Gex Week #5

Dear my Lovely Family, 

Good Week. We got to teach M for the first time on Monday. She is very sweet. She has a Muslim background so she is not super sure about Jesus Christ, she's trying to quit smoking, and she is practically incredible. We taught her just the first lesson about the restoration. She seemed to really understand everything we said. When we talked about prophets, I asked her to read 2 Nephi 29:9. She said it really touched her. Our member with us was awesome too, JC.. He shared a story about his reactivation in the church. It was a pretty powerful story and I really hope she felt the spirit as well. I challenged her to read, pray and ponder about Mosiah 3 because it talks a lot about Jesus Christ and His role in our lives. I want her to have a testimony of Him as our Savior and not just another prophet. We are teaching her again later today about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I hope it goes well! 

Tuesday we got to teach Madame M again. Sister T came with us and she is an awesome member. Mme M struggles with the apostasy and she said I don't believe God would abandon and leave his Children and Sister T said He didn't. We didn't accept or listen to Him. Which was so good. We tried to teach her how to study the scriptures effectively and it went well. We studied faith together which is an easy simple topic. Then I wrote down some scriptures about the apostasy and told her to study like we did for our next lesson. She said she would but she always says she will and never does. After this next lesson we're going to have to drop her if no progress is seen. 

T is our pretty steady investigator right now. He is awesome. truly. We taught him on Friday with GP, sweet girl, about the restoration. We asked him how his reading was going and he said he reads a little bit every night! He's on page 23 already! He's my first investigator that keeps his commitments. So I was happy. He really seemed to understand the restoration too and when I gave the first vision we asked if he though that was possible and he said of course. Through God anything is possible. Sister W asked him when he came to know the church was true would he be baptized and he said he has to know. He said he cant tell us now because he needs to find out for sure. Which I think is wonderful. I know that if he keeps his commitments he will know that this church is true. On Sunday he came to sacrament meeting too. He really liked it and we were able to introduce him to a lot of the other members. I'm pretty excited to see where it goes :)

We got to help E move stuff around on Thursday. She is sweet. Her son is against the church so she couldn't come on Sunday because she is afraid he will find out. But we'll continue to go over and help fix up her house and give her some friends and maybe she'll come to church one of these days. She prays and in her prayer she says thank you for the sisters. Their church is the best church. She is so right! haha yeah. Love her.

I had my first district meeting too. It was good. We made some goals and ate lunch and it was lovely. 

Saturday we played a zone game of Bingo. We contacted 223 people. In Gex, that is not super possible. But we did it. We also got 223 No's. A little bit discouraging but that's the life of a missionary. T is cool so whatever! Also on Sunday, this random guy just walked in during sacrament. He only spoke Hungarian. He sat in the back for a bit and then left. I wish we could have done more, but hopefully he felt some spirit there. We met our goal of 500 people to contact. We are really stepping it up. Yesterday after church we went contacting in Divonne and the biggest storm hit. It was lightning and thundering and pouring rain. The rain drops were huge. I was on a split with another sister but literally we looked like we had just taken a shower. We didn't have an umbrella. Soaked. It was awesome. I think people drove by wondering what the heck was wrong with us. But we contacted 25 people? Worth it. 

This is the last week of the transfer. I don't want to leave Gex but I might if president needs Sister W to train again. We'll see. I think I'll stay though :) Not much else. It was a pretty grossly hot and humid week until yesterday. now pouring rain. I love you all so much! Have fun at the reunion and tell them I say hi!

Love Sister Roberts