February 2, 2015

I AM STAYING!!! 4 TRANSFERS IN BOURGES!!!

This is a picture of the district, holding up the number of the transfer that we are in.  I am still District Leader for my 4th transfer in Bourges!

I am really excited to stay! I love Bourges and the work is going really well. :)  Hopefully we will get to see Michael get baptized!!!!

This week was really good though. We taught a lot and prayed with a lot of foreigners which was pretty cool!

We have been teaching Michael and we talked about his baptism. Sadly we had to cancel his date for the 14th because he wasn't feeling ready. He said we can fix one for March so that is what we'll do! :D He is a super cool guy though.

We had some pretty cool stuff that happened to us this week. First of all, IT SNOWED!!!!

It has almost been a year and half since I have seen snow. It was awesome! I know as soon as I get to Utah that I am going to be sick of it though...haha.

Second of all, we got a referral from the United States. He has the weirdest yet coolest name though. His name is Jose Emmanuel de Jesus Fresco. He is Catholic and we went over to his house to teach him. He is a super cool guy and he wants to know if the church is true. We taught him the Restoration and gave him a Book of Mormon and invited him to church. He said he would come. He lives on the other side of town so it would take  him an hour to walk to church because there are no buses on Sunday. You know what he did!?  He walked the whole hour to church and attend all three reunions!!! :D He seems to be a golden ami so let's hope it stays that way! :)

Third, while we were doing some porting we accidentally ported into an ami that we haven't been able to get a hold of for a while...haha. It was super weird but super cool. We weren't expecting that! :)

Other than that we had 3 amis come to church: Sylvie, Michael, and Jose Emmanuel de Jesus Fresco. Sadly two of our members got in a little fight during Priesthood meeting right in front of Jose and Michael. I don't think it affected them too much but it affected me. It is really sad to see when members of the Church of Jesus Christ, who should be examples, start acting like children in front of people that are new to the Church. We talked about it with the Branch President and these two members have been having an issue for a LONG time now. Next week is Branch Conference and so when the Stake President comes down I think he will sort them out hopefully. We will see what happens though.

Loving Bourges! Loving France! Love serving the Lord! :)

Have a good week! Love ya guys!!!

Elder Evan Peterson