OH y'all.
I cannot wait for you to meet the Roeun Branch. They are something else! We had a lot of good member bonding time this week, and actually a lot of good lessons, and now that I'm thinking about it we met a lot of really good people too. This week was just really GREAT.
play by play?
MONDAY night we went over to the Bertrand's. Literally if my future looked like theirs I would be A-OK. :) They are the most adorable young couple with 6 kids and they are sooooo strong and FUN. And they really grasp what the Gospel is all about and it is so refreshing! President Bertrand is a volunteer firefighter and is in the process of sharing the gospel with a bunch of his co-workers! Remember the wedding from a couple of weeks ago? Those are their friends. I love people who are brave enough to share the gospel!
TUESDAY we taught Ludivine. She was being taught by the other sister equipe, and is preparing for baptism on the 28th of June so please pray for her! She is awesome and JUST what the church here needs. She is 28 years old, a nurse, and just really responsible and normal. Love that!! We talked about the Plan of Salvation, more specifically Christ's Atonement, and she asked the BEST questions. She was working this Sunday, but she still asked if she could swing by the church and drop something off for the branch luncheon even though she couldn't stay! Sounds like a future leader to me! :) That night we went over to the Bitanga's and taught them our hand trick for the 10 commandments and then over to the Warengheins to eat with them and their daughter and son-in-law. It was TOO much fun.
WEDNESDAY we met a lovely muslim lady from senegal on the bus who is curious about our message, we ported into a nice muslim man who works as a manager of a restaurant and interested to hear more, a 22 year old atheist who wants to take a tour of the church and learn more about what we do as missionaries, a student from Cameroon who studied abroad in Canada and has a Mormon friend over there who talked to her a little about the church already, and a cute protestant lady named Deborah who thinks what we are doing is cool. We also met up with Camille, Wendy, and Anne-Zoé! Ah, I just love them so much. They agreed to come to church next week! Progress. We also taught the Kalobe family! They literally treasure their Book of Mormons. They have been reading it together every day and love it. They still could not make it to church this week though :(
THURSDAY was kind of a struggle. We chased down a bunch of people with little luck. But we did have a lesson about the 10 commandments and keeping the Sabbath day holy with an old ami named Juliette. yeah...she still didn't come to church so I don't know how well that went. haha. Unreliable people will be the death of me. That night...is just a story for another day.
FRIDAY morning we were walking to the church to teach a lesson and we contacted a lady on the way. She was PRECIOUS. she agreed immediately to come and take a tour of our church with us. She grew up protestant with her dad as the preacher and she said that our church reminded her a lot of the one that she grew up in. One of the first questions she asked us was "Do you have hymnals?" Haha. We don't get that one like EVER. We sat down with her and sang a couple of hymns and she cried. She prayed for us at the end and thanked God that she was able to meet two "women of God" in this crazy world and that she knows it is not a coincidence. We are meeting with her this week. :) After that we saw Ludivine again and it went great and then we had DMB meeting. We taught Nina that night about Christlike attributes and as usual she just ate it right up!! We are praying hard to know what is REALLY stopping her from getting baptized.
SAMEDI. We had a lot of people frudge us, but managed to have a great day of finding quand même. ALSO, a lady on a segway gave us coupons for free tacos and we went and ate them for dinner that night. tender mercies. The best part of the day was our lesson with Rachel!! Who knew she was actually SO interested! We watched the Resto film, invited her to be baptized, and she came to church the next day!! Yay!! Finally someone who is into this!!
SUNDAY was interesting. We missed the sacrament looking for one of our amis haha and had to take it after church in the Branch President's office. whoops. We also had a branch meal after church and it was so fun to be around the members. I LOVE OUR BRANCH.
Yeah! That was our week! I hope that y'all are doing great! I am so sad about the ward change, but I know that the Lord needs y'all in the 2nd ward and that you are going to rock it. Plus, what could be more fun than BISHOP NAHOO? It will be great. M5 forever.
gros bisous,
Soeur Johns
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