This was a week with some good rendez vous!
We met with our new ami Cyril. We met him on the srteet a few weeks ago, well he came up to us and interrupted a different contact. But anyways we got his number and he came to church last week! We weren't quite sure if he was homeless...doesn't smell very good and just very interesting. But we met with him and talked about the restoration, he liked it! But he also talks a lot a lot a lot. So our next rendez vous we will have to ask more direct questions. So he came to church this Sunday with nice black shoes and a button up shirt! And he said he was going to shave his beard this week. Kinda cool to see the little changes in life style that he is already making.
We also met with a super cute girl named Chloé. She is so smart and just wants to learn about religion! She wasn't brought up religious but she knows she cant say no until she tries it. We ate at McDonald's and she was very disappointed that we all got chicken nuggets...next time we have to get something more french haha she asks so many questions, about lots of random things! We talked about the french and American revolutions, medicine, but we managed to tie most things back to Heavenly Father's love for us!
Another cool rendezvous was with Alexandra! She is the daughter of a member and has come to church a few times. But we had a good time getting to know her with my new companions and she came to church! But it was really timed perfectly because we only have one young women and she gets really lonely all by herself in there. Her mom, Anouck, probably one of my most favorite people in the whole world!!, told me that she was feeling lonely that morning but then Alexandra was there! Everyone is being taken care of.
I love the image in the prodigal son when the father, when he sees his son on the road back home, runs out to meet him, rejoicing! That's what it is like for Heavenly Father as well. He rejoices when we turn to him!
Sœur Giles
Letter to Family:
Thanks for all the updates, it seems like everyone is doing well. Summer is such a fun time! Well almost everyone here is on vacation, church attendance was about half as normal. But it also rains a lot which makes it not as hot. One day it rains the next day is super hot then it rains and so on. Its a nice cycle. It has been a good week of growth! I studied ch 7 in pmg and then i made a new language study plan, i realized i really have to grow my vocabulary so now i am studying more talks in french and defining the words i don't know. Its been going good. Paon means peacock! Also I've been working on applying my personal study into the day and one day this week i shared what i studied twice with people that we talked to. I liked that a lot!
Also I'm going to study those 2 topics this week: gratitude and the walls of Jericho.
The trio has been going good. We taught the lesson for gospel doctrine yesterday and it was awesome. It was ch 11 in the book, the life of Christ but is insanely long and tells so many details. So we decided to pick 3 things. 1 miracle: woman with faith touching the robes of Jesus, 1 teaching: the prodigal son, 1 event: peter declaring that he is the Christ. We split them into groups and then had them answer questions. We had a great discussion about who Christ is and what he means to us. Alexandra our amie said she learned a lot!
Have a fun time on the cruise! Is clay staying at theLunds? Tell him i say hello and happy birthday and that i will send a card soon!
Love you so much!!
Sœur Giles
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