Hello family and friends!
This week seemed to fly by like the others. It was a decent week
in terms of mission work
So we spent the whole day walking around. We got 14 conversations throughout
the day. We met some really interesting people. We gave out some cards, and
tried to present our message to people.
Throughout the week we were seeing Sr. Korpal frequently. We gave
her the task to study the plan of salvation and told her we wanted her to help
us teach Frederic. She came and did a great job! It was a great lesson.
At the beginning of the week, for companionship study we read a
letter I received about mission work. II have been focusing on measuring up to
the potential I have to be an even more dedicated missionary. So we decided to
try and work harder.
It's being going better this week. I still am far from the
missionary I want to be; at times I get discouraged because all I see are the
flaws I have. I understand this is how many missionaries feel. We just want to do our best and share this
important message about Christ and His church with the people in France.
We went to 2 different villes this week. We went to Cahors on Wednesday and Caussade on Thursday.
Cahors is a pretty old city with a very cool bridge fortress. We were able to
climb stairs and walk over it.
There were some old churches and had lots of old buildings. Something cool is that Cahors is the
birthplace of a famous person statesman named Leon Gambetta. There is street
called Gambetta in every city in
France. So that's pretty
cool!
While we were in an open plaza this Latino lady stopped us in
English. Her name is Evelin and she is from El Salvador. She knows about the
church but doesn't know anything specific. She said she would like to know
more, and is pretty available each week! So we will try to teach her next week.
(she is in Barcelona this week).
We have been taking a different approach with Sr. Korpal lately.
She told us she wants her kids to be engaged in the church, and so we are
beginning to teach more profoundly. Instead of reading a chapter each time, we
are discussing more topics and being more in depth.
Yesterday we talked about going to the temple. We asked if they
were preparing to go. Sr. Korpal said no because there are things stopping her,
and she said she was willing to talk about them.
This week we also started to clean her apartment. It is a very dirty
apartment. I did some deep cleaning my mom would be proud of. I stayed mostly
in the kitchen. We started the clean the floors and I cleaned the oven top. We
cleaned for about 3 hours. There's more to do.
We also had zone training in Toulouse. We are preparing as a
mission to have Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Twelve Apostles come
to our mission March
15th. So
we talked a bit about what we are doing to prepare.
Well, there are some of the things that happened in the week! I'm
starting to try harder to do good work, because my time is starting to wax
small. I still got some time, but a lot less than I think.
I love you all, I know the church is true, and I love you!
Elder Race Acheson
P.S. We are going to Toulouse today to go shopping at a commercial
center with more than 120 stores. Love you! Have fun!
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