Bonjour à tous!
This week was super busy and we saw some
really cool miracles. Earlier this week we had interviews with President
Brown and then on Wednesday we had multizone zone
conference in Ecully. My companion and I both had to do a 15 minute presentation on baptism
in front of President Brown, the assistants, and all the
missionaries. We were pretty nervous to say the least. But I think it ended
up going pretty well. President talked a lot about how
important hope is for us as missionaries, and then for the
members and Amis we spend our time with. He said that we find hope in
this life through the Gospel. So we as missionaries, we go out and we teach, but more than anything we share this hope for eternal life
through the example and joy that we have. So we decided to present baptism
along those lines. Baptism is the door onto this pathway of hope.
Because what better hope is there in this world, that frankly is dark and hard,
than the light of the gospel! I know it brings me so much joy! It's incredible that we get to be the little candles of light to shine hope and bring people
into the sun! Wednesday was also my 9 month mark! What so crazy how fast time
is flying by!
Thursday we had our exchange with the Porte
des Alpes sisters. It was way nice having them here to work
with us. We were able to have some great lessons with Le and Taiwo. We
also finally had our first lesson with Jacqueline (the one scared of
water) since she accepted the
invitation to be baptized. We were kinda
nervous because it had already been a week since we last
saw her. But when we walked in, she had her little pear tart and
Schweppes sitting on the table for us. So that made us a little more reassured haha. But
during the lesson she told us she still wants to be
baptized, but that she refuses to fix a date for the moment. That girl
kills me! She is so stubborn.
Saturday afternoon, the
missionaries in the Ecully ward were having a baptism. So Friday night we had called and
invited Taiwo to go to it with us and she accepted. Well
Saturday roles around, and we were waiting at the metro stop for her to show
up...but she never came.
That meant that we now had about 4
hours of free time with no rdv's fixed, and to top it all off it was cold and
rainy out. Well we decided to go to the outer edge of
Lyon and pass by some less active members on our member map that we had never
met. When we got to the first door, a women opened the door and
welcomed us right in! She was super nice, but we had absolutely no idea who
she was. She started talking about her son Pedro (who was currently
at a church activity), when the pieces all came together. It turns
out that Pedro (an active member) just moved here with his
family from Portugal a few months ago, but he is the only member of
his family! So there we were, having an awesome lesson with his mother and he had
no idea we were even there! We were definitely guided by Heavenly
Father, and it taught me that if we will do our part,
Heavenly Father will do his. But the best part of it all, was that she
invited us back over next weekend!!
Passez une très bonne semaine!
Thank you for your support and prayers.
Je vous aime!
Soeur Soffe
Funny quote for the week:
"Don't you love it when French people's
trained dogs speak better French
than you?" - Soeur Lowder
We all hit our hump day together!
Zone conference
Exchange with Sœur wendo the cutest bleu belge ever!
Hump Day!!!
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