Tuesday was kind of awful... I was super drowsy and basically couldn't move at all. I didn't know why, but it definitely wasn't fun; Especially when the whole day is filled with finding. That night we went and found the referral that Elder Neil L. Andersen gave us. He, unfortunately, wasn't interested.
I wasn't drowsy anymore the next day, but I did have a major sore throat, sore legs, and a fever. This was a complete finding day as well, so that was fun! We did, however, come up with a new finding method-- a temple survey, with candy as a reward for taking it. Old people didn't enjoy this method AT ALL, but college and high school students sure did! We still have a long way to go to perfect this style of finding, but it looks like it could be successful. I'll keep you all updated. Creativity is something I'm trying to involve with everything we do, making the work more enjoyable for us and for others. That night we had our last district meeting of the transfer. I'll put our group photo in my album this week!
On Thursday I self diagnosed myself with Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease. I've heard that adults don't typically get it, but that it's still possible. I guess there's a first time for everything. It would explain why my hands and feet hurt whenever they touched something and why they had red dots all over them. I remember that the Hall baby from last week had it, but I never touched the baby and the symptoms didn't appear until this past Tuesday night, so I'm still confused as to how exactly I contracted it (if that's what it was). With limited resources for my research, all I was able to find on solutions was that there's nothing to cure it... You just have to live with it for a week and then it will go away, so that's exactly what I did. It was terrible, however, in the sense that I couldn't touch anyone. Everytime I handshaked someone I felt terrible. I'm just hoping that it's not contagious if you keep your hands washed haha.
Anyway, I spent my morning baking an Almond cake with lemon buttercream for a temple Sister's birthday. It was from scratch, cost a whopping 27 Euros, and looked awful. It still tasted good though, so that was a bonus! Catch a pic of this in my album this week! Then we took it to the temple and surprised her with it. After that, we went to an architectural evening at the temple with the architect of the temple who is not a member. It was really cool to hear all about the construction and design process. Obviously we can all tell that a lot of work went into the temple, but it definitely was a lot more than I thought! The event was catered, so after the event we ate with everyone. It was so good and gave us an opportunity to share the gospel with all of the non-members there. One of the families invited us to eat with them after the holidays, so that's exciting! It was a good night for having been such a terrible morning haha!
The next day we met up with Kavish for one last time. It wasn't a good experience. Just a lot of walking in the cold, trying to find a McDonald's for him to eat at. We eventually found one, after walking through 2 1/2 cities for about an hour and a half. Once there, we had no more time to teach him, so we just left. That night, however, we had a dinner appointment with the Meunier family in our ward. They are so awesome! They made an excellent dinner and we had good conversation. I'll include a selfie that we got with the dad in the album.
We were all over the place on Saturday, but the coolest part was the baptism of a 24 year old girl named Christelle. Her parents are both members and her dad got to baptize her; it was a beautiful experience. Afterwards the Sisters and ward members threw her a surprise birthday party. It was quite the time! Later some Sisters called us, telling us that we needed to get over to a member's house that they were at, because the young daughter was super sick and needed a priesthood blessing (they don't have a dad present at home). Well, she lived quite a ways away and we technically needed a third male present. This left us scrambling to find someone and a way to get there. A temple Elder lent us his car, and we had to beg a member of the bishopric to go, but we ended up making it happen! They were very grateful and even gave us a cake to send us home with.
Sunday was good! To start, church had a full crowd. Bishop Causse (who is the presiding Bishop of the whole Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) was in attendance because his children are in our ward, and he was even one of the speakers. IDK if I told you all, but the translation sets are working again for visitors. This was quite the meeting to translate. Bishop Causse's talk was so good. On a more close to home level, a family from Draper was there and the mom works at Kauri Sue (by where I used to live)! Such a cool connection. I love Latter Day Saint tourists haha. I also got dinner appointments with many members for this week, which I love. Gotta get those ward connections going!
Today we found out about transfers! I'm staying another 6 weeks here in the great place that is Versailles. I could not be more excited to spend Christmas here; there's no better place to be!
As for my spiritual topic this week, I encourage you all to go to a baptism. As a missionary, they really are one of our favorite things to go to/help participate with. The importance and significance of a baptism is bigger than we sometimes think. Study the importance of baptisms and really think about how necessary they are. I promise that you will be going to the next baptism you're invited to afterwards. They really are more than just a social gathering of people, with refreshments afterwards. It's a person who is covenanting with God, being cleansed from all of their sin, and showing that they desire to follow Christ. Baptisms really are something so beautiful, that we have the opportunity to have on this Earth thanks to the Priesthood and the authority of God. Study baptisms and go to one!
Love,
Elder Connor Anderson
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