It has already been a week!! Goodness time flies here. Much has happened in this last week! So we teach a lot of lessons to keep our amis motivated. We plan to extend 3 baptism engagements this week, one in a few hours actually! It is so fun. I love spending time here teaching, finding, and spending time with the members. Tonight we teach Christopher and he talked with bishop so we hope we can move forward and get his baptism planned, La famille Lavie....We want to know why they dont want to be baptized and also find ways to serve them better. Philippe. Oh Philippe is so sweet!!! We gave him the LDM last monday and by Friday he had nearly finished 1 Néphi! We've read many passages with him and he just loves everything about it. He actually told us the other day that we have inspired him with his poetry. So if you ever see a poem written (anything gospel related) by Philippe Lewi, yeah he was inspired by Elder Stanford and I to write it...We plan to continue teaching him and ask him to be baptized later this week. We spent a lot of time porting, going door to door, and what happened? Rien de tout. Rien de tout. ça va! We are doing a mighty work and nothing can bring us down!!
We had a ward activity this weekend and it was so fun! The French style barbeque is a shame to society but it was still good bread and sirop and cheese... I loved it! We played dodgeball -no joke- dodgeball. Everyone 12 and up played (even the ward grandma) it was so fun! I also played catch with a rugby ball -they wanted to see me throw it like a football so I did- and also with my frisbee. It was so good. I actually became great friends with our bishop's sons that night because they are probably the only 2 people in the ward that I can actually understand everything they say. Our next ward activity is going to be me teaching everyone how to play American Football!!!!!! So excited! Not a clue how to do that in French but ill find a way.
Good times already. I love them all. One last thing I really liked this week. We had zone training in Aix en Provence this week and one of the zone leaders shared his favorite quote:
"I believe I am ALWAYS divinely guided. I believe I will ALWAYS take the right road. I believe that God will ALWAYS make a way, even when there seems to be no way." -William Robert Andersen
I have no clue who this guy is but that mes amis is a wonderful and brilliant thing to remember about missionary work. God hasn't and doesn't nor will he ever call missionaries to fail. He has called us to succeed. I need to remember that sometimes but it is always good to remember that I should always have faith and hope that miracles will happen.
Je vous aime!!
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