May 18, 2015

LES MISERABLES AND SOME TENDER MERCIES

This week has been one of those funny weeks. First of all...Elder Bailey and I are a little bit sad because 1. I can't fit in our shower and I am tired of it and 2. My comp trusted me to cut his hair and I did and it went really bad...haha. Pictures shall be below for those who want to see.

But in all reality we aren't sad. We are actually really grateful because this week was really really full of tender mercies. :)

First off this week...I had an exchange with Elder Hurd in the apartment. He is the DL here. It went really well. We saw a lot of cool stuff. There was this one Canadian guy that we contacted and he was super cool. At first he didn't want to listen to us but then Elder Hurd and I just testified and shared some specific personal experiences with him on how we found God in our lives. It really touched him because after that he completely changed and said, "I think you caught me on a good day. I think for right now I am looking for God." So we were able to set up a rendez-vous with him for later on during the week. During the whole exchange we saw some dang cool stuff though through praying a lot while finding. I learned a lot. :)

During the week we have been still teaching our amis like Jean-Yves, Isidore, this cool guy named John that we found a couple of weeks ago, and this amazing family that we found a couple of weeks ago as well, and Cesaire of course. I will give you some cool stories though sadly not all because I don't have time.

Well lets start off with Jean-Yves.  It was really interesting because the first part of the rendez-vous he tried to drop us hard core because he is going to start an internship next week and he wouldn't have time (it seems like he tries to do that each rendez-vous). During a lesson we brought a member with us who was really Catholic before. After Jean-Yves said that we are losing our time with him, the member just testified about his conversion story and the spirit came in so hard and fast that nobody could not feel it. That was one of the tender mercies, to have that member with us. Jean-Yves has made a lot or progression so far and he has changed so much and we pretty much told him that if things are going in the right direction for him, why stop now? I think he understood by the end of the lesson because he agreed to keep meeting with us even if he was going to be busy. He ended up coming to church! :)

We have been teaching Isidore and that is going well. Nothing to hard there. He still has family problems but he still wants to get baptized. :) Cesaire is being a little bit frustrating because he has been hard to see. We are still trying with him, but sadly we will have to push his date though.

We taught this super super cool family this week. We actually found them last transfer while porting. This week we were able to see them and teach them. The coolest thing is that this family is friends with one of the members here and the members couldn't believe that this family accepted to hear us! The family is super Catholic though but they totally felt the spirit after we explained the Restoration. That just goes to show you that we don't know who is ready to accept the Gospel. 

That is pretty much about it. :) Well...sorry I didn't write too much but I have to go! Love you so much! Have a great week!


Elder Evan Peterson

P.S. Enjoy these lovely pics of us...