Umm, I just don't know where to start off today! Its been a pretty great week.
We started off here in St. Quentin with no toilet paper. Ha, it was a blast to run around the apartment trying to find ANYTHING that could work. When the only three paper towels I could find were gone, we got REALLY creative ha.
We got to do some knocking on doors our first night! We found this man named Idaline... not sure if that's really a males name. He was funny and we really worked with the spirit and ended up leaving him with a Book Of Mormon that he said he'd read. I LOVE teaching with Sister Vance. We work really well together and she seriously like picks up my wave length when were contacting. Its pretty cool.
Wednesday we got to visit the cutest old lady named Georgette. She had AN AWESOME conversion story that totally applies to a family that I'll tell you about in a bit. She motivated me.
We had a wonderful conference on Thursday to start off our year. Our new theme is D&C 64:33-34. Our district leader talked about being bold, obedient, and loving people. It was also another motivational moment for me. Our appointments all got canceled that night so we got to do some contacting. We met this cute African named Marie. Again, at first she was really stand-offish, but we ended up being able to pray with her. She was so touched that she was in tears and accepted a return appointment for the next night. Unfortunately she wasn't able to come. We were also able to find a couple that we prayed with and they were really interested in Christ. It was cool and a testimony to me that we CAN find on our own.
Not like we need to here in St Quentin! A sister brought her friend to church. She's been working with her for over a year and hopefully we'll get to start teaching her soon. We also went to Ward Council... AND OH MY WORD. They are such a small ward but they act SO big. They seriously take care of the needs of EVERYONE and in such a timely manner. My mouth was literally dropped like the whole time. They deserve SO much more success than they've been seeing.
So I need to introduce you to some people.
°1 The Family Josse: Referrals from Marie Poletz. Mikael and Virginie are the parents and Alexi 7 and Samuel 2 are the two sons. They have been taking the lessons since April and she is ready, just waiting on him. He knows its true. Like he asked God if Joseph Smith was a prophet and right when he ended the prayer he heard his son whistling Praise to the Man and the moment he realized that Alexi was singing that, he stopped. He just needs to accept the signs. We had a bomb lesson on His Grace is Sufficient by Brad Wilcox. At the end I was dang nervous to ask them to be baptized but I did anyways. The answer still was "when I get an answer". It will come We prayed lots and we think we know what the family needs. So the next lesson we taught THE BOYS. We taught them who Christ was and made a little chain with them. They loved it. Virginie sent a lovely text about how much she adored seeing her sons participate. They are a wonderful family and come to church every week and feed us till will explode... quite literally. Our plan of action is to start all the lessons from the beginning but teach the whole family, because that's what the gospel is about right?
°2 Maire Poletz: Our best friend. She is 26 and is just rockin. She has such a huge testimony and is the cutest character. She gave us cute notes and drives us EVERYWHERE (she's driven us twice to the Josses and its like an hour each way). She also bought us the yummiest pastries ever and is just so willing to help.
°3 The Niamké family: We like cried. Ill send you a picture of them. An african family with 5 kids. We walk in and they hadn't seen the missionaries since Oct. We walk in and they were all sitting around the table so ready! The were all so attentive and LOVED the little game that we played with them of the plan of salvation. I'll send a picture of that too. The kids all asked questions and understood it more than any adult investigator I've ever taught. They sang the primary song together and the SPIRIT WAS SO STRONG. Afterwards we played a game that everyone was SO into. We asked if we could come back and EVERYONE yelled YES! ha and the oldest boy added in... the question is when? Unfortunately we cant see them until the 26th but that's ok. We'll pray for them till then.
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| The Niamke Family |
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| Plan Of Salvation Game |
Friday night we were asked to give a talk on Sunday. I almost threw up. I didn't realize how horrid my french had gotten and I was so afraid of speaking in front of everyone. I think it went well. They also had me play the violin. The ward was in tears and I'm sure glad mom had the inspiration to have me bring it.
Well there is so much more but I better go.
I LOVE YOU SOOOOOO MUCH
Gros Bisous
Sœur Kohlert
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