June 8, 2015

TRANSFER 14!  AM I GETTING OLD??

Well another transfer has finished. It is literally flying by so freaking quickly. So now I am in Transfer 14. Oh well...I still have time....Time to go even harder. :D

This is going to be my 3rd transfer with Elder Bailey so this should be a blast! We are going to see a lot of cool things this transfer! :) Here's how our week was...

So on Monday we saw a cool miracle. While Elder Bailey and I were porting down this road we ended up knocking on this family's house. The father answered the door and he said they were eating and weren't interested so we continued on our way and we knocked on some more doors. Then 10 minutes later out of the blue, the father came walking down the street and whistled to us, so we walked over to him.  He said that he wanted us to come into his house and teach his children about our conviction and why we were out here doing what we are doing. We definitely didn't refuse such an offer and so we went into his house and we pretty much taught the whole family about our message. It was such a cool miracle! Sadly at the end the dad wasn't interested but we were able to give a Book of Mormon to his wife so hopefully one day they will want to see us again. :D

Overall this week has been a little strange because we haven't been able to see a lot of our amis such as Isidore and Cesaire. Jean-Yves is doing really well. He is a funny guy. We have been teaching Christianne and Jean-Bernard as well. Jean-Bernard has heard a lot of the false images of the church here and he doesn't want to meet with us anymore but Christianne is really cool! They really like their Evangelical church, but Christianne is praying and reading the Book of Mormon and waiting for a response.  She has been telling us about some dreams that she has had and they totally go with the Plan of Salvation. She was like, "I had a dream that before this life I was somewhere else and everybody was there and it was so peaceful." Then we were like, "Just wait and see until we teach you the Plan of Salvation!"  So we taught her it and she really believes that we lived with God. We are going to see some cool things with them! :)

This week I went on an exchange with Elder Young in the Zone. I went to Nantes and worked with him. We had a dang good time. During our exchange we had like 2 members, one lady that just moved to France from Brazil and a less active from the USA that moved to France 10 yrs ago that wanted to come back to church. That was pretty cool. It was so random too! They just saw us and started talking to us.

While I was there we went to a less-active member that is suffering from a sickness and we gave her a blessing with the Soeur missionaries. The lady said the blessing worked and she felt a lot better than before, both physically and spiritually. I love blessings. They bring in the spirit so much! :)

Later on that day there was like this massive bike parade so everybody was riding around on their bikes and Elder Young and I got stuck in the middle of it and we literally couldn't cross the street for like 10 minutes because there were that many bikes. And all of this was going on with super loud music blasting in our ears.  

All in all it was a great exchange.

Until next week, love you all!!

Elder Evan Peterson

June 1, 2015

SO BUSY....SO TIRED....SO STUFFED...

This week has been super super busy with rdvs, lessons, and eating at members houses, as you can tell from the title! Here's what went down this week...

Pretty much all of our amis are doing really well. Isidore is doing good but we just have to teach him slowly so that he understands. Jean-Yves is doing really well too. He is coming to church every week now. We are just waiting until he gets an answer about the Book of Mormon. We were able to fix another date for Cesaire for July 5th. Hopefully that can hold through. We have this other ami named Daniel. He is a boyfriend of a member here and he has been coming to church for the past month, so we have been teaching him. This week we all went to a member's house and had Family Home Evening with the members, Daniel and his girlfriend. It was pretty legit. :)

This whole week has been full of miracles. On Pday a young member, Charles, invited his friend to play basketball with the missionaries and other members. It was super fun and at the end we were able to teach the member's friend about the Book of Mormon. The kid really liked playing basketball with us and he really liked the Book of Mormon. Charles is going to invite his friend to take the missionary lessons soon so hopefully that goes well! :)

Lots of cool things have been going down here. A lot of amis are coming to church now. All of the companionships in Angers have been working together and finding people. I will share with you some cool experiences about the work that has been going on...So one day Elder Bailey and I contacted this lady on the street and she was so legit. At first she seemed weird because she said she was a medium but we were able to fix a rdv with her and pass her over to the sisters. And now this lady has been coming to church and has a baptismal date. Apparently she has been living like all of the commandments her whole life so she is pretty golden. The other Elders in Angers were able to find this cool family that lives in our sector and we have been teaching them a lot recently. We teach the mom, Christianne and her boyfriend, Jean Bernard. They are Evangelical but they are wanting to find out if God has restored his church on the earth. We've been seeing a lot of cool miracles lately. I wish I could tell you all of them but there's not enough time.

We have been eating a lot at members' houses. We went to two members houses this past Sunday and the first member fed us 2 appetizers, 2 main meals, and 2 desserts....haha. We were so stuffed when we got to the other member's house. Also Thomas, a member/returned missionary took us out to eat at a Chinese buffet because it was Elder Hogenson's bday. It is going to be hard to keep myself in shape...

Well that is pretty much about it. Hope you all had a good week! Love ya!!!

Elder Evan Peterson