February 16, 2015

XOXO LITTLE KISS, BIG HUG, LITTLE KISS. 

Well Happy Valentine's Day! I am sure glad people love me! So thanks Mom for the "everything" and Dad for the Selfie Pole...haha!  Now I can take even more beautiful selfies!

Wow...this week...was soooo cool. We have definitely been feeling the love.  And by love I mean the love from our Heavenly Father. He has blessed us a lot this week.

So first things first. We taught Octave this week. He is super cool. We explained the whole Restoration and he said it all makes sense. We gave him a soft baptismal invitation and he said yes as well!!!  I am expecting a lot of good things from him! :)

Second of all....we had two "pass-back" miracles that happened this week!!! Let me tell you about them...

So last week we were doing porting and we found a guy named Thomas and he told us to pass by the next week. Later on that week we found another dude named Jean-Paul and he told us the same thing. So...we first saw Thomas and he actually answered and let us in...haha, rare sight indeed!  But anyways...we had a nice rendez-vous with him. We explained the restoration and the Book of Mormon. He has  had a rough life full of cancer and a bad divorce but we were able to testify to him about God's love. He seemed really interested and he is going to give the Book of Mormon a try!

Then we passed by Jean-Paul. He was there as well and let us in (two for two)!  This is the real miracle....the first thing he talks about when we get in is baptism and how HE WANTS TO GET BAPTIZED!!! We were so surprised that he asked that because that is the first time that has happened to us on our missions! After our amazement we fixed him a date for March 14th, the same date as Michael! Jean-Paul later said that he was being taught by the missionaries 20 yrs ago and he had a baptismal date but then he moved and then lost contact with the church. So yeah...it was really a blessing to find this guy in a city full of people!

Other than that Michael is still kicking butt. He is ready and we have almost taught everything to him. The members are loving him! :) Hopefully these miracles keep coming!

I have been studying about the miracle of change through the Atonement. I can't tell you how much France, the people, the missionaries, and especially God, has changed me. While I am in the moment I don't realize it, but when I look back on how much I have lived through, I saw how my Father in Heaven has changed me. The following scripture has always touched me throughout my mission:

"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall fine it." Matthew 16:25

When we give our lives in to the hands of the Lord and when we do everything we can to help others change, we will find that God is changing us far more than what we could do if we try to change ourselves.

Have a good week guys!!! Share the love! Love ya!!!! :))

Elder Evan Peterson