This week was a very exciting week! But at the beginning of
the week, we had no idea that it was going to be so exciting haha.
Early this week we went to visit a recent convert in the
ward. Her name is Emelienne. She is SUPER nice and she loves the missionaries!
She was baptized a few months ago. She lives with her son who isn't a member
yet, but when we went to visit her, he wasn't there. Turns out, last week he
was in the parking lot in his car, but forgot something in the apartment, so he
left the car running, ran up to the apartment, and when he went back down, his
car had been stolen. So, he had to move in with a friend closer to his work. We
ended up talking to her about not letting challenges in life bring us down and
to work with what we've got and deal with whatever comes our way! And never
lose faith! It was a super good lesson and I was thankful that we had it too.
Also, we learned that no matter how safe something might seem, we should never
let our guard down! Because someone might steal your car! haha and it has a
great spiritual analogy that can go along with it too!
On Thursday we visited a less active member, and she has
been having a rough time in her life lately. We invited her to come to church
and she came! And she brought her 3 kids too! It's always great to see that,
especially when the member testifies themselves of the importance of church in
their life.
Later on Thursday, we found out that we would be having 2
general authorities come to visit Paris haha on Saturday! Not a lot of notice,
but the mission made it happen! Not the whole mission was invited to come,
because that would have been too complicated, but the 4 zones around Paris
came. It was at our chapel in Versailles and so we were in charge of setting up
and ordering all the food haha. The conference went so well! The general
authorities that came were President Osguthorpe, General President of Sunday
School, and Brother Ridd, Second Counselor in the General Young Men's
Presidency. We went up to shake their hands before the meeting and Brother Ridd
asked me where I was from, I said "Katy, Texas" (instead of just
Houston, like I normally do) and he immediately asked who my stake president
was, and he said that he knew President Allen because Brother Ridd had lived
for 11 years just off of the Katy Freeway and Highway 6! It was super cool to
talk to him! Then the conference was really great and they talked to us about
real intent, desire, decisions, and determination. It was awesome!
Yesterday there were 2 baptisms at the Versailles chapel,
but neither one was for our ward. One was for the Antony ward though! So my
companion and I had been put in charge of making sure that the baptismal font
and the building were all ready for the baptism, so we got to stay for it!
There was another big meeting that was going on in the chapel, so we had to
have the baptismal service in a smaller room. It was awesome to see the
missionaries and the members that I knew when I was in Antony! The man who got
baptized was SO happy to be baptized and to start his new life! It was such an
incredible baptism. While we waited for him to change his clothes after the
baptism, we sang hymns together in the smaller room that we had. Everyone was
so happy and we could feel the Spirit so strong. When the newly baptized man
walked in, he was so happy to be in there with us. It was such an awesome
experience!
So, all in all, it was an incredible week! Oh, and in other
news, we gave Soeur Poznanski her car back and they gave us another one haha. I
think that is all for this week!
I hope you all have an amazing week and that you make the
most of it! Keep working hard and keep smiling!
Elder Daniel Anderson
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