Teaching and a baptism!

This week has been a blast, I started off by going on exchange again down in Perpignan, with a younger elder in the mission, and we had a blast, we talked with people on the streets during the afternoon, and then in the evening had a big evening activity with their Ward, and had a blast. The next day was just as good, we got to see two of our Amis, and then had a worldwide devotional for all the missionaries across the planet, which was fantastic. The best part of the week however, was the rendezvous we had with the family we're teaching in a small ville right outside of Montpellier, called Sete. We had fixed a baptismal date with the family the rendezvous before this one, and they had said they were excited to keep learning, and especially to pray and receive their own response that the church was true.

We went over, and during the first five minutes, when we were just talking and seeing how they were doing, the wife looked and us and told us with a gigantic grin on her face that she had received her response. She told us the night before she had really been praying, and then had read a scripture in the Bible that confirmed her question for her, she said as soon as she read it she received a huge spiritual feeling in her heart of the truth. I was ecstatic, and couldn't speak for the next 5 or 6 seconds. Needless to say, it was a phenomenal rendezvous. The rest of the week has been really great, we have a new ami that we found this week on the tram who has no background in religion whatsoever, and it's giving us a new way of teaching her, which has been very cool to do.

This week has been one of the best weeks of my mission, we've been incredibly blessed to be here in Montpellier. The beginning of the week was transfers, and so we helped out at the train station with all the missionaries passing through and catching connecting trains. It was fun to get to see some old friends and all the elders coming through, transfer day is fun. Then the rest of the week was pretty normal, we got to see our Amis and do some contacting, Friday I got to go on exchange with the Nîmes Elders, and was able to help them out with their Amis. The week was fairly normal, then this weekend was the best. Our ami has been taking the missionary lessons for about a year, and two days ago, this past Saturday, he finally got baptized! It was our bishop who baptized him, and I was able to do the confirmation on Sunday, one of the best experiences I've had on my mission. He was radiant as he came out of the water, so happy and filled with light.




He bore his testimony about how this church has changed him and his way of acting. He told a story of him helping a man move a couch on the side of the road, feeling prompted by the Holy Ghost, and how before he doubted he would have even been out of bed by then. He was so happy and excited, and basically the whole Ward turned out for the baptism, because he's been coming to church for a while now, and is well known and loved. We even had the Mission President there, as a young missionary he served in Montpellier, and so he came down for church and the baptism. He took us out to dinner with the other missionaries in Montpellier after the baptism, and so in the end it was one of my favorite weekends of my mission. I'm so blessed to be able to serve here and see the change that this gospel can make in people's lives, I know I've seen in my own life just how much I've changed before and on my mission because of it, and I know that my Savior lives now so much clearer than ever before.