July 17th, 2017
Bonjour, tout le monde,
It's been another good week in the life of
missionary work. I'm now getting to the stage when the end is approaching quite
soon, so many emotions go on simultaneously. Regardless, the work must go on.
We saw Thierry again this week and he's
doing well. We followed up on the Retab and it went great. We committed him to
start reading the Book of Mormon and he gladly accepted. He's going well.
We saw Jeremie again, after a little of not
seeing him, and he's doing alright. We had a nice talk about his progression,
and what's keeping him from being baptized. He's come to grow a testimony of
the things we've taught him, he's just a little worried about the commitment to
be baptized. We helped him understand that it's just a step along our eternal
progression and we're not going to be perfect. The thing is as well that his
sleep schedule is terrible which doesn't let him come to church in the mornings
either. We have hope that he'll be able to
change, little by little.
change, little by little.
Our ami, Anina, came to church and expressed
that she wanted to continue meeting with us, but her husband doesn't like us
and doesn't want us to come to their house. It made us sad to hear that, but
she said she'll keep talking to him to try to convince him that what we're doing
really is good. We hope it goes well.
Well, this upcoming week we'll have yet another
Zone Conference with the Sorensens. 7-week transfers, new president, new
vision, etc. They're saying there'll be lots of important information in this
one.
We just celebrated Bastille Day here. July 14th
was like the Independence Day of France. Every company in the nation was closed
for the day and there was a big celebration at night with fireworks. Too bad we
couldn't go.
All in all, it was a nice week. As always, this
next week has lots to look forward to. What an exciting life it is, being a
missionary.
À la prochaine,
Love,
Elder Aburto
