We started off this week by going into Paris for my legality! It was fun because I got to see all the people that I was with in the MTC. We all had to go to the doctor and get some tests done so that we can get approved for our 1st year legality in France. Afterwards, we had a little bit of time so we were able to walk around by Notre Dame and get crepes before we had to head back to Lille!
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| In front of Notre Dame |
I also went on exchanges this week with Soeur Ulrich. We went and visited this cute Brazilian family in Belgium. They are recent converts and just moved here 3 months ago because they wanted the kids to be able to have a better life. They are saving up their money so they can travel to the temple and get sealed. They are so excited and it strengthened my testimony to see how much faith they have. Afterwards, we went out contacting for a little bit. We met this family that had the cutest little girl. We asked them if they believed in God and both the parents said no... just as we were about to say something else the little girls eyes lite up and she said, "Oui!!." Apparently, after her grandparents died she started believing in God. She has been studying with the Jehovah Witness's for a year... By the way she is 9 years old. It was so cool to see how excited she got when we talked about Christ. She literally just glowed like a little angel! Her parents said they are letting her decide her religion. We gave her a brochure but weren't able to set up a lesson. They said they will give us a call if she is interested. It was definitely the highlight of my day.
We had two lessons with our new ami Marie-Aude this week. She is the sister of the brothers who got baptized a couple weeks ago. Our first lesson we taught the restoration and the Joseph Smith story. After we explained what happened with Joseph smith we asked her if she thought it could be possible that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith. Her response surprised me. She said, "Well yes of course! My preacher told us about a 14 year old boy who had a question, prayed about it and God and Christ appeared to him. I just never knew what his name was." She goes to an Evangelist church so we were shocked that she would have heard the story before. As we asked more questions we began to realize that it really was the Joseph Smith story she has been hearing all these years. Her preacher liked to use it as an example that God answers prayers. She is a perfect example that people are being prepared here to hear the gospel. A couple days after we had another lesson with her! We were supposed to teach the "Plan of Salvation" but we didn't feel very good about it. At last minute we decided to switch the lesson to the "Gospel of Jesus Christ." Before we started the lesson we asked, "Do you have any questions?" She replied, "Yeah I have one. What is the gospel?" We quickly responded, "Actually, that's exactly what we planned to talk about today!" It couldn't have been more perfect. We told her about how last minute we felt like we should change lessons. She got a big smile on her face and said, "I think God answered my prayer." I didn't think things could even get any better but they did! At the end of the lesson we invited her to baptism and she said YES! She said she thinks she is going to be ready in 2 years.. We told her we think she can be ready way sooner and that she should set a date. She said, "Okay. March... 2017." Haha. Honestly, I feel like she is ready right now. She asks so many great questions! She studies the Bible so she has a really great foundation. We got her to move it up a whole year by just telling her we thought she was ready so I don't have any doubt that she will be ready to be baptized way before next March. I am excited to watch her progress and develop her testimony in these next couple months! Miracles Happen. I hope everyone has a wonderful week.
Love, Soeur Johnson
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