Dear Family
and Friends,
Hey everyone! So I don't have too much time to write a long
letter, but I'll include all the things that are interesting:) so we have been
continuing to try and find more people to teach. There is a nationwide protest
that's going on from May
31st to June 11th... So some mission conferences have been
canceled and we won't have district meeting, and no exchanges. Weeee!:/ But
President Brown has made the goal to have the mission find 1000 new Amis during
the Strike.
So besides contacting a lot and passing people, we have an ancient
ami that wants to be baptized! Her name is Anges and she is really cool! Her
sister is a member in Montpellier and we have already taught her the first 3
lessons. She wants a review. We have set her baptism date for the 18th of June.
So hopefully that gets the ward excited!
Ricard came to church again yesterday, and we taught him more
about the Book of Mormon. He read the first chapter and now we are going to try
and study more out of it. Hopefully he can have a spiritual experience and get
a testimony. He also helped
us out with moving a member. Two other members came and we went to an outer
ville to move boxes into the truck. We didn't have the chance to share a
missionary message, but it was great to have Ricard integrate with some of the
members. We have talked with some of the members and we are going to try and
have some evenings and hang out together and get Ricard in better relationships
with the members. Hopefully that helps.
We taught our ami Carlos again. We went over the plan of
salvation. We gave him the Book of Mormon and he said that we will start
reading it. The problem with him is that he is super busy. He said that he was
going to Dubai for a business trip for a week or two. So we will see if he's
back this week. Margo, the 18-year-old girl that we taught last Sunday, was in
London all week, so we will see if she's open this week.
One cool miracle was we were leaving a store and a guy stopped us
and asked if he could talk. He took us to his apartment and we taught him the
restoration and gave him a Book of Mormon. His name is Javier and he's from
Mexico. He speaks English and French. So we switched between French and English
to teach him. He isn't super practicing at the moment, but hopefully we can
teach him again. We will call him this week.
We had a great district meeting about 3 things we can improve in
to be more successful. Faith, change, and hard work/accountability. It was
great because we learned more about what we can do to become more
dedicated.
It's been a hard week due to the hot weather and increase amount
of tourists. There are days where no one stops and talks. We did manage to get
a few good conversations with people. We are trying to hand out more lesson
pamphlets and Books of Mormon.
We have tried to visit more members, and we had a good meeting
with a member named Frere Zogo. He's a musician and he showed us his music that
he made. He sang church hymns in French with an African twist.
For the past few weeks we have tried to play basketball on
Saturdays and then try and teach people. We had the chance to play this last
Saturday. Speaking of basketball, we were at the church waiting to teach Anges,
and there were two guys on the church court and they were playing. We had some
time, so we played them. We were still in our white shirts and pants, but we
did pretty well against them! I figure that you're not a true missionary until
you play basketball at least once in your tracking clothes.
Those are some of the major highlights of the week. On the more
spiritual side, the work here is starting to move. We didn't have the chance to
teach all our Amis this week because they were out and about and not in Nimes,
but hopefully this week it changes. We do have more people on our list of
potentials. So we are excited for that!
Well, that is kind of the load down of things going on worth
mentioning. Have a great week guys!
Love, Elder Race Acheson
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