Monday, August 24, 2015

Week #5 - in field

It's been 5 weeks already! This week I start my final week of my first transfer (as missionaries we separate our time serving here into transfers (un mutation en francais), which are periods of 6 weeks, and at the end of each you find out if you stay where you're at or move to another town! So this week on Friday I will be finding out if I'm staying or not, I'm guessing I'll probably stay. I like Tarbes and am excited for whatever the Lord has in store! 


Anyways, we had a good week. We stayed in town all week and made a lot of progress with all of our  amies (investigators).  We met with our 1 ami, and taught her baptism which she received well, and also found out she's moving!  To Toulouse, but we're sure she'll continue lessons there, we'll connect her with the elders there, she's making a lot of progress. 


Next day I got my first haircut from this super classy Vietnamese barber who loves English.  Later we met Ludovic an old ami who we called and set up a rendez-vous with.  Super cool guy, so awesome and super funny.  Even made us Raclette our first meeting with him, melted cheese on tons of different meets and potatoes, soooooo good.  


We even fixed a date for a baptism with him! He doesn't understand it fully but feels like baptism is something he wants.  I hope we can help him begin to make a testimony and thereby begin to progress toward baptism.  Later we met with a less active family who gave us their Raclette machine to borrow and we made more for the next 2 days. I ate so much lol. 


The next day we got to meet Fata for the first time, a mother of 5 from Nigeria who we met on the street last week and fixed a meeting with.  She, as soon as we talked about baptism and asked to fix a date, should up immediately and grabbed her calendar and had us write it down and was super excited.  She's super believing in God and has wanted baptism,  but English isn't super good, but I think we'll really be able to help her grow a testimony herself about the gospel and the truth of the church.  It's been cool how we could met so many cool people this week, we know someone on every pro sports team here haha. Super cool people.


I'm excited to see where we go next!  Have a good week and love you guys!! Que vous soyez benis et content, je vous aime tous!


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