We had mission conference on Tuesday!!!!
It was SO GOOD. OH MY GOODNESS. Elder Piper from the first Quorum of
the Seventy came and trained us, and oh did he train us. Man alive. I am
convinced that it was the best meeting Ive ever been to. He taught us
how to respond to questions, how to teach true doctrine instead of
surface problems or ideas like principles or applications, and other
things. I wish I could explain how much I learned there. Basically, its
changed the way that I will teach all other lessons I have here in
Quebec, and probably for the rest of my life. Bottom line: It's true
doctrine understood that brings power into our lives to change us. We
learn more when we receive answers to our questions - and the way to
receive those answers from God instead of a 21 year old boy, is through
the holy scriptures, prayer, listening to the Spirit. Woo!
That picture of Dane in the hallway is so cute!
Jimmy,
Carol, and Gabrielle all came to church yesterday, and loved it. Jimmy
hasn't smoked for 10 days, and is doing really well! Im sure it won't be
long until he will be baptized. We're just fine tuning now, as he keeps
working on smoking (since its been over 30 years now since hes
started). Carol is also doing well, shes very excited for her baptism on
December 20th
(her birthday), and Gabrielle is a boss! Her husband Jeremie is taking
huge steps, and I'm super happy about it! Hes awesome. Bishop said it
wont be too long until he's ordained and then can baptize Gabrielle!
Josée didn't come to church, and we're still waiting
to find out what happened. Mohammed is doing really well, but is
obviously hesitant to come to church since he doesnt speak a word of
French.
Bref, we're moving forward.
We've
decided to heed President Patrick's counsel and focus more on helping
our less active friends out, and bring them back to the fold. So that's
our vision for this week. We had a ward list of about 300 names, while
70 have no information, and 80 live quite a ways away (for us with mile
limits) and so we're going to get this all figured out some how.
We had 13 friends come to church in total for our three teams (with
a couple member invites, since it was the primary presentation this Sunday!).
I think one of the biggest joys I have here is helping out Bishop
Desjourdy, because he's trying so hard and its such a blessing to help
him out. Hopefully I can get a picture with him soon and send it home.
He's a great friend!
Oh man! I love you all! Hope this was long enough
for you mom! Send me questions this week and Ill try to answer them next
week!
Love!
Amour!
Amor!
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