Hey, everyone! This week was very busy, so I'll try to keep this e-mail as brief as possible for all of us.
Our morning exercise on Tuesday was playing soccer with the ZLs and the DL and his companion. Sounds fun right? It was, until one of my hard kicks broke half of my big toe nail off. Never play soccer barefoot, my friends, never. The day only went more downhill from there. I had lost the car keys somewhere in the Lille apartment and could not find them for the life of me. The rest of that day involved district meeting and exchanges, so it was crucial to have the key. I retraced all of my steps and basically turned their apartment inside out. We also prayed twice. I was losing hope and we were already an hour and a half late to district meeting, with all the other missionaries having taken the metro to the church. One of my earliest instincts was to check the couch that I had slept on the night prior. The cushions aren't removable, so we couldn't check inside. We just had to wiggle the couch around and listen for a sound. We heard nothing, so we continued to look elsewhere. Eventually, I gave up and took a big knife to the underside of the couch. Sure enough, it was in there! Definitely the dumbest place for something to be. After district meeting, the whole district went proselyting together in downtown Lille. That was interesting. Elder Crane and I left early to start our exchange together and this random man started hitting on us. The guy was at least 50 (even though he said he was 30) and wasn't too interested in us after we brought Jesus into the conversation lol. Elder Crane quite enjoyed our conversation with him, so he asked him for a selfie. I'll put it in my album. He's the man with the straw hat. Then Elder Crane and I went in-active searching. Wasn't too eventful. The straw hat man was definitely the most interesting part of the day.
The next day we finally met up with Sylvain and Aline again! It's been so long since I've seen them. It was a very bittersweet rendez-vous, because they told us that they want to progress towards the temple really badly, but Sylvain's uncle and their work schedules are still blocks for them. They told us that they wouldn't be able to come to church for a long while because of this. Sadly, this meant that I won't get to be here for their baptism or wedding, but I'm hoping to be there when it happens one day in the future! We then had a WML meeting in Mons with Adam and then we taught Zineb to finish the night.
Thursday wasn't so great either. We did some in-active hunting, paid for way over-priced KFC meals, and was finally made to pay my speeding ticket from all the way back in May by an office Elder. Because he had "forgotten" to call me back to pay for it earlier on, the price of the ticket had increased. The price is also supposed to be split with your companion from when it happened, so we contacted mine, Elder Larson, and he, of course, refused to pay his portion. Because I was the designated driver at the time, they use my credit card info to pay for it, and then I have to have my companion give me half the cost back in cash. Guess that's not going to happen. On the positive side of things, we got to have dinner with the Kabongo family in Mons! And Maria Cuche (the blind, famous singer from the Epinal Ward) messaged me on Facebook to tell me that her autobiography is finally coming out this month. How cool is that?
Friday. Oh what a day. We woke up at 5 to get ready to head to Lille and catch a train to Paris from there. We were going to Paris, because we got a text saying that my second year legality was ready to be picked up. Once there, we took all the metros/inter-city trains/buses that we needed to finally arrive at the Sous-Prefecture where legality is done. After waiting in line for hours, I get up there just for them to tell me that they had made a mistake and that it won't be ready until the 26th. That wasn't fun. Our whole day was spent in Paris for this and I'll have to do it all over again in a few weeks. And my companion definitely wasn't happy with this either. On the bright side, because there always is one, we got to eat some bagels at Consecration hill, overlooking the city of Paris.
The next day was really busy with 3 rendez-vous back-to-back. We first had a lesson with Felisa up in Mons. She just got handed back to us from the Neville Elders, because apparently she "liked us more." Anywho, I hadn't seen her in over a month and a half, so that was cool. We had a Chilean lunch with her, her daughters, and their friends. That was really cool. Then we gave the lesson. Elder Crockett isn't too fond of her and wants to drop her, because he thinks that she just wants us to go over for fun. So I'll keep you updated on what happens. Felisa has said that she wants to be baptized, so maybe that'll happen. Then we had our weekly scripture study with Chantal in Valenciennes. She's awesome. Best rendez-vous each week, even though she's already a convert. Then we taught Margrate for the first time in two months in Aniche. We might end up dropping her too, because there is literally no public transportation in her little ville on Sundays, thus blocking her from church attendance. So sad. She wants to progress, but there's no way for her to get to church. And members aren't an option, we've already tried. Any other tips? Then we drove back and dropped some patisseries off at Teodora's house with a Venez et Voyez (Come and See (a special Sunday that we are doing here)) invitation.
Sunday was good and David didn't come #Blessed. Just a nice Sunday with not much to talk about!
Lots of you said that you were praying for me about my situation with David. I just wanted to say thank you. I know that your prayers helped and will continue to help with this. I encourage all of you to add someone to your prayers. Just like we've all experienced prayers helping us personally, I know that they can also help others. Think of anyone you can and pray for them. God knows what we all need and He will deliver. All we have to do is ask and have faith!
I love you all! Thanks for the love each week.
Elder Connor Anderson
Invites to Venez et Voyez
My companion, Elder Crockett
Biography of Maria Cuche
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