Hello friends and family,
I hope you all had a great
conference weekend. I know that I did. We had our investigator Jean-Phillip
come. He come to most of the sessions and it seems that he really liked it. We
had another man named Jean-Claude who came. He has only met with the
missionaries a couple times, but he does know a little about the church. He
only watched a part of a session because he had to go somewhere else. He said
it was interesting. So we will try and see him this week and talk to him more
about conference. I love LDS General Conference for so many reasons.
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| My aunts, Bonnie Lee and Betsy Lee Bailey. Both sing in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. |
So as for the week, here it goes.
On Monday it was Easter Monday. So no stores were open, buses
didn't run, and we spent the day at a member’s house. We ate for a while and
even played some football. I don't know what happened but I ended up ripping my
pants. So Jeremy, the 27-year-old member that we play sports with, gave me his
jeans for the day. We were with the Perez Family.
On Tuesday we did groceries with Sr. Korpal at the same time. We then
did some contacting. We then met Brianna at the church and we had a good lesson
with her. We taught her the Plan of Salvation, and we answered some of her
questions.
Wednesday, we went
took an emergency trip to the mall to H&M to get some p-day pants for me.
We then taught Jean-Phillip at the church and that went well! Jean-Phillip is
now in 2 Nephi of the Book of Mormon and he seems to really like. We went over
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
We then called up Brianna (the American girl) and then we took a
bus and went to the super market and we got some Root beer. American’s love
root beer. We talked a lot during the walk, and just spent some time with her.
We sat down at a bench and we answered some of her questions. We are working
with her to start reading the Book of Mormon. She is really believing, and she
has had lots of events to help her have faith. So now we are just working to have
her study the word of the prophets.
Thursday We went shopping again with Sr. Korpal. We love to spend time with
her. We know that it helps her to have contact with active members (I hope we
can be known as active members). We know that it means a lot to her.
We taught Jean-Phillip and we went over tithing and the other
commandments like the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Chastity. He said that he
will try to keep all the commandments, so we are pretty happy with him.
After that we went over to Frederic's house and we taught him the
last lesson of integration. We taught him a little about general conference.
Showed him what the Conference center looks like, and how the people give
talks.
Since we are now finished with the lessons, we will start studying
with him a few times each week. We plan to read a chapter with him, and help
him understand it, and then give him a new assignment. That way we can help him
push through the Book of Mormon. We then went over to Sr. Korpal's. We started
the Book of Mormon again. We know that will help her have the spirit with her
more often. We have made lots of good progress with her! She said that she will
come to church next week. So hopefully that will all go according to
plan. We then made it home
and started to eat. We then got a text from the Branch President to tell us to
get on Skype for the branch Council. We ran all the way to the church in the
rain to get there.
On Friday we did our weekly planning. So that took most of the morning and
part of the afternoon. We then went to the Church to teach Jean-Phillip. We
went over what to expect for General Conference. We went over what to expect
and told him to come with a question in his head. It turned out to be a good
lesson.
We came back to the apartment because we needed to make some
dessert for a dinner that evening. It also happened to be April Fools. So Sr.
Korpal called us and told us that she saw us on the T.V. We were walking in the
background of a news cast. We thought she was serious because we were walking
in Centre Ville at the time that she said that she saw us. She then said
"Poisson d'avril" (April Fools) I have to say, she got us pretty
good.
We made some calls that night, and we tried to invite people to
come to Conference at the church on Saturday and Sunday. That’s how we got Jean-Claude
to come. So I guess calls sometimes work!
We then got picked up to go to the Family Dieute’s house. We had
some pizza with their family and another family in the branch. The family
Yonnet. It’s always fun to be at their house. We had some Cheddar pizza and it didn’t
turn out too bad. They really liked the bread we brought as well for
dessert.
On Saturday we went to the church to make sure that the T.V. was going to
work. Jeremy was there to show us how it worked. He then took us to a really
good bakery and we got some sandwiches. It’s cool to hang with Jeremy. He is 27
but he is pretty much our age. We coached him on his dating situation and
encouraged him about “eternal families.”
We went out and contacted. I went up to a lady and very
confidently said "excuse me Monsieur" (excuse me mister) on
accident... I kept a straight face and then kept walking realizing what I
said... The funny thing is that she stopped and said yes? But I dropped the
ball on that conversation. I was too embarrassed.
While we were walking further down the street we stopped this
couple and we had a really great conversation with them! We ended up giving
them a Book of Mormon. We hope that they will call us!
We then went to the church at 6 in the night to watch conference.
Because of the time difference we have to watch it in the evening.
On Sunday, we did studies in the morning. There was a marathon
right outside our window. The finish line was just down the road. Also for personal study, I read a
really good talk to missionaries called the 4th Missionary. I am trying harder
now to become a more engaged missionary. I only have so long left on my
mission, and I know I need to improve a great deal.
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| It is finally warm enough to wear short sleeves! |
We spent all day at the church watching the sessions. We had
Frederic and Sr. Korpal came to for the 6:00 session. Like I said at the top of this
letter, we had a potential ami come named Jean-Claude. So we will see where
that goes!
Anyways, that's the week. It was pretty good! So we will see how
next week turns out! I love you all, and will talk to you all soon!
Love, Elder Race Acheson
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