May 30th,
2016
This week, we had zone conference in Nancy. It was awesome. We had
some great formations by the STLs about testifying about the Book of Mormon, the
zone leaders talked about helping our Amis to get over their fears, Sœur Babin talked
about mission culture, the Assistants talked about using ward members and
President talked about planning for each transfer. It was so fun. President
made a lot of funny jokes that made everyone laugh. And we were very much
enlightened by everyone who spoke.
Then we went back to Nancy to do exchanges with our Zone Leaders, Kelley
and Stephenson. We had a great time. Elder Kelley and I went to visit an
awesome member and then the next day, I went with Stephenson to this small town
about 15 minutes away by train to look for a referral. It was the
smallest city I've ever been in Europe. But it was very nice and everyone was
white! Overall, we had a great time with our Zone Leaders. By the way, Nancy is
a pretty nice ville by itself.
We got to see Maxence again this week. He's still apprehensive
about coming to church, but he is still getting his Book of Mormon reading in. He's
progressing slowly, but he's still looking forward to seeing us each week. We're
feeling good about the direction he's going right now.
Yesterday, again we expected 2 amis to come to church for certain.
Sacrament meeting started and ended and they hadn't showed up yet. However,
right after sacrament meeting ended, our ami, Phillipe, who we've only seen
twice, decided to come for the last two hours! We showed the Restoration video
for him in second hour and he loved it. It was such a shock to see him at
church because we haven't had contact with him for about four weeks until now!
Aller les bleus!
Elder Aburto
