Saying goodbye to President Roney
We are working with the members hardcore here. This is
one of the strongest wards in the mission, but the work has been lacking and we
feel like this Family Mission Plan is going to do some great things. We have
presented the FMP to more than 10 families now and from what we can tell, they
love it!
So, we started Monday night by going to the Mattias's home. The
father is American and he is a great man. He told us his conversion story and
it is super intense, there are ghosts in it. We had a great time with the
family and they have started fixing goals for their plan. On Tuesday, I
did an exchange with Elder Walters from Illinois. We worked in a ville called
Grilly and it is absolutely beautiful. It is on a mountain overlooking Lake Leman.
We had a great time there and had a miracle. I was praying so
that we could find water because we were super thirsty walking up this hill and
I walked up to this gate where there was this massive house with a big yard and
I saw a woman out front. I called over to her and she didn't want to hear
anything about Jesus or God but I just asked if she knew where I could buy some
water and she was like "You want water? Come," and she took us into
this courtyard where she had a fountain that had water from the mountains in it
and then she gave us glasses and let us drink. Afterwards, she brought out
berries and introduced us to her husband and we talked about America with them
and we were finally able to explain why we are here and she loved it! She told
us to come back whenever we wanted :)
After the exchange, Elder Brown and I went to the Celi
family's house to do the FMP. They are Peruvian and Argentinian and they fed us
the exact same dish that I remember eating when we picked up Sam from his
mission. It was like potatoes with some sort of yellow sauce over it. Anyways,
they loved the FMP and they are a partial member family that we are working
with as well. One of the sons is an ami (investigator).
We also went to the ville Ferney this week and did some work there. On
Friday, we did service for the Lippert family and we sanded like crazy inside their
new house. My hair was white with dust after #silverfox. That night we went to
a ville called Chevry which is really small but we had some really great
miracles there. We met this girl who was super interested and she gave
us her email and asked us to contact her about coming to Church. Also, we had
some really great convos. I chatted with a French papi for like 30 minutes and
at the end he invited me to come and live next to him, haha. Also we did the FMP
with the Tagg family (Morgan and Sarah). They loved it and invited us to
come over this coming week.
On Saturday, we had Samedi Sportif (Sports Saturday) and a TON of people came.
Someone fractured their ankle BUT it was cool to see so many people respond. After
that we taught Christophe with Fr. Mattias. What a RDV! Christophe is such an
amazing man. He is really reflecting on baptism and he has so much faith. He
has the desire and we are just helping him understand the doctrine. It went
really well and he started crying as he told us about his time at Church. After
Christophe, we went to the Bolognesi family's house for a BBQ and we presented
the FMP to them.
On Sunday, at church, members were coming out of nowhere
asking to have us over this week. I have never done more member work before. It
is amazing, these people are warriors. Today we went to Geneva for soldes (sales) and I
got some new clothes :)
I love this work so much. Thank you for all that you do. I
know that God loves each and every one of us. I know that the Atonement can
heal ANY wound that we have. I know that it is all about love and the Savior.
Keep on keepin' on. LOVE YOU
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