Lots of interesting stuff to tell you about. To give a quick overview of
the week. It was extremely hot. We were sitting at 40 degrees C almost all week
and even during the night it was suffocating. And France doesn't believe in air
conditioning...haha I think that should be a requirement for a first world
country. Nevertheless, we chugged along and had a great week. We're doing a lot
of teaching right now. I feel like we have more people to teach than we do time,
its almost frustrating! It is a great feeling though to be teaching so much, and
we have some really solid amis right now so I'm hoping that won't change in the
next two weeks.
There have been some interesting happenings though. Two weeks ago we had a
less active family that we've been visiting, the family Chassain, take us to go
see a friend named michelle who is suffering from cancer, she's undergoing the
treatments right now. We got to go see her again this past week. Its hilarious
to me. Fr Chassain is the only member and he has some twisted views on doctrine,
but both he and his wife love the missionaries and they feel the spirit really
strongly when we visit them. Its incredible to me that This less active man has
such faith in us and in the Lord to introduce us so naturally to his suffering
friend, and then since he's introduced us to a family member and told us about a
neighbor that he wants us to go visit with him. Both times we have visited
Michelle she has been so grateful and excited for our visit. We've shared
thoughts from the BOM both times and explained what it is, and she was so
touched when we offered it to her. I love it when we get to see others exercise
faith to help those around them feel the Lord's amazing grace.
In other news we ran into a man named Dan a couple weeks ago and taught him
twice this past week. He has been taught several times by missionaries in the
past. He is an american and a biblical scholar and a bit too entrenched in his
own viewpoints and logic to accept anything else. About as close to bashing as
we can get and still call it teaching...
We also been teaching Lianna on a regular basis. She accepted a BOM in
Russian this week and was so touched. She has had trouble with her faith and is
super open to the idea of reading from the BOM, which is super exciting.
Sarah didn't make it to church yesterday which was bummer. But we were able
to teach her once this past week about the Plan of Salvation, which we really
liked. She is actually a bit hung up on baptism which she was open with us about
because she has already been baptized twice in her life. So she wants to make
she gets this one right. She knows that she needs to keep searching for herself
to know, which is great.
Friday I did an exchange with E. Hutchinson- a Welsh elder in my district,
went really well, its always fun to have a little change up and to get to know
someone new.
Saturday there was a baptism in one of the other lyon wards and after the
missionaries threw a 4th of July BBQ which was fun.
This past week there was a group of Elders in Martigny Suisse that had to
get emergency transferred because of legal issues. So the Assistants called last
night and asked us to take one of those missionaries into our equipe. His name
is Elder Ardeche. He is from Nantes, France. He came in with me and will finish
with me in two weeks and I've actually done 2 exchanges with him back in my
Bordeaux days. He is super energy and a bit crazy sometimes. It will be fun to
have a french elder with us though! That should bring a fun shift in status quo
to the equipe.
This week is already looking really busy. We will go to Chalon sur Soane on
Wednesday and do a blitz there and then come back up for Thursday district
meeting and do an exchange after. Then Friday we'll have an exchange with the
Zone Leaders. Too much to do, not enough time! the Lord is so merciful to
us!
I love you all!!
Elder Montgomery
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| 4th of July bbq |
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| The Boughton family that I became such good friends with in Perigueux were at church on Sunday for one of their children is in our ward...things come full circle |
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| The missionaries who were present in our ward on Sunday |
