June 19th, 2017
Bonjour à tous,
Wow, what a great week that just passed. It
seems like once we make it around to June that life just really helps us out
and it's all ok.
This year was no exception with LeBron James
losing in the Finals... again. Yet maybe almost as good is that Kevin Durant
won his first NBA title. What a great story.
This week went awesome, let me show you some
highlights:
We had exchanges in Quimper. The elders down
there have a car, so it was real nice.
The ville itself is also a decently nice-looking one. The thing with Brest is maybe I've mentioned
before, is that in both World Wars it
got decimated, so it got rebuilt and has more of a modern-feel to it. Quimper still has the
old-fashioned, classic French feel to
it. Nice ville.
A few days ago, we contacted this young Polish
chick who was really nice and willing to
meet another time. So we had our first rendezvous with her and her boyfriend on Saturday. It went so
well! Man, we just had the best feeling
walking out of that one. So she, Paulina, is a
practicing Catholic and he, Louis, is a non-practicing French guy and after meeting us a couple days before, she
had looked us up on the internet and
watched a couple of reports that BBC made about LDS missionaries. They both asked lots of great
questions and are very open. When we
explained a little of who we are and the Book of Mormon and gave them a copy, they gladly accepted.
Louis said, "Is that really all I
have to do, just read the book sincerely?" They viewed it as something very simple. What a
tender-mercy. That's the way to celebrate
a birthday, right there.
We went back to the Dominican lady's apartment
to give her a Book of Mormon in Spanish,
she took the book but made it clear she was never going to change from Catholicism. Hopefully
she'll come around.
We also got a new branch president here. The
senior missionary couple, the Griffins,
are leaving in a week, so they called a member in the branch, Frère Fournis to take charge. We'll
be seeing lots of change in the near
future with a new mission President, transfers, and the branch. Hopefully we'll make Brest great
again.
And that's a wrap. Thank you so much for all the
support and love. Life would not be the
same without you. I hope you have a good one.
Love,
Elder Aburto
