So this week was crazy! And it's December! I'll try to get everything into one email!
First off, it's snowing here! Not a lot, but enough to make it really cold! Apparently Geneva has blankets of snow, so we're hoping it makes it's way over here to Lyon!
We were super busy all week putting together plans for our Christmas conferences in Toulouse and Lyon, buying train tickets, sorting all the Christmas packages and all that other fun office holiday stuff. President and Sister Brown came by to work on Christmas stuff, and Sister Rigby (one of the senior couple sisters) decorated the office, and there are ornaments and Christmas lights everywhere. I'm so excited for Christmas!
So we've been teaching an ami these last few weeks, and I totally keep forgetting to write about it. His name is Deeli and he's from the Congo but lives in Ukraine. We've been using the miracle of technology to Skype him and the missionaries there, and it's been such a cool experience. Sadly, our last couple rendezvous have fallen through, but it's been super nice to get some teaching in and we hope it picks up.
In other news! Today was pretty cool! The sisters in our ward have been teaching an old lady named Christianne, and we've gotten to teach her a couple times on Sundays. She's super nice! We'll say something like "Why do we come to church," and she looks confused and says "Well, it's a commandment, why wouldn't we?" Anywho, she ended up asking me to baptize her! So that was today, and a super special experience!
We didn't have time to do anything crazy for pday today, due to the baptism, but we made some A+ hot chocolate, and we're planning on a game night with the Lyon amis tonight, which should be cool.
So I had a pretty cool experience earlier today. I was feeling pretty annoyed and discouraged with myself and wasn't sure why. Then we said a prayer before leaving the apartment for the office, and I just asked Heavenly Father for peace, and it was like all of the stress and worry and difficulties I'd been dealing with just faded away. I realized that, due to all that our Savior has done for us, everything I'd been stressing about was temporary and of no real impact. If we focus on bettering ourselves and our relationship with Heavenly Father, we'll realize that the only things that have any real lasting effect will be positive, and our troubles will melt like chantilly on chocolat chaud.
Merci pour toutes les priéres, et sachiez que Dieu vous aime!
Elder Suisse
P.S. Pictures coming when I have WiFi :)
Okay, here's the pics from this week!
Okay, here's the pics from this week!
A whole bunch of missionaries and a super nice recent convert named Martha
Christianne's baptism!
Soeur Rigby found reindeer noses and they were very appreciated
Elder Ruben and I realized that we had bérets and baguettes and voila, photo shoot
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