Dear Family,
I was so happy to hear how well everyone is doing and how
much you have all grown up unto the Lord. Though I am far away I can feel your
presence and influence around me at all times and I know that God is smiling as
he is looking over our family.
It has been a marathon week for me and Elder Horton and
we have been doing our best to just keep up with it! We had a marvelous
conference with the area seventy president, Elder Kopishka. He started by
telling us to write down what we wanted to get out of this conference, more
specifically a question we wanted to be answered, and promised that if we had
faith, all of our questions would be answered. He proceeded to tell us that this
is how we should invite our investigators to come to church, and that if we
recieved our answers at the end of the meeting that we had to promise him that
this was how we would always invite people to come to church. Needless to say
ALL of the missionaries questions were answered that night and we were all
edified by the spirit. We planed collectively, in companionships, and
individually how we could become more devoted to the Lord and His work! His
theme was more or less focused on ,"living your dream." He asked all of us how
we imagined our missions the day we got our call, and a few missionaries shared
their righteous dreams they envisioned and then Elder Kopiska paused and asked
us if our dreams were still the same, or if we had buried them with doubt, or
fear, or whatever else. Then he strongly invited us to live our dreams, and to
live up to our potential, and to stop burying our dreams. It was powerful, and I
know I am not the only one that was motivated to improve my life.
The next day we had exchanges with the Lille Elders. Me
and Elder Zarbock made a strong effort to really find the elect and to really
follow the spirit. It was hard! We just kept wanting to talk to everyone because
the whole searching for the right one wasn't working. We persisted and found a
good balance of searching and stopping people and we were able to hear the
spirit tell us where we needed to go and we found a SUPER nice Tahitian lady and
talked to her for some time. We taught her about families and how the restored
gospel could bless her family. We gave her a Book of Mormon and tried to
exchange coordinates, but she didn't have a phone and didn't show up to church
as she said, BUT we knew that it was her that God had lead us to and we felt
pretty good. Later that day ,after we exchanged back to our proper
villes, we had another killer rendezvous with Rémy! We taught him the plan of
salvation using and expounding the scriptures in 2 NE 2. He loved the concept
of needing to have opposition to learn and grow, to become like our Heavenly
Father, and inherit the blessings our Father wants for us! We explained how this
plan only works if we do our part and that the first step is through making
covenants with God, the first of which is being baptized. He excitingly
accepted to prepare himself to be baptized on the 10th of December! He is a stud
and frankly he has stregnthened my testimony because of his exceeding faith. He
follows his heart and thirsts for truth! You can just tell when you look in his
eyes how much he loves our Savior and how much he wants to follow Him. Whenever
we call him to fix rendez-vous or talk about the gospel he lightens up that much
more and gets super excited. Everyone else gets excited due to his sinscere
spirit! I sure hope I don't have to move soon and miss another baptism, but I
have learned not to complain....at least as much as before (still not perfect)
because who is the one that prepared these people in the first place, sure
wasn't me! This is Gods work and only by His Spirit can we do anything!!
In other news, we recently started teaching a young lady
named Isabelle whom we teach English to every Tuesday. She likes to learn about
the gospel at the last half of the rendezvous. She is really cool and we have
lots of hope for her as we set plans and make goals for what she wants to get
out of these lessons. Tommorow we will be seeing her again with a member
that is her age. This member also speaks really good English. Things should go
well.
We also taught that lady ( Mme Gabé) we met at the
beginning of the transfer. She has already been reading in the Book of Mormon
and feeling a lot better about herself and God. Last time she had said, "there
is no GOd and that all of her sufferings were evidence of it," and even kinda
yelled at us a bit for the first half of the rendezvous. Since our bold
testimonies of Christ and His atonement, and our recent visits, she has now
gained a bit of faith and desrie to know and serve Him better. She has to go
back to the hospital this week but we continue to pray and do all we can for
her.
Well I gotta wrap things up! I love yall, and I will try
and send more details and pictures by mail
LOVE ELDER LYONS
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