This week was spiritually
uplifting in a lot of ways. One was that we were able to get to hear from a
member of the Quorum of the Seventy, Elder Patrick Kearon, and that was so
cool. It was a powerful experience, and we learned so much. One of the things
that struck me was how much he emphasized how the way we start off our days can
affect the whole mission. We were instructed that the best thing you can do
from the time you wake up to the time you leave is to have vigor in everything
you do, your morning exercises, your studies, and putting energy into
everything. He also talked about how when we talk to someone about this gospel,
it is important to become the message yourself, and to help them feel the
spirit. Being a convert himself he described how it wasn’t the actual lessons
that converted him, but the feelings the missionaries brought. He taught how we
can make our missions and our lives better through our choices. When we commit
to change and to choose better, the effect it can have is miraculous. The word
CHOOSE was emphasized a lot, and how everything is really up to you, and you
can choose how your mission and your life will go.
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| It gets cold in the apartment |
We saw some funky attempts at
Halloween here, the French don’t really celebrate it but it’s getting bigger
and bigger.
Last week ended on a high note,
and this week was just as great. We have progressed at a rate most missionaries
said was impossible in Narbonne! For our mission's standards of excellence, the
biggest and hardest thing to achieve is the lessons. We are expected to teach
20 lessons each week. That’s really difficult here, and not many people have
achieved it yet. But one of them this week was US!
We made the goal at the
beginning of the week to really strive for the 20 lessons, and through an
exhausting and worthwhile week, we got it! We now have three Ami's that we see
semi regularly, and this week we actually found a new Ami, and he accepted a baptismal
date our first lesson right there and then! We saw so many miracles, I have a testimony
now that when a rendez-vous falls through, and they don’t show up, what we take
that to mean is that the Lord has someone else for us to teach at that time,
and this week every single time something fell through we were able to find a
new person to teach on the road or after knocking their door.
I know we're being guided, and
I'm so grateful to be a missionary right now. I know the Lord takes care of his
servants, and if we are diligent, he will bless us. We actually had a little
competition in our district this week for lessons, each lesson was worth
points, depending on if there was a member present, if it was just normal, or
on the road, and we won!
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| Why yes, I did eat snails. Delicious! |
All is well in our little ville
of Narbonne, au revoir!
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