So this week has been INCREDIBLE!!! We taught 4 lessons last tuesday... 4! we got 6 new amis last week! It was crazy! Oma must have been muttering sweet german nothings to these french people because I know there were tons of angels working with us this week!!! So we found this guy last P day on our way home and he is from Iraq and was wanting to talk about the war and stuff. He said, "why did you start the war?" but he said it nicely and jokingly in english... he loves to speak english even though he doesn't speak super well. And I said, "ummm I think you started the war actually, remember 9/11?" But then I wondered ... no you probably don't even know what happened in new york because you had a dictator that kept every ounce of your freedom!! But he lost his entire family in the war and is here as a refugee! he lived in paris for 4 years and now he is here. I think he thought our first rdv was to talk culture and stuff but we whipped out a book of mormon in arabic and he was like wooooww! So ya we taught him a couple of times last week. Its hard with him though because he is muslim... so trying to teach the gospel of jesus christ is hard because he doesn't believe in christ... haha poses some problems! He is still a practicing muslim but he can totally change because he has no ties to home and he is never going back... so pray really really hard for him! Then we met this guy max from nigeria a couple of weeks ago and we have last minute lessons with him all the time. he is SOOOOO FUNNY! oh my goodness! He speaks english so its really weird to do our lessons in english because I am not used to it. But we gave him an english book of mormon to replace his french one and he was like "WOW this one is way smaller! way more portable why do they make the french ones so big?" haha i was like because half of the french words aren't pronounced which means lots of wasted letters":) We were on exchanges this week and I was wither Sister Stevens:) my best friend in the whole world apart from sister richardson on the mission! it was the best day of my mission! haha she is soooo great! but we went sooo hard all day! all day! Poor girl she was like when do you eat dinner I was said we usually don't... haha its true what beau said...the harder you work the faster the time goes and the easier your mission is so we don't stop all day! so we were on our way back to have dinner 30 minutes before we were supposed to plan for the end of the night and max called and was said i am sorry i cancelled but i can meet you at your place right now! haha thankfully we live right next to this park thing so we could meet him there. But we had JUST sat down to eat.. and I said will you do this lesson please? haha she said, ya for sure! So we went and taught him at 9 at night! you have to be in by 9:30 and sister stevens said this has to be quick we have to be in by 9:30! i said ok ok we will! So we teach him about joseph smith he loves it he says the closing prayer which was like the best prayer i have ever heard! and at 9:29 we are sprinting back to our apartment! haha we laid down for bed that night and she was like you are one of the hardest working missionaries i have ever seen! she is like most missionaries would have said no to that lesson but there we were leaving our dinner to go teach! it was a good feeling to know that i am doing something right since we are teaching ourselves what is good and what is not! haha
Then we had district meeting on thursday which is always sooo good and always pumps me up soooo much! And we went out and contacted about our english class next week and SOOOO many people are interested! we are hoping that it will be huge and that we can find lots of people from that! we contacted for 3 hours! i was soooo dead! we went and dropped off our streetboard at our DMP's (ward mission leader) and he invited us to come in and drink something he said you two look deranged! haha i said we would love to but can't its against the rules" and so he brought two chairs outside and some juice and glasses and had us tell him about the people we found! he is the nicest guy in the world oh my goodness. He then bore his testimony on sunday about how our examples of obedience, even in times that seem harmless, was inspiring for him. We had a lot of people building us up this week:) which i needed after last week! haha
Then we met Lim... I have been forcing myself to contact people on the tram because its the most awkward contact but we're on them all the time and its a waste of time if your not talking to people! so i talked to him and he is from cambodia and he got separated from his family during some war or something|? his mom went around with his picture around the country looking for him. He prayed every night he would find his family and they FOUND EACH OTHER! can you believe that?? crazy! and because of that he now believes in God! he gave me all his info on the tram and then we got off at our stop. We went to our apartment and I said to Soeur Russell, we have to go work some more we can't be done for the night. So we went back out to work and caught him coming home from grocery shopping. we said can we teach you right now? haha and he said yes! so we taught him and he is soooo cool! i have such a good feeling about him! we have a cambodian book of mormon that he is going to love when we see him tomorrow!
Those are just a few of the miracles we have seen this week! there were sooo many more but it would take forever! We will see how many of these new amis give us more rdv's this week and then hopefully I will have more stories for you next week! Your prayers are being answereed... mine are being answered... we now have too many people to teach we can't fit them all into a week. My planner is chuck full of numbers and addresses! the Lord has blessed us SOOOO MUCH! beyond what I would have ever imagined! i am curious to see what happens this week with transfers because I feel like I am leaving but I felt like I was staying last time so we will see:) haha thanks for all the birthday packages so far... well thank you burningham's:) haha you guys are sooo great! love you all! Remember to always put your faith in the Lord no matter what! he wants to help you so much but you have to believe that He can! I love all of the stories of Jesus in the bible as He heals people according to their faith! I was lacking faith at the beginning of this transfer but as soon as I trusted that on His timing, we would find work we found SO MUCH! Louise calls me everyday and she is doing well. she is sad and wants to come home so she is trying to this week:) I am pumped! anyways this is sooo long! love you all!
Oma's funeral sounded wonderful I am sooo happy for that!!!
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| We had exchanges this week and Sister Stevens came to st etienne and we had a whole day together it was sooooo great! oh my goodness we had way too much fun together! Then we had district meeting the next day so we had a sleepover:) |
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