie is as sensitive as me
and so the whole lesson she was crying, I was crying, and we would
just look at each other and laugh because we just couldn't handle it.
Haha. Kindred spirits. :)
And I bet you are all wondering about the attacks in Paris. So
basically, our mission president alerted us all and told us to stay in
our apartments due to the attacks in Paris. At 8 that was lifted and
we were able to leave, but we needed to be weary of public transport
and large crowds etc. So basically here in Poitiers all was fine, in
centre ville people put out candles and posters of names, because we
are actually only and hour and some outside of Paris. But anyways,
nothing really changed for us, but I know in some of the bigger cities
in our mission (Bordeaux) they have a 6 o clock curfew and metros and
trains are banned. But nothing here at least so far. Something
president had us do though was call everyone we had a number for and
invite them to church. It was cool because most of the people we
talked to were really thankful, some were weird, but the majority were
thankful for the call, even if they didn't want to come. We called one
of the recent converts that we had never met from a few years ago and
she came, and it was cool because she just barely moved back to
Poitiers maybe a week ago, and then we called and invited her to
church. It seemed like a little too perfect of timing.. :)
Zoé our one Chinese ami is getting baptised this coming week!!! I'm so
excited! She was so so so prepared! The Chinese elder in Limoges did
another lesson with them through Skype and he said that every question
about the gospel that they asked she just crushed and even though her
understanding isn't perfect she has the strongest desire to be
baptized! Nothing is getting in the way, the other day we texted her
to see how she was doing, she told us that everyone else was out
skating, but that she preferred to stay in and read the Book of
Mormon! She is so awesome!
Also this week, it was elder Leon's birthday the same day as district
meeting and he requested poutine... So that's what we had. It was
pretty good, but I don't know if eating it made me want it more or
less. I was satisfied because it was poutine but then not satisfied
because I just wanted the real deal even more.
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