I don't even really know where to start. I can't believe that Ben Moore has already got his call! Hawaii totally seems fitting for Ben. I just keep thinking of surfer bums being converted by Ben's chillish attitude, he he!
Chris is going to college. What a joke! Why is everyone getting old and stuff?
Well this week was full of a little bit of everything. First off, there is a less active family that we had been trying to get a hold of FOREVER, because they expressed the desire to have their kids baptized, but their actions didn't really express their desires. Me and Elder Wood spent the entire last transfer getting no where with them. This week I just felt like stopping by their house, instead of calling them or talking to them the few times they were at church. We stopped by and apparently it was a miracle that everyone was home. They said that normally they were super busy. Nevertheless the kids are SUPER tight and really want to be baptized. We have since started the lessons and they will be baptized the 13th of August! It's super cool to see how much good this is doing for a family who had been struggling a bit. Now they are taking action and basically are AWESOME!
We also had a super powerful rendezvous with Andrés about the simple commandments of reading scriptures, praying, and going to church. He is such a teenager, and well ...reading books just aint his thing. We explained "why" we do all these things and "why" we keep the commandments. How they help us develop a relationship with our Heavenly Father, and how all these things are for us. Not something to bore us to death, but actually there to improve our lives. He took it a lot more seriously and we fixed a baptismal date for the 27th of August!
There are so many miracles going down in Namur and it is super exciting! We just keep on finding new people to teach as well! We have only had two weeks out of the last two tranfers where we haven't found someone else to teach. The week afterward made up for it, and we found two to three more!
We recently just found a man and the end of a porting session ( knocking on doors). It was really rough. We had been yelled at and slammed on all night but we just kept at it and then at this door the man answered by saying Je vous écoute! I'm listening. Elder Reed explained who we were and that we are here to share a message about Christ and he said....well I got to go in 5 minutes so.......come back tomorrow and you can teach me then! So I immediately got out the Book of Mormon and was like, well here, read this before we come back. After explaining what it was, he said, "sure, why not have a wonderful night and see ya tommorow!"
That's not all that happened this week. We have also been teaching English classes and there is one lady named Daisy who REALLY want's to keep up her English. She actually speaks very well but she had heard that there were missionaries that were from america that also did English stuff from one of our members. That member passed her coordinates to us and we started teaching her English. So, for our last lesson we read from a talk by Elder Ucthdorf to work on pronounciation. Beings we have nothing else in English to read but church stuff, we were kinda hoping we could use that to maybe spark interest in the gospel hehe!
Not really expecting anything to happen, we got there and went with the plan and read through the talk. She really liked it and we ended up answering a lot of questions about the church and basically taught a short lesson on the restoration of the gospel! It was awesome! Every lesson we've had so far, she has started to ask us more and more questions related to the gospel. I bet you she will soon want to learn more about the gospel as well! Yeah, somewhat sneaky english stuff! Oh another thing, I have just noticed that I have given a ton of blessings in French recently. There are a few less active families that we have been working with that are doing really well at coming back, and I have been asked to give them blessings when they have been struggling. It is absolutely amazing to see the power of the priesthood and the love of our Heavenly Father for these precious sons and daughters through these blessings, and also to see how powerfully we can speak the language. I still can't remember all of what I said, but I become very humbled every time to see what God can do with as weak of an instrument as I am!
It is so awesome to be a missionary and be Gods servant and be able to serve my brothers and sisters and bless their lives. I LOVE IT!
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