I've just accepted that life will be crazy. But thats what makes it
fun.
Today we are in Bordeaux, we got in this morning and we are going to catch
a plane with some of the other zone leaders in just a couple minutes to go to
Lyon for Leadership council tomorrow. I'm writing emails back in my home
stadium- the Lormont chapel.
Monday we had our first real downtime in the while and we took advantage of
it to clean and prepare, however without a working fridge we didnt really have a
good place to put groceries.
Then Tuesday out of nowhere our week changed. As we were leaving for the
day the office called and explained to us that Elder Bleak a blue in our zone
was on his way up to Lyon for his visa appointment but hadn't taken his legality
papers, so they had to return to Toulouse to pick it up, but because of that
there were no more trains to take him up to Lyon for his appointment Wednesday
morning. So they asked me to use the senior's couple car and drive up to Lyon
with him Tuesday night. So after some organizing Elder Bleak and I made the 5
and half hour drive up to Lyon Tuesday night. And then because Elder Bleak has
already been in the mission for 3 weeks, they wanted him to stay for blues bring
back conference on Friday. So they told us to stay until friday. In the end
Elder Bleak and I got to do a 4 day long exchange pulling back into Toulouse
Saturday morning.
Margot. Tuesday, we taught margot just before we left. She had had a great
day, hadn't drinken coffee, and was feeling really good about her baptism for
this coming Saturday. During my sojourn in Lyon, Elder Bollard called me and
told me that her husband (who isn't against her decision to be baptiezed but is
certainly not for it) showed the recent article published about mormons in some
american papers that was picked up by some french newspapers as well. And
apparently it was super tough for her. She really was distraught. I was really
frustrated that I couldn't be there. They had another lesson with her friday
while I was gone and Fr. Cuvelier whom we teach with everytime came up big in
explaining a lot of those big issues and really resolved them for her. She still
left feeling uneasy about the idea of Joseph Smith being a prophet and President
Monson as well. Her baptismal interview was Sunday just after church and all the
talks in Sacrament involved testimonies of Joseph Smith and the restoration. It
was awesome! Church was great! Elder Yeung did the interview and 30 minutes
later told us that she was fine, and ready to go. He said the only thing is her
coffee which we were already aware of, but as of Sunday she had drinken a little
bit in the past 5 days and said that it did a lot more pain than good. We then
went and saw her last night again at the Cuvelier's home. She is great and has
progressed so much and is going to be baptized and all the member's are really
stoked. I am really really happy.
This week we will have another busy week, with leadership council, zone
training, and the baptism. All very exciting!
I'm just very happy right now.
By the way,the mission secretary called me to confirm my release date with
me. It will be July 20th.
Which is still really far away ;)
I love you all so much,
Elder Montgomery
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| This was the stake conference venue! |
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| Elder Bleak and I with Elder Erickson (one of the busy office elders) on the phone in between us. OUr exchange was really fun! |
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| Back in my old apartment! |
