Bonjour!
Things went pretty well this past week!
Just been teaching a ton of lessons! We had a solid baptism day on this past
Saturday and that went awesome!! I was especially excited for Daniel, who’s
been stellar no doubt! It was the best to see how happy he was, it was insane!
He’s progressed insanely fast since we found him just a few weeks ago, and was
able to get baptized this past Saturday with all those others! He’ll be getting
the priesthood in the next couple weeks as well, so it will be awesome to see
how well he progresses in the church, he has an incredibly strong testimony in
all the things we’ve talked about, and was surely converted by the Book of
Mormon, so that was a special baptism no doubt! We have 5 more coming up this
next Saturday so that will be really fun for sure! Me and Desvergez both stayed
here through this last big transfer, so that was good for sure! I love him a
ton and we have the best time no doubt, and its great for both of us to see a
lot of the fruit of our labors these next weeks with the baptisms! I’m pretty
sure one of us will be leaving this next transfer though when we get 21 new
missionaries. So the work is going really well. We have a lot of finding to do
though, so we’ve been up to a lot of tracking, and looking. We had a really
cool lesson with a Muslim couple this past week. We read Alma 42 with the two
of them, which is in depth on the atonement, and the importance of Jesus
Christ, the spirit was incredibly strong no doubt, and afterwards all Desvergez
said was, man. Dieu est fort.. We were lucky to even talk with the people, as
they are Muslim, let alone read the Book of Mormon with them, and as they did
you could see the spirit working in them. We have fixed a date for baptism with
them the 21st of this month, I’m really hoping, but well have to see if that
works out! Either way, they for sure have a better understanding of Christ
thanks to the Book of Mormon, so that was awesome for sure! Things are good in
the branch as well, this past week was the temple trip for the youth, so this
past Sunday was the testimony meeting for those who went on the trip, and that
was awesome as well! It was great to see how blown away and happy they were
talking about it! It’s really cool
to see these people getting the chance to go to the temple, and the sacrifices
financially they made to do it. They only get the trip two times each year, but
you could definitely see they made the most of it!
It’s been really hot this past week, and its now hitting
that time of year where it just gets hotter. Its good though being acclimated
by now! Me and Desvergez had a solid basketball session today as well, doing
our usual... either the people here are getting faster though, or I’m just
getting more out of shape. With
those cleaning checks.... its too competitive... we seriously went all out, we
cleaned, went and picked flowers, made a fruit bowl, and hung up Benin flags.
Yet we still didn’t win.... That was terrible Ha-ha. Things are good
though! things are so much more
fun when you can speak the language, studies as well!! It’s really fun teaching
the atonement with these people because really it’s something complex but there
are many ways to make it easy to understand. I’ve always heard the way with us
being in debt, and Jesus Christ paying that for us, so now we have to pay him
back. This one is good, but really we cant pay the debt back, and that’s not
what Christ wants from us... but this past week I found something that makes a
lot more sense, and that’s piano lessons. For example, a mom pays for piano
lessons for her child, so she gives him a great opportunity, and something that
can be a big blessing, she doesn’t ask for the child to pay her back, that
isn’t what she wants, but all she asks for him to practice, and that is what
makes her happy, that’s also the way the child can show his thanks for her, for
what she gave him, by this as well he grows and becomes better, as he grows,
that’s what makes the mom happy, its not that he repays her for the lessons, he
doesn’t pay the teacher for the lessons, but just practices.. With this the
child grows and can become really good at piano, which is what the mom is
wanting. This analogy is a lot like what Christ did for us, as he paid for all
the sins and all he asks is obedience and repentance. In doing so we become
better and more like him, which is the goal in life... along with that, I know
from my experiences, we don’t like practicing the piano, because we don’t see
the use of it. Just because we don’t see through the mom’s eyes, and we go and
do our own thing. Which again is a lot like with Christ, where we don’t see
reason for repentance or obedience in some things. If we only saw through
Christ’s eyes and saw why he has us do all we do, its just so we can become
more like him, be happier, and live with him again. The atonement is something
special for sure!! I love you all though, and I hope all is great there!! Have
a great next week!
Baptisms Saturday! |
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