June 26th, 2017
Greetings,
A new transfer begins. Changes happen. It's
always for good. We have transfer day coming up this Wednesday and Elder Marion will leave Brest to the land of
promise, Brussels. I will be getting Elder Ho for my penultimate
transfer, possibly my last companion. As far as I know, Elder Ho is from
Hong Kong and is a convert. I don't know what President was thinking in
putting a Hispanic and an Asian together here in Brest, but we're all
optimistic about the future.
This past week, we met up with this dude we found
on our Finding Day a week ago. His name is Bastien, he's French, young,
and actually really open and believing. He accepted the Livre de Mormon
happily and committed to start reading it. He really seems like a
sincere guy who wants to do what's right.
We finally met with Anina again. She's a very
sweet lady. We taught her with our Angolan Frère, Tino. It worked out
well. We gave her the whole rétablissement lesson and gave her a
BOM reading commitment, which she accepted.
I guess the theme of the week was the Book of
Mormon. We had a family home evening, a few rendezvous, and sacrament
meeting where a lot of the talks and thoughts were on the power of the
Book of Mormon. It's easy to take it for granted, but if we take time to
think about it, it's really cool. Everyone can gain a testimony of the
Book of Mormon; we just have to do our part in reading it.
It's nice to hear the MTC has those new
buildings. It should make all the difference for the learning
environment for all of the missionaries.
Also, I did the Brest Special on Friday. The Brest
Special is a mission famous truc which is a special crepe made by the
Aasbo's in the branch.
For my birthday, we went to a pasta
restaurant for lunch. And the sœurs made a birthday cake. Outside of that, it
was a normal day.
Well, I hope all is well, and I wish everyone a
wonderful week.
Love,
Elder Aburto
