How is everyone? I don't have a lot tell you. I just asked Elder Moeller
what we did this week and he responded "work."
Lots of new challenges, old challenges continue.
We had 5 people with a baptismal date, but we dropped two of them this week
because they weren't showing any desire to move forward. I'll give you a little
break down of our other three.
Juliana- an awesome middle aged Brazilian woman, who lived in DC for 15
years and has been living in France for 10 years now. She has a young boy. she
is unhappy living with her boyfriend. She wants to change and feels like there
is more to life than what she has. We're focusing on helping her read the BOM
and pray regularly, and find the strength to change her life. (that is after all
the power of the Gospel. The Lord grants us the power to change our
circumstances)
Sara- an awesome middle aged Italian woman who is fiancée to a less actif
return missionary in the ward. She already has a firm testimony of everything.
We saw her and micheal yesterday. She is wonderful and has a such a pure desire
to be baptized and come closer to her Heavenly Father. But they are living
together and wont be getting married until December. She is ready to be
baptized except for that; so we are working to find a solution with the ward to
enable her to be baptized and protect her covenant until the marriage.
Zahira- a great young student, our age, from Algeria. She has testimony
already of the gospel and the book of Mormon, but is too busy to see us. School
and work consume her time. She has a sincere desire to be baptized, we just need
to find a way to see her more and for her to come to church regularly.
Besides these three we are working with lots of others to help them grow in
their relationship with Heavenly Father and the Savior.
We had one moment in particular this week that stuck out to me. Saturday
evening, We had been invited to eat at an amis home, a couple who really liked
us and had seen us 2 times before. They are an odd couple, Gilbert is from
Toulouse, Emma his wife is Bulgarian, they areintersting, both over 50 yrs old.
Their home was rather messy. But we had a great evening eating dinner with them
and their 2yr old daughter(?) and phillipe their friend who came for the last 30
minutes. They are really sweet and full of love and just wanted to get to know
us. Towards the end of the evening as we finished dessert, so gospel questions
came up...death, the Savior, who is God. We got scratch the surface a little bit
and there was a good spirit there as we taught very simply. They accepted our
invitation to hear our message in full another time. I said the closing prayer.
Just after the prayer it was silent in the room and Gilbert said," you know, its
moments like these, when you are with friends and you have a wonderful night
together, that time stops and it seems like our problems and worries are gone,
and you know that there is something there above watching over us." It was
really sweet and the Spirit was really strong.... We left and as we turned the
street corner they called us and asked us about the book we wanted to give them!
haha we ran back and gave them a Book of Mormon for our next visit and they were
more than happy to accept it. It was special. I felt really blessed and
loved.
Our work continues and we are doing our best to follow the Spirit. Another
week!
I love you all!
Elder Montgomery
