Microwave Thanksgiving and Caroling

We are kind of lacking in the solid ami's category at the moment, so we spend a lot of our time out on the streets talking with people and inviting, so hopefully we'll see some fruits of that soon! The church is doing a massive Christmas Initiative this year, the video is He is the Gift, and it’s a great way to share our church with the world. I hope everyone is getting into the Christmas spirit. France sure is. The Noël here as they call it is huge, they put massive decorations all over the ville, and lights are everywhere, plus stores are advertising like crazy.

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun. Our mission president is really pushing for us to become a more grateful mission right now, and told everyone to take one hour on Thanksgiving Day to reflect and ponder on everything that we have been given. It was a truly special thing, every minute as a missionary is precious, and so one hour was a gift he gave us. It's truly incredible to think on all the blessings that our Heavenly Father has given us, and how blessed we are to have all that we do.

We actually were in Montpellier on thanksgiving doing an exchange with the Zone Leaders, so we were able to eat this super good thanksgiving dinner with them, one of their families had sent him a bunch of microwave stuff and food for thanksgiving, so it was delicious. We've been trying to share the He is the Gift video with everyone we see, so I would invite all of you at home to do the same thing, it really is a special video with a special thought behind it. Heavenly Father gave us his son, so that we may live again, and that’s something we can never be too grateful for.

Elder Grant

I got a new companion, Elder Grant. He's super cool, so I'm excited! Last week we had a miracle; our entire zone was able to teach 20 lessons each in one week, meaning that 20 missionaries all taught that last week in the different villes! We had some of the other missionaries over on the last day, because we still needed four in Narbonne, and we all got them super fast! We all had to say a lot of prayers and have a lot of faith, but it worked, so that's amazing!

Cathedral in Narbonne

Funny story, one of our members dropped the bomb in sacrament meeting over the pulpit for testimony meeting that Santa Claus wasn't real, and the one family with little kids was trying to cover their ears. Really funny and it was a good thing there wasn't a ton of kids listening! We got to go caroling to one of the members houses too, with the other active family in Narbonne (yes, there’s only two), and we had such a good time singing to them, they were so happy.