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| Wearing yellow on a cloudy day |
Well friends, after 3 hours at the church, I'm finally getting to the weekly!!
Today is May Day, which in France is like Labor Day. This means that all the businesses are closed... including the trams. Absolutely no public transportation today. Which ended up fine-- we live only about 15 mins walk from the church, so we just came and camped out where we have WiFi :) And then I did n'importe and Soeur Kitchen used my tablet to back up her iPad.
We have had a super cool week!! It was already pretty full by the time we got to it, so we spent a lot of time visiting people this week. We had so many adventures this week, we're going with a highlight reel:
- We had a first rdv with our ami Sandrine. We met her on the bus last week and took her number within about 3 minutes of talking with her. She had surgery on her foot so when we came over to talk with her, we also did a little bit of service and helped her clean up her house. She was so grateful for our help and for the Spirit we brought into her house.
- We taught an Albanian woman we met on the tram about the Book of Mormon. She is Muslim and not really willing to change religions, but she did accept to read the Book of Mormon!
- We passed by our ancient amie Marie-Louise, who has had a really rough life but loves feeling the Spirit when the missionaries come over. We shared the Easter video with her and she was really touched.
- We also visited one of the Albanian recent convert families in our ward for dinner. We talked about missionary work and Lehi's vision of the Tree of Life. I was blown away by their testimonies and their desire to share the gospel. They have seen so many blessings since becoming members of the church, both temporal and spiritual, and they just want to give that same joy and happiness to the people around them. That is pure member missionary work, and I just love it!!
- We did service again for the Sautron family (moving around a big pile of dirt in their backyard). They shared with us the blessings that they have seen ever since they've been reading the Book of Mormon for 15 mins every day. One of the awesome things is that it's made them more gung-ho about sharing the gospel, so we'll be having a family home evening with them and their neighbors next week!
- We gave a chapel tour to our amie Virginie! We've been trying to get her to come to church for weeks, but she couldn't find the chapel, and every time we tried to set up a time to meet up with her and show her how to get there, it fell through. Finally after 2 months of trying Soeur Kitchen got to meet her and we got to show her the church building!!
- We went to a wedding reception! It was super fun and super surreal! (Especially when the groom keeps making comments about how you're next...) But we got to chat with a member from Colmar for a long time. She no longer has missionaries in her branch so it was a blessing for both of us.
- We had a barbeque with the Stortis, the Gros, and the Mortz families (who are all actually one big family, the two Storti daughters got married) for Soeur Storti's birthday. It was so fun and so chill, and a wonderful opportunity to get to know some awesome members a little better.
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| Macaroons just because |
And. lastly, an ami update. We have been so pumped for our ancien ami, Marie, to get baptized in two weeks. We had a lesson with her on Tuesday morning, right before she was supposed to see her doctor the next day. She was supposed to find out if she had to go to the hospital to have an operation or not. We've been calling her twice a day ever since then, but we haven't had any news, so we assume she went to the hospital. We're going to be moving her baptismal date. All prayers, especially for her health and that we'll be able to get in contact with her, are much appreciated.
We continue to see miracles every day!! One of the things I've been learning is how to better look for them, and how to prepare myself to receive them. Thanks to all of you for your love and support!!
Bisous,
Kristin Marshall and her kids came to visit!
Soeur Rogers
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