Week 62: Happy Baptism... 1 of the 125

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my most amazing sister NICOLE!!! 20 years old... getting old!!! I hope your birthday is wonderful. I love you and miss you!

This week started out crazily with a Paris P-day and a conference the next day in Paris. We talked lots about faith and being obedient so that we can call down the powers of heaven and reach our goal of 125 baptims in three months and before July 1st. As a mission we have 35 as of today so we have lots of work left to do! I am excited to work hard and experince this miracle during my last few months (three as of today to be exact.. Crazy) as a missionary.

Pday -A Kitty Drinking the Milk that We Just Milked

A Yummy Restaurant in Paris

This week we lived a many wonderful miracles and I would just LOVE to share some with you!

Isabela's baptism was beautfiful and so full of the spirit. She was so happy and just kept saying THANK YOU THANK YOU with a huge smile on her face! I love her. She said that the night after her baptism she slept sooo well... that is called spiritual exhaustion that I am learning LOTS about on my mission ha. She had a dream and saw someone dressed in white. She received the Holy Ghost the next day and was promised many blessings, for her and her 2 little children (who just love us by the way).

Isabela's Baptism

We had an amazing lesson with Alphonsine this week on obedience, authority, and eternal life.. random topics I KNOW but they all fit together so well and the spirit was SO STRONG. We were all in tears at different points throughout the lesson. She is still working on the coffee thing. She came to the baptism along with her son Andi and they loved it. Andi said... "Mom if you are baptized I am going to cry." Alphonsine reacted as though the day wouldn't be far off and we took the oppurtunity to explain to Andi that he was feeling the Holy Ghost.

After the baptism we decided to go past a lady that Sister Vance and I had found exactly three weeks earlier before Isabelle's baptism. When we had found her, we tried to figure out where she lived but we weren't sure.. So we fixed a rendez vous at the church and she never came. So SIster Kimball and I decided to go knock the road that we thought she might live on. Well, we were at the stop on our way and the bus driver stopped.. but left as we were walking up to the door... so not cool. So we decided to walk.. i mean she lives on the opposite side of St. Quentin but it's so small that it only took us like a half hour, if that. Well, we knocked two doors and then saw a big apartment building that we thought she might live in. We weren't sure how we'd get in but it just happened to be open... :) We look at the mailboxes and we see a VICTORIA CORBEAU.. that has to be her. We started to walk but the stairs to knock on her door and guess who walks out from another apartment and runs straight into us... Victoria. I am grateful for Heavenly Father and his timing. What a HUGE miracle. If we would have been any earlier or ANY later, we would have completely missed her! SO INCREDIBLE!

So I only have time to share one more miracle with you. On Easter we ate with a member family named the MEMBRés. I love them. We fixed a family missionary plan with them and they were to work with 4 families and we were to all pray every day for them. One of them is named Sophie. Bro Membré set up a lunch with her where he decided to just start asking personal questions. She ended up breaking down in tears and telling him how unhappy she is with life, living alone and just unhappy and she feels like she has missed her chance to live a happy life. She leaves to go smoke and calm down and brother membre is thinking.. "oh no, what have i done... i just made her break down." She comes back and says,

"ya know what I wanna be? I want to become Christian.

I want to have that love and light that the Christians have."

And Heavenly Father opens the door once again.

I know that we are not perfect but that Heavenly Father uses his spirit to turn our efforts to reach out to his children into exactly what is needed.

I love you. I love my mission. Only 13 weeks left and I cant wait to talk to you all on Mother's day!

I LOVE YOU ALL GROS BISOUS!