Week 23: Thundersto​rms, No Phone, and Sunday Miracles

Well well well...

I lost the phone this week... OOOPS! I accidently left it in the bus so it was extremely difficult to have lessons and what not because we had no way to communicate with the world. My bad! But luckily God loves us and the bus driver found it and we got it back a little over three days later!! SUPER blessed because we would have lost some potentials because I hadnt written down their numbers yet!

Nicole is in my time zone!! CRAZY to think that she is doing like the exact same thing that I am in the mornings when I am doing it! I dont really know where her city is but thats cool!!

So after the crazy heat wave we had... its just been storming like crazy! Thunder and lightening at night and during the day. One second its SUPER sunny and the next its pouring buckets.

Tuesday was Annicks baptism! The woman who has been coming to church for 30 years! It was amazing to hear here testimony and super interesting to hear why she had been coming to church and why she decided to finally get baptized.... i dont feel comfortabel sending her personal story to the world, but what it came down to was that she really felt like she needed the gift of the holy ghost, and boy is she right!

After the baptism the week was pretty slow but I decided to play my violin on church on Sunday and that was the best idea Ive ever had! I invited everyone and their dog and guess who came!!!! FATIMA AND PASCAL! The muslim lady who we had to ask permission to teach and president said we had to meet her husband and ask him and i was so worried and then we ran into them in the street and asked permission... that family! We've been visiting her for a long time, like 11 weeks and have only had a couple lessons because of the circumstances with each visit, but weve been trying to get them to church for forever and they came and Fatima LOVED IT!! She stayed longer than us after church talking to everyone and pascal had lots of questions and the whole ward was sooo excited to see a new family at church!! Early in the week we had  a BOMB lesson with her. We prayed together and she said that she felt like she was floating and we told her that that was the spirit testifying to her! I think that that lesson helped with her coming to church. She really needs some friends cause shes pretty lonely.

My Favorite Family in Rennes

Then afterchurch we had a rendez-vous with that family that picked us up in the rain and had read parts of the BOM.. the other family we found is on vacation. It was the most perfect lesson I have ever had... and good thing cause we practiced like all week for it! All of the kids were sitting there with the parents and everyone was interested and participating and commenting and answering the questions. We had planned to read the first three paragraphs of the fam proc but the dad loved it so much that he asked us if he could read more! He even said the closing prayer and we all kneeled together as a family to say it! It was amazing! We're going to see them again on Friday! They love us!

Sasrey, A Member of the Rennes Ward

Well, this week will be crazy so hopefully there will be some good stories! It is probably my last full week in Rennes!! SO SAD!

I love you all very very much and MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY!!

Soeur Kohlert