Visit from an Apostle

This week the district meetings got canceled due to a nationwide problem with the trains. At the beginning of the week, all the Montpellier missionaries went to the beach for our Preparation Day, and we had blast. We played American football, and ran around playing catch for a long time, and overall had a super fun time. I was able to go on two exchanges, one down in a really pretty ville called Carcassonne, which is known for the huge castle inside of it, which was fun, we spent the whole day at members' houses or doing service for one of them, so it was fun, we were able to get some possible referrals.

I was also on exchange in Nîmes, and spent a lot of time outside talking with everybody we could, and finding some cool potentials for them. Then I got back, and we had soirée familiale, which was a blast, we had a good message on testimonies, and then played a fun game. Then the highlight of the week was Saturday, the sister missionaries had a baptism, and we were all able to go and attend. The person being baptized was named Karine, the little sister of a resent convert, and it was really neat to get to be able to attend, because it was her older brother, the recent convert of about two years, who baptized her, and they were both so happy, and glowing. We then went out and had a miracle hour with all the Montpellier equipes, talking with everybody and their dog as much as we could for an hour, and it was fantastic, we got two new potentials! Sunday was good, we did our planning, and contacted a bit, nothing big.

Tuesday we had another mission wide conference for the visit of Elder D. Todd Christofferson, one of the 12 apostles. It was incredible, he had an incredible spirit with him as he spoke to us, and we learned a lot. One of the things he said that touched me the most was when he opened it up to questions, and somebody asked for advice on how to do better on keeping our goals. Sometimes we fix good goals, and go hard for however long, and then we lost focus or motivation and never finish the goal we set for us, and he asked him how we could do that better.




He said it was the same thing as with the repentance process, one of the biggest things was simply our will and ability to recognize that we've messed up, and then to do everything we can to get back. He said as soon as we  recognize our error, it is then that we have the responsibility to do everything we need to as quick as we need to to fix that error. The rest of the week was good, got to go on exchange in my old branch and teach a family that just got baptized, really neat. Me and another missionary in our apartment went on exchange and got 33 conversations in one day, it was incredible! Life here is great, I love getting to work in Montpellier, it's starting to warm up a lot here as well. I love all y'all, have a great week!