Loving life and loving Elder Barr

Well after these 2 weeks with elder barr there are a few high points that i'd like to hit on.

 

the first was the fact that we found a super awesome guy named Arnould. We were contacting on our second day together and we decided to take this path that lined a river which runs through amiens. we  had faced a lot of hard rejections but we kept going and we met Arnould. He told us he believed in God and all that. We took a seat and taught him a quick lesson. It's all been good since then. We've taught him and he's been reading and now he's got a baptismal date for the 17th of may. it's super cool to see that we could find someone just the second day of the transfer and just my second day in amiens and he's already engaged to be baptized. He reads the book of mormon all the time and he loves to meet with us. it's also incredible to see the change in him just over 2 weeks. it's so crazy. i can tell the gospel is really changing his life. 

 

This week we had a fun experience where we were porting in a neighborhood and a man pulled up to us and told us we weren't in a good neighborhood. we asked him where to go and he said he'd take us. we got into his audi and he told us all about how he thought what we were doing was great and that he'd love to show us a neighborhood where people would be more open. He took us to the neighborhood and ended up getting his number for a future lesson. it was a cool blessing.

 

It's good to be with another missionary my same age for the end of my mission. i'm hoping to be with elder barr till i die. dying just means to finish the mission. today he lost his bus pass and we have to walk everywhere. this isn't the best on me because i have 4 blisters but i guess being with elder barr makes it better right? we sure hope so. tomorrow i have my last interview with President and Sister Poznanski because they're leaving before interviews will come around again. it will be a very weird experience but i'm so ready

Conference, Role Models, and Pork Salads make for a very good week!

conference was awesome! this week i was blown away by conference and so much of it totally hit me hard. it was good to see all the sessions we were able to and i'm itching to see the rest. 

 

tuesday was definitely a highlight. we went and ate nothing else but cafe rio with one of my favorite french families. yes it is the family of our buff dmp and his wife. she made some yummy pork salads and i felt like i was in heaven. we took one of the people we recently baptized and he was a little scared but warmed up to the idea at the end. it was a super awesome time

 

we did a lot of finding this week because a good chunk of our amis were taking their exams and doing all that school stuff. that's the bittersweetness of teaching young people. this next week we'll be able to see all the young families as well as the new family we found sunday. 

 

President Eyring gave a talk about role models. He talked about how he had all the great role models when he was a youngster and i totally see how that applies to me. obviously there are role models that come from home but there are also many that come from france. in this ward there are a number of returned missionaries who do an excellent job in showing us what we should be like as a returned missionary. i would name some but i already talk about our buff dmp enough! after the saturday afternoon session, which we watched sunday after priesthood session, we had an odd amount of time and instead of going back home to eat we both felt we should go do a pass back. we took our bus while the others went home to eat. it turned out good because out pass back was there and they let us in. but it wasn't only the family. there were 2 other families with them. they were so happy to see us and accepted a prayer. they let us know that their doors were always open to us and we set up another rdv. it was cool to see how far our extra little effort actually went. basically that was the whole week.