The Transfer of Soeur Rhondeau - July 1, 2013

Well Soeur Rhondeau is officially gone and I have a new companion! Her name is Soeur Grewar. She's almost done with her mission (I think she has like 2 or 3 months left) and she is from Australia. So between the two of us, the French are always laughing at our accents. She is super sweet and works really hard. It's awesome because she has a bunch of new fresh ideas for this area so hopefully we'll be able to shake Melun up a bit.

Transfer Day

A Great Companion For a Great Mission Start

The fun story of the week is about our new Amis Victor & Simone. We were on the bus the other day on our way to visit some less actives in our ward. This man comes up to the front and we just start talking. He notices our accent and asks if we are here for school. "Actually we're missionaries" he isntantly looks at our tags and shouts "FOR JESUS?! OH HALLELUJAH!! GOD BLESS YOU BOTH!" He had to get off the bus immediately afterwards and we see him rejoin with his wife and yell "Look!! It's the girl missionaries!!"

Soeur Grewar and I were thinking "Dang it." In the hussle of helping him get off all of his stuff, he didn't get our information and we did not get his. I turn to Soeur Grewar and I'm like "we're getting off at the next stop...and chase them down" Unfortunately the next stop was further than I would have liked haha. But sure enough we start sprinting up the road until we chase them pretty much to their complex. Completely out of breath, Soeur Grewar explains that we would love to come see them and teach them about Christ. Voila.

We saw them that next day. And they are AWESOME! They already have a lot of faith in Christ and he is seriously the center of their lives. It's also awesome that after anything we said they would shout "AMEN!" I love it. At the end of the lesson, I told them "So we brought a small gift for you. It's a film about the life and miracles of Jesus Christ (Finding Faith in Christ)". Immediately Simone and Victor yelled "JESUS!!!" Victor ran to the TV to literally watch it right then and Simone came over and embraced us both. We told them that we couldn't stay and watch it with them but that we had another RDV but that we invited them to watch before our next visit. "Oh we definitely will" They responded as they're unwrapping the packaging. I think they were literally going to watch it right then. Finding Faith in Christ is awesome. We have been using it a lot to get into people's doors and teach lessons. Everyone loves that film--obviously.

We taught Diane this week too and she is really progressing. We talked about Baptism and she turned to both of us and asked "have you been baptized" to which Soeur Grewar replied "yes" and then she then asked me "And you??" "yes I have". To which she responded "wow. I haven't been. Hopefully one day." We invited her to be baptized to which she replied "wait..don't you need to go to classes and learn lessons before you can get baptized?" Missionary fail. We then explained that that is why we were there. And that if she chose to be baptized, we would teach her what she needed to know to prepare herself for baptism. "Oh good. Because that's a big step. I'll pray about it". Perfect :)

So I've run out of room on my SD card so I'm deleting old stuff. I'm going to spend the rest of my time sending you random things I've accumulated on my camera.  Sorry for the short email but enjoy the fun pictures!!

Also, I've been thinking about it a lot: Dad, will you back up my computer (mostly all the photos. I don't care about anything else)? If you could just move everything onto a hard drive, that would be awesome.

Spiritual thought of the day: Christ's invitation to us all is to be healed, to have joy and above all, he commands us "peace. be still". For all of us though, there are things in our lives that are stopping us from being fully at peace. There are small things in our personalities, our habits or our desires that are inhibiting us from being healed. It may be painful to uproot and cast off our natural man but the end result and the joy that comes with it, is without comparison. Only then will we feel the hope and peace that comes when we fully have an "eye single to the glory of God".

Love you all!!
Go forth and be awesome!!

Soeur Bitter