Our apartment is sadly a little messy right now, but it could've been waaay worse. Last Monday we deep cleaned a couple of the rooms and it looked pretty nice, but as you can tell from the title of the email we've been a little busy this week and apartment upkeep has been a low priority.
On Tuesday I was on exchange with Elder Mason from San Diego. He and I get along really well as we're pretty similar in a number of ways. Lately he and I have been making the joke that for transfers next week he and I are going to bluewash Poitiers (context: bluewash = replacing Sisters with Elders, and Poitiers has been a sister ville for a long time but has been recommended for a bluewash for the past little while). We'll find out this Friday! We tried to pass someone that lives right at the foot of the mountains in Sassenage area, like northwestern Grenoble. We couldn't find their house 囧 Welcome to missionary life, I guess. Apparently Elder Mason found the house on another exchange a couple days later, so ça va. We also went and saw a member from Ghana who wanted us to meet his friend (yeesss!) who works at the mall. We all went to the mall together and saw his friend, he was a little busy with work but seemed willing to meet with us at least once and spoke impressive English, so hopefully that'll go somewhere soon!
Wednesday we had a rendez-vous with a guy whom we met when he helped decorate the chapel for the New Year's party. He came in contact with the church because his neighbor is a member, and it turns out he's studied with a lot of other religions already. He was pretty intense, but we had an awesome member with us and it ended up being an alright rdv! That evening we saw Gregory and he's sooooo cool.
Thursday we had district meeting and it was really good! It's Elder Abney first time as DL and he did a great job. He also made samosas the night before and ordered sushi, so lunch afterward was really good as well (^-^) That afternoon I had the craziest experience ever basically! We were out with the zone leaders who had come for a baptismal interview and Elder MacArthur (from Eugene by the way) started talking to this woman at the tram stop. She had a suitcase so he asked if she was going or coming, and she said that she was in transit, and I quote: "I'm French, but I live in Norway." WOOAAHHH 🇳🇴 so all three other missionaries immediately looked/pointed at me and I freaked out a little bit and started talking to the lady in Norwegian. It was the most Norwegian I've spoken in a long long time and it was really rough, but this lady was super stoked to hear Norwegian from a random American missionary! I talked to her on the tram for a long time, at first in Frorwegian and then just in French. It was so cool and she was sooooooo nice. She talked about how she got disenchanted from her original religion and switched to Protestantism when she met some really good people who were part of it and is active in it and everything. I asked if she'd like to meet missionaries in Norway and she declined, but she said she'd look up my uncle and aunt! She lives really close to Moss actually, so that'll be awesome.
On Friday we had a great rdv with an 87 year old man, he was really honest and really awesome. We should have more news on him soon! We also saw Gregory again, he's just as great as ever.
Sunday we went to a member's house for dinner, I felt so at ease at their home. It's an older couple but you wouldn't think they're a day over 50, it's really impressive. We ask the husband for help with rendez-vous all the time and he's great. They have four daughters and one of them is a French teacher at BYU, isn't that cool?
Just this morning we had a phone call with a member who was mad at us. We were really confused, but tak tak tak and apparently our teaching pool is now short two people. Yay opposition!
Yesterday we taught Gospel Principles class, and then we repeated the lesson three more times, twice when we brought the sacrament to people after church and once at the members' house. Tout simplement: God gave us a gift called repentance. We give Him a gift when we use it. Don't we want people to use and enjoy the gifts we give them? So show respect to God and Christ's Atonement and repent! If you don't know how, ask the missionaries :)
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On Tuesday I was on exchange with Elder Mason from San Diego. He and I get along really well as we're pretty similar in a number of ways. Lately he and I have been making the joke that for transfers next week he and I are going to bluewash Poitiers (context: bluewash = replacing Sisters with Elders, and Poitiers has been a sister ville for a long time but has been recommended for a bluewash for the past little while). We'll find out this Friday! We tried to pass someone that lives right at the foot of the mountains in Sassenage area, like northwestern Grenoble. We couldn't find their house 囧 Welcome to missionary life, I guess. Apparently Elder Mason found the house on another exchange a couple days later, so ça va. We also went and saw a member from Ghana who wanted us to meet his friend (yeesss!) who works at the mall. We all went to the mall together and saw his friend, he was a little busy with work but seemed willing to meet with us at least once and spoke impressive English, so hopefully that'll go somewhere soon!
Wednesday we had a rendez-vous with a guy whom we met when he helped decorate the chapel for the New Year's party. He came in contact with the church because his neighbor is a member, and it turns out he's studied with a lot of other religions already. He was pretty intense, but we had an awesome member with us and it ended up being an alright rdv! That evening we saw Gregory and he's sooooo cool.
Thursday we had district meeting and it was really good! It's Elder Abney first time as DL and he did a great job. He also made samosas the night before and ordered sushi, so lunch afterward was really good as well (^-^) That afternoon I had the craziest experience ever basically! We were out with the zone leaders who had come for a baptismal interview and Elder MacArthur (from Eugene by the way) started talking to this woman at the tram stop. She had a suitcase so he asked if she was going or coming, and she said that she was in transit, and I quote: "I'm French, but I live in Norway." WOOAAHHH 🇳🇴 so all three other missionaries immediately looked/pointed at me and I freaked out a little bit and started talking to the lady in Norwegian. It was the most Norwegian I've spoken in a long long time and it was really rough, but this lady was super stoked to hear Norwegian from a random American missionary! I talked to her on the tram for a long time, at first in Frorwegian and then just in French. It was so cool and she was sooooooo nice. She talked about how she got disenchanted from her original religion and switched to Protestantism when she met some really good people who were part of it and is active in it and everything. I asked if she'd like to meet missionaries in Norway and she declined, but she said she'd look up my uncle and aunt! She lives really close to Moss actually, so that'll be awesome.
On Friday we had a great rdv with an 87 year old man, he was really honest and really awesome. We should have more news on him soon! We also saw Gregory again, he's just as great as ever.
Sunday we went to a member's house for dinner, I felt so at ease at their home. It's an older couple but you wouldn't think they're a day over 50, it's really impressive. We ask the husband for help with rendez-vous all the time and he's great. They have four daughters and one of them is a French teacher at BYU, isn't that cool?
Just this morning we had a phone call with a member who was mad at us. We were really confused, but tak tak tak and apparently our teaching pool is now short two people. Yay opposition!
Yesterday we taught Gospel Principles class, and then we repeated the lesson three more times, twice when we brought the sacrament to people after church and once at the members' house. Tout simplement: God gave us a gift called repentance. We give Him a gift when we use it. Don't we want people to use and enjoy the gifts we give them? So show respect to God and Christ's Atonement and repent! If you don't know how, ask the missionaries :)
江长老
It didn't snow a lot, but we got a little bit!
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