General Conference and Long-Distance Teaching

This week was fantastic, and largely in part to General Conference last weekend. For a missionary a General Conference is always fantastic, and this time especially so I feel. All the talks and messages shared held things for each of us, and I really feel like they helped me here. It's a wonderful opportunity to listen to a living prophet as well, and hear his words for our day. In any case, the weekend was great. So was Monday however, it was my Mission President's last interview conference of his mission, where he goes around the mission and does a Zone Conference with every zone, during which he has a personal interview with each missionary. It was wonderful to get to talk with him in that setting, seeing as he's so busy and not always around normally, so I made the most of it, and learned a lot.

Service with the Members

The conference was all about trusting the Lord, and moving forward with faith, even when maybe we can't see the end result. It was really good, and was a message I think many of us needed to hear, wonderful for his last interview conference. I had a really cool opportunity this week to help missionaries in Turkey help teach a man through Skype. He was from the Congo, a French speaking country, and they needed help translating and helping him understand the finer points of the gospel. It was really cool to see how truly connected we are, him coming from the Congo, us being in France, but the teaching going on in Turkey. The missionaries there are few, there are only 12 in the entire country, so the odds are not high of finding him, but they did, and now we get to help teach him, really neat experience for me. We had another lesson with a young guy who was leaving the next day for Montpellier, but it was really cool, when he had talked with my companion two days earlier he had said that he really liked it, and that he would bring a friend to the rendez-vous. He ended up bringing 2! We had a really fun rendez-vous with them, they were young and open, and they all ended up asking us for the Book of Mormon, which was really cool. Other than that, nothing too out of the ordinary happened this week, today me and my companions went to this huge, really neat wall painting here in Lyon. It's massive, and we took a ton of photos. Hope everybody can take some time to read some from General Conference, have a great week, au revoir!