Okay, this week was the greatest! Like, so many cool things! First off, it's warm again! We got tons of snow last Tuesday and it was bitter cold, but then we walked out of the apartment yesterday and it was all gone and the sun was shining and it was beautiful! I don't want to jinx us, but we're hoping that means winter's ending?
Okay, so Tuesday was zone conference and wow, so good! It was all about the Book of Mormon and how we can better apply it to our lives and the lives of our investigators and members, and it was just such a blast! They had all of the zone leaders and sister training leaders take popular Book of Mormon stories and do something fun with them, and it turned out great! One elder played Samuel the Lamanite and stood on the stage and preached repentance to us while we threw balls at him, and I got asked to play Nephi and berate Laman and Lemuel (my ZLs) while 6.5 foot, Tahitian Elder Tehahe played God and narrated in his booming voice. It was such a great conference, and I learned a lot about helping our amis really understand what they read.
Friday we had a "Ping pong and pancakes" activity at the chapel. Our pancakes were actually crepes, and almost everybody ditched at the last second, but it ended up being super fun! One of our awesome amis showed up and we had a great time, and my crepes were pretty fantastic if I do say so myself (;
Saturday was so cooool! So many things happened, but my favorite was a rendezvous we had with a new ami named Andrew. We had passed him previously, and he was busy, and we weren't feeling so positive about how our rendezvous was going to go. We showed up, he let us in, we started teaching and he got so excited! He pulled out a notebook and started asking so many questions. He loved the Book of Mormon, and kept marking all the verses I'd work into the lesson. At the end we invited him to be baptized and after we talked about it for a bit, he pulled out his planner and wrote down the date and was like "well, we'd better start meeting regularly then," and we just about died! My favorite part of the lesson was when we were talking about the pre-mortal life and told him that we'd lived with God, who we called Heavenly Father, being the Father of our spirits. He went quiet and then said that his whole life he'd called God "Dad" when he prayed and never knew why, but that he understood why now. It was such a tender moment!
Sunday we had another cool miracle. Two of our amis ended up not coming to church, and we were pretty bummed out about it, but then all of the sudden, in walks an ami that we had lost contact with a week earlier! He had walked, taken a bus, then a train, then walked another twenty minutes to come to church! We were so excited, and had a great lesson with him.
This week was a great reminder that God's in charge! We'd been having a tough time, but it was cool to be reminded that we never know when things will turn up - we just have to stay positive and keep living how we know we should. Anywho, I'm loving my mission, and I'm so grateful for the chance we have to serve!
Merci et bonne semaine!
Elder Suisse
Pics:
The view from one of our member's houses because I love these mountains!
Geneva/Lausanne zone conference, with a giant wooden Book of Mormon
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