Le Miracle 6.3 Joyeux Noël!

Premièrement JOYEUX NOËL!!!!!! I am so excited for Christmas!! We have had an awesome week leading up to Noël. I am especially excited for the opportunity to finally talk to my family! It has been almost 9 months! Crazy! I'm going crazy!

So Monday I already told you about Vivian (1). Sadly we had to cancel our RDV today because we dont have any male members that are available to teach with us today. :(

Tuesday we made the crazy voyage to Bordeaux for a Christmas Zone conference with the Toulouse, Bordeaux and Talence Zones! Il y avait beaucoup de monde là-bas...I wish all yall couldve seen how many packages they brought in. We had Santa and he delivered all of our packages! I got one from my wonderful family!!! :)

Wednesday we had some fun going out and finding people.. We had a few of those miraculous tombez-vous and ported houses a little and had some fun (because we had an 18 year old member with us the whole time)..

Thursday we went and found a family in the area book. La famille Lecomte (2,3,4,5,6) is a little weird. Unmarried parents and 3 girls that are real attention seekers but the Mom told us about a dream she had that Joseph Smith was a prophet even before she knew the missionaries. We are excited to go back and help them come closer to the savior!

Friday we went and taught another African woman named Géraldine (7) and her son Jeffrey (8). Luka was there to help us too and it was a great RDV just like the one with Vivian and we are more than excited to go back after Christmas!!

Saturday we SPARKED the mess out of this branch here in Agen. I planned with Elder peters an activity based off of a family tradition on Christmas Eve to build gingerbread houses out of graham crackers... Well we did it with speculoos. I told everyone they had 30 minutes to build them and then we watched Joy to the World and talked about the important things of Christmas. At the end of the movie we announced the winners! (everyone...) I dont think I have ever seen these people smile before until then. They just couldnt stop smiling and laughing and enjoying the time. That is what i am talking about!

Sunday was church. We didnt have time to fix my bike this week (my tires popped again last week...) so we walked the 4-5 kilometers there. it was fun. Church was good and after we visited some families.

Overall I would say it was a good week and this week shall be awesome because we have a fhe and dinner at our branch presidents house tonight and tomorrow...usually we never get invited over so I am soooooo grateful for that! I hope all yall have a wonderful christmas! I know I will! Joyeux Noël and bonne semaine!

Je vous aime!

Elder Alec Stephen Dover

Pictures...

We built the North Pole temple with sugar cubes!

Elder Dover may or may not have played Santa at the Christmas activity... picture is not from the activity but just Elder Dover making the classic french walking position.

And a picture we gave to all the people that came to the activity!

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