Anyway,
This week was up there again with my favorite weeks. We did some really great things.
Tuesday we actually got to see A before she goes
to Paris, so we gave her a little lesson on the Holy Ghost that went
well. We are giving her to Paris and hope that she progresses there. I
do miss her though!
Wednesday we actually were invited to a members home
to help her with a bit of service. We had a bit of time beforehand so
we decided to see if this random inactive member lived by. There are so
many inactive members in France that we weren't sure if she'd be open or
not, most of the time if they are open missionaries are already
visiting them. But we rang. Then rang again and an older woman opened
her window (a totally french thing to do. maybe they are just too tired
to walk to the door?) and we asked her if she remembered us and she
vaguely remembered the church but she said we could come back! so that's
awesome! We are so excited to get to know her and see what we can do to
help her come back :)
We had a bit of an awkward situation with a less
active we visit on a weekly basis. She really likes faith, love,
miracles, God, etc, so we'd always kinda tailor to her likes. But we
decided to teach her the restoration. She wasn't too happy. Turns out
she doesn't have a testimony at all of the restored church and she
doesn't believe Thomas S Monson to be the prophet. She for some reason
was under the impression that he uses the tithing to get rich and says
he is a prophet to get fame. We were very patient and you'd be proud
because I didn't bash or anything. She did tell me not to be naive
though about the tithing thing, which was a bit biting, but at the
end it was okay. We invited her to read the Prophets talk from last
conference as well as Uchtdorf''s. We'll see. It can be really tough to
see that the only thing that keeps people from truth is a lack of
understanding and application.
We had a lesson with T, our Jehovah's Witness
buddy. He is nice, but this lesson was an interesting one. It was the
plan of Salvation and they have a different belief about Adam and Eve. He is clever. He is good at twisting
words you say in the slightest of ways, especially because it's in
French so it's a bit more challenging. He asked why God gave us two
books, Why did Jesus go to the US to visit the Nephites and teach them
if he already taught the same thing for the Sermon on the mount, and
prayer. So anyway, there are some
things that I'll be studying this week! He told us he knew his church
was true by researching on wikipedia. He doesn't really pray for
knowledge so he was reluctant to pray to know if the Book of Mormon is
true, etc. We'll see!
And Al is so sweet.We taught her with a YSA also
from Tahiti. He testified so powerfully. We focused on Prophets and she
said she would pray to know. She understands prayer, and God, and
Christ, it's just a matter of understanding the fulness of the gospel.
She said she will pray to know :) She is so sweet though. She said that
she wants me to visit her in Tahiti after my mission. Mom....? :)
Then highlight of the week! We found another less
active. She let us in and we gave her a short, sweet message, and
invited her to church. She was a bit hesitant, but agreed to come. We
told her we would meet her before hand, which i think helped. So Sunday
comes and we meet her and we go together. The members are VERY good to
her, a lot of them she knew from when she was still active (like 30
years ago). I could just tell the spirit was working on her too. In
Sacrament, she started crying during the sacrament hymn, like sobbing.
Yikes! I tried to comfort her. Then during a musical number she ran out
crying and luckily the RS president ran after her. She is okay :) I
talked to her a bit after church and she just said it's tough. I think
she has gone through some tough things in her life. She smokes too which
she said she is not ready to give up. But we have a dinner appt with
her and a member family and another lesson, so we are very excited to
help her on her way to getting back to the church :) Anyway, that's
about it.
Funny story: we were looking for this other inactive
and her house seemed basically abandoned. This group of people yelled
from the other side that no one was home. Then this one guy was like
trying to help us find her and then he went to like eveyrone's house and
basically by the end the entire neighborhood was helping us find this
woman who moved! haha and half the people helping were a bit drunk haha
funny!!!!!!
I really love France! The people are so funny :) so
wonderful. Anyway, I love you all and I hope you are praying. Heavenly
Father loves you and He wants to hear from you. I love you too :)
Love, Soeur Roberts
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