Hello friends and family :)
I've realized recently just how easy it is to be teaching amis no problem one week, and be fresh out the next week. We've been out contacting, but it hasn't been very effective. Nevertheless, we press on! We met with a member this past week for lunch and he gave us about five referrals for friends and coworkers of his! Yay! We haven't started teaching any of them yet, but we've started making contact with them and they seem pretty cool. Hopefully that will lead to at least a few new amis coming soon!
In other news, we got to have dinner this past week with an awesome member family. We shared a message about the Paris Temple, which works really well with the members right now because a lot of them are going to the open house this week! This week is actually Grenoble's reserved week at the Bern Switzerland Temple, so a lot of members are taking the opportunity to pop up to Paris at the end of the week after spending a few days in Suisse.
Sadly, one of the major events of this past week was my companion's falling ill.... kind of a rough go when he's just arrived in a foreign country, struggles to communicate with the locals, and was having a hard time staying awake even when he wasn't sick. Still, Elder Masterson's a trooper and didn't complain :) he just had a cold that lasted for a few days before spreading to both Elder Graff and Elder Stephens, but even they've mostly gotten over it by now. I would hope so, since today for p-day we hiked a mountain that overlooks the whole valley and when the rest of us stopped partway up (still a spectacular view) and turned around, Elders Graff and Stephens carried on and reached the summit, coming down a couple hours after the rest of us. We had been told by a member that it was an easy hike, but we found out fairly quickly that it wasn't. In fact, it was the opposite of easy. Still a fun day :)
As a mission, we're focusing on finding our ancestors and bringing them the blessings of the temple. That's what we're trying to help our members and recent converts do, so it seemed appropriate not to exclude the missionaries themselves! I spent some time on FamilySearch and found a couple names, but they're not my direct ancestors. I'll keep looking, trusting that the Lord will guide me :) the work that we do as missionaries isn't just for a few people, or even a few million! It's for everyone! Everyone currently on the Earth, everyone that will live here, and everyone that has lived here before. That's why temple work is so important, it takes the same blessings we've received and offers them to our ancestors who never got to receive them during their lives. That is God's work :) (Moses 1:39, Pearl of Great Price) I know it's true!
Now, go to! Find your families! Godspeed!
Elder 江
(Jensen长老)
In other news, we got to have dinner this past week with an awesome member family. We shared a message about the Paris Temple, which works really well with the members right now because a lot of them are going to the open house this week! This week is actually Grenoble's reserved week at the Bern Switzerland Temple, so a lot of members are taking the opportunity to pop up to Paris at the end of the week after spending a few days in Suisse.
Sadly, one of the major events of this past week was my companion's falling ill.... kind of a rough go when he's just arrived in a foreign country, struggles to communicate with the locals, and was having a hard time staying awake even when he wasn't sick. Still, Elder Masterson's a trooper and didn't complain :) he just had a cold that lasted for a few days before spreading to both Elder Graff and Elder Stephens, but even they've mostly gotten over it by now. I would hope so, since today for p-day we hiked a mountain that overlooks the whole valley and when the rest of us stopped partway up (still a spectacular view) and turned around, Elders Graff and Stephens carried on and reached the summit, coming down a couple hours after the rest of us. We had been told by a member that it was an easy hike, but we found out fairly quickly that it wasn't. In fact, it was the opposite of easy. Still a fun day :)
As a mission, we're focusing on finding our ancestors and bringing them the blessings of the temple. That's what we're trying to help our members and recent converts do, so it seemed appropriate not to exclude the missionaries themselves! I spent some time on FamilySearch and found a couple names, but they're not my direct ancestors. I'll keep looking, trusting that the Lord will guide me :) the work that we do as missionaries isn't just for a few people, or even a few million! It's for everyone! Everyone currently on the Earth, everyone that will live here, and everyone that has lived here before. That's why temple work is so important, it takes the same blessings we've received and offers them to our ancestors who never got to receive them during their lives. That is God's work :) (Moses 1:39, Pearl of Great Price) I know it's true!
Now, go to! Find your families! Godspeed!
Elder 江
(Jensen长老)
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