Hello everyone! Hoped you enjoyed General Conference this weekend! With times zones etc we weren't able to watch the Sunday afternoon session but hey it was probably amazing :) For those of you who watched, what did you think? (For those of you who didn't watch, check out lds.org!)
This week I have been learning a lot about being an instrument in the hand of God. It's crazy how many moments this week we had of recognizing that a small action that we did, like leaving the church at the right moment to meet an ami that we haven't seen in weeks, or calling a list of potential amis and fixing only one rendez-vous that was magical, were clearly inspired by God. In conference yesterday Elder Rasband said that if you act on the first prompting from the Spirit, you will get it right 9 times out of 10. This week felt more like 11 times out of 10, because there were moments when we didn't even realize it was inspiration, we just went with it and it was right!
One of these moments was on Friday morning when we decided at the last minute to go look for less actives in Kingersheim (the little ville just north of us) on our way to pick up a package from the church. We didn't find any less actives, but we did find a wonderful woman named Nathalie who lives in the same building as one of these less active families! Nathalie has had a hard life- she is disabled, her husband died, and she has difficulty knowing that God is there. We were able to testify to this sweet woman how prayer can help us all know that God is there and feel His love. It was so amazing!
We also had an amazing bit of inspiration that came in multiple parts. We ultimately spent an hour making phone calls only to come up with one rendez-vous, and somehow set it up for the day that a recently more active sister wanted to teach with us. The pairing of Marie Marzullo and Marie-Therese Pitsch was not at all planned, but was completely inspired. Both women have had difficult experiences and times in their lives when they had to forgive others and use Christ's Atonement in a very specific way. It was so amazing to have her testimony there to back us up and to have a similarity in conversion story (Soeur Pitsch used to be very Catholic and Marie is currently Catholic). I'm so grateful for those tiny pieces of inspiration that lead us to wonderful tender mercies and really solid new amis :)
The last tender mercy and bit of inspiration we saw this week was when we were taking the tram into the center of the ville on Saturday morning. We had a rendez-vous and a couple errands to do before conference. Just a couple stops before ours someone got on and started talking to us in English-- turns out it was a less active member named Emmanuel! We invited him to come to conference, and he told us he would come for the Saturday afternoon session (to be broadcast in France at 2pm). I was praying so hard for him to be able to come, and about halfway through the second talk, he walked into the English room where all the missionaries were watching conference!! He had a great time and said "see you Sunday!" as he walked out of the room.
Wow, there's barely enough time to talk about everything that's happening here!! We had exchanges with the STLs, who went HAM and got us about 7 new potential amis! We had a great time with them and I came away really spiritually encouraged from their example and excitement to do missionary work. I also loved being able to watch General Conference this week and be reminded of my love for the Savior and this gospel. I'm so grateful for our leaders and for the ability they have to direct us towards our Father in Heaven and encourage us to draw strength from Him.
Well friends, I think that's about it!! Thanks for all your support and love, à la prochaine!
Sœur Rogers
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