Testifying of the Plan of Salvation

Hello everybody! I don't know how many of you have heard, but my grandfather died this week, and it has been kind of hard for my family. My parents were allowed to call me on Wednesday when I got the news, after my mission president called me that morning. It was hard to hear that he passed, especially out here on the mission, but thank you to everyone and anyone that will ever read this who helped my family right now, it is much appreciated here in France.  I got the call from President Wednesday morning, when I was in the middle of a lesson. I took it anyway, you don't just ignore a call from President, and he told me the news, and said I could email my family, and that they could actually call me if they want.

I am incredibly sad, I'm going to miss Grandpa a lot, but it gave me a chance to testify right then in that moment. We were teaching the Restoration, and when we got to praying about the Book of Mormon, I was able to bear my testimony and talk about Grandpa. He was a convert to our church, and so I was able to testify about how if he hadn't received his own personal testimony, and joined the church, its possible I wouldn't have been on a mission in the first place. And for sure, my life would be quite different. Our investigators were really touched. It’s this couple we're teaching, and the man especially is very interested, and wants very much to know this for himself, he really appreciated the lesson, and we all felt the spirit. Grandpa affected my life in ways I'll never forget, I loved him a lot, and I know he loved me too.

The rest of the week was great, we taught many lessons, and actually contacted a college student on the street who we invited to church, and he came! His name is Jeffrey, and he is very interested in how our church works and how it started, so we fixed a rendez-vous to start teaching him this week, very excited about that! during the week we did some service too, helping out a less active member in a small ville outside of Aix-en-Provence, and also helping set up for the Valentines activity the ward had this week. We many many less actives and amis come to the activity, some of the members invited many friends, and so we found some new amis as well who are interested to learn a little more. It was a great night, we had a great turnout, and the ward loved it. The rest of the week was normal, so nothing special there, just a great church meeting, we have stake conference next week in Nice, so I'm really excited about that. Hope everyone is well, have a great week!