Another good one! We have found a nice neighborhood to knock doors and went there a few times this week. It was very fun to just walk around and enjoy the summer evenings even if we got told that everyone in the Lorraine region is Catholic and staying that why. They were super surprised to know we have a ward here.
Yesterday all the university students came back!! The city was so lively, good things are coming in the next few months.
We also had zone conference this last week. 2 bishopric members and 1 stake high councilman from the Nancy stake came and observed us while practice teaching and gave us insights into working with the members. One thing that I really liked was that we need to become the message if we want these members to feel of our love and help them share the gospel with their friends. It is more than what we say, what makes a difference is who we are.
Our ami Joseph came to church yesterday for the first time! He really liked it. The ward was very welcoming and even Joseph was going up to the people he had met before and saying hello. He volunteered to read in amis class and was not timid at all, it was awesome to watch!
We had a rendezvous with a less active and her less active friend was there! We met THE Marie Claude. Marie Claude is just another less active who is friends with the less active in our ward. Not anyone actual special but till now she has been a mystery because Marie Therese talks about her all the time but we finally met her!I had only heard stories about her for the whole time I've been here but we finally met and she was surprisingly normal and very nice.
I really like this verse in 3rd Nephi "Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world." Though this was when Christ appeared in the Americas, it could also apply today. We don't have to blindly believe anything. Christ invites us to have spiritual experiences for ourselves, to be personally healed through Him.
Bonne semaine!
Sœur Giles
Letter to Mom and Dad:
I think the fallen tree is pay back for all the times we threw things over the wall. But weird and interesting that it just fell without an external force! Good thing no one was outside! Also I heard there is a hurricane or something in Texas and that there is lots of flooding! Are the Jacobson's okay? And Todd and Shelly live there too right? And Maria and what's his name! Oh i just remembered its John. Oh and we can't forget about Chip and Joanna?!? I wear my magnolia farms shirt a lot.
I'm glad Mackenzie had a good time in florida and that the baby is doing well.
That is so hot!! The summer here was not bad. It is already starting to be really chilly in the mornings. Fall is coming quick. It will be a long and cold winter. Sometimes its hard to tell myself to get up because it is dark outside now and it hasn't been the whole time I've been here and I don't realize it is 6:30! But the alarm is loud enough. In all my dreams I am a missionary but normally the setting is at home or somewhere else so everything is super weird! Then random people start speaking French or signs are in French, hahaha!
As a companionship we started the challenge that Elder Nelson gave us to go through all the sections of the topical guide on Jesus Christ and read and mark them. Well we are doing it just for the Book of Mormon right now. And it was interesting knowing that Nephi knew what Jesus's name would be 600 years before his birth! Also it is cool seeing about how many witnesses there are on each subject. There are a lot of verses that mention he created the earth.
So President Sorenson wants us to make the mission song more reverent so I learned the song in a few days to play it for zone conference and it turned out very nicely, well as nice as it could be. Normally it is sung pretty fast but with the piano it has to be slower.
The flowers and the garden pictures are very pretty! Crazy Cassidy is going to college. Seems like just yesterday it was me and Jake. You dropped us off at Helaman halls in the good ol green machine. She will have a great time!
Sœur Hunt's French is progressing. It takes a lot of work to speak but the comprehension is coming. We are going to split up the lessons more evenly now so she will practice more and more.
Tell Clay good job for running the ball! He is a stud.
That's about it for this week. Have a wonderful one!
Love, Sœur Giles
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