February 6th, 2017
Bonjour,
It's been
another great week in the wonderful city of cloudy Saint-Omer, Nord-Pas-de-Calais,
France, Europe. We were able to have exchanges here this last Tuesday
and the extra manpower helped us out in finding some new Friends.
President doesn't like the term investigator because it doesn't come off
too nice, and since we say "ami" in French, he wants us to say
"friend" in English. So we were able to find us some new
friends, including a super awesome young couple, named Lebrun, and
Elodie. He's from the Congo and she's from here. When we met them in the
street, they were super Down to have us over. They had such a special
spirit about them. When I looked into their eyes I could feel something
particular about them. They said they loved God very much and asked for
a Book to read before we were going to tell them anything. It was amazing.
Then later this week, we were able to visit them in their home. We had a
nice first lesson with them and they committed to come to church in a
couple of weeks. Walking away from the rendezvous I felt really, really
good. There's truly nothing greater than when you have the assurance that
you're doing the right thing.
We made a few
other friends that we're going to all see this upcoming week. One of
them was when we stopped by one of our old "Amis", Rhode, to
see how she was doing. And we saw an African dude painting inside her
living room. We rang the doorbell and he let us in so nicely. He was
explaining how Rhode hired him to work on her home interior and his life
situation. We spent a little while chit-chatting, and got his Contact
information and left him with a BOM. He was an awesome guy. Like most
people over here in France, do not like Donald Trump. Which is
pretty embarrassing for us, because now everyone on the street that we
talk to when we mention we're Americans just talk about him. I've gotten asked a lot if I'll be able to go home, since
I'm Hispanic. Lol.
It's
interesting to see that a lot of people here just can't give an answer
as to why they don't believe in God or go to church. "That's just
how it is" they respond.
Something that
President Babin wants us to focus on for this year is to become
"Master Teachers". And something I really appreciated of Elder
Young when he was my district leader was his emphasis on teaching
simply. It's something we all have to work on. And I believe like
President that it'll be key to seeing more Amis get baptized. If we all
could teach like the Savior, we'd see lots more miracles.
It's too bad
the Falcons choked, but to be honest, why do people still watch NFL?
Don't we all know it's all just a game for Roger Goodell to get as much
money in his pockets as possible? And if anyone starts naming Brady the
greatest of all-time, then that's that. With that team and that coaching
staff with that offensive line, I could've won three super bowls. A man
on a good team is merely just a man on a good team. Praise the coach
Belichick, and also the new rules protecting quarterbacks and wide
receivers, and spygate, and hmmm, perhaps I've said too much.....
Have a good
week,
Love,
Elder Aburto
