Catching Fire :) Week #4 Transfer #8

Haha that's the motto of our mission at the moment with our current goal, and it's so cool to see how that's really happening everywhere in the mission!  We've been seeing a ton of cool miracles daily in helping people and meeting new friends, none of which have turned into new Amis in The Mont but all of which are really cool and who may
start learning more!  We actually have fixed a lot of rendezvous for the next week and plan to make a lot more, so I'm really excited. Elder Robards and I are going to work really hard this week to see these miracles really come to pass!

New kind of superhero...

Anyway, I wanted to share that Jean-Luc was baptized on Saturday!!!!!!!!!    I don't have pictures yet, but a week or two ago Elder Strong called to tell me that he met with our member and threw away all his cigarettes and put up a ton of signs to remember to stop smoking, and he had been and was done smoking from then on!  I opened up our mission newsletter and saw his name under those baptized and I had forgotten he was being baptized Saturday!  I was so happy and am so happy and grateful to God for all he's done for Jean-Luc and all the changes in his life and that of his daughter Cassandra. 

Farmhouse and field in Mont de Marsan

Thanks again everyone for your prayers of support for me and our Amis here, I know God's work is happening and others are being helped :)  Felix is doing awesome and we are getting everything put together for his baptism in 2 weeks.  I'm praying that all goes well and he's so cool, he's made so much progress since the day Elder Strong and his comp at the time ran into him here in Mont de Marsan. He and his grandma come to church every week it's so cool.  I love teaching him!

View from the apartment... at 9:02 pm.  #reallybrighthere

Anyway, we're starting the week off with a fun pday, some porting tonight, and then a trip to Geneva Switzerland tomorrow to get Elder Robards legality here in France progressing!  I've never been to Switzerland so I'm excited, it's going to fun also to take a plane!  So I'll send picture next week of that :) 

The spoils of the weedeating war.  (gotta add sunscreen to my shopping list!)

I'm exited to go hard this week and wish us luck, we'll need as many prayers as we can muster to meet this challenge.  President Brown sent a cool story to us on accomplishing the impossible, called "The Countess and the Impossible", (Richard Thurman, Reader's Digest, June 1958) and it really is true how we can change our mindset and accomplish something impossible with God's help. That's what he told us last transfer with a goal, and I promise you all that if we aim to be the best and break our selfish desires that hold us back, we will accomplish more than we ever thought possible as we give ourselves entirely to the task to do whatever is necessary to do it.  So that's my thought this week, that when life requires you to go above and beyond, take the challenge and give yourself to the task. I know you can do it! Love you all and have
a great week :)

Love,
Elder Laney