Montpellier Week #2

Dear Family,

I love Montpellier so much! Not only because the weather is absolutely incredible, but because there are so many people who are ready for the restored Gospel. It's really cool. 

So at the beginning of the week all the ZL's and STL's went to this training meeting thing in Lyon and it was really cool because President introduced to us a new way to contact. We are using a questionnaire! It has only four questions on it and they are yes or no answers. We were able to go out and practice it a bit. It was magical. Not only were people more willing to talk to us, it led into so many cool conversations, and even phone numbers, and even lessons! It works miracles. We have been using it all throughout the week too. It was really touching because President said "The Lord told me to do this." I'm really grateful for the inspiration he receives for our mission.

So I had my first exchange on Wednesday and it went quite well! We had a lot of fun. I went with sister Jackson who is actually from Calvin's mission :) She is really great. We went to Sète which is a bit farther out of Montpellier to go have a lesson with A in one of our members home. We watched the 20 minute restoration video and testified about it and the Book of Mormon. Because he is a bit slower, we call him every night to follow up on his commitments and he will ask us questions and we'll have mini lessons. It really helps him we think. BUT on Saturday he texted us and was like "I don't want to know the gospel anymore, Bye." But then he changed his mind. So he came to church on Sunday and was really touched by the lesson in Gospel principles class. We really hope he can just feel the spirit. He prays the way we taught him (he is catholic) and he even waits a bit for a feeling/response, but hasn't received one yet. We pray that Heavenly Father will answer his prayers. He really wants to know which church is true. 

J is committed to baptism and she is pretty solid. She has a Preach my Gospel and reads the lesson before we teach her, she's pretty great. A little nervous about actually getting baptized, but she can do it. MV is still smoking so we are really trying to buckle down. We are going to start the program the church has. But she needs to be serious first. She wants to quit but sometimes wanting isn't enough. I want peanut butter really bad, all day every day, but does wanting it get me anything? No. SO, we need her to start acting. We hope to make some headway on that this week. 

NEW NEWS. (haha new news... get it?) SO E. She is quite the miracle. My first week I texted her, never meeting her, not knowing very much about her, and we set up a lesson. Unfortunately that day she had to cancel due to something, I don't know what? Sad. So I continued to text her, with no response for a week and a half, believing probably because of Satan that she hated us. Because people will randomly decide they hate us and that we are devils. Which we so aren't! But she texted us Friday and was like "I am so sorry some crazy things happened. I'd love to have a lesson today." WOW!  We go to her house, first thing she says is something along the lines of  "I'm not Mormon, not yet" and have a super quick lesson on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Because she had perfect answers. We asked her about faith and she understands better than I do. Then repentance. Again better than me. The only thing she didn't really get was the symbolism which she finally explained to herself after she talked for a couple minutes. She then explained how baptism scares her, and how she doesn't feel clean enough. So she goes to the bathroom and Soeur Mod and I do comp telepathy. She comes back in and ask her to be baptized and she said yes. Just like that. So her date is May 8 2014, her favorite number and month. Incredible. And after she just so happened to tell us she really wants to quit smoking. Miracle again. Then on Sat we watched the long Joseph Smith, Prophet of the Restoration" with a family and the spirit was blasting the room. She had tears throughout. She is so cool and we pray she stays strong. 

The Gospel has the power to change people's lives into something they never thought was possible before. It is a Gospel of change for the better. I am so grateful for it in my life and now I get to bless others lives. I love My Savior and Father in Heaven. I love you all!

Love, Soeur Roberts