Week 7-Bordeaux

Hellooo!!

This past week was wonderful! I was in Lyon and Toulouse for the first half, and then back to good ol' Bordeaux :) I dropped Soeur G off, chilled on P-Day with Soaur P, who is awesome, and then Tuesday I got on a train to Lyon. That night all the trainers ate at McDonald's and we stayed in a hotel. The next morning we did a training which was very helpful! Then we went to a chapel and we met our new missionaries! Sister M is my blue and she is from Finland! She is so fun and so willing to put forth effort. We went contacting for a bit and said "Bonsoir" to almost every person we passed, even though she can't speak very well. I already love her so much :) 

Thursday we got on a train back to Bordeaux and that night got straight to work! One thing that really helped me as a new missionary was contacting, and so we went on the lovely bridge and contacted for a bit. We met a few really great people! One in particular is A from Kenya. She is here to learn French and all we had said was that we were missionaries. She said she had been looking for a church to go to and so bumping into us was divine intervention! Soeur M was so excited. She couldn't come to church on Sunday because she had plans already, but she wants to come to institute classes. She is so nice and we are really hoping things go far with her. Far as in she is going to be baptized :) Friday we were getting off one of the trams and this guy says Hello! And starts talking to us. He asked us if we could meet so that he could learn more about our beliefs. His name is Mohammad. Yes, he is Muslim. But we set up a lesson on Sunday, so that was exciting!!!!!!!!!! 

Saturday was a super busy, super full day of kinda a lot of disappointments. But never fear because it was worth it anyway :) We contacted this guy who was Muslim and he talked a lot about how he felt sorry for us and that we were blind and one day when we are older we'll know the truth and we are so young, etc. I must say I felt bad for about half a second, then I didn't. In fact, that experience strengthened my testimony even more of the Savior, of Prophets, and of the very real ability we have to pray and receive answers to prayers. So thank you Muslim man. After we went to the Baptism of arc, the zone leader ami and S came! :) N was out of town, and we found out that he is planning on moving very soon to morocco so that was really sad. He is so ready, so I know that he'll find the gospel again if he doesn't stay here. S seemed to really enjoy the baptism. Our only concern with him is that he will get baptized to please the other people around him. He has to know for himself! The rest of the day was raining, which I like rain so it was totes fine, but everyone we tried to visit either lived at an abandoned house, or weren't there. But we tracted and did other productive things. Soeur M was very positive so I was grateful for her willingness to try other things.

Sunday S came to church, but we couldn't teach him because he had to go fast. He sits with M and a family and one of the daughters always sits by him and totally distracts him during sacrament and he's like 22 and she is like 15 so I'm like what the heck? Let him feel the spirit please. We'll get it. After church we had our lesson with M. He asked some super deep questions. Luckily Brother and Sister T were there from Utah and they helped loads! He asked why wasn't Christ the first person on the earth if he is so important and is He like us or like God? Who are we like, why do we need a Christ if we can just pray to God? So I studied this morning....

.... I studied the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which I will tell you right now the incredible light that I received. I'm sure you all know this, but Christ is THE ONLY PERSON that could atone for us. Mosiah 3:17 Why? Because He is perfect and you have to be perfect to take on the imperfections of every other human in the world. We are imperfect and in order to live with God again, we need to have someone pay the price, someone perfect because no unclean thing can dwell with God. That's why we need Jesus Christ. We need a savior because there is no way possible that we can save ourselves. I love how in Luke it talks about how an Angel came to strengthen Jesus in the garden during His suffering. Jesus Christ is more than that to us. He strengthens us everyday if we let Him. He inherited the ability to die through His mortal mother and the Godly qualities from God. He overcame spiritual death in the Garden and physical death on the cross. He died so that we could live. It is such a beautiful, incredible blessing that we have. Words will never be able to describe the feelings I have of the Atonement, and of my Savior. Through Him all things are possible, through Him we can know the way to true, eternal, everlasting happiness. Happy forever. We can make little sacrifices in this life to have ETERNAL happiness. That is what I want. Anyway, He lives. Just like Joseph Smith testified. He lives and He stands on the right hand of God. I love my Savior and my Heavenly Father. I love you too :) The Gospel is true.

Love, Soeur Roberts