Update on Françoise and Patrick: We saw them a few times last week and we also got to see them yesterday. In one of our RDVs last week, we taught about Modern Day Prophets. After explaining the importance of prophets and bearing our testimonies, we asked if we could show them on their computers lds.org and show them how to navigate the site.
The Gentry family had already given them a talk by President Monson so they were familiar with the talks by the general authorities. We pulled up the site and instantly she lit up. We showed her just two of the links: how to find General Conference talks and how to find the Mormon Messages. We thought much more than that might be overwhelming. When we pulled up the Mormon Messages, it had a row of conference talks by the quorum of the 12 apostles and President Monson. We started pointing and saying "that's the prophet. You probably recognize him from the pic on the talk the Gentry's gave you. Oh that's one of his counselors. He's from Germany. Oh that is one of the other apostles." At this point Patrick, who had been quietly sitting at the other side of the table, came running around to see the faces of the modern day prophets. Having living prophets from Joseph Smith on has REALLY interested him and he was just jumping to see who they were :).
That next day, at church, Françoise told us that they had watched one of the talks. She said that they loved watching them because listening was a nice break from the reading. She started to recount all the details of the talk (by Elder Holland) and she smiled as she shared the story of the sister missionary that had mashed potatoes thrown at her. Church was awesome.
I was able to play my violin. Me and one of the Elders arranged How great thou art. Françoise was incredibly touched. It was such a miracle. After church, she was talking to a recent convert named Ludo. They were talking about the musical number and Françoise was describing to him what she had felt while listening to the song. She told him that she hadn't heard that song before but she felt something within her so powerfully. He boldly exclaimed "THAT'S THE SPIRIT!". Now as a missionary standing nearby I'm thinking "you are the best member on the face of this earth."
That Tuesday we had an FHE with at the Gentry's house with the Fetivau's (Françoise and Patrick). We decided to watch the movie the Restoration so that they could solidify more their understanding of who Joseph Smith is. Afterwards we just had a little testimony meeting. The Gentry's shared awesome testimonies of how the Restoration has blessed them. Even their 14 year old daughter shared an AWESOME and powerful testimony of the power of prayer.
The topic later changed to searching for answers. Patrick said that it's important that we be searching and studying for the truth. Then Francoise turned to him and boldly said "well I've already found the truth. So I'm continuing down this path." Bam. Awesome. Started teaching her just a few weeks ago.
Later Sr Mason asked them both to really pray to know of the truthfulness of Joseph Smith's experience and the divinity of his calling. She then told us "Yes I'll do that. But I've already gotten my answer." So cool.
The start of the transfer has been awesome!! Sr Mason and I have been talking a lot about how we need new people to teach. Well, a lot of time in order to find new people, you have to find out the people you should stop seeing because they are more enjoying the company of the missionaries than the message we share. We prayed and decided who we were going to keep seeing and then we cleared almost our whole week to FIND!
Now sometimes this is an incredibly nerve-wracking thing to do because clearing your schedule completely to go out and knock doors all day every day can be hard but we knew that the Lord had prepared people here and we needed time to find them. Well, It. was. incredible. We found amazing new people and even the Elders have been calling us and telling us they are finding people who live in our area that we can teach.
Miracles are happening here in Vannes and it's awesome to see.
Well, those are all the updates from me.
I'm happy, healthy and so honored to be a missionary.
SOEUR BITTER
MEREDITH!!! It's been almost 9 months since I've heard from you. It'd love to hear how you're doing :)
Kati---same goes for you my love
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| While out porting, we turned a street and I hear a gasp from my companion. We look over and there is the CUTEST celestial white dog hanging half out of a white picket fence just chillin. So naturally we went over and made friends with him. We love him and he is our new best friend. |
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| My Companion and I at the Ward activity that was spontaneously moved from a park to the beach. Didn't know until we were already there haha. So we took a picture of the two of us |
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| Bottle of Coke made just for Sisters. |
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| So there are these bracelets that are handmade and they're kind of a big deal here in France. Well on Tuesday night at our FHE Françoise told us that she had made some for us! She then let us pick which ones we liked and of course I took the opportunity to snap a picture. Sophie (the Gentry's 14 year old daughter) is on the left. Then me, Francoise and then Sr Mason. |
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