Monday, February 13, 2017

L, is for the way you look at me...

February 13th, 2017

Hello, Hola, Bonjour, Goedemiddag, and what not,

It's been another fantastic week over here in Saint-Omer. It's hard to believe that it's already mid-February. I've been in this ville for over 2 months now. It's also hard to believe how fast time goes. Before I'll know it, it'll be time to leave Saint-Omer.

This week we were able to see Lebrun again. His wife was on vacation at her mom's house, so it was just him this time. Man, it was a great lesson. He understands so well and he just takes everything in. We gave a soft baptismal invitation and he accepted without hesitation. I'm so excited for all that we're going to do together with this young couple.

We also saw Pierre again this week. He's the agnostic guy. The lesson came out pretty nicely. He came prepared with a lot of good questions, a lot of which I've never heard before. He's a really deep thinker and he feels like he already lives a happy life. We've seen this a lot with people especially over here in St. Omer, that people feel like their life is good enough and they don't necessarily need God. With Pierre we just tried to get him to understand that if that's not the case now, it'll happen later, that there'll come a time in his life when he will want to know if there's a God. At the end of our rendezvous together, we were able to get Pierre to pray for the first time in his life. It was pretty cool.

A couple nights ago, we went with Baptiste, in the priests' quorum to go contact a couple of referrals that his family gave us. The first guy told us no, but the second person open the door and let us in. It was a younger couple who were friends with Baptistes older brother. They were both really young and surprisingly believing. We gave them a Book of Mormon and they accepted to read it. It was great.

Yeah life definitely is good for a missionary, even if you're serving in St. Omer 😀.

Happy Holiday Of Love,

Elder Aburto

A picture of our car...