This week felt really long. We did a lot. Wow.
So starting off, monday and tuesday we spent the large portions of the days
working on transfers at President's house, which was really a cool experience to
see how the Spirit guided it all and helped us find solutions. At first it
seemed really based off of logic, but in the end it was a really a spiritual
experience.
Now to put this all in context, because there will be a new mission
president in 2 months, President needed to choose a really young missionary as
another assistant to come in and be the transition guy (all of us are too old).
So President had kind of given us free rein on where we wanted to go, he made
the final call of course. In my head at first I had Montpellier down as my
place, but has things developed I became rather uncomfortable with that idea and
it definitely felt wrong. I would end choosing to serve in the Confluence ward
(one of the four wards in Lyon). Its kind of the ghetto side of Lyon. I'll be a
district leader and I have an awesome district to work with. My companion will
be Elder Mauss a funny good missionary in his 6th transfer. The ward is kind of
struggling which presents me with a fun challenge.
Now its bizarre because Thursday we went on exchange with Elder Mauss and
his companion in Confluence. I was with elder Mauss. But of course the rest of
the mission won't find out about transfer calls until Wednesday, so I spent an
entire day with my new companion in my new sector but couldn't tell him about
it. Haha It will be a grind for 3 months. Its going to take a ton of mental
strength to finish the way I want to finish, so I really need your help and your
prayers.
We spent Saturday in Grenoble, a city in the french alps, really pretty. I
went with Elder Hendershot and Quinn. Elder Hendershot was also trained by Elder
Uluave which is a fun connection to have.
Yesterday during church President Roney pulled me aside and gave me my
final interview with him, which is sad. He's given me so much great advice and
is really good at making others feel good. He's so awesome, and I'm terribly sad
to not have my dying interview with him.
Today we spent the majority of the day at President's house for President's
Pday. All of the Lyon missionaries come and spend the afternoon at their home
playing bball and volleyball and botchi ball. It was really fun to get some
sun.
I'm just really exhausted. We've had a weird schedule. This week will be
really fun though. We are going down to do an exchange with the Elders of
Corsica. Which is super exciting. We'll spend Wednesday and THursday there. Then
Saturday the entire mission will be in Lyon for a big conference with Elder
Neilson and Elder Kearon of the 70 who are coming to unveil the ipads which we
will be receiving the week after I believe. That will be an interesting change
of missionary work for the close of my mission.
I've had some cool time with President lately and one thing that has really
hit me is how he is so committed to the Gospel. We talked about this in my
interview. He said nothing he knows of besides the Gospel of Jesus Christ can
make anyone categorically happier or give them a better life. The fruits of the
Gospel are real and incredible and should really be what we strive to have in
our lives.
I love you all!
Elder Montgomery
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| Eating tacos with ElT who we saw this week |
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| Some of the action at President's today |
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| Some of the action at President's today |
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| Elder Castillo playing boules |
