Oh my goodness everyone! there aren't words i can use to describe this week! ok so first of all last week I don't remember if i was upbeat or not in my email but i was a little down last week. 18 months seemed like a VERY long time to be here haha and i was fighting with myself to get those negative thoughts out of my head! but just like Beau said... whenever things get hard its because something great is about to happen and he was SOOO RIGHT!
So to start off the week! we had a rdv last week on P day which i don't know if i told you. The elders passed her to us and so we had a little lesson and she is pretty hard to understand because she has like 1 tooth in her head. she is the sweetest thing. So she is awesome about rdv's! she is like ok so when are you coming next and i need a bible do you have extra bibles? haha i am like we will find you one:) so we ended up having like 4 or 5 lessons with her last week and she has a baptismal date.... i know right... re read that last line and then remember I am in france where "you can't baptize anyone" FALSE!!! ahhhh so i am flying on cloud nine because i haven't made it past the first lesson and now all of the sudden i am teaching the word of wisdom and stuff in french so that is hard but we bring a member to every lesson so that helps a ton! butttt a bit of bad news... she has a way sketch past and has been abused and beaten and raped numerous times... thank heavens i don't have the vocabulary for that. We left one of the lessons last week and our member is Eynorah the awesome girl that just got home off her mission who speaks english and she was like did you understand that lesson? and i said no not really and she is like good. But what lead into that traumatic story was our lesson on repentance. And she was like what if i can't forgive someone and we were like just give it to Christ and you know that sort of thing and then she spilled this really graffic story apparently and at the end of it I knew something bad had happened to her but i wasn't sure exactly what but i just started crying... (i know i told you i am sooo emotional.) And i just told her that Christ gets it... He knows her and her trials and He wants her to feel light and free from all of the darkness... so it was a totally inspried testimony since i didn't know what was going on but ya it was a powerful moment. She started crying and i reached over and grabbed her hand and we sat in silence and cried for a good couple of minutes. When we left the lesson Eynorah was like i seriously want to throw up i am so glad you two didn't understand that lesson. But i understood what i needed to understand:)
Then on Friday we had a movie night at the church where we watched the Joseph Smith Movie and it was a great turn out! We encouraged the members to come and bring a friend and we had a good amount of people show up. Lousie came too and she LOVED IT! hahah when he got tarred and feathered she was like why are they doing that? what is going on? and then when she saw him baptize his father she grabbed my hand and was like that's going to be me! haha i am like yup:) i was beaming! but the coolest thing was that we had like 30 minutes to kill before the movie started and we had a goal as a zone to contact 5000 people so we are like ok we need to contact a good amount still lets just go contact people for 30 minutes while we run and grab a treat for the movie night and come back. (Literally just thinking about getting numbers to contribute to the total... terrible don't think like that:)! But the last woman we talked to was this african woman with the CUTEST little girl with a fro! oh my gosh i will take a picture this week and show you! haha and we were just chatting with her and told her about the movie night and she is like i can't tonight but i live by your church lets meet up the same time tomorrow! i was like sweet! so we had a rdv with her the next day with Lisa (who is the new convert and she is like my age and she is SOOOOO awesome!) she is in the primary presidency and Bijou is this ladies name came to the rdv with 2 more kids! she is a mom of 3 ADORABLE KIDS! oh my gosh and we gave her a chapelle tour and when we got to the sacrament room she is like oh ya this is what i am talking about! this is a church! i am like yup! so we committed her to come to church the next day and she came with her kids and she knows one of the members! but the coolest part is that we gave her a pamphlet to look at for our church and she is like you don't have any black people in your congregation do you? and we are like no that is just a standard picture, that isn't our ward. At church ALL of the africans in our ward were there! like people i hadn't even met before! and they asked 2 africans to bless the sacrament and then the talks were given by the relief society president about fortifying the family! haha it was perfect! and then there was like a big primary picnic after so bijou parked her stroller and just chatted with all the moms of kids.... like how perfect was that? i had no idea any of this was happening? i couldn't believe how many miracles? crazy!!!!
so ya! those are my two cool stories of the week! we found so many people this week while we were trying to contact a ton of people and we have a lot of potential people which is really exciting! the work is hastening over here in france! We are the next Brazil everybody:) haha we always joke that one door knocked in france is a baptism in brazil haha! or the Dominican Republic:) haha just kidding Beau! anyways love you all! thanks for your love and support! Ally sends so many photos that i didn't have time to send any today sorry! lots will come next week:) love you ally cat!
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