Week #10 Bordeaux

Hello,

How are you? Who is ready for Thanksgiving? THIS GIRL. The Senior couple from England insisted on making us Americans a "proper thanksgiving meal" although Sister D is pretty irritated with the lack of turkey's here. She said she is finding pieces though. So that will be our District Thanksgiving meeting. I'M EXCITED!

Anyway, another great week. Still cold, but I'm not wearing gloves typing this time so that's good! Ha ha We were able to wee A three times this week. Tuesday we were going to out to dinner with the Elders and members and their ami, but things got a bit mis-communicated, so it was just us girls. It was okay because we had a nice spiritual thought on Faith.We asked her to read Ether 12 and Hebrews 11. She loved it. She marked Ether all up and really seemed to understand the concept of "after the trial of your faith." She really wanted to meet again, so Friday we went to her place. She made us hot chocolate, so sweet. We gave a nice lesson on Baptism. She expressed how she didn't really understand why baptism was so important, or what it meant really. She said she has known people who were "baptized" but it didn't seem like it meant anything, because, for example, they lied, were mean, basically hypocritical when they should've been taking on the name of Christ. We explained how baptism, when done by the proper authority, is not the end. You must endure to the end, 2 Nephi 31:20. So after the lesson she was better able to understand baptism, what it means, etc. We asked her if she believed she received answers to her prayers and she said she feels like He has always answered. For example, she said meeting us was an example to her prayers. We challenged her to pray to know if the things we say are true. She's going to then she'll get baptized. Sunday she came to Stake Conference. Earlier in the week when we asked if she wanted to come again, she said "I thought I was already coming?" Love her. We plan on getting her a date for baptism this week.

M is a tough one. We are running into a couple tricky things, mostly due to his strong Muslim Background. We are worried that it is too dangerous for him to get baptized, so we are in a bit of a pickle. I won't go into detail, but we are praying for inspiration to know what to do. It is really honestly sad. We love him though. Such a good guy.

S continues to progress. It may take a while for him, the only reason being that he lives in Angoulame, about an hour from us, but he is here in Bordeaux almost every weekend with M, in our ward. So we can only teach him once a week, which stinks! We're going to give him a date the next time we teach him, because he is so ready. He asked M how church would work after baptism. We just need to give him a goal to work towards, and he's golden :)

Those are our progressing Ami's :) They are all wonderful. The rest of the week was good. We teach this woman C English. It's a long story, but before she thought we were a cult and was a bit afraid of us, but she's warmed up and now we are going to HER house (we used to go to a members house) so her boyfriend is warming up to us too. I see a baptism in the future for them :) Her boyfriend has really fluffy hair. Reminds me of that movie the scarlet pimpernel?..... And we passed by an old ami who was home with her husband! They are catholic. She said usually she is not home at the time we stopped by but today she was. She said maybe it's a sign. I think YES. So we'll see where that goes. They are very religious and practicing, we just need to help them understand the restoration. They said they'd pray to know if there's a living prophet :)

 My companion is so awesome, she saved my life and pulled me out of the almost departing tram. And she is obsessed with the otters by our bus stop to church. She takes a picture of them every time. I love her! OHHH! Also! Sorry this is so long, but yesterday after church we were discouraged because this great family that we wanted to teach the restored gospel, didn't exist. Well they do, but they don't live at the address anymore. BUT MIRACLE. This guy we contacted last transfer called us and wanted to meet! He is so cool. Muslim, but he accepted the Book of Mormon and is going to read. Super nice guy. It was a tender mercy for sure.

Anyway, sorry again for the length. I love you all, look for the Tender Mercies of the Lord. They are all over the place. Be grateful! I'm so grateful for you all and your support and love. I wouldn't be able to do this without you. I love you. The gospel is true.

Love, Soeur Roberts