What a good week! Who is happy to be Mormon?? ME!! Despite the crazy report they did on Mormons here in France (which said we were polygamists and rich)... great now for damage control:) Anyways!
Monday we started off with a really awesome family home evening with this wonderful member family that just moved here from the states. The Clark family is sooo amazing and always wants us to bring our amis over and they are very strong and great! They are both converts and want to basically serve a mission here.. they are so cool I can't even describe how much!! We had FHE with our ami Cassandra and we ate raclette! (where you heat different kinds of cheese on this warmer and eat it with basically everything, crackers, baguette bread, etc.) It was so yummy and she asked a lot of questions. We still can't get her to come to church but she is warming up to us:)
Tuesday we were in Lyon for Leadership Conference all day which was really cool. We got to hear from President Roney how we can better help the missionaries in our mission be more productive and more obedient so we can reach our goal of 300 baptisms this year... I know everyone who has served a mission outside of Europe is laughing at that number but that is pretty high for France ok:) SO, after Leadership Conference, I have made a goal to love French people more and not get so frustrated with their closed minded atheist, traditional ideas... I am still working on the love part:)
Wednesday we were on exchanges and I was with an Italian sister named Sister Buonanotte! She is a wonderful missionary; we were in the MTC together. We had MIRACLES!! First we taught one of her non-progressing amis named Kayvan who is Muslim. He said he would be in danger if he came to church and I was like dude... you already eat pork and drink alcohol... you are already in danger as far as I am concerned! ... so ya he is a little frustrating. Then we finally made contact with an old amis named Telesia from the Fortuna Islands and she is super cool! One of our young women in our ward named Ester comes in on Wednesday's after her school and helps us all day! She is so awesome! It's actually Isabelle Orsoni's daughter for those of you who know her:) S/O to Rich Harris! With her help at these lessons, we had really good numbers that day:) After that we said bye to this Tahitian guy in our ward named Nephi... funny huh?:) He is going back to Tahiti:( which is a total bummer because he is super cool! We said goodbye while we were with our ami, Josy, because he taught with us a lot during her lessons. It was sad, I cried.. He gave me a pearl necklace and told me that his family owns an island in Tahiti and that I can use it for my honeymoon someday! Then we went and contacted at the comedie just to get our numbers because we hadn't had a lot of time to contact. We contacted two 15 year old girls who were totally interested! We taught them a lesson and we are teaching them on Wednesday again! Crazy miracle! Then we had hot chocolate at a young adult's house... Her name is Elizabeth and she is the coolest person in the world. She has travelled all over the world and was converted when she was 12... how crazy is that? She is from Venezuela so she is helping me with my Spanish too:)
Thursday was zone training and then we headed toooo........ PERPIGNAN!!!! My first area:) we did an exchange there and it was the best thing of my life! oh my gosh! I was able to teach with the super cool bishop on Thursday nightand then we ate with his wife and cute kids the next day and I took pictures but forgot my camera today so i will send them next week! We had tea with the family Benedetti with their still less active brother; the one we helped reactivate when I was there? :( I called him and he was like sorry I am busy and I said I am only here tomorrow and he was said ok I will arrange it with my sister (Sister Benedetti) and we will meet there... so we had tea there and then at the end of our spiritual thought I just said Alain... go back to church:) haha I haven't heard if he went or not but it was super awesome!! Then we passed (met with) a name bishop gave us thinking they were less actives but they actually weren't members!! They are related to bishop's family and are super cool! So we had a lesson! It was really awesome. We had many miracles in Perpignan and the sisters were very happy to have some work to do there! I was spoiled rotten this week; it was sooo good to be back in Perpignan.. I could live there! Then Saturday we did p90x... arms and abs... and i still can't move today... ahhhh!
Sunday was fast Sunday which is also fun:) We finalized our details for Francine's baptism this weekend! I am really really excited; she is soooo ready! (fun fact from Sandy: As I edit this, Francine just messaged me:) I can confirm she is EXCITED and loves the missionaries:)!!) We have lots of good stuff planned this week with lots of potential amis! I hope we can find our family that we are looking for! We have been doing some porting and the elders have seen quite a few miracles.. we are waiting for ours:) Pray we can find a family! The church is true and the same wherever you are in the world. It may struggle in certain areas but this is HIS work and HE will not let it fail. So happy to be a part of it and to have this network of friends all over this beautiful country!! The gospel brings people together in a way nothing else can. I love you all! have a good week!
Sister Mod... in rainy cold Southern France:)
I know I shouldn't complain... sorry sister ally mod.. in freezing bulgaria:)
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