ok akmod! i literally had like 15 emails from you! hint: the reason your letters are so short is because your emailing us all your self-sundays:) haha i love them though dont stop but i have like 10 minutes to write this email so i am going to be quick!
So this week we just tried to visit as many members as we could so we could spark them with the work of salvation broadcast like i tried to do with y ou all last week:) i hope it worked and that you are already making plans of how your going to start inviting your friends to church activities!
We have been focusing on finding people to teach here because we are a brand new equipe so we don't have an amis to teach and nearly all our rdv's fell through this week.... ya super disappointing. But then at last we had zone conference which always come right when i need it and i got all fired up again to get back to work and stop sulking... that there really are people out there i just haven't found them! sooooo then this weekend was sooo full of miracles! we went to this little area of town called l'etrat and its like a super nice rich area that is sooo beautiful! no one wanted to listen to us but it was beautiful so the last person on the road before we were trying to catch our bus was this middle-aged man who was smoking and on his phone... don't contact him right.... haha i did! and he was sooo nice! i thought for sure he would blow smoke right in my face but he put his cigarette down and after my little intro he was like so you want to fix something up later and talk more about it? i am like actually yes i would love to do that!:) you took the words right from my mouth! so we verified our rdv with him yesterday and in the background it sounded like he has a family!!! ahhh i am soo excited! then on saturday we went out ville to this beautiful suburb of st etienne.. actually every place is beautiful so that doesn't count but we went out and passed the entire afternoon at their house and they invited a ton of friends over that weren't members so it was an awesome opportunity for us and we went with the elders which is always fun! haha we have great elders here! So we went and contacted for a bit which we didn't find really anyone which was ok but i ate froglegs!!! someone tell sydney fletcher hansen that i have eaten frog legs and foie gras:) haha so ya they are not that great and so much work for no meat... but anyways sorry had to throw that in there! but when we got back from being at the family bernardy's we had another rdv with a single women and her kids at like 7:15 and it was like 6:45 so we are like ok we will contact for just a bit before we go see her... contacting is not that fun you have to make yourself do it and then it gets fun! so i contacted this old woman and she had a rough life and started crying as she was talking to me and i bore a sweet testimony but she didn't want anything to do with the church but this black lady came up behind her and was like what are you two preaching about? haha i am like jesus.. and she is like oh i love jesus and i was like me too want to learn more and she is like ya meet me here on tuesday at this time! haha i am like sweet! then she saw us on the tram later that night and was like i am sooooo glad i saw you two tuesday doesn't work for me but wednesday does and can you write it down on my card that you gave me so i can put it in my planner..... that never happens!!! we get stood up all the time but these two are sooo solid i am sooo excited to teach them!
We also had to go to a rdv this morning (p day) with the elders because they didn't have a member lined up because it was so last minute so we went with them and then they couldn't stay because there wasn't another guy... blah blah rules rules in the white handbook so first lessons always freak me out because you want to introduce the church the best you can so they realize its importance and that its the best thing that walked into their life not just two random americans trying to practice their french:) but she was golden! she asked about polygamy which was a tad difficult in french to explain... actually i don't know if i could explain that in english! hahah i am like great first lesson and we are talking about polygamy.. thank you brigham young:) but anyways at the end of the lesson she was like sooo can you see me again this week? we are like actually ya we were just going to ask you that. and then we asked her if we could close with a prayer and she is like ya sure! she is like i would like to give the prayer next time but do you have a subject or a lesson about prayer? hahaha i am like yes,,, yes we do:) hahah she is sooo great! she has like 3 teeth in her head but she is perfect! she doesn't have a bible but she is like oh you have another book perfect i will start reading this one until you can get me a bible too! hahah i am like ok gotta find a bible! oh my goodness the miracles that have happened just this last weekend as we put our trust in the Lord and contacted and were as diligent as possible just came flowing! it was incredible! anyways that's all i have for you!
One more miracle! I recieved a letter this week from a less active i worked with in perpignan! i wish i could show you all it it is the sweetest note I have ever received! she talks about how sweet i was even though she didn't understand me that much but that she knew i cared about her and she felt grateful that she wasnt forgotten! oh my gosh i can't wait to show you all when i get home! it was the greatest letter! i gave her a journal before i left to start writing her thoughts about the BOM in and in her letter she is like i read alma 32 like you wanted me to and your right there were sooo many beautiful things and thank you for not assignming me a war chapter! hahah she is the artist that gave me a painting so she is very eloquent when she writes! she is sooo great! anyways have to go! love you!
church is always true! and everyone needs and loves jesus!
Sister mod
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