Hey y'all so last week I totally forgot to talk about something really important which was that on Sunday evening (so 8 days ago now) we had a special fireside about the Paris Temple! It was held in Lyon but we had it broadcast to the chapel here in Grenoble. They talked about how the open house, the cultural celebration, and the dedication itself will work. We don't have all the details but it's so exciting! It's been in the works for a long time, but it's finally happening! Wooooooo
So yeah, besides that here's how our week has been: on Tuesday morning all three Grenoble équipes met together and discussed how to be unified and efficient in doing the work here. It went well :)
Wednesday we got back in contact with this referral we got not long ago for a Belgian guy who lives at a ski station in the mountains about an hour from here. He sounds really cool, but doesn't come to Grenoble often so we'll see what we can do. He said we could take a bus out there though, I think we'll try to do that this week.
Thursday we taught a guy who was dropped by previous missionaries for whatever reason. He's cool! Has some habits he knows aren't the best and has to get rid of, but that's the first step to change. He accepted a baptismal date for the end of February, so we'll do what we can there as well :)
On Friday we went to the home of a man in the ward whose wife isn't a member. We had a good lesson about prayer and how we can know that God is there. They have a cat named câlin, which means "hug." We also went to Ward Council, which went well :)
Saturday morning we taught our 88 year old ami who struggles with believing in God, so we brought our favorite member to teach with. He's 72 and is a convert himself and is so so so good in lessons. He's been around the block a time or two, has a really strong testimony, and has lots of free time. He's the kind of member I want to be when I'm older :) we also went and dropped off a letter for the Chinese less-active family we're working with. We've already prepared another letter for the end of this week's big event: CHINESE NEW YEAR!! 🎆🎊🎁🇨🇳💴🎉🇨🇳㊗️🎆🍜🎉🎊💴🍲🈴🎁🎇🎆🈷💴
Sunday night we went chez another one of our favorite members, the half French, half Czech family. They even gave us a referral for some of their neighbors! Yay :D
We've been doing a lot of passbacks this week for people whom we called and who said they were still interested, but we haven't been able to catch them at the right time of day. Nevertheless, you only lose if you quit! Something we like to say to each other is that "no effort is wasted." We are called of God to spread the Gospel, and although we're not perfect we're trying to do what we were called to do. Someday we'll know a lot more clearly why things have to be so hard. The people we're trying to serve will one day thank us for never giving up, just as we thank Heavenly Father for giving us the opportunity to grow. I need this advice as much as anyone, but be grateful for your trials! You never know when you might look back and realize they were blessings in disguise ;)
Love you aaaallllll
江长老
So yeah, besides that here's how our week has been: on Tuesday morning all three Grenoble équipes met together and discussed how to be unified and efficient in doing the work here. It went well :)
Wednesday we got back in contact with this referral we got not long ago for a Belgian guy who lives at a ski station in the mountains about an hour from here. He sounds really cool, but doesn't come to Grenoble often so we'll see what we can do. He said we could take a bus out there though, I think we'll try to do that this week.
Thursday we taught a guy who was dropped by previous missionaries for whatever reason. He's cool! Has some habits he knows aren't the best and has to get rid of, but that's the first step to change. He accepted a baptismal date for the end of February, so we'll do what we can there as well :)
On Friday we went to the home of a man in the ward whose wife isn't a member. We had a good lesson about prayer and how we can know that God is there. They have a cat named câlin, which means "hug." We also went to Ward Council, which went well :)
Saturday morning we taught our 88 year old ami who struggles with believing in God, so we brought our favorite member to teach with. He's 72 and is a convert himself and is so so so good in lessons. He's been around the block a time or two, has a really strong testimony, and has lots of free time. He's the kind of member I want to be when I'm older :) we also went and dropped off a letter for the Chinese less-active family we're working with. We've already prepared another letter for the end of this week's big event: CHINESE NEW YEAR!! 🎆🎊🎁🇨🇳💴🎉🇨🇳㊗️🎆🍜🎉🎊💴🍲🈴🎁🎇🎆🈷💴
Sunday night we went chez another one of our favorite members, the half French, half Czech family. They even gave us a referral for some of their neighbors! Yay :D
We've been doing a lot of passbacks this week for people whom we called and who said they were still interested, but we haven't been able to catch them at the right time of day. Nevertheless, you only lose if you quit! Something we like to say to each other is that "no effort is wasted." We are called of God to spread the Gospel, and although we're not perfect we're trying to do what we were called to do. Someday we'll know a lot more clearly why things have to be so hard. The people we're trying to serve will one day thank us for never giving up, just as we thank Heavenly Father for giving us the opportunity to grow. I need this advice as much as anyone, but be grateful for your trials! You never know when you might look back and realize they were blessings in disguise ;)
Love you aaaallllll
江长老
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