Gex, Week 3.

Family,

 How are things? :) I'm great thanks for asking! :) This week was good, tough but good.

Tuesday was my first zone conference. We discussed five things: obedience, faith, prayer, simple teaching, and members. President Roney talked. He is awesome. one thing he said was that faith is trust. It is trusting the Lord  that He is accomplishing exactly what He wants to through you. I thought about that a lot this week. It is hard here. People don't always want to talk to you, if ever, and when they do and you set up a rendezvous (lesson) and they don't show up and you had a great lesson planned and a member even came to teach, it gets discouraging. But I was like no, I am here doing what the Lord wants and if these people aren't ready to hear the gospel, I am going to keep searching and searching and teaching and smiling and enduring until I do. It's okay because I am doing and accomplishing exactly what he wants me to as long as I do my part and then some. It was a great conference.

Monday we took the P girls G and i and their cousin A contacting with us. They are in the ward and 15 and 17 and 17 but so incredible and awesome. They loved it! and they want to go again : )They are really pushing us to have a member at every lesson  so that means we need to get more members to come contacting with us so we can make that happen.

IDK if i have told you about Mme M? She is an investigator of 9 months, not really progressing, but a friend of a ward family who really don't want us to drop her. We see her every Tuesday. This past Tuesday we went and we brought G with us, our WML and had a lesson where she just went on and on about Buddhists and Jews and Hindus and Muslims and every religion in the world.I was like oh my gosh if you want a testimony, truly, then all of that shouldn't matter. All of a sudden I was hit! like by the spirit. He said Sister Roberts, tell her to listen and testify oft the Book of Mormon and how the only way you can know is by reading. So I was like yeah because i speak french... but I did it. I told her. I was like THAT DOESN'T MATTER. THIS BOOK IS TRUE. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW, READ IT. So i think she is finally going to read and if not, idk what because i cant help her unless she does her part. So yeah. we'll see next Tuesday :)

Sad news. We had to drop K. He is kinda Muslim and so this month is Ramidan and he cant meet with us. I don't think he understands. I think he wants to understand but wants to put the LDS beliefs and Muslim beliefs together. It cant work like that. I think he knows what is true, but for some reason he isn't ready to take that last leap of faith. I didn't think he was ready, but maybe another time. Sister W was pretty upset... I was like no worries. We got to find someone who is ready. It's okay. We just don't have any investigators now. Sad. Just means we have to work that much harder.

So the new goal is to get 500 contacts a week. Our goal is at least 80 a day. It was getting late Wednesday night and we hadn't had dinner and thought about turning in for the night, but I just wanted to get nine more. And then go. We were in Gex and like no one was out. I was like oh this is going to take forever. So we split up on the roads and no one was on my side but Sister W met a man who I would've looked at and said he would never be interested. But HE WAS. He wanted to learn more and wants to read the Book of Mormon and we had a quick lesson right there. I felt really impressed to talk about trials and how they are here to help us grow. Oh, I thought he said he had a son die, but he didn't. OOPS. HAHA. I saved it by saying oh I mean you can be with Jesus Christ again, not your son, the son of God. Yeah :) embarrassing. lucky I have the I'm learning french excuse. :) haha But it was a miracle! We almost left! so we haven't had  another rendezvous with him yet because there has been a lot of miscommunication, but hopefully tomorrow. And even if it was just a one time thing I learned once more how important it is to follow the spirit.

I also had my first exchange with the sister training leaders in Lyon. I went with Sister B from Italy who speaks like 9 languages. She is awesome and all work. We had two lessons and she totally let me teach so it was awesome. The spirit was so strong in both of them. And we contacted and served too and it was awesome. I love her!! and i learned a whole bunch. I'm sad because she leaves next transfer

Anyway, not much else. The language is coming. If i don't get it I just stare at them. i love contacting. You have to make it fun. I go Bonjour! How are you? i like your watch. Do you believe in God? Awesome! Do you want to get baptized? Just  kidding,  not the last part. Or hey do you want to learn more about Jesus Christ? Or hey its a beautiful day! Do you love your family? I try to mix it up and when they tell me know i usually laugh and I don't know why so i should probably stop that. Oh well. I'm happy! I love it.

Love you all bunches. The Gospel is so true! Read your scriptures!

Love Sister Roberts