Week #11 Montpellier

Family!

This week was so so great! Mostly this weekend. Seriously.

J is doing great! She was freaking out because she was afraid we wouldn't teach her after her baptism. SO CUTE. Love her. She is doing really well :) still making loads of progress, because that's what the Gospel does. It helps us progress :) I love her.

Anyway, I will start with Ev We taught her this week :) She is doing well. She hadn't had time to read the Book of Mormon so we read with her the first chapter and a bit of the intro to help her understand. And let me tell you! She understands very well. Her comprehension skills are fantastic. She promised to read the first half of the next chapter. She is hilarious too.

Now I will move on to the next coolest thing. Er. Soeur Mod knocked into his home (which turns out to be his parents, he lives in his car and travels everywhere. all the time.) He lived in Canada and knew of LDSaints. So they introduce the BOM and he says okay so I read this and you come back and answer any questions? and they're like yeah sure and he's like okay this Saturday? COOL So we go and we have a lesson and he is solid. Still very much searching, but very open to the Spirit. He asked some great questions and it was really great and the spirit was strong. He came to church the next day too for all three hours :) But he is going to Spain so we don't know when the next time will be! Bummer, but he will get there.

Now the grand finale. So Wednesday was a tough day. Mean people,  lessons fallen through, other problems, whatevs, mission life right? But I was like OK contacting will fix this. SO I see this girl and I say Bonjour! SO does Soeur Mod. At the exact same time. She says "Sorry I'm in a hurry!" in English! SO obviously we talk. She is from South Africa (anglophone) and we literally talked for about an hour on the road. Miracle. So we set up a lesson for  Saturday and it was again incredible. D is her name. I could go on for hours talking about her. Yikes. Anyway, she is catholic but she told us she hasn't been to mass in three weeks. 3333 WEEEKKKKKSSSS. She said she has felt like it was such a routine and she was not finding the meaning in doing it. She was losing the reason. Then she said she met us and we were really an answer to her prayers. Come to find out her birthday is Sunday (yesterday) SO naturally we invite her to church and then an American couples home for a little birthday party and she was so grateful.That night we had a lovely time. She told us her life story, her struggles and it was very powerful. The last two years she received a bible from her boss and this year we thought it relevant to give her a precious Book of Mormon. We wrote our testimonies and when we gave it to her and testified, there was the spirit so strong and tears.It was powerful. This girl is ready.

Anyway, I love D. I will be devastated if the Lord decides my time is up here. I love it too much. I will cry. I love you all so much. This gospel really does have the power to change lives. I promise you that.

Love, Soeur Roberts