To Paris With Love

Week #99

Last zone conference

Hey y'all I had a killer week! Read up.

Monday was fairly normal just pday stuff and FHE at the church after

and we had some amis there and a less active lady came so it changed

up the scene a little bit!

Tuesday was mostly just a day of finding. We taught people on the

street like normal then Elder McBride was in a ton of pain and told me

that it was his leg that he recently had broken. He broke his leg

playing soccer in his last ville and they never fixed it so he thinks

the bone is growing in the wrong direction or something so he called

the office and got a doctors appointment set up.

Wednesday we mostly just got our training all set up for zone

conference which was the following day. Also because McBrides leg hurt

so bad we couldn't do a whole lot. Our training is on how  the "recipe" of

Christ's church using the New Testament as the recipe. So we made a

batch of good tasting brownies that followed the recipe and then made

some super gross brownies that were missing ingredients or added

ingredients. We did that because it shows how our church uses all the

ingredients and how big of a difference a missing ingredient can make.

Thursday was the "big day." I had my last zone conference, and went

out with a bang! I presided the meeting, gave my "dying"

testimony, gave a training to my zone, and finally gave a clothing

training to all the Elders who were there in the four zones. They all

went well too so I was happy :) I used in my dying testimony Dieter F.

Utchdorfs talk "Lord, is it I?" just emphasized how important it is to

judge yourself before others. I invited everyone as well to take a

step back with the work they are doing and ask themselves "is this

really what the Lord wants me to do? Is  this really the most

effective thing I can be doing right now?" because I feel like

missionaries often fall into ruts and just follow the motions. I

talked about other stuff that I'll save for my homecoming talk though.

;) Then the meeting went way too late and we missed McBrides doctors

appointment sadly.

Friday we weekly planned and called a bunch of people to fix RDVs for

the following week. We worked as well in the area book. Nothing

special happened that day though. We saw a recent convert that night

and he is doing good.

Saturday we did Saturday Sports for the first time in Tours. We played

basketball with our ami and the recent convert came and the less

active lady who are all about the same age which was awesome. It was

funny playing because none of us play basketball haha. It was still

lots of fun though. McBride just watched poor guy.

Sunday we went to church and had 2 amis there! But it was super

frustrating because one of our amis was suppose to have an RDV with our

branch pres but the guy didn't show up which normally wouldn't be a

huge deal because we would just ask his counselor to do it... but he

didn't show up either. So he came but didn't get interviewed and he

was kinda mad about that. After church we taught some people and then

helped our ami with his English homework which at first I thought was

going to be a huge waste of time, but we actually ended up fixing a

baptismal date with him so that was awesome!

Love you guys i'll see you in 3 weeks! Keep it real!

-Elder Beck