Hellllooooo!!!
This week was great! Probably better than yours. Doesn't matter, can't compare.
We
are starting to do this cool thing with members where we go to their
house during the day when we want to get some contacting done. So we say
hello! tell them about how we are going contacting in their
neighborhood, ask them to pray with us before we go, pray for us during
the contacting and then come back to share with them miracle contacts!
So we did that on Monday. The members gave us chocolate caramel cake,
which was a miracle in itself. However, we prayed, then went out! We
didn't talk to a whole lot of people and one women told me she didn't
want to live with her baby forever and another started running away from
me, which of course I started to run with her and successfully gave her
a pass along card. Besides that we met this lovely lady from Asia who
had met with the missionaries like 10 years ago. She wouldn't give us
her number, but she asked us if she could have a Book of Mormon because
she loved the picture of Christ in the front of it. It was pretty cool
:) Then we went back and shared our mini miracle with the members who
gave us cake.
Tuesday was FIFA, aka Former investigators Found again. I went through all the old investigators
papers
and called for like an hour straight. People who had been to church at
least once. I set up 2 lessons, and scheduled later times to set up
rendezvous for next week. Sad, but I felt the most successful that day
than I had my entire transfer here! It was great I was so happy. Kinda
like in the Movie Annie when they sing who cares what you're wearing as
long as you have clothes... you're never fully dressed without a smile!
So i was fully dressed that day.
Wednesday was a bummer because I was on a train all day going
to Pau and then back for exchanges. We didn't get home until 10:12! But
then Thursday was wonderful. I was with Soeur D and she is great!
Her first area was Bordeaux so she was excited to be back. We went to
visit an inactive, who we decided needs the missionary lessons again
because she has forgotten or didn't understand in the first place basic
principles. Then we went to find another inactive who wasn't home but we
left a nice note for them. And after we had a lesson with a YA who is a
little over a year baptized. We helped him decide whether a mission is
good or not. We also contacted great people on the tram and bus. I met
this Portuguese kid who took a book of Mormon and was super excited. He
doesn't have a phone so I couldn't get his number. BOO. But it was
great. Literally we were going from place to place and our time was
filled with productive things and I was so exhausted at the end and
happy again.
Friday I was reunited with my companion and we had a lesson
with M. She expressed her concern with the Book of Mormon being of
the devil because it is not written like the Bible. I explained to her
that it wasn't written by the same people in the Bible, so it was going
to sound different. They are different people having different
experiences. Then i shared Ezekiel 37:15-17. She doesn't know. She wants
to read the Bible first, the only problem is, she isn't worried about
finding an answer right now. Kinda eventually, which we tried to also
urge her to read the Book of Mormon as soon as she can and pray because
she can and will know sooner than she thinks. That was M.
Saturday we had a rendezvous with E, an old Ami. It was all
over the place. First he told us how our church was no different than
any other christian church. It took about 15 minutes for him to
understand that no other church has the BOOK of Mormon and we have
Prophets and Apostles. We then went into why we needed those things. I
went over Eph 4:11-14 (thank you Calvin!) and he answered all the
questions we had correctly to help him understand, but it was like he
didn't want to understand, and then started throwing out why did he need
to be rebaptized. Holy Moly. So we said look, we can explain that later.
Finally we closed. Our member was great, but it was just with someone
who refused to listen. Tough.
That night, X called to ask about church! So he came on
Sunday. He was very well integrated into the ward, the members were
great! He went to all three hours and after he said he liked it, but he
definitely likes catholic mass better. He said the churches are more
sacred. It is a very superficial thing that is keeping him now. So
X is coming along, we'll see. He has little concerns that really
don't matter. Still cool guy though :)
Anyway, this week was really good :) K who we taught on
exchanges wants us to come teach his mom and family so we are going on
Tuesday to do a family lesson, so I'll use your plan Calvin, thanks
again! :) And O finally set up another lesson with us from like my
first week! Anyway, I learned how hard work gets you happier. There is
no way to be truly happy if you don't work hard on a mission, especially
for the Lord. I do not want to sit back and think about people that
aren't getting the Gospel because I am not doing enough. I love this
Gospel and I know it is the only way to eternal happiness. I love my
mission, i love the people of France even if sometimes they smell bad
and have a hard time smiling. I love my Savior and my Father in Heaven.
The gospel has been restored in it's fullness! I love you all!
Love, Soeur Roberts
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