On Tuesday we got to teach about Baptisms for the Dead to our young adult convert, Aurelien. We taught him at the Visitor's Center with Elder Woods about the importance and purpose of Baptisms for the Dead, because it was to be his first time. It went really well and it was nice to explain everything to him beforehand. Right after, the Sisters at the temple told us that a young adult in our ward, Laura, really needed a priesthood blessing (the older sister of the young girl we blessed last week) and that because Aurelien was with us we could go, because the girl was alone at her apartment. We took Sister Ethington's car and drove off. This was a really cool experience as well and we were really happy to be able to do it all with Aurelien. What a great convert he is! After all of this, we returned and went to the mission office to meet up with the new missionaries and take them street contacting for their first time. This is a definite perk to serving in Versailles. It was so fun to do this and brought back all of the memories that I had. I got to "mother" (as we call it) two Elders for a few hours. Elder Paxman from St. George and Elder Jensen from Washington. They were awesome and I'm so excited for them to be in our mission. Tuesday was definitely a good day!
Wednesday was good as well! We got to finally do Baptisms for the Dead with Aurelien! This was my first time doing Baptisms in so long, let alone even being in a body of water (swimming and all that stuff isn't allowed), so it felt really refreshing and I was excited. Aurelien opted to baptize me for his own family names that he brought, because he said that I look exactly like how one of his grandpas did at my age. It was a very spiritual experience that I will never forget. When we finished we were able to see all of the departing missionaries, as they exited their temple session with President and Sister Sorensen. It was nice to say bye to some old companions and some other missionaries that I served around. Then we visited some members, the Magnan family, and that went really well too! Two good days in a row!
The only thing worth mentioning about Thanksgiving is that we had a dinner appointment with a young family in our ward. They are really nice and fed us Raclette. Not super American, but I'm not in America am I? Haha! Anyway, it was a nice way to end a long and slow day and I'm just thankful that someone was willing to let us come over at all.
Friday we met a cool woman named Lolita while finding! I'm excited to see where she goes and I'm really hopeful! We then ended our day with our first meeting ever with the Ward Mission Leader since I've been here and that was really important. Member work is starting to build up and I love that. We have a lot of people to work with in Versailles!
The next day we went to a baptism in the Chesnay ward for two young girl converts. It went really well besides the fact that they had no cook, so they assigned me the job involuntarily. I had to make cheeseburgers with toasted buns and all the works for 20 people, making enough that everyone can have at least 2. That was stressful and unfortunately took me away from the baptismal service, but made them all happy. Eating afterwards was delightful though! That night we met a solid investigator, Fanta, in downtown Versailles. Too bad that she's a young adult female, because we'll have to hand her off to the Sisters to teach. Either way, I can see her progressing like none other!
Sunday was really good. It was the Primary program in the ward which is probably my favorite Sunday of the year. We also got a lot of member work in as well. After church, the mom of the two daughters who we had previously given blessings to throughout the past two weeks asked me for a blessing and gave me a pie in return lol! It was a very good blessing and she was very thankful for it. My new nickname in this ward is Joseph Smith now, because apparently I look like him. Out of Ken, Joseph Smith, and Baby Trump I honestly can't tell which one is the worst haha. Maybe I'll let you all decide. Email me what you think lol. At least this ward has fun with me! I love making them happy! ;) We also met with our Jehovah's Witness friends and they were annoying this time around. Never again... They have been officially dropped haha. And then we took a cool guy that we found from Afghanistan to the temple. It was hard to teach him, because he didn't know any French and barely knew any English, but we gave him a Book of Mormon in his language and let the Spirit do the talking. It went so well!
I'm so grateful for the temple. This week was such a blessing and I saw many miracles come out of the temple. Please go do temple work! It will give you more peace than anything else in the World. Bring new converts, old converts, and life-long members with you. The temple is a blessing for everyone. Take advantage of it and go!
Thanks for all of the Thanksgiving messages. I LOVE YOU ALL
Elder Connor Anderson
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