So yes this was a good week! To answer your questions dad, the weather is becoming so so so so so much better! A lot warmer but still cold haha I still sleep in the under armor shirts that we bought for soccer many years ago. The heating in our apartment doesn't work too well. No to the beaux baton students maybe in the summer? No broomstick flying... my favorite french dessert is chocolate mousse for right now! The members feed us occasionally. The life style is different here, people go to school late, work late and eat late so it's a little more difficult but we are taken care of :) no tour de France t-shirt either, possible birthday present though this summer!
Anyways this week went well. We had a mission council and an exchange!
We also did some service at the bishops house. They ordered new dressers from Ikea and so we helped build them, that was super fun! And a good opportunity to help them out. They are from America but have been here for almost 20 years. They have 6 kids and the youngest is a year old! It's pretty crazy in the front row during sacrament meeting haha
On Friday we had our first family home evening with our investigators and members of the ward and it went so well!! There were a few members but it was mostly investigators and they really enjoyed it. Another sister and I gave the spiritual thought about hope. We read Ether 12:4 and talked about how hope compares to an anchor. And that even with just a little bit of hope, God can work miracles! Then we played a form of charades and had some snacks.
On Sunday they started a visitors sacrament meeting! So now at 11:30 there is a sacrament meeting for all the tourists. We walked into church and it suddenly felt so normal...like we actually knew who most people are and it's not as crazy. We were able to sit closer to the front and save a seat for our awesome investigator Lindsay who invited a friend on Saturday to come to church but the friend was busy. Too bad but such a good example! She is going to Salt Lake in a few weeks for general conference!!! So cool! She is super excited.
We also planned to go with our investigator Cynthia to the temple visitor center on Saturday ! She has a baptismal date for the 24th of this month, pray for her!!!
Sometimes it's amazing how Heavenly Father works. We had just finished our exchange so we hopped on the metro to go home but we started talking to this lady and missed our stop. We went to the end of the line and got off but she wasn't very interested. She took our card and said she would say hello. But we decided to take a bus home because it would be faster so we get on the bus. And immediately a man starts talking to us in English! He was baptized in 1989 but later had some difficulties and is no longer a member but said he still believes the church is true. He wants help in his life but has little hope. But we were able to testify that hope is the anchor of our lives. Hope in Jesus Christ will get us through any storm!
Have a great week of eating out ! :)
Love,
Sœur Giles
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