June 5th, 2017
Greetings,
This week was pretty good. Besides the fact
that Real Madrid won the champions league, it was a good week overall.
I got to use my Spanish quite a bit, actually.
It was cool because we passed by this one family from the Dominican Republic
that Marion found with his previous companion, and they don't really speak
French, so we tried passing by a couple of days ago and the lady opened the door
and we had a really nice chat. She's die-hard catholic, but will accept a Book
of Mormon in Spanish, so we're going back this week to get that to her.
And then also, we visited Manuel and his family
again and we had a nice meal. He has two kids and a niece who live with him who
are still teenagers and not members. We got to talk a little bit with his son, Eduardo,
and he's a really good kid. He plays soccer and likes Barcelona, so we're
already on good terms.
Manuel also gave us a referral. He gave us this
number of another Peruvian family who's also less-active and we gave them a
call and they sounded so happy to hear from us. We fixed a rendezvous for this week.
The thing with Manuel and the Peruvian family is that they believe in the
gospel, it's just hard for them to integrate themselves in the branch when they
don't speak the language very well or don't feel like they fit in with the
French people. I love being able to work with them myself because I feel more
at home in France when I see other Hispanics.
We did some porting a couple days ago, and this
middle-aged dude looked happy to see us, he let us in to talk a little bit. He
was a little drunk and high, but seemed more-or-less religious. Haha, we'll see
where that goes.
I don't think I've mentioned this, but this
transfer is only five weeks. It's President Babin's last transfer, and then
next transfer with President Sorensen will be seven weeks. So we'll be seeing a
lot of change real soon.
Proverbs 23:7 "For as he thinketh in his
heart, so is he..."
Remember who you are.
Love,
Elder Aburto
