Week # 50
2 baptismal dates

Hey guys! I don't have a lot of time this week so Imma keep it short! *

     Tuesday we had District Meeting and I gave my first formation to the district. It was about faith and comparing it to a muscle and how we can exercise it. It went good. Every one is spiritualy swell now :) My bed broke that night.

     Wednesday  we had a  DMP meeting and it went pretty good.

     Thursday lots and lots of work. Contacted for like 8 hours and barely saw any success but that's how it goes sometimes.   We ate our guts out at a members house, she is fixing my pants for me so that was nice.

     Friday weekly planning.  I went on an exchange with an elder live with named Elder Burno.   We went over to an Italians members house. He was really nice and made us really good food.  Our spiritual message went over really well with them.

     Saturday we played soccer and stuff. This was one of my fav days on the mission, but i have to keep it short sorry! After that we went and taught Betty and Vanessa the Gospel of Jesus with our DMP. The RVD was super great and we fixed 2 baptisimal dates for Nov. 30th. I'm super stoked for that. Keep em in your prayers. It was Elder Rodos birthdays I got him tie. (orginal) A mexican family threw him a fiesta it was a blast. Honestly they are so cool. Then we just kicked it all together for his b day. 

     Sunday was good. They are busy for DLs because you have to call everyone in the district and ZLs. We ate at a members house that night... it was.. great. We talked about missionary work. It was a good week.

Life is good.

Love,

Elder Beck.

 Here are some photos of my week. busted bed.

Me talking on the phone

Week #49

Paris district leader

 This week was pretty cool and crazy.

      Tuesday we had District Meeting.  Elder Karl gave a formation on Engagements and it was really good. Then Elder Karl and I went on an exchange. We started off by teaching an ami that we found last week named Aristide. On the way to his house we taught a cool guy a good lesson. When we got to Aristides house we taught him a little bit of both of the Restoration and Plan of Salvation. Then invited him to baptism and he accepted! So that was awesome!!! After Elder Karl and I went contacting and took cool pics with my Polaroid camera.

     Wednesday it was pretty much my year mark because I go home Oct. 15... So got that over with:) It was cool because I was with Elder Karl still and we went to a mexican food place and ate lunch. Then we were suppose to teach a lesson to a lady we found last week named Ines, but she cancelled. After that we got our legality stuff figured out. Then we contacted at La Defance and got Haagen Das ice cream ;)

     Thursday I don't really remember what happened... But we taught 2 lessons that day... We had to cancel a RDV because our member had to cancel and we can't teach single women without a member. Later that day we picked up Elder Karl at Chatlet because he came back into Paris for legality the next day.

      Friday was crazy. We had to do legality so we woke up super early and did 2nd year legality with Elder Karl and another cool kid named Elder Powelson. We all came in at the same time and are all homies. It took for ever but we got accepted ;) Long story short. Then we went to the hill that they take us to the first day of our mission. We took a bunch of pics there. It's super cool. After that was done we ended up being 1hr late to our RDV we had with a member - the trains were slow because someone died or something on the tracks. So we went over to their house and ate super fast. Then Frere Futuka left with us and we went and taught Betty and Vennessa (the people with a  son on a mission) the RDV was epic! The spirit was super strong and they both accepted baptism! This week we are fixing a date with them!!! And because of the slow trains we didn't get home till late!

     Saturday pretty much just played soccer. We did weekly planning nothing else was really too important...

     Sunday was crazy. So we had church and it was pretty good just really loud.  An American couple came to church from Alpine they were super cool. Then went home and just called people. We had a RDV with a family from America and France, their names are Scott and Audrey they are soooo awesome! They made us super good food and gave us root beer haha. Our spiritual message was on missionary work - the spirit was really strong. They are going to share the gospel with their neighbor. Later on Sunday I got a call from President and he tells me that Karl is getting transferred. Elder Karl is goingto be  DL in another ville . I am now the Paris district leader, so that's new.

     Today nothing cool happened, not going to lie. We just got lost and I had to make a formation for District Meeting. We were suppose to mini golf...

 Love you guys!
 Elder Beck

 -At the Hill where we first arrived as missionaries (2 pics)
 -Random night time pic in Paris

Week # 48

Lucky #3

This week was so rad.

     Tuesday we had district meeting. We had to make the main meal so we had a burrito party. Also Elder Karl gave a formation about how to be a Ninja Turtle missionary. It was pretty funny. We got home and fixed a bunch of RDV's with amis. Then we went contacting and it not was very successful until on the train ride home - we sit down next to a lady reading an English Bible. So I start talking to her and she was super interested! We have a RDV with her for the next week! She is from Nigeria. 

