To Paris With Love

Week #26

Phillipe

Bonjour every body! I had a super awesome week this week! On Tuesday we woke up bright and early and headed over to Paris! We had an awesome zone conference and interviews with president! After we had 3hours until our train came, so we just bummed around in Paris and went site seeing it was soooo cool! We saw Centre Pompidu, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame  and kinda saw Le Tour Eiffel all in one day! Then we came home and taught a recent convert,she is super nice. She gave us a referral and walked with us in the pouring rain to show us where she lives! Wednesday was my 6th month mark!!! I can't believe I have already been out here for 6 months. We started off the day SO right by fixing a baptismal date with Philippe - the 25 of May!  He is so excited! Went contacting, then visited a less active family that I have never met and they are really cool! My goal is to get them to come back. They were so amazed when I told them I snowboard. We showed them videos on youtube they thought it was so cool! Thursday nothing big happened just normal missionary stuff. Friday we taught Philippe again. We watched Finding Faith in Christ with him and taught the Plan of Salvation, he seemed really happy and was excited that he would see his wife again. Saturday they called and asked if we would teach Priesthood class. So we had to plan that out. Then we visited a less active guy named Marc who never comes to church. We did some service for a sick lady in the ward. Then we played soccer with Marc and his friends! It was so much fun and we found a new ami through it - his name is Laundry haha. He is 17 from Africa. Cool kid. I feel like doing stuff like that (playing soccer) is just as good of missionary work and porting or whatever else never works. It's good to show people you can still respect Jesus and be normal. And it works obviously. The Priesthood lesson turned out to be for the whole branch so we had to change that really quick. It was good though. It was on the Come and Rejoice with Us talk by Dieter F Uchtdorf. It's one of my favorites. It was testimony meeting and Marc came to church AND he bore his testimony which was really cool. In our branch everyone has to bear their testimony for it to go over 10 minutes...all 6 of them haha. Then after we all broke our fast as a branch, they made food for us which was nice. We all drove up on a hill and prayed for Auxerre. We then taught that Landry kid about the Book of Mormon. That's about it! Thanks everyone for all your emails. Please pray for Philippe so that he can be baptized! Love you guys!!! 

Elder Beck