I REALLY AM THANKFUL FOR ALL OF YOUR LETTERS AND E-MAILS. THEY MEAN THE WORLD TO ME!!!! These last few weeks have been REALLY HARD! I have kinda lost track of home stuff, but never my family and I hope you know that! All I have been thinking about are our investigators and how to resolve their concerns! And how to find people! We haven't even found one new person that has been willing to just listen to us until we went porting a couple of days ago. No one has showed up at our rendezvous and Leticia doesn't want to be baptized anymore because she thinks god is selfish for not letting her drink beer and tea. Crazy people think that it should be illegal to have the plaques with Christ's name on it(our name tags)because when we outwardly express our ideas about religion we will start wars. Everyone here smokes! Little children smoke! A 7 year old asked us for a cigarette his week! There is pornography everywhere! Few people have any concept of who God even is over here! I feel like Alma in his desire to be an angel to cry repentance with a trump for all to hear! I have no complaints and I don't think less of anyone here because of their problems. EVEN CHRIST TOLD HEAVENLY FATHER TO FORGIVE THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM BECAUSE THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO!!!!!!!! If people really knew the the sacredness of the name we have on our plaques and the weight of our message, this place would be a lot better!, and that is why we are here and why we have so much responsibility to share that message of Christ with everyone!
This week was even crazier than the first one! I don't even know where to start. Ummmmm, Ok so We had our first exchanges this week. I was with Elder Draleau in Charlet for Tuesday and part of Wednesday. The first day started off rough by having rendezvous fall through and only being able to teach a breif lesson with the Audre,( their baptismal date), because her parents were gone and missionaries can't teach a woman without someone else there. No one wanted anything to do with us. Then it was 8:45 having only 15 min left to prosylete after teaching an english class. Which provided an oppurtunity to practice talking in english and visit some pass backs (which are old investigators that were dropped for whatever reason). We decided to be diligent and use those last 15 minutes to try and find someone with one of the last passbacks. They were not there, BUT, on our way back someone stopped us because they thought we were TJ's. French for Jehovas Witnesses. They were lookin for a fight cause they don't like TJs. When we said that we were actually missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ, one of the two guys got all curious because he had never met mormons before. We basically taught this guy the first lesson ,and even though he is a devote Catholic, he now has a great respect for us and invited us to talk to his mother because she studies religon and likes to know alot about other religions. Elder Draleau and Elder Smith went to teach them(because I was only there temporarily). They taught the mom and all of her 8 children, and they basically loved everything and are now investigators of the church. Hopefully that continues to go well.
Ummmm not the same luck in Le Mans. Elder Crump (my companion) was here with Elder Smith and they were teaching Leticia who now doesn't want to be baptized because she doesn't wanna stop smoking. When I came back and heard this I told Elder Crump that we need to see her RIGHT NOW! He told me that we would see her Sunday because she still wants to come to church. They had talked to her for two and a half hours trying to explain everything to her. I couldn't shake this feeling of needing to see her, so I prayed and the feeling came even stronger. We went to see her and she said she was busy. So, I basically bore the testimony of my life, on this subject, and put it in her mail box. We are going to her house today to see if anything has changed. Other than that we have been pretty much showed up by everyone. Forgetting or being to busy for rendezvous and it has been a little depressing. I will tell you some more details in a letter because I only have a minue left. I loves you all, and I will send pictures soon. Jason
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