Coming down the Home Stretch, and a Baptism

Number of transfers - last one!

This week was a kind of crazy week, but a ton of fun at the same time. It started off with Elder Wiberg, the newer elder in the other equipe got a funny call on Monday from President Brown, telling him he was getting transferred to the office, and would be heading up there a little bit early. That meant that we got Elder Spencer as part of our equipe for his last three days in France, and we had a ton of fun. We went around all over Montpellier talking to people and teaching their Amis plus our Amis, and visiting the members before he went home. We got to go as well to District Meeting on Thursday, which went well, it was Elder Spencer's last one, and he taught and testified really well, it was good to see. We got our transfer calls on Friday morning, and Elder Thorne and I will be staying together for my last transfer!! We're stoked to go and work super hard for these next six weeks, it's going to be a lot of fun.

Saturday and Sunday we spent a lot of time with members, seeing as Elder Spencer was going home, and went to a Samedi Sportif on Saturday. Sunday was great, got to talk to my family by Skype for Mother's Day, which was a special treat and a lot of fun. This week I tried a lot to study charity and love for the people we're serving, which has changed things for me my whole mission. The more we love those around us and try to see them as our Heavenly Father, the more I can tell that our attitude towards the work changes. It's a neat thing to experience and have happen.

We spent a lot of time outside doing random errands, but at the same time, we got to talk to everyone, so conversation numbers were really good. There was a huge festival in Nîmes this week, which made it unsafe for the Nîmes elders to stay there, and so they came and stayed with us for five days, making a six man apartment, and only one shower in the mornings. Needless to say, the food and mornings were dire, but we've had a ton of fun! (We may or may not have had fast food three or four times this week)

Eating Heartily 

The best part of the week however, was the miracle the sister missionaries had. One of the members' wife has been taking missionary lessons and coming to church for the past five years, but never wanted to be baptized. The sisters had a lesson with her this last Tuesday, and they asked her what was stopping her from being baptized. She was silent for a minute or two, and then announced  that she felt the time had arrived, and that she was going to be baptized this Saturday. The whole family was shocked, and everybody looked at her, than started crying, and voila! She was baptized this last Saturday, after a couple of frantic calls to the bishop, last minute baptismal interview, and getting everything together, we ended up having a beautiful baptism for her, and confirmation the day after. It was an incredible miracle, and she was so happy and glowing after the baptism. That night a member took out for dinner at a restaurant and they had a friend with them, which was fantastic!