Well the craziest week of my life is now over. I guess I'll start on Monday. Monday we had this lesson with Christian. Christian is a French speaker who Elder Thomas had met with once before. He has had a really hard life and loves American stuff. Anyways, we taught him a cool lesson about some of the gospel principals and in the end we committed him to baptism on the 8th of December! He works a lot so we will have to see if we can meet with him in enough time to teach him all the lessons.
Wednesday: Wednesday we had a lesson with Natacha. We brought a really cool Priest aged kid with us named Jeremie. We taught her prayer, reading the scriptures, and keeping the sabbath day holy. After our lesson Jeremie told us he now wanted to serve a mission after talking with us for so long and seeing that we were actually people. It was way cool to see that happen. After this Elder Thomas and I walked to our tram so we could finally go home (Natacha lives way far away) to our surprise there was just a van sitting in the middle of the tracks. We were both very confused at how the van got there and what they were going to do to get it off. All the sudden there comes two enormous trucks and also a garbage truck. Why the garbage truck was there I do no know, but it was so I feel the need to mention it. They pulled out these huge chains and drug the van off the tracks. The van was off the tracks and now I could see a couple, who was on the tracks, making out. Now call me crazy, but I don't think the middle of the tracks is somewhere where people should be doing that. My vision quickly turned to this man standing about 10 to 15 feet away from us. He looked super suspicious and so i gave him a little more than a glance. Turning so that I could see him from the front I saw that he had A HOOK FOR A HAND. Yes, it was true he had a hook for a hand. He was a regular Buster Bluth if I've ever seen one (any reader who knows who buster bluth is without searching it deserves a special something, so e-mail or write me and i'll send you something) Thomas doubted that he truly had a hook for a hand but we did our detective work and came to figure out that he truly did
Friday: Elder Andersen was so awesome! Ah! He really built our faith. Afterwards we were about to miss our train so we briskly walked to a train to connect to our (I like to call these trains bullet trains because they are really fast and because i can't remember the name) bullet train. We were on a metro which connected the 2 when we realized we had 9 minutes left. by the time we got off the metro we had 5. we sprinted through the train station. And by sprinted I really mean sprinted. I felt like I was back in my glory days playing football. I was juking people out left and right. They had no chance. I may have thrown a few bows here and there, but i made it to the train nonetheless. Me and Elder Thomas were the only companionship that made it. We were left with 2 other elders and a sister. the rest had to take a train at 10:00 and got home at about midnight. I think that our companionship can be deemed as most athletic in the district. Maybe we should take a new route in contacting and just challenge people to athletic competitions and if they lose they must hear every lesson from us. After that the spirit will just take over and we will have baptisms left and right. I have played the scene of me running through the station numerous times. I think I might need to drop all the baseball offers and try out football, I mean sure I'm super small and didn't play my senior year, but I can juke out standing pedestrians like nobodies business! Ha!
It's been a great week and we get to baptize ludovic in 6 days! I'm super excited! We have a turkey bowl this week and a member is feeding us thanksgiving dinner so I'm super excited. I also ate a baked potato! We have this awesome senior couple from idaho called the Okelberrys. They cooked us dinner and I ate bacon and a baked potato. They are so awesome and I am so glad to have them. I am actually e-mailing from their computer right now. I am blessed I love it I love you all I love the church
Avec Amour
Elder Oliverson
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