What an AWESOME week we had here! Probably the best week that I have had here, just one spiritual experience after another. It has been amazing! This week my companion and I worked really really hard, near the point of pure exhaustio!. I would have to say honestly week walked at least 15 miles a day, the bare mininium. Going from investigators houses to member houses to less active member houses, just a exhausting week. But with all that exhaustion it feels so GOOD, knowing that week gave it our all.
Joseph Smith after he had seen the father and the Sonin the First Vision, he was completly exhausted and had to rest awhile before he could move. I really think spiritual experiences drain you like nothing else. Everynite when we came home, I about died, I wanted to eat but I was too tired to cook anything so I would go to bed. Just physically tired from walking in the blazing hot humid sun,mentally tired from thinking and speaking French, and spiritually exhausted!!! There are times when I swear I couldnt walk another mile, yet somehow I do, time and time again and I am still happy! Never has exhuastion felt soo good! Right now I am so tired, hardly can walk but I feel so good, I feel like a worn down missionary and that is what I want!! Hopefully we can continue to feel like this and eventually I will grow stronger!!!
So like I mentioned this week it was a very BIG week for me, Elise and Michel were baptised!! I have been working with them since I got here and now they are baptised. A lot of fustration, work, sweat and spirit went into this. I didnt feel they were ready until I prayed and asked if they were. God answers prayers of the sincere in heart. That is one of the many many many lessons that I am learning!!! I used to think French hindered me from expressing how I feel, but I cant even express how I feel in English. If everyone felt I how feel sometimes, you couldnt doubt that feeling and knowing there is a god! We are litterally his Sons and Daughters and he Love us immensely!! A baptism is such a simple yet POWERFUL ordinance. I have been reading Jesus The Christ and this weeking I was reading about John the Baptist and memorizing the words for the baptism in French. I cant explain how it feels to know that the same authority that Jesus Christ and John the Baptist had exists today and for some reason I have been blessed by it. In French the baptismal prayer reads, Ayant reçu le authoritie du Jésus-Chirst, Je te baptise dans the nom du Pére, et du Fils, et du Sainte Esprit. I just marvel the simplicity yet the puissance of it all!! Amazing!
This week we started teaching a person called eric. He is embo, meaning Nigerian and he is progressing really well. He came to church last Sunday, taught him this week and we invited him to come to the baptism, and he did! He wants to be baptised now! We also started teaching his family too! HIs house is really cool I will send a picture of it later. Danic finally came to church and I am so stoked cause he is probably our best investigator and amazingly smart. I talk alot about him cause is awesome! I dunno things are just starting to fall inplace now and its really cool to watch! Well I better get going, thanks for everything/ support and until next week remember who you are!
Love
Elderly
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