Monday, August 26, 2013

Trying to Fit it All In....

bonjour tout le monde

had a pretty good week this week, however it just clicked in my head that my last weekend in france is a stake conference, and thats the weekend that we had planned on getting our investigator damba baptized and inviting the others for the same date september, but classic other church meeting get in the way of when we want to have baptisms joobies, so i have to figure something out, maybe just baptize him on saturday before the saturday session, we will see.
             we taught audrey again a couple time this past week, it went super well, she knows its true but is having a hard time commiting for the baptism.  before our last rendez vous, i told my comp, she is going to cry this rendez vous... and she did. haha she came to church which was great, so that is going good
             constant, another ami came to church as well, he is super cool and really like the church meeting, we knocked on his door a few weeks ago, he said it was like God knocked on his door in one of our later rendez vous; good stuff good stuff
              on friday we went over to visit a couple we have been teaching, sandra and patrick, i had to say what needed to be said, chastity, if you want to get baptized you either have to get married or move out, they took it ok i guess, they understood, but they are not really doing anything to make the necessary changes..
             anyways that is about it, i really really hope this whole stake conference thing doesnt ruin too much stuff the last week of the transfer, we will see.  the days are going by too fast, thats messed up, i try not to think about it too much, i always thought i would just be out here in france as a missionary for the rest of my life, nope. mais c'est pas grave

thanks for everything, much love
what do you guys want from france? 
just thought i would ask. Mariah??? ha ha

Monday, August 19, 2013

A GREAT week...

hello hello

this week was a pretty good week, went by really fast much to my dismay but it was pretty legit. emillion is doing great, she came to church, long train and bus ride for her, but she did it, it was really good, shes doing fine, we saw her twice and come to find out her son in law is one of the student of the member who came to teach with us, so the member frere ya called him out and kind of told him what was up, the church is good, so stop being a noob and he invited him to church, so its all good ha
               we had a great sunday as well, 4 investigators at church, the sister missionaries kept on asking me what are secret was ;) ha ha i just told them well about 10 percent of the people who say they are coming actually end of coming so you can do the math, go talk with some peeps! we have a baptismal date with one of them, damba, he is a really cool guy; super super humble, just need to stop smoking, hopefully we will be seeing him tomorrow.  Audrey came to church which was a bit of a surprise, a couple days ago i was standing in mcdonalds ready to get my grub on with my big mac, i noticed this chick that was staring rather obviously at my pack, so i'm like ça va? long story short we start talking, she is african, but born and raised in france, real parisienne, she looked a go go dancer in one of snoop doggs music videos, anyways she was super happy to meat an american and told me she wanted to come to church, and she did, ha ha during my lesson during second hour; i got called by frere ya to give the lesson, there was a good 15 people in the classroom; the subject, people of the covenant, so i talked about covenants for a while and quickly turned that into a lesson about baptism! haha because thats whats up.  i got a bit of nudging from the boys, saying well done on bringing a hoochie momma to church aha, we passed her over to the sisters..
               all else is going well, i got to see one of my baptisms from last year in cergy, chantal, met up with us in versailles, it was good to be able to talk with her, and catch up, wow one year already, we were both pretty shocked at that
              
anyways thanks for everything, talk to you all soon

much love

Monday, August 12, 2013

A TOUGH Day...

hello hello

this week was pretty good. but probably the hardest sunday of my life, hardest day of my life joobies. on my way to church walking; called emillion to make sure she was on her way because she was getting confirmed this last sunday, i was on the phone with her, and right away from the tone of her voice i new it was not ok, she said she was not coming because she didnt want to leave her kids, her kids are being the devil and trying to convince her not to continue, we saw her the day before and she was great, her kids who are like 30 didnt even want to join us and were being super immature in the kitchen when i invited them to come join us.  anyways i was distraught.. i wanted to throw up almost, but i talked with her on the phone for a good 15 minutes and finally got her to promise me that she was going to come and get confirmed and recieve the holy ghost, she is so torn, but she came and got confirmed, i ended up doing it, because the member didnt want to, geeze.  but i had a couple members who she is close with reeally talk with her, i think things will start going better now. i had to give the lesson in priesthood while we were figuring this all out, and then, she called telling me she forgot her bus pass so i had to find a member that had a car and drive us up there, it was out of control, but its all good now, i will be calling her tonight to go and see her on wednesday.
    my lesson went well though ;) haha and we had a couple other amis that came, so that was good

i am at the mission home now, just had my interview with president and his wife, went well.  yesterday me and my blue went out to teach this family that lived over by all these big bats, we had eggs thrown at us from the windows, probably muslims... haha but i did some legit judo dodging

anyways thats about all, talk to you all soon, much love

thanks for everything, and all the advice, it helps alot

bisous bisous

Monday, August 5, 2013

A Baptism...


hello family
this week was pretty good, emilionne got baptized on sunday, it was awesome.  we finally decided to just go ahead with everything and have her get baptized on sunday; so we saw her almost every day the week before the baptism. we asked her this past thursday who she wanted to have baptize her, i told a bunch of members that she knew that would happily baptize her, she said she would prefer if we baptized her, what a surprise ha, so i told her elder sughroue would be happy to do that for her, he didnt understand what i said until after the rendez vous, but he was pretty pumped when i told him after, he said he didnt think he would baptize someone for at least the first 6 months of his mission
the baptismal ordanance went by smoothly, afterward she had the opportunity to bare her testimony; and her two sons and their wives came, which was cool because they were all really catholic, and didnt really want their mom to get baptized, but when she bore her testimony, she said, i know my kids didnt really want me to get baptized again, but i followed my heart and did what i know is true.  i thank the missionaries. one of her sons started to cry a little, it was good to see ha. once the kids saw the church and met the members and us, alot changed
we had a few other investigators come to church; one of them named ricardo and his french wife, so that was super cool.  he invited us over to eat at his place, it was super good, i did plenty of magic tricks, it was too much fun haha
everything else is going well, i got news that i will be spending my last transfer here
so all is going well, now we just need to get back to work and get some baptismal dates fixed, we some serious potentials.
so everything is going well. thanks for everything i appreciate it
much love :)

talk to you all soon