Mission life flies by the smoothest when you have amis and rendez vous and things to do! (You know I can't remember what a rendez vous is for normal English speaking missionaries anymore....they don't call them meetings but I was trying to translate that the other day and gave up...loosing my english!) But anyways it is seriously the best when the work starts picking up:)
We have finally found a new ami and we were able to get in touch with an old ami AND we found two less
actives! Who went less active where they lived before so we don't have their records but through miracles we have rendez vous fixed with them and it is wonderful:) And one is a part member family, the only curveball is it is Summer so everyone is traveling and so I really hope that we can keep in touch with them to make it through the
Summer, it is one of the biggest reasons we loose contact with our amis, we are still here working on helping them find happiness and salvation but they have their normal lives and its the season where everyone just disappears and you don't know when exactly they will come back! But fingers crossed:)
At zone conference we talked a lot about our feux de joies (joyfires!) and spiritual experiences and helping our members recognize them. The thing about this is it isn't another program the mission has created to try to get the members to do more, it is a program that the area presidency created for the members that coincides already with their normal lives, and our job is to help them realize all the spiritual experiences they already have and show them how they can turn them into missionary opportunities. It isn't our goal to have them do more but to see already that the spirit is working everyday in their lives, and they know it but sometimes we forget that that coincidence from early in the day when you just called up someone to talk and it just happened that they needed help isn't just a coincidence.
Or when you have been able to find ancestors or achieve something you weren't able to before, the spirit is always there helping us and we need to see it! :) And each Sunday we take an hour to work on this plan for ourselves to understand exactly how to help the members, even something as small as writing in a journal to preserve your thoughts is an experience with genealogy that can help your future family understand your thoughts and feelings when you were such an age and that is a spiritual experience you can share because the spirit of Elijah is real and will spread like wildfire if you recognize it and share it! (See what I did there;) That's the idea! And I have no sense
of humor its sad;p )
But at zone training we played again with water balloons but this time it was a little different and they just were throwing the balloons at us from all sides and we had to try and catch them, it was crazy, a few of the elders and sisters got SOOOO wet! Like balloon popped on them wet, it was so funny x) It is also perfect because it is hot here in France!
After zone training we had an exchange with the STLs which was wonderful:) And one of the best parts of it was we were contacting in the park and we turned down this little path and at the end of it was a bench with this scaryish looking man but we started walking down the path and he looked up and lifted up his sunglasses and said "Bonjour les filles! Comment ca va chez les mormons?" With a giant kind smile! Literally, "Hey sisters, how are you doing at the Mormon church!" It was insane, we then had a lesson with him where he talked with us about how he has met with lots of missionaries on the street before and how he loves how we always brighten up his day, he had even seen us the night before when we started our exchange but was across the street so he didn't say anything but we found him the next day and it was great! Up until my companion started coughing really bad and so he was like I KNOW WHERE THERE IS WATER! And he ran to this water spout and started turning it for her to get a drink and afterwards she was good but it was so funny I had to take a picture, he offered me a
drink too but I was good x) It was an amazing lesson on the plan of salvation and I hope he starts taking the lessons:)
This upcoming week we have a lot of rendez vous but it is great! We are busy every night this week and on Thursday we have district meeting in Limoges:) So that will be fun! I hope you all have a tremendous week:)
Love you,
Sister Beatty:)
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| Mikayla and Soeur Grant |
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