I loved Chris's email hahaha I miss your orangutan arms! I also loved hearing from Natalie he he. Shes so cute. Holy cow! When you sent me that Christmas picture I was SO surprised to see how grown up everyone is! SCARY! Thanks dad, I'm glad to hear everything is going so well. Something I really have noticed about Pres. Finn's blessing is how I would feel my family's prayers. Y'all must be praying really hard cause whenever I get discouraged, even the slightest bit, I feel an overwhelming love swarm over me! I also noticed how he he said I was gunna have to work REALLY HARD and EVERYDAY to find people.
Me and Elder Fortuna have been working our tails off and haven't really found too much yet. But if there is anything I could have taken from my preparation before my mission, it was that most miracles take a lot of cookin' to brew up! Patience is something I had to work really hard at before my mission and what I have learned applies to every aspect of my life! My art work, my ability run, enduring trials( such as many hospital visits), schooling, and most importantly missionary work! There is a law irrevocably decreed in heaven that says, no one can be forced to enjoy the blessings of eternal life. We have to make a choice. I could proselyte all day, pushing for people to apply saving principles to their lives, but it all will inevitably fail unless someone makes a choice. What is that choice. Well, it is the same choice that we made before this life. The choice to follow God, and His divine plan, or to follow Satan, who tried so hard to take our freedoms away, taking the honor for himself in forcing all of us to obey his command. Life is so simple, the plan is perfect, but we like to make everything so stinking complicated! I cannot count the number of people that have asked us, why does your church have TW0 bibles. If God exists why can't I see Him, or my personal favorite, that all sounds good and I know it helps a lot of people but it doesn't help me! GOD IS NOT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND. You have no need to do more than understand yourself to understand God! We are literally God's children, and if we listen to Him we have the divine potential to learn and become LIKE Him, if we obey His commandments. The wise counsel of John tells us that we can grow to understand God by keeping His commandments. Many people feel God is to foreign of a concept to try and understand. Well why don't you ask Him and get to know him yourself through prayer. The only problem in this world is that we don't understand ourselves! That is all me and any of my companions try to do when we talk to people on the street. We talk to them about families and testify of our Heavenly family, God Himself being our Heavenly Father! Nivelle is crazy small and I have seen a lot of the same people I have contacted already he he. OH if only these people new how much their Heavenly Father cares for them. Then they would think twice before saying "ça m'interrese pas" before I can even form words on my lips!
Well me and Elder Fortuna have gotten really good at stopping pretty much everyone we see, so if anyone is out there, we will find them! We have actually had alot of success in the area book and we are starting to fix some rendez vous there. A lot of them have moved though, so we keep sending them as referrals to other places! We have also given 7 Book of Mormons out to people in the last week and a half, so I know we will see fruit blossom from there if we keep working hard!
Well I will stop mumbling and tell ya a bit about Fortuna. He is kinda quiet, but is a funny guy who loves video games and anything to do with computers. He wants to be a computer programmer our something like that,( or the people who make video games). Some of those categories actually fall into animation stuff so he really likes art as well! he he. He is kind of a nerd, but I love him to death! He has been an AWESOME example to me in diligence with our contacting! We might stink at explaining things in french, but at least we talk to everyone we can and do our best!
Well thanks y'all for everything you do and sorry if my emails seem kinda preachy lately ......gotta preach to someone if no one here well listen he he jk! LOVES and KISSES Elder Lyons
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