Ok what a week friends and family!!
For those of you who haven't heard our two chinese investigators texted us after they watched conference at their apartment in chinese that they want to be baptized!!!! we talked to them about it last week and they were like "we only met God a month ago" haha #Buddhism and we were like ya but God has known you forever and he wants you to return to Him!!! and after conference they were like YUP! we want to be baptized! they have been working with my dad to get into byu because they want to go to school in a good environment with people "who know God too" AHHH they are a light in my life!
So this week we taught 9 lessons in the presence of a member which is better than last week:) and we ate at tons of members houses sooo i was STUFFED all week of food. But it was good because we were at the church on sunday for almost 12 hours for conference without a break because we had 9 amis come to conference... half of the people who came to church to watch conference were our amis! and can all of you go watch Gerald Causse's talk from priesthood session... ya he is french... and ya racism is a problem here in france so his talk was PERFECT!!! our ward is good at welcoming our amis but they could be better... everyone can be better at making EVERYONE feel welcome at church! Jean is one of our amis who is getting baptized in 2 weeks and he came to two sessions of conference and took notes!! #proudmommoment! seriously i was like "look members, he took notes at conference did you?" haha it was sooo great! Nelly... I am really sad about her right now... I don't know how engaged she is to the church as she is to us. We are good, good friends but i don't think she understands that this is the KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH not just another church. So she headed back to le puy today and is coming back next week so we will keep in touch with her through phone. She has had a rough week this week... the job that she thought she had landed called and told her they couldn't hire her becasue she wasn't french... stupid! so ya that was a bummer! but anyways pray she finds a job in st. etienne!
Another hilarious thing that happened! We teach so much we barely have anytime to contact so we are always contacting the 5 normal people on our way home at like 8 at night. Everytime we do we meet really cool people that seem sooo golden! But then the Lord is giving us so many people, we sometimes forget or get them mixed up soooo.. the other night we met this woman and her son and she said ya i am catholic but i have so many questions that are not answered at the catholic church and my son LOVEs God. We were like ok... golden!! we gave a quick retab and got her number... that same night we met a women and her daughter who was like you are here all alone with no family? come over to my house and we can eat and chat and we were like ok she isn't interested in our lesson... but was really nice... so Corrine is the catholic, Karima is muslim and has the daughter. so Soeur Bowman messes us their names and numbers and sets a rdv with Karima, the muslim. we get a member and everything; we are waiting at the tram stop with our member and she doesn't show so we call and call and call (Corinne- because that is who we thought we set the rdv with) and no answer. Then we get a message from karima saying are you there yet? haha we were like ya!! so she said ok i will come and get you! she turns the corner to get us and we thought ohhhh noo... that is not corinne... i look at soeur bowman and said
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