This week was a ton of fun for us, we got to go to many members homes kind of all over our sector's limits, so it was a lot of fun. We got on referral from an older sister in a ville north of Annemasse, and are still working on contacting it, so it should turn out well. Last week we also got to have a lot of fun with the zone, we went to a zone Pday with everyone after we did everything we needed to in Annemasse, so it was a blast. We got to teach our ami Nadia twice this past week, she's been seeing missionaries for many months now and loves coming to church, just has some very strong ties to her old faith, so we're hoping to get her to keep progressing. We had the chance to go to a baptism for the sister missionaries last Saturday, which was quite fun. It was great because their ami decided he wanted to be baptized in the lake, even though it's November, so it was a bit chilly, but a really neat thing.
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| Being Goofy in District Meeting |
Today we had the chance to go out to Chamonix, a ville far out in our sector, to go for a fun hike with some members and eat lunch with a family who loves there. It's right below Mont Blanc, and is well known in Europe for skiing, so it was gorgeous, and a ton of fun. One thing I had the chance to do this week was kind of dive into the Book of Mormon in my studies, I just restarted it, and finished Lehi's dream. I love it a lot and am so grateful for the Book of Mormon, every day I find something new and clarifying that I hadn't seen before, I'd encourage everyone to read it every day if you can.
In Annemasse we spend a lot of time outside talking to people and visiting the members and less actives. We still are lacking in the amis category, but have a couple of potentials we're hoping to be able to start seeing regularly. The highlight of this week was the conference we had in Lausanne, Switzerland. Linda K. Burton, the General Relief Society President, came to visit the Lausanne Stake, and so the two Switzerland zones, Geneva and Lausanne, had the opportunity to come and to listen to her for a missionary conference. It was fantastic, one of the biggest messages during the conference that I remarked on, was just how much the Lord will qualify us and change us during our missions if we are willing to let Him, and work hard.
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| Being Appropriate in District Meeting |
At the beginning, it's like putting on a suit coat, the calling of a missionary, that is too big for us, we're not completely ready for it. As the mission progresses, the calling doesn't change, the suit coat, but the Lord will change us to fit that calling. We become stronger, more spiritually inclined, and more mature as we make the sacrifices required during a mission, and leave who we were behind to change into who the Lord wishes us to be, able to fit and fill the calling. At the end, when we are released, and the coat is taken away, the coat itself has not changed, but we inside of it have changed completely, to fill this calling, and are left a different person. It was a powerful message for us all, and inspiring to help us want to become that much better, and to make every effort while we're still here to become that what our Savior has in mind. Very touching conference.
We're starting to see some really neat things start to happen. We were able to find two new amis here in Annemasse, the first ones we've had in a while, with two other potentials who have told us they will come back to the church and learn more, waiting to see. The first one was a man named Nicholas, who was a referral from the elders in Nîmes, a ville near the south coast. He was very open, and happily agreed to a rendez-vous with us, and so we taught him on Wednesday. The other was a man who actually called us asking for a rendez-vous, and so we saw him for the first time last Friday, and will see him again tonight. It's really neat to see some small fruits of all the effort we've been giving here in the beginning.
We had both a district meeting this week and a zone conference, so they were fun, the whole conference was focused on how much more we could be using our planners, how much more we could the area book, and all the little tools we have to help us out in our missionary work. Other than that, we've just been working as hard as we can to keep going and finding more new people. It's a ton of fun with my companion, he's English, and it makes everything he says much funnier for it. I hope everyone had a good Halloween, and that y'all are staying warm. I love you all, au revoir!
I'll start off by saying that I'm alright, I'm perfectly ok. We are a while from Paris, and so we were not affected in any large way by all the attacks. After a couple of hours of lockdown in our apartments we received the go ahead to go back to work, and so everything is alright at the moment. Thanks to everyone for the prayers on behalf of all those who were affected by the attacks, there are some families that we know here and an ami we're teaching who have loved ones in Paris, and were very concerned, but it seems as though everything has turned out ok for those friends.
