Beautiful double rainbow from our window
Hey Hey Hey...
So another week of miracles!!
Tuesday we had a super cool lesson with Laura. She says she
still hasn't gotten the answers to her questions, but she says she wants it to
be true. She even committed to getting baptized the 12th of April and we
promised her that she would get the answers to her questions if she just shows
her faith to Heavenly Father. We are praying so hard that she will open her
heart to feeling the Spirit so she can get answers to her questions. We also
had an awesome lesson with Kate. Kate is from Ohio and the coolest girl! She
has so much faith and does so much service and really understands prayer and
you can tell she has a strong relationship with our Heavenly Father. She just
radiates with the light of Christ. We showed the Restoration film with Joseph
Smith and she LOVED it! She said it was totally possible. We gave her a Book of
Mormon and she said she would read it.
Wednesday we had an awesome conference with President Poznanski
and 3 zones from the mission. Right now we're preparing for PÂQUES! EASTER!! I
am so pumped. What better message to share right now other than Jesus Christ
overcame death for us and He was resurrected. He lives! We had such a cool
training and we get to put flyers in mailboxes! SO FUN! The plan is to put the
flyers into the mailboxes of specific streets we prayed about and on the flyers
it says we will pass by a few days later and share a message about Jesus
Christ. I am so excited! So Soeur Castillo and I prayed and chose a few streets.
Of those streets two of them are Rue Castille and Rue aux Bergers. They are in
a really nice neighborhood a street over from a really solid member family.
Thursday we went to Elbeuf to teach Leonilde. The elders passed
her over to us. She didn't really have much desire so we had to let her go for
now, but we ran into this lady who helped us find the bus. She was so nice and
thought we were so cool so she invited us to come back next week to meet her
daughter and get to know them. cool!
Friday we had a packed day. We went to see Blessing and
Juliette. They are both from Nigeria and live in a building in a not very nice
area. It's a building where people live in while they wait for their papers..so
it's interesting. We had an ok lesson and tried to teach the rest of the Plan
of Salvation, but their kids were crazy and then this man came in and said some
inappropraite things to me telling me he was taking me back to Africa to be his
wife..luckily Heavenly Father protects His missionaries and I will not be going
to Africa. The lesson ended with Blessing giving the prayer..it went a little
something like this.."Heavenly Father..(long pause)..I don't remember your
name...." Then Juliette says, "HIS NAME IS JEHOVAH!" next thing
I know Soeur Castillo nudges my shoulder and I look up to see them all just
staring at me. Apparently Blessing couldn't remember MY name because she wanted
to pray for us. We all ended up laughing so hard! It was probably one of the
funniest moments of my life.
Later we saw Nina. She knows she needs to get baptized and she
has a testimony..she just keeps saying 'one day' she has been an investigator
for so long. I hope we can help he finally make this covenant with Heavenly
Father. In the meantime, we will be praying really hard for inspiriation to
help her.
Later we saw Lilian with Soeur Bitanga. Lilian is from Nigeria
and is engaged to a member who is currently still in Nigeria. She has the
CUTEST, wildest little girl named Lian who, by the end of the lesson, was my
best friend. It was a hectic lesson and I think I ended up sitting in 5
different spots during the lesson. I was playing with Lian while translating
everything into French for Souer Bitanga so she could help participate, while
also testifying and teaching Lilian. It was such a fun rdv! Lian is so darling.
She is the most beautiful little girl I've ever seen! Lilian was awesome too!
She has so much faith and said she will prepare for her baptism for April now,
but she really wants to study it out. She says she doesn't want to do it just
because her fiance is a member and she doesn't want to do it halfway, she wants
this to be a part of her life. She is so great!
Yesterday we had miracles left and right! We started by
stopping by our member family, the Barnjak's to pray with them and help them
with their own missionary efforts. Then we distributed all he flyers we had
packed with us on 4 streets. It was so fun! We felt like Santa's little helpers
placing little pink sheets of paper explaining we will come back and share a beautiful
message about Jesus Christ. Basically we are giving them a piece of paper
saying we will come back in a few days and the Spirit will CHANGE their lives!
:) So pumped.
So after we went porting and the first door we got to was this
young guy around our age named Steven. He was really cool and we shared a
message about the first vision ad Joseph Smith at his front door. He said it
was cool and would meet with us another day to learn more. WOW! So cool. We
plan on seeing him this week and passing him over to the elders. Later we met
another guy around our age named Richard. He is from Senegal and was watching
soccer. We ended up sharing the first vision again with him and shared the Book
of Mormon. The Spirit was so strong and it was cool to just watch the Holy
Ghost touch his heart and humble him to accept its truth. As we were standing
at his door the Spirit just prompted us to be bold so I extended a baptismal
invitation and he accepted! As I told him it wasn't by coincidence that we met
him he replied, "Wow that was exactly what I was just thinking." He
told us how he has been waiting to have answers to his questions and he was so
excited to learn more. Such a miracle! We are seeing him tonight at the church
with the elders to pass him over as well.
Easter is coming up and we should all be preparing ourselves to
feel the special holiday spirit. As we study the life of the Savior and improve
our own personal relationship with Him, we will grow closer in oneness with Him
and our Father. Prepare yourselves for General Conference. What an incredible
occasion to hear from a prophet of God and the apostles! I am getting so
excited I am just exploding with how badly I want everyone to come to
conference. I just want to invite every random stranger in the metros, on the
trains, and on the buses to come hear the words of a prophet of God! Catch the
wave and invite your friends to conference!!!
Well I love you all and hope you have a great week. God is our
Father. He sent His Son Jesus Christ for us and for all our weakness and
burdens. Because He love us. I love you all! Thanks for all the beautiful
pictures of my cute niece and nephew. I am in so much shock at how much change
is happening and realize I've been gone for such a long time. It still feels
like I just left! I love it though and wouldn't be anywhere else!
LOVE YOU ALL!
GROS BISOUS
Sœur
Berge
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