What an exciting week! Learned a lot this week. And we saw a lot of awesome
progress. We decided to drop a lot of the people with whom we were working. They weren't progressing which was sad, but also their choice. But with this
transition we've seen the emergence of some new really great people who are more
interested and genuine in their desire. Let me give you some specifics on the
week.
We went to Bordeaux early Tuesday morning and returned Tuesday evening. It
was fun to be back in Bordeaux and see a lot of good friends. There were 4 zones
of missionaries there for the combined zone conference. It was probably best
however for the revelation I received. We watched the video recording of the
Elder Ballard conference in Geneva. It was so incredible and inspiring mostly
because of the simplicity Elder Ballard used in teaching us and his desire to
really help the work move forward, it was tangible! We didn't get to watch this
part but he had a question and answer session with the missionaries about what
they felt like were the problems with missionary work in Switzerland. Everything
he taught came from PMG, and he taught it with the intention of us applying it,
which was nice. He taught a lot about teaching for understanding through
questions, really understanding and becoming the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the
importance of each soul to our Heavenly Father. It was great. I really pulled
from it that I need to improve my personal studies and be improving my teaching
skills as well. It was great because it answered a lot of the questions I had
going into it. It was refreshing.
We dropped Anthony, and Zahira, neither of which were really serious about
progressing in the gospel. But this week we taught for the second and third time
a young woman named Ludmilla, she is from Guadeloupe and is studying geography.
Really great. After our third rdv she set the goal to read the first 150 pages
of the BOM in the next two weeks to be able to understand our message better!
How wonderful!
Oy is young father from Nigeria that speaks English that we met on the road
a couple weeks ago. He came to church on Sunday and is excited to read the Book
of Mormon and come closer to Christ.
Marlgozata is a polish lady that is a neighbor of a member family. She
recently got back from vacation. She had been taught once a few months ago
before she left on vaca. We taught her twice and she came to church. And she is
progressing slowly but progressing.
In other news we did an exchange with the Albi elders. Albi is a small city
North of Toulouse. They are a trio of elders there. So Wednesday I was Elder
Sneddon from Germany and Elder Mataalii from Diamondbar CA. It was fun and
different to be with two missionaries. We talked to a lot of people and visited
a couple of old investigators and fixed times to see new potential interested
people. It went quite well and was fun to see a new city.
Elder Moeller and I are pushing on. We are doing super well together, but
are striving to be more exact. We're trying to manage a shifting teaching pool
with member work, less actifs, and zone responsibilities. He is working really
hard and is determined to finish his last two weeks very honorably.
We are excited for the coming week. I love being a missionary. I love
sharing this good news with everyone! Everyone needs it! And it is so simple and
sweet to share.
I love you all,
Elder Montgomery
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| all my living comps were in Bordeaux! |
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| This is MaryJane. An awesome young mother, that was baptized on Saturday. I taught her on exchange with some of the other Toulouse Elders. She is great! |
