December 22, 2014


COMMUNIST WONDERLAND

We found some Communists for Christmas!


Bonjour à tous et à toutes!!! Joyeux Noël!!!! :)


This week has been really really good! So first things first. This week we taught Michael again and he is doing great. He is still kind of quiet but we actually invited him to be baptized on January 31st. He said that that is too early but he said that we can fix an actual date the next rendez-vous!!! That was really cool to hear from him so that is what we are going to be doing this next week!

Actually, right before the rendez-vous with Michael we found another guy! We got to Michael's house 15 minutes early so we decided to do some porting around his house. We went down this road that we already ported and we almost didn't knock on the doors down this road but we felt like we should. So we did it and to our surprise the first door that opened up let us in. He actually started speaking to us in English and we were super surprised by how well he spoke English. He told us that while he was growing up, he had an American family that lived with his family in France so that is how he spoke English. We talked for a bit about America and his family.  He told us that we could just sing to him because his wife was handicapped but we asked if we could sing to them both. He said that was fine so we went upstairs and sang to them both. He felt the spirit so strong and we prayed with him after that. It was so nice to share the spirit of Christmas in his home. We left and fixed another rendez-vous for later on during the week. We went over there again and we shared with him the Book of Mormon and a little message about Jesus Christ. He was really happy and he even wanted us to sign the Book of Mormon. We will be seeing him again next week! :)

Other than that, this week we had lessons with Sylvie, Bruno, Samson, Marc-Antoine, and Stany. They are doing good. During the rendez-vous with Bruno we answered his theory about how he thought the Book of Mormon was false (it is a long story on about why he thought it was wrong). I studied a lot this week to prove him wrong and we went in there and I did...which was the wrong thing to do. Even though he gave up his theory he just came up with another thing. I realized that I really just wanted to prove him wrong rather then helping him feel his own response that the Book of Mormon is right. This week Elder Nez and I are going to help him see how important the Book of Mormon is and how he needs to just read and pray with real intent.

During our rendez-vous with Samson we just talked about Baptism again. He said he believes that the Book of Mormon is true but he just says that he doesn't need to be baptized because every religion it true. We tried to explain to him authority and about how God has re-established his church again and that there is a fullness of the Gospel. We told him to pray about it some more and to continue to read the Book of Mormon.

This week we had a Christmas Zone Conference where Elder Teixeira and his wife came down to speak to us. It was really good and very inspiring. He just told us that we need to pray more and invite people. That has really helped us this week.

We actually have another cool miracle that happened this week. So after the conference Elder Nez and I felt like we needed to step up our game and pray more during proselyting. During porting we prayed before to know where to go and then we felt like we should go to this one road close to our apartment. While we were porting we came across a certain house that I felt like we should knock on. So we did but nobody answered. We waited a couple of minutes and knocked on it again but there was still  no answer. We prayed again and then Elder Nez felt like we should go down a small side road. Then we started to port that road and the first door that opened to us let us in. We were able to sing and pray with them and they even gave us some hot chocolate! :) Sadly they weren't interested to hear more of our message but after that it was time to head home. As we were walking home we came across that same house. I really felt the spirit tell me to knock on their door again. I almost didn't but I'm glad I listened to the Spirit because right when I did, a young French family with two little girls answered!  They said they were just about to leave but that we could sing and pray with them. We did and then they said that they would love to hear our message about Jesus Christ and how this was the first time they have ever heard about us. We fixed a renedez-vous with them for this Tuesday. They seemed so excited and now I am so excited! haha :)  Christmas Miracles man! D&C 28:15

I hope you guys have a Holly Jolly Christmas. I am so grateful to be here for Christmas. Sadly it is my last time so I am going to make it worth while! :)

Love you and bisous,

Elder Evan Peterson