We started a new tradition! We now eat chocolate fondu every Friday to go with french Friday. Last Friday I accidentally burnt the chocolate but this time sœur van Duyse made it perfectly!So we had a few good lessons this week! Last Sunday a member came to church with his wife. He is a member and she isn't. So we talk and set up a lesson and it went really well. Then they came to church yesterday and we had a lesson afterwards. We were talking about the plan of salvation and the things that bring us joy. I loved her answer. She said that is so happy right now because she is surrounded by people she loves and who love her. Her life a few years ago was not that easy so she is so grateful to have this opportunity to have the gospel! She agreed to be baptized at the end of next month!!
We also went to see a member that hasn't come to church in a while . She shared her favorite scripture with us which is 2 Nephi 2:11. For there must be an opposition in all things! She said sometimes she likes being that opposition haha but then she said it actually helps her to understand life, why there is so much bad. It helps her to find the joy in life! We took a picture with her and her sister :)
Other than that we went to Rouen twice, once for an exchange and the other time for a district meeting. It's very surprising how many close calls there to missing trains but the train rides are always very enjoyable.
This week I was reminded by Alma that as missionaries we help people enter into the rest of God "But that ye would humble yourselves before the Lord, and call on his holy name, and watch and pray continually, that ye may not be tempted above that which ye can bear, and thus be led by the Holy Spirit, becoming humble, meek, submissive, patient, full of love and all long-suffering; Having faith on the Lord; having a hope that ye shall receive eternal life; having the love of God always in your hearts, that ye may be lifted up at the last day and enter into his rest."
Sœur Giles
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Double Miracle for the Giles family on Tuesday
Little did you know mom that your prayers were reaching the other side of the world!
Dad thanks so much for sharing!!! It's so cool how the Lord creates just the most perfect cricumstances to get to really important things on time.
So rewind to Tuesday in Paris. 2 sister missionaries hop on a train to go to Rouen to go to a district meeting to do a little bit of training. It's only an hour train ride so not too bad. We go have a great time, learned lots , ate a really quick lunch and left 20 minutes before our train back is scheduled to leave. We should get there with atleast 5 minutes! So we start walking quickly (fun fact it was our second time going to Rouen and this was our first time walking back to the trains station from the church) so we are going and we see a building that looks like the train station so we take a turn and keep going, we get closer realize it is not the train station and ask someone for directions. They say oh wow it's in the total opposite direction. Ok quick u turn and then we have no idea where we are ask another person for help, start running in the general direction, ask a third person for help with 3 minutes till the train leaves. Soeur van Duyse was sick, she could hardly breathe but we couldn't miss the train!! So we are sprinting and sprinting, and finally we hop on the train with less than a minute! We were breathing so hard and had to take a few minutes break before finding seats. Soeur van Duyse slept on the train But in the end your prayers worked, our prayers worked, miracles have not ceased!
It was a tender mercy to be able to come back on time because we were able to see a less active named Eileen! She grew up in salt lake city but moved to Paris about 60 years ago. Hasn't really been active at all since then but she visited the temple with a nonmember friend during the open house and is thinking about sending the missionaries to him. She told us all kinds of stories from her life: world war II, only girl in her physics class in college, worked in the Pentagon, in charge of the stake drama program, ysa ward in Paris 60 years ago, adventures with her kids ! Some of her friends from 60 years ago got married and moved to Mexico and one of their daughters actually lives in Camarillo! They had left the church since their 20s so the kids are members but she said she would give my email address to the daughter that lives in Camarillo so that when I get back we could meet up and talk about our mutual friend Eileen :) it was a really cool experience! She also taught us how to learn languages! Got some really good language study tips.
During zone conference tomorrow we are getting smartphones! It'll be really useful!
It was a good week, full of work! I'm excited to see the new kitchen!
Love,Sœur Giles
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