Spiritual Fun and Beach Visit

This week was one the most fun on my entire mission thus far, though one of the most exhausting as well. I didn't sleep on my own bed from Thursday night until last night, so its wonderful to be back in my own secteur! The week started off with some really good lessons with our ami's, we knew we wouldn't have a whole lot of time, so we fixed many many in the first few days, and it was awesome. One Ami in particular, named Frederic, said he really wants to be baptized, he's just hesitant to fix a date for his baptism, because he's not sure he's ready or when he'll have time to do it, but the lesson we taught was truly a good lesson, and he's really loving our church, it's only a matter of time. Then the weekend happened. I left the apartment to go on exchange with my zone leader with clothes for the whole weekend, because we had a Zone Conference in Nice on Friday, and then a stake conference there on Sunday, so we stayed in St. Raphael for the whole weekend, and we had a blast. Friday at the conference was fantastic, we got to see the new movie Meet the Mormons, and talked a lot about the new mission push on the family aspect of missionary work.

Then on Saturday, we had a 16 missionaries staying in St. Raphael, my whole Zone, because it was a multi-zone conference, and so we had to find something to do. So we all went to beach in the morning from 6:30-7 for morning exercises, because it was so close, so I got to the beach for the first time in my life, and then this awesome member who lives there put on a huge Samedi Sportif, where all the missionaries went and played basketball all morning with the member and a bunch of his friends, and then had a huge soccer game in the afternoon, it was fantastic! Then we all went to the adults’ session of the stake conference, because our President said we could, and it was transmitted to St. Raphael.

What was really cool, was that one of the members friends at the Samedi Sportif who didn’t know the missionaries before asked the member if he could go to the church thing that night with him. He was so impressed with all the missionaries there, what we were doing and sacrificing, for two years, that he really wanted to learn more. The missionaries for the St. Raphael secteur were thrilled of course, and now have all his info and will hopefully start teaching him soon. Then after the adults session, the same member (this guy is great) took us all out to this Chinese buffet, and made a deal with the owner to where we all only had to pay 12 euros, four less than normal. Such an awesome day. Then Sunday at Stake Conference was great, the talks were fantastic. The Stake President himself gave a very powerful talk about the law of chastity, reminding us all how sacred and important the bond between husband and wife is, and how this relationship is the key to our very existence. Overall a fantastic weekend, with so many missionaries in one ville we just had a blast. When we got back home yesterday we were exhausted and hungry, all weekend we had to wake up earlier than normal so we could all shower, so we slept well last night. Hope everyone has a good week, and stays safe and strong, love all of you, au revoir!