Prier (Week #4 Transfer #9)

Hey everyone,

First I want to acknowledge and wish courage to all those affected by the events in Nice this past week. Our prayers go out to you and I ask everyone to keep these people kept in their thoughts and prayers. It's horrible to see the things that keep happening nearby, but I know the French are stronger than such tragedy, and we are not disheartened. I know it will all be well.

This week went really well. It was really cool, since Tuesday, every day this week we found someone with real potential who wants to see us again and learn more about the gospel. It was so cool, and we met them in a variety of ways in finding them, be it meeting them in the street, calling an old ami (who just showed up for church for the first time on Sunday! So cool!) or porting into them, Heavenly Father really lead us and put people in our path this week. That was so cool and I know it will lead to baptisms and the advancement of the Lord's work. We taught 12 lessons this week, which was a record for me.  One of those was on the street where we shared our testimony with this lady, Catia, who is so cool and we answered a lot of questions for her.  At the end I felt like I should ask her if she believed what we had taught her, she's pretty religious in her own faith, but I did and she said yes, that she felt what we said was true. She accepted the Book of Mormon we gave her and she gave us her #s so we can see her later.  Just one of the many cool miracles we had this week!!  So awesome, what a cool experience.

Happy Birthday Elder Laney!

You know last week felt like 2 weeks of work put into one, it was so successful, and good thing too since we'll be gone all the next week!  Off to Toulouse at the moment, and we'll be doing a zone finding day tomorrow and then we're off to Pau for the rest of the week due to the giant party going on in Mont-de-Marsan this week. Not the best circumstances for missionary work, and members have been helping
missionaries to avoid this for the last few years since it's not a very safe situation for misisonary work (these French people party pretty hard haha)!

Service activity 

Anyways I'm excited for another week and it'll be a fun one!!  Well then get in contact with all those we will see in a week and it will be cool to see so much progress and teach so many cool and prepared people. I really was so grateful for everything this week, and Elder Nelson reminded me of that.  Something I thought was so cool was how if we had an awesome experience, or weren't feeling good Elder Nelson would stop and say "we need to say a prayer". So if you really see God help you, take some time and thank Him, and if you aren't feeling good, just say a prayer and ask Him for some help.  He's always there to help us and you'll feel your love grow for Him in gratitude for all He does, and he'll even bless you with more peace afterwards.

I wish you all a good and fun and safe week!! Miss you all and bonne semaine!

Amicalement,

Elder Laney