Today's email is going to be a lot shorter, because I have forgotten my journal to remind me of what's happened. Here's what I can remember:
The week started off with us going to Paris to apply for my 2nd year legality. Legality is such a long process and I give props to any immigrants who take the time to go through this. Once in Paris we had to take hours of metros/buses to get to the prefecture for legality and that's always my least favorite part, especially in this heat... Take my word for it, don't take the metros in the Summer haha. I was able to show Elder Swensen consecration hill where missionary work for France was consecrated a long time ago and that was cool. It's where I'm standing in my "tag" picture on my missionary FB post, so if you take a close look at that, you can see the Eiffel Tower and all of the big buildings in Paris. It's a very cool place.
We had another rendez-vous with Sylvain and Aline this week. They loved it and we let them know that they had to be married before they could get baptized and they seemed to take that alright, so that's good.
We had a rendez-vous with Hourya as well. We're thinking we're now going to drop her. She has reverted back to referring to herself as a Muslim and stopped diluting her coffee. She was super hyper as well, chugging coffee after coffee. She also told us that she wouldn't be attending church anymore, as it was too much of a hassle for her. It's so sad seeing someone who was once so close to baptism revert back to how they were before all because they didn't want to stop drinking coffee. Maybe now just isn't her time. I hope missionaries teach her in the future and pick her back up.
Church was interesting. Sylvain and Aline couldn't come because his uncle once again broke into their house and ruined everything. Apparently his uncle owns a lot of businesses and is threatening Sylvain that he'll shut down the business that he works with Sylvain on if he becomes a member of the church-- thus causing Sylvain to lose his job if he gets baptized. Brother Rousseaux was made aware of this and asked the ward to pray for them. It's a sad thing that they're going through, but I think that the ward really wants to help them out. David came and surprisingly didn't get up to share his testimony with everyone, as he had been saying he would for weeks. At the end, after he followed me around all day (as usual), we had Adam (the American Ward Mission Leader) tell him that Members would have to teach him now. He seemed to take it well, but I don't know. I guess we'll find out. Adam is such a trooper for being willing to teach David for us, after church each sunday. I guess now we'll find out if David is really converted to the church or just the missionaries. It was funny, however, because Adam's wife thought that he was inviting David to their house after church and came up to me in panic. Haha! I love her.
We also taught Zineb again, to prepare her for the temple. We taught her after church up in Belgium with the Cardwell family and Brother Rousseaux. All of their kids were fighting and it was super distracting. We couldn't get a lesson in and all of the parents were super drained by the end. After 5 hours of being there, we finally got in a message at the end and got out of there. I felt so bad for the Cardwells. Their house was destroyed and they were super tired. At least we're preparing her somehow!
Anyway, this week was overall good.
I'm so grateful for all of you and your examples to me. If you haven't yet, go check out my FB post on missionaries. Making it was a really cool experience for me. I was touched by each testimony and each one helped grow my own. I encourage all of you to listen to the testimonies of others and try to feel what they feel. I promise it will change you!
Love,
Elder Connor Anderson
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