Hello! This week was a good one. Sorry to hear you were sick mom! Hope you recover soon. And happy birthday dad!!! Hope you have a great day and a good bike ride to celebrate. 52 years isn't old yet!
When does the tour de France start ?
We had some good lessons this week, one with Julie. She still wants to be baptized but hasn't quite figured out why she needs to follow the commandments. We also met with the Olivier family. The mom committed to be baptized in July!! The dad isn't really interested yet. But we were able to talk for a while with the mom and help her understand what she needs to do to grow her faith.
Both the elders here were transferred, well one finished his mission so he is home now so two new elders came in! We met them at the train station to help them with their bags and show them how to get to their apartment. One of them came right from the mtc! Now soeur Morrison isn't the youngest :) she's happy about that haha
There has been a thunder and lighting storm every single day this week! Usually it is clear in the morning but around 3 in the afternoon it just pores. One day we got caught in it and were completely soaked. Squishy shoes are not very fun haha so we were on our way back to the apartment when we met Christelle or Kristenne, we don't remember which one it is...but she asked us about our plaques and easily accepted a book of Mormon, even though it was a little water damaged. She wants to stop by the church sometime but didn't want to give us her number. She was really happy to have met us and thought it was not a coincidence.
After changing we went right back into town to meet with Loveth! She came from Nigeria a little while ago and doesn't know how to read so we have been helping her with that. She just got a bus pass and is super excited to come see the church! It is hard to give her commitments or help her progress as much because she can't read. But I've been reading daughters in my kingdom, the book for the relief society at night in french and it tells a story about when the relief society in the 1990's helped many woman to read. And one of them testified of the joy she felt of actually being able to read the words that the Savior spoke. It was cool to read about other people that have done the same thing! Do you have any tips on how to help her ? I don't think we have ever taught anyone to read before...we just taught the alphabet and sound everything out.
Last week we were calling some former investigators and soeur Morrison called a guy and he couldn't quite understand so he asked if English would be better and she said yes but then could not think of a single thing to say! So she says uh..we're new here....and um...we found your number in our....uh....phone and yeah I think you met our............ then there was long silence and he is like what haha but we got it all sorted out and he will be in Nantes in a few weeks and we will call him again. So anytime something awkward happens we say to each other uh..we're new here..
I am really grateful for the light that the gospel brings into our lives. We see over and over again how much hope and happiness can be found in this life and a peace about the world to come because of Jesus Christ. Being on a mission has helped me see how much potential we have as children of Heavenly Father and how much we can help each other when we work a little harder, stretch a little further and go out of our own little bubble to help those around us. Real change comes from turning outwards. Thanks for your emails! Have a fun, busy week!
Love,
Sœur Giles
Sorry the only picture we took this week was when we were walking with an investigator to their apartment and I pointed out that her daughter only had one shoe on so our investigator took off running to go get it and left us with the baby...oops!
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