Location: Rennes
Bonne Année!!! (Happy New Year!!!)
This week was GREAT!!! Where do I even start?!!
Let's start with New Years Eve! New Years Eve was a day full of miracles! Soeur Whisler and I made another goal to give away 3 different Books Of Mormon in 3 different languages. Soeur Whisler choose Arabic, English and French... I was a little skeptical about the Arabic BOM but guess what!!?? Yep. Uou guessed right - we gave it away to the most awesome students that we met on campus on our way to a rendezvous!
We were a few minutes early for our rendezvous, so we decided just to get of the bus a stop early and walk through the campus on our way to our rendezvous! There wasn't anyone really out and about, but right as we were about to cross the street, we saw a boy and girl walking in our direction! SO, we contacted them! Guess what? They spoke Arabic! We gave them the Book Of Mormon, got their numbers, and then prayed with them!! They were so excited to get he Book Of Mormon! We showed them the promise and then Kenza quickly responded, "Okay. I promise I will READ it!!!" Miracle number one of the week!
Let me tell you about our amis Maelle! Maelle is a 20 year old girl who is GOLDEN and is getting baptized on the 25th of this month!! We have been teaching Maelle since the first week we got here in Rennes! She is AWESOME! She is so open to everything that we teach! She is maybe a little slower, so we teach her very simply, but it is so amazing to see her truly feel the joy of this gospel! The first few times we met with her she was pretty sad and not too excited about life. She couldn't find much joy! I remember the first rendezvous. I asked her "Maelle, what brings you joy in life?" After much thought, her response was "Puzzles and TV..."
Just before Christmas we really started to see a change in Maelle! She is happier and has a light in her eyes! She may not understand everything perfectly, but I have never met anyone so sensitive to the Spirit! Whenever the Spirit is super strong in a rendezvous, she just kind of sits there and smiles and takes it all in!! After, she tells us how much joy she feels when we come!! So, on Monday night we asked her if she would be Baptized on the 25th of January!! She said "YES!!!"
I felt so much joy in that moment, I just wanted to give her a BIG hug, but they don't do that here.. We have truly seen a change in her life!!! It is so amazing what this gospel can do for people and what we have already seen it do for Maelle!
We had a rendezvous with her the next day, we took her to the church to show her the baptismal font! It only made her that much more excited for baptism!! We saw her again on Saturday night and were talking to her about church. She has been very nervous to come to church because she says she is really shy! After our lesson, we talked a little bit about church and then she said, "Can I ask you a question?" She continued to say, "Can I come to church every Sunday? After reading in the Book of Mormon and talking to you, I just want to come to church every Sunday!"
WHAT??? who says THAT!!! I TOLD you she was gold!!! So, we told her "Of course. COME EVERY SUNDAY. It is a COMMANDMENT!" Haha. She came to Church yesterday!! Whe told everyone she talked to, "YEAH, I'm coming "Tootes les demanches" (All the Sundays)!" She loved it!!! It was so fun to see her feel the joy that this gospel brings! I am so excited for her because there is just more and more joy to come in her life with the aid of this wonderful gospel!!
Listen to this one! I eat SNAILS! On New Years Eve, all the Soeurs went over to the most awesome family's home. They thought it would be funny to make us try all the fun crazy french foods! So, we played a fun game! For every crazy thing you ate, (oysters, escargot. weird sausage that I still don't know what it was exactly... and smoked trout), you got a ticket to fish for chocolate! So, I bet my New Years was way more crazy than yours!
We didn't have to work New Years Day... It was so WEIRD. I honestly HATED IT!! Soeur Whisler and I went on a run and ran into a super fun park. We played in the park for a few minutes. Not sure Christ would have done it, but it was pretty fun! After that, we just had a pretty lazy day. I'm not sure how I felt about it! It was good to get back to work the next day!
I love you all! I hope you all set some awesome New Year goals and fun stuff like that! I know that through faith in our Savior you can accomplish anything!!
I love you all! I love this Gospel! I Feel so blessed to be a missionary! Have a great week!!!
Oh - we also have another 19 year old on date for baptism the 31st!!
Love you!
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