     Wednesday we left the apartment, literally took 2 steps and contacted this lady with her daughter and we started teaching her a little bit in the rain. Then she is like "can you guys come over to my house and share this message I don't live too far away!" We were like heck ya we can. So we walked home with this lady and taught her the restoration and invited her to baptism and she accepted! But the bummer is that we have to pass her to the sisters because she is single.  We have an RDV with her Wednesday. It will be the last though. Then we picked up Elder Karl at the gare because he was going on an exchange with the other elders. We ended up getting two dudes phone numbers which was cool.

  

     Thursday haha literally one of the funniest moments of my life. We ended up watching this movie called Charley. It's a church movie but it's pretty emotional. At the end literally everyone was crying...but me...and it was the funniest thing ever. Then we went and contacted and taught some peeps. We talked to a guy from NYC.

     Friday. So this was cool. We go contacting, contact 3 people, teach 3 lessons and get three phone numbers! We were on fire! Then we weekly planned and got some kebabs to celebrate. We taught Betty, the lady who has a son on a mission. Her 30 year old daughter came too who is super interested. We taught them the Restoration and it was super good and spiritual. They'll for sure get baptized in due time.

 

     Saturday we had samdi sports and it stunk cuz it was raining.  There was a huge ebola scare, but I think it's all good. St. Ouen was crazy because it was France Vs Portugal and we live 5 mins. from the grand stadium. Our area we SHUT DOWN! It was crazy how many people were there! 

     Sunday was fast Sunday and it was really good. Also I made a plan for the ward to work better with the missionaries. It's pretty simple, but it was like gold it worked suuuper well. The ward loves us now:)  We put it into action for the first time this Sunday and it worked really well. Also a random family showed up to church and we got to teach them! Then we went porting and we got let in by a super cool dude! He is from Togo and is super interested! We have an RDV set up with him tomorrow! The sisters are having a super hard time in our district so pray for them! But yep that was my eventful week thanks for all your prayers and even better emails haha love you guys :)

-Elder Beck 

-Random Pics!

Week # 47

Super Bowl Sunday for me

Hello everyone! This week was suuuuper good! 

     Tuesday we got a text from the AP's. They asked if Elder Rodo and I could help mother some new missionaries, which means just be comps with a new elder for a day and just show him around. I got with this cool kid named Elder McBride from Canada. He was a lot like me when I first got out here. We were like immediately buddies. The first person we contacted we ended up teaching for like 45 minutes. He was super patient and nice to McBride which was a miracle in and of itself! We also taught 2 other people together. At night time Elder Perry and I went on a exchange, it was cool we were in the heart of Paris the whole night.

     Wednesday the ZL's asked us if we could be in charge of the Chatlet Metro Stop for transfer days. Which is the biggest stop in Paris and all the missionaries pass through.  It was super fun getting to see everyone and meeting everyone. So literally the whole day we were just in Chatlet helping peeps with luggage and train transfers.  In our district there is a sister training in her 2nd transfer. We get a panic call from them right after we were done with our shift at Chatlet and there was some dude following them so we had to go break that up for them. I thought that was a good first impression of a mission for the new sister. 

     Thursday we knew would be literally our only day of missionary work so we tried taking advantage of it by just contacting the whole day. At night we ate a less actives house - they are so cool. Then just more contacting...

     Friday we went to the sketchiest ville in all of France - literally. It is called Sarcelles. It was so ineffective! I forget the name of the church in english. They were everywhere we passed literally 10  missionaries from their church. Then we had to weekly and transfer plan. Fixed a bunch of RDVs for the next week.

     Saturday we did Samedi Sports. I know I talk about soccer a lot. I still stink. but I scored 3 goals this week. Call me Beckham! Then we had to get ready for conference - we went to Versailles because that is where the only church was that was playing it in English.  There were a lot of missionaries there! It was sooo good! We only watched one session though and didn't get home till like 10h30.  There were 8 Elders staying in that apartment that night! 

     Sunday was another awesome day! Just literally all we did was watch conference which might sound lame to you guys but it was like the super bowl for me. It was soooo good. I cant even explain how much I loved this conference. I still haven't seen the last session but I think I will be able to tonight...we will see :) I loved the example of Thomas S Monson and the story E Holland told about him going into Germany and giving literally everything he had to the people there. We are so lucky to have a prophet like him! 

Today we went to the top of the Notre Dame haha! That's my week.I hope y'all had a good one too! Thanks for the emails love you guys!

-Elder Beck 

Pics:

-Top of Notre Dame (2 pics)

-The Missionary I had for a day to show around and introduce him to missionary work in France