Dear Family,
Margot got baptized :) Scare after scare and miracle after miracle happened
to keep her until her baptism on Saturday and then her confirmation on Sunday.
It was an incredible experience and I feel so blessed to have been a part of
it.
This week was another busy one. We started by going to Lyon on Monday for
Leadership council which was fantastic, and then had zone training on thursday
which went really well. And then the baptism on Saturday!
It's all been rather stressful as we've had no fridge and have been putting
our cold things on our window sill. (we'll be getting a new one today) and we've
both been low on our mission money.
Leadership council was wonderful. We had a lot of really good practical
solutions to unifying our mission. That has been the big focus of late. We are a
team. I feel like as a mission we've progressed a lot in our desire and faith in
the past little bit.
Zone Training was awesome. We got to present to our zone the He is the Gift
initiative. The church's Christmas program for this year. We are stoked for it.
It's going to be awesome.
Margot- So we saw wednesday and she was doing great. Thursday the ward
council wanted us to make sure that her husband knew and approved of her
baptism. It was a bit nervewracking, but friday morning Fr. Cuvelier called us
and told us that everything was good to go and that the husband was fine with
it. Saturday we had a great crowd, Fr. Cuvelier performed the baptism, I got to
give a talk on the Gift of the Holy Ghost. It was incredible to see Margot's
countenance after her baptism and then again after she was confirmed on Sunday.
She was glowing. I had never seen nor felt such happiness coming from her. Its a
big deal. Margot is great, but she is tad odd. Her Polish background makes her
french a bit choppy, and you can tell that she has had some emotional problems
in her life. But after the baptism and confirmation she was a different person.
It was odd and both elder bollard and I noticed it. Fr. Cuvelier is the stake
patriarch and he is the one who confirmed her as well. The blessing he gave to
her was incredible. I felt a lot of real power flowing in that circle as I stood
in it. Margot may just surprise us all and be the best member ever. It was a
really special moment.
A little more info on her: Her Polish name is Malgozata, she has two pHds
(one in literature or art, the other in psychology) and has a 21 yr old son and
a 17 yr old daughter who is extremely autistic and which takes a large portion
of Margot's time.
This coming week we are going to Albi and rodez to do exchanges and
district meetings.
Our focus will now shift slightly to Marie-Antoinette who has been taught
by the missionaries several times in the past 10 years, but now seems like she
is really committed to be baptized on the 6th. We had a FHE with a family in the
ward yesterday and she loved it. We'll hope and pray she'll hold strong til her
date.
I love you!
Elder Montgomery
