We are still alive. After a crazy successful week of missionary work. Life
is hectic but fun. Shout out to Tom who made it into BYU. I'm so happy to get to
email y'all today.
This week was great because it was our first full week in our sector
without real interruption except two exchanges. And we took full advantage, and
got a lot done.
The big news is that we had two people accept baptismal dates this week.
Margot our Polish ami, decided on the November 22nd and Marie Antoinette the
sister of a member here that we saw three times this week accepted a date for
December 6th. We're very excited. We got back in contact with Kevin this week
and set up calender for him to follow before his baptism on the 8th of November.
All very very exciting.
We had another crazy miracle on Tuesday. We were in the metro station and I
was waiting as Elder Bollard finished a phone call and up walks a young lady who
asked me if we had meetings here in Toulouse. After talking to her we figured
out that her name is Roxanna she is romanian and was really good friends with
the missionaries in Romania and is now here for France for work. We invited her
to institute Wednesday and she loved it, and became really great friends with
all the Young Adults and we gave her a BOM in Romanian and she was excited to
start reading it. Huge miracle. The Lord just seems to be pouring out blessings
that actually don't have room enough to receive them.
Then I'm not sure if I told you about our ami francois that we met a couple
weeks ago on an exchange. Elder Bollard and I went last week to his house and
met his family and helped him with his english, and this week we went back over
while I was on exchange with Elder Anderson and we got the chance to teach him
about the Restoration, the Word of Wisdom and about our daily life as members of
the church. Its a bit awkward because he calls us by our first names. We're
trying to figure out how to avoid that. haha. But they invited us back over this
week for lunch, and we hope to invite them to church to meet members.
I went on an exchange here in Toulouse with the Chinese Elders in their
sector and was thus looking to speak with Chinese people all day. IT was really
cool. I was with Elder Fletcher from Texas. He had been feeling quite nervous
about his Chinese. (The other chinese Elder is from hong kong). I memorized 6
basic phrases and had my french and english ready to go. Haha we taught a lesson
and contacted one man that gave us his number! It was really quite neat.
With all of this we are working to improve our contact and activity with
the zone to make sure we keep a balance in our work.
There are so many things that I want to tell you about that fill my mind
every day. The constant thread of communication that I have with my Heavenly
Father is filled with prayers for you. There is so much I want to share with
you, our weeks are so FULL. Journal writing is difficult.
The Lord loves us. Often times our own obedience leads to the blessing of
others around us. I love this time so much.
I love you!
Elder Montgomery
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| Me making Fufu(?) an african dish we eat with soup! |
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| Me with Mami, the mother of the Fr and Sr Cuvelier, who we see every time we teach Margot |
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| Me with this huge painting in the St. Augustine Museum |
