So the greve is kinda obnoxious .........there is no transportation of any sort available cause everyone refuses to work during these greves. Truck drivers are not working either so no gas for France....i guess among other things. I would have thought, that if your economy was bad and you wanted to have more money, that you would want to keep your job and earn as much as possible. Maybe France is trying to trick their economy with reverse psychology. Anyways This week was pretty good. We had some pretty good lessons. One of which, was a guy who has been an investigator for FOREVER, and coming to church FOREVER, and even has a calling but says he doesn't have enough faith to pray to know if the church is true. (His name is Jean and his wife is Malinda)......He is trying to get enough faith to do so and has been for quite some time. He was raised in a radical catholic religion, that is not the same as the normal catholic religion, that would abuse their children every time they did something wrong. Then they would make them pray and beg for mercy as their punishment. Sooooo yeah, prayer is really hard for him.
He and his wife fed us A LOT OF FOOD!!!!! I thought I was gunna die! We had snails ( escargot )!!!!!!! it was weird picking those little buggers outta their shells. Then they kinda jiggle around on your toothpick.....it reminded me of the little snail guys on Flushed Away that sang songs throughout the movie in their squeaky high voices. I think the one's I ate were screaming at me as I ate them, which ,by the way, they actually taste pretty good.......still weird though! Then we had some salad thingy and then we had chicken and then we had bread and cheese and then we had an apple tart and then... I wanted to die.. but we had to teach a lesson. Elder Crump still has to basically teach by himself.......I have been able to at least share experiences and bear testimony but it is really hard to jump into a conversation that you have no idea about what is going on. I still can't quite understand their accents yet but, I can understand the Elders perfectly, so now I can at least understand half of the conversation. Anyways I have been really good at finding out what we should teach during studies and finding tons of scriptures and applying it to every ones needs. For this lesson, I found a bunch of cool things on how faith is a choice to have and a responsibility to develop. All things that are expedient to man are given him (2NE: 2) and all of us have the Light of Christ /commonly referred to as our conscience, that leads all men to do good and helps us to know the good from the evil. This gift that is given to all people leads us to good, and since all good things come from God, it eventually can lead us to Him.....IF we let it. This is all found in Moroni 7 as well as other places, PMG is a particularly good one. But yeah, lots of other good stuff of which I can explain better in a letter instead of on this stupid computer! But of course since Jean is really stubborn he didn't really suck it all in .......we weren't actually thinking he would, but the whole faith is a choice thing at least got him to really think about it. We also found support form a recent talk in conference. But yeah, that among some weird lessons with a schizophrenic guy......and his friends who burned some incense that made me very sick, and giving him a blessing, in french, which was weird in itself! we also taught a family that doesn't speak french very well so we had to draw out everything but they understood it and the wife came to church this Sunday! ........which seems to be every ones weakness, going to church! We have 8 really good progressive investigators but only 2 or 3 ever show up. A little sad ,Oh Well ,it was a pretty good week, and I will tell you what!! This mission is like a crazy roller coaster everyday, cause there are some awesome ups and some really low downs
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Me and Elder Crump( my first day) in Paris.
